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The Tin Drum
Directed by
Volker Schlöndorff
R
1980
2h 42m
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7.4
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In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.
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Cast of The Tin Drum
Mario Adorf
Alfred Matzerath
Angela Winkler
Agnes Matzerath
David Bennent
Oskar Matzerath
Katharina Thalbach
Maria Matzerath
Daniel Olbrychski
Jan Bronski
Tina Engel
Young Anna Koljaiczek
Berta Drews
Anna Koljaiczek
Roland Teubner
Joseph Koljaiczek
Tadeusz Kunikowski
Uncle Vinzenz
Andréa Ferréol
Lina Greff
Heinz Bennent
Greff
Ilse Pagé
Gretchen Scheffler
Werner Rehm
Scheffler
Käte Jaenicke
Mother Truczinski
Otto Sander
Meyn
Charles Aznavour
Sigismund Markus
Fritz Hakl
Bebra
Mariella Oliveri
Roswitha
Ernst Jacobi
Löbsack
Henning Schlüter
Dr. Hollatz
The Tin Drum Ratings & Reviews
New West/California
Stephen Farber
The film is done with such grace and control that we quickly accept the singular perspective of this bizarre tale.
Los Angeles Times
Charles Champlin
The Tin Drum is, in fact, almost everything anybody could ask a film to be. It is strikingly original and continuously surprising.
PopMatters
Sarah Boslaugh
If ever [the characters in] a film embodied Hannah Arendt's principle of "the banality of evil", it's The Tin Drum...
Scene-Stealers.com
Eric Melin
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.
Slant Magazine
Ela Bittencourt
In Volker Schlndorff'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.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
The literal adaptation doesn't transfer that well to film.
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Donald J. Levit
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.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
Context is everything. Although often mistaken as a black comedy, Volker Schlndorff's bold adaptation of Gnter Grass's abstractly autobiographical 1959 novel is an exemplary model of European magic realist cinema.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Steve Crum
Fascinating allegory with war, death themes and little boy who won't grow up.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Ken Hanke
Technically and stylistically, The Tin Drum is an astounding work. Thematically, it strives for an importance it only sometimes achieves
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The difficulty with The Tin Drum [is that it's] either (a) an allegory about one person's protest against the inhumanity of the world, or (b) the story of an obnoxious little boy.
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
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
Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
Oskar's story touches on so many facets of life it's hard to know where to start analyzing.
Spirituality & Practice
Mary Ann Brussat
The Tin Drum is a lusty, volatile, surreal and chlling view of the rise and fall of the Third Reich.
New York Times
Vincent Canby
The story it tells is so outsized, bizarre, funny, and eccentric, the movie compels attention.
MovieMartyr.com
Jeremy Heilman
Schlndorff's treatment of this material is horribly flawed because he's too interested in making the audience feel comfortable before he starts damning everything.
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