The Tin Drum (1979)
Original Title: Die Blechtrommel
Drama
History
War
7.0 (486 votes)
2h 42m
Overview
Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his mother, Agnes, Oskar is reluctant to enter a world he sees as filled with hypocrisy and injustice, and vows on his third birthday to never grow up. Miraculously, he gets his wish. As the Nazis rise to power in Danzig, Oskar wills himself to remain a child, beating his tin drum incessantly and screaming in protest at the chaos surrounding him.
Details
- Director
- Volker Schlöndorff
- Writer
- Volker Schlöndorff
- Original Language
- German
- Budget
- $3,000,000
Cast
Andréa Ferréol
Angela Winkler
Berta Drews
Daniel Olbrychski
David Bennent
Katharina Thalbach
Mario Adorf
Roland Teubner
Tadeusz Kunikowski
Tina Engel
Keywords
1920s
1930s
1940s
adultery
based on novel or book
circus
coming of age
dark comedy
dwarf
family feud
family's daily life
gdansk
poland
germany
hitler youth
invasion of normandy
kaschubia
lolita
lone wolf
married couple
nazi
new german cinema
pregnancy
prenatal
puberty
red army
suffocation
suicide
synagogue
toxication
war drama
world war ii
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