bookstore because today's show is all about literary adaptations that's making books into movies we've picked what we think are the seven best film adaptations of german novels in each case the director found a unique way to translate words into images we start with three classics of german literature. what was published in one thousand twelve was a sensation thomas months death in venice is a story of love madness and ruin himself called the book a tale of the ecstasy of destruction. for the one nine hundred seventy one film adaptation in time director luciano visconti found a way to capture in images that sense of decline. one