The Tin Drum ( Die Blechtrommel ) ( Le tambour )

The Tin Drum (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Die Blechtrommel
Alternate Title: Le tambour
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
German ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
136 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1979 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Poland ( Russia, Eastern Europe )
Yugoslavia ( Russia, Eastern Europe )

Directed By:
Volker Schlöndorff

Written By:
Jean-Claude Carrière
Günter Grass

Actors:
Mario Adorf ..... Alfred Matzerath
Angela Winkler ..... Agnes Matzerath
David Bennent ..... Oskar Matzerath
Katharina Thalbach ..... Maria Matzerath
Daniel Olbrychski ..... Jan Bronski
Tina Engel ..... Anna Koljaiczek (jung)
Berta Drews ..... Anna Koljaiczek
Roland Teubner ..... Joseph Koljaiczek
Tadeusz Kunikowski ..... Onkel Vinzenz
Andréa Ferréol ..... Lina Greff (as Andréa Ferreol)
Heinz Bennent ..... Greff
Ilse Pagé ..... Gretchen Scheffler
Werner Rehm ..... Scheffler
Käte Jaenicke ..... Mutter Truczinski
Helmut Brasch ..... Der Alte Heilandt (as Helmuth Brasch)

Synopsis:

In Volker Schlöndorff's award-winning adaptation of Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass' allegorical novel, David Bennent plays Oskar, the young son of a German rural family, circa 1925. On his third birthday, Oskar receives a shiny new tin drum. At this point, rather than mature into one of the miserable specimens of grown-up humanity that he sees around him, he vows never to get any older or any bigger. Whenever the world around him becomes too much to bear, the boy begins to hammer on his drum; should anyone try to take the toy away from him, he emits an ear-piercing scream that literally shatters glass. As Germany goes to hell during the 1930s and '40s, the never-aging Oskar continues savagely beating his drum, serving as the angry conscience of a world gone mad. The intense and visceral Tin Drum was one of the most financially successful German films of the 1970s and won the 1979 Oscar for Best Foreign Film and the 1979 Golden Palm (which it shared with Apocalypse Now). In the late '90s, the film became the center of a censorship controversy when some U.S. videotapes were confiscated because of the film's supposed violation of a child pornography statute.

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