The Tin Drum
1979·Movie
·2h 42min·
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A savage, sweeping epic of society in chaos.
Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his mother, Agnes, Oskar is reluctant to enter a world he sees as filled with hypocrisy and injustice, and vows on his third birthday to never grow up. Miraculously, he gets his wish. As the Nazis rise to power in Danzig, Oskar wills himself to remain a child, beating his tin drum incessantly and screaming in protest at the chaos surrounding him.
German New WaveHistorical AllegorySurreal DramaComing-of-Age StoryAnti-War FilmDisturbing & ProvocativePsychological StudyPolitical SatireAutobiographical Adaptation
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Directed by:
Volker Schlöndorff
Written by:
Jean-Claude Carrière, Volker Schlöndorff, Günter Grass
Produced by:
Franz Seitz Jr., Anatole Dauman, Eberhard Junkersdorf
Composed by:
Maurice Jarre
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