The Tin Drum

Based On the book by Günter Grass

The Tin Drum (German: Die Blechtrommel) is a 1979 anti-war film adapted from Günter Grass's 1959 novel, directed by Volker Schlöndorff from a screenplay co-written by Schlöndorff, Jean-Claude Carrière, and Franz Seitz. It stars Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, Katharina Thalbach, Daniel Olbrychski, and Charles Aznavour, with David Bennent in the lead role of Oskar Matzerath, a young boy who willfully arrests his own physical development and remains in the body of a child even as he enters adulthood. A darkly comic war drama with magical realist elements, the film follows Oskar, a precocious child living in Danzig, who wields seemingly preternatural abilities. He lives in contempt of the adults around him and witnesses firsthand their potential for cruelty, first via the rise of the Nazi Party and then the subsequent war.

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Release date:

1979

Director:

Volker Schlöndorff

Cast:

David Bennent, Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, Daniel Olbrychski, Katharina Thalbach

Genre:

Drama, War

Country:

France, Poland, Germany, Yugoslavia

Language:

Italian

Year page:

1979 in adaptations