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World Cinema - Classic
THE TIN DRUM
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Director: VOLKER SCHLONDORFFFormat: PAL
Language: GERMAN / ENGLISH SUBTITLES
Region: All
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Number of Discs: 2
Rating: MA15+
DVD Release Date: 03/11/2007
Run Time: 136MIN
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Special features
- BANNED IN OKLAHOMA (2004) A film by Gary D. Rhodes 52min - A documentary that covers the 1997 Oklahoma confiscation of the film "The Tin Drum" due to a judicial ruling of child pornography, and the six years of legal wranglings that ensued.
- Introduction by Volker Schlondorff
- Theatrical Trailer
Synopsis
Novelist Günter Grass assisted in this brilliant film adaptation of his groundbreaking novel, which 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.
Vividly portrayed by the diminutive David Bennet, and brilliantly directed by master of the New German cinema, Volker Schlondorff, Oskar’s epic coming-of-age story is a milestone of European film, and deservedly won top prize at the Academy Awards and the Cannes Film Festival.
Vividly portrayed by the diminutive David Bennet, and brilliantly directed by master of the New German cinema, Volker Schlondorff, Oskar’s epic coming-of-age story is a milestone of European film, and deservedly won top prize at the Academy Awards and the Cannes Film Festival.
