The Tin Drum
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...
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Drama, War
1979
142 min
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Movie Info:
- Full Name : The Tin Drum
- Duration : 142 min
- Languages : German, Italian, Hebrew, Polish, Russian
- Writers : Jean-Claude Carrière, Gènter Grass (additional dialogue), Gènter Grass (novel), Volker Schlèndorff, Franz Seitz
- Directors : Volker Schlèndorff min
- Imdb : 7.6 (16573 votes)
- Tomatoes : 3.9 (7098 votes)
- Actors : Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, David Bennent, Katharina Thalbach
Movie Storyline
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...