The Tin Drum
1979 · Movie · 142 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Danzig in the 1920s/1930s. Oskar Matzerath, son of a local dealer, is a most unusual boy. Equipped with full intellect right from his birth he decides at his third birthday not to grow up as he sees the crazy world around him at the eve of World War II. So he refuses the society and his tin drum symbolizes his protest against the middle-class mentality of his family and neighborhood, which stand for all passive people in Nazi Germany at that time. However, (almost) nobody listens to him, so the catastrophe goes on...
Direction Volker Schlöndorff
Cast David Bennent · Mario Adorf · Angela Winkler · Daniel Olbrychski · Charles Aznavour · Andrea Ferréol · Heinz Bennent · Otto Sander
Soundtrack Maurice Jarre
Screenplay Jean-Claude Carrière · Franz Seitz · Volker Schlöndorff · Günter Grass
Cinematography Igor Luther
Original title Die Blechtrommel
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11K votes (FilmAffinity)
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