The tin drum
2017
DVDs
This film depicts the horrors of two world wars in Germany via the brazen gaze of a very special young boy. Frustrated by the lies and hypocrisies that surround him, three year-old Oskar resorts to breaking glass with his shrill voice and banging relentlessly on his tin drum. With the fascists rising-up in his Polish-German hometown of Danzig, and the events leading up to the onslaught of Nazism coming to a head, Oskar is determined to boycott the adult world and remain a child forever.
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Author:
Schlondorff, Volker, director, screenwriterAdorf, Mario, actorWinkler, Angela, 1944-, actorBennent, David, actorCarrière, Jean-Claude, 1931-, screenwriterGrass, Günter, 1927-2015
Imprint:
Kew, Victoria : Distributed by Umbrella Entertainment, ©2017.©1979
Collation:
1 DVD-video (136 minutes) : sound, colour ; 12 cm.
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Notes:
Catalogued from container.Originally produced as a motion picture in 1979.At base of title: A film by Volker Schlondorff.Based on a novel by Gunter Grass.Special feature: theatrical trailer.In German with English subtitles.
Credits:
Directed by Volker Schlondorff ; produced by Franz Seitz, Volker Schlondorff and Anatole Dauman ; screenplay by Jean-Claude Carriere, Volker Schlondorff and Franz Seitz in collaboration with Gunter Grass.
Performers:
Cast: David Bennent, Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Daniel Olbrychski.
Audience:
Censorship classification : MA15+.
System details:
DVD video, Dolby digital 5.1 & Mono German, PAL, Region 4, 16:9 Widescreen, 1.66:1.
Awards:
Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1980.
Dewey class:
791.4372
Language:
German
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Subject:
Grass, Günter, 1927-2015 -- Film adaptationsBoys -- Germany -- DramaChildren and war -- DramaDrum -- DramaNational socialism -- DramaWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- DramaFeature films -- GermanyMotion pictures, GermanForeign language filmsGermany -- History -- 20th century -- DramaWar filmsHistorical filmsComing-of-age filmsFilm adaptationsFeature filmsFiction films
BRN:
383428