A darkly comic war drama with magical realist elements, the film follows Oskar, a precocious child living in Danzig, who wields seemingly preternatural ...
The Tin Drum
R · 1979 ‧ War/Drama ‧ 2h 22m
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Oskar Matzerath (David Bennent) is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his mother, Agnes (Angela Winkler), Oskar is reluctant to enter a world he sees as filled with hypocrisy and injustice, and vows on his...
Release date: April 11, 1980 (USA)
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Story by: Günter Grass
Distributed by: United Artists and New World Pictures
Adapted from: The Tin Drum
Box office: $13 million (Germany – 25 million Marks); $2 million or $4 million (U.S.)
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In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks ...
To "beat a tin drum" means to create a disturbance in order to bring attention to a cause.
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Beautifully shot and superbly acted, especially by the young Bennent, it is a film fueled by horror, joy, surrealism, and sobering realism, riveting from ...
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The Tin Drum, is a 1959 novel, by Günter Grass. The novel is the first book of Grass's Danziger Trilogies (Danzig Trilogy), and winner of the Nobel Prize in ...
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Posted: Sep 26, 2018
Posted: Sep 26, 2018