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The Tin Drum (Die Blechtromme)
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The film tells a story of Oskar Matzerath who is a son of a local dealer and is a extraordinary boy. On his third birthday, he makes an important decision not to grow up after witnessing the dark side of the world at the eve of World War II. Then he is immersed in his tin drum to find the safe and sound.
The film tells a story of Oskar Matzerath who is a son of a local dealer and is a extraordinary boy. On his third birthday, he makes an important decision not to grow up after witnessing the dark side of the world at the eve of World War II. Then he is immersed in his tin drum to find the safe and sound.
Actors:
J. Kapinski,
Heinz Bennent,
Anne Bennent,
Mariella Oliveri,
Angela Winkler,
Herbert Behrendt,
Otto Sander,
Henning Schlüter,
Käte Jaenicke,
Emil Feist,
Ernst Jacobi,
...»
J. Kapinski
Heinz Bennent
18 July 1921, Stolberg, Germany
Anne Bennent
October 13, 1963 in Lausanne, Switzerland
Mariella Oliveri
Angela Winkler
22 January 1944, Templin, Brandenburg, Germany
Herbert Behrendt
Otto Sander
30 June 1941, Hanover, Germany
Henning Schlüter
1 March 1927, Hamburg, Germany
Käte Jaenicke
22 March 1928, Free City of Danzig [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]
Emil Feist
7 January 1924
Ernst Jacobi
11 July 1933, Berlin, Germany
Director:
Volker Schlöndorff
Volker Schlöndorff
31 March 1939, Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
Country:
Germany
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August 03, 2004
the film is more memorable for its quirky commingling of the epic and the intimate and its often startling visuals than for any of its big themes
July 11, 2013
Walks a taut, high rope between doubles and split selves, docu-realism and surrealism, brutality and naïveté, sacred and profane, and history and myth, without falling into the safety net of childish fantasy. (It only falters in its final half-hour.)
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May 09, 2004
Oskar's story touches on so many facets of life it's hard to know where to start analyzing.
January 30, 2011
The literal adaptation doesn't transfer that well to film.
October 04, 2006
Technically and stylistically, The Tin Drum is an astounding work. Thematically, it strives for an importance it only sometimes achieves
November 08, 2010
This movie rests on the small shoulders of David Bennent as 'three-year-old' Oskar Matzerath, and the undersized twelve-year-old comes up wonderful.
September 18, 2012
Schlöndorff has a tendency to sketch the rest of the cast as simple grotesques or symbols of decadence that are unconvincingly humanized in the final third.
January 16, 2013
There are many themes running through The Tin Drum: resistance against an unkind world, the need for acceptance, the horrors of romance and war, and the final idea that growth is inevitable and unfortunately, necessary.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
March 22, 2008
Fascinating allegory with war, death themes and little boy who won't grow up.
January 23, 2013
If ever [the characters in] a film embodied Hannah Arendt's principle of "the banality of evil", it's The Tin Drum...
April 15, 2009
Context is everything. Although often mistaken as a black comedy, Volker Schlöndorff's bold adaptation of Günter Grass's abstractly autobiographical 1959 novel is an exemplary model of European magic realist cinema.
September 18, 2012
In Volker Schlöndorff's restored version of his 1979 classic, Oskar Matzerath emerges as a tragic anti-hero, whose lustful imagination and prodigious magical gifts can't shield him from the juggernaut of war.

