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The Tin Drum


the first Carriere, Volker Schlöndorff and Franz Seitz Director: Volker Schlöndorff

Runtime: 139 min

From the beginning, in 1924, born in Danzig, Oskar Matzerath an unusual child. With three years he is in protest against the adult world be a physical growth. But he fails with the fervor of children, white and red drum, which has given him his mother's third birthday. Drumming and expressed as a screamer with incredible vocal power Oskar Matzerath now his displeasure in a strange doings, which he scornfully refused ... Volker Schlöndorff's award-winning film is based on the famous novel by Günter Grass and is a panorama of German pre-war history and the war, he became the first German film an Oscar. *
Anna (Tina Engel), a young farmer from Kashubia comes in an unusual way to her husband and daughter. Later marries this daughter - Agnes (Angela Winkler) - the Rhine Frohnatur Alfred Matzerath (Mario Adorf) and runs with it a grocery store in the suburb of Danzig Langfuhr. But Alfred is not the only man in her life, she gives her love and her cousin Jan Bronski (Daniel Olbrychski). So both men for the paternity must be taken into consideration, is born as Oskar Matzerath (David Bennent) in late summer 1924th The unusual boy can hardly wait to be three years old because his mother has promised him for this birthday a tin drum. On the other hand, it the bustle of the big people do not like so thoroughly that it will act on the said birthday to grow from then on an inch more. An orchestrated overthrow of the basement stairs provides the supposed explanation, however, quite inexplicable Oscar is soon discovered ability to cope with the sheer power of his voice to bring glass to shatter.
operated screaming and drumming Oskar Gnome from now on as a troublemaker in the world unloved bourgeois-dangerous adult. He confounds his Nazi parades and two suspected Fathers grave. He impregnated his step-mother Maria (Katharina Thalbach) and embraces the charming midget Roswitha Raguna (Mariella Oliveri). In a front Theater at the Atlantic Wall, he produces himself as an artist, but always while he remains the sardonic dwarf who turns the world upside down ... Unlike the famous novel of 1959 ends this "very German fresco" (Schlöndorff) when the war ended. Received addition to the 1980 Oscar for best foreign film "The Tin Drum" in Cannes, the Palme d'Or. The international criticism was particularly fascinated by the play of young David Bennent, who - embodies the uncanny drummer Oskar - even dwarfed.