Germany
1979
142 minutes
Color
1.77:1
German
234
Danzig, Germany, 1924. Oskar Matzerath is born with an intellect beyond his infancy. As he witnesses the hypocrisy of adulthood and the irresponsibility of society, Oskar rejects both, and, at his third birthday, refuses to grow older. Caught in a baffling state of perpetual childhood, Oskar lashes out at all he surveys with piercing screams and frantic poundings on his tin drum, while the unheeding, chaotic world marches onward to the madness and folly of World War II. Honored with the Palme d’Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival and the 1979 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film, Volker Schlöndorff’s The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel) is a truly visionary adaptation of Nobel laureate Günter Grass’s acclaimed novel, an unforgettable fantasia of surreal imagery, striking eroticism, and unflinching satire.
| Oskar Matzerath | David Bennent |
| Alfred Matzerath | Mario Adorf |
| Agnes Matzerath | Angela Winkler |
| Maria Matzerath | Katharina Thalbach |
| Jan Bronsk | Daniel Olbrychski |
| Anna Koljaiczek (old) | Berta Drews |
| Anna Koljaiczek (young) | Tina Engel |
| Greff | Heinz Bennent |
| Löbsack | Ernst Jacobi |
| Lina Greff | Andréa Ferréol |
| Sigismund Markus | Charles Aznavour |
| Director | Volker Schlöndorff |
| Producers | Franz Seitz, Anatole Dauman and Eberhard Junkersdorf |
| Music | Maurice Jarre |
| Editing | Suzanne Baron |
| Director of photography | Igor Luther |
| Art director | Nikos Perakis |
| Set decorator | Bernd Lepel |
| Screenplay | Jean-Claude Carrière, Franz Seitz and Volker Schlöndorff |
| Additional dialogue | Günter Grass |
| Based on the novel by | Günter Grass |
DIRECTOR APPROVED DOUBLE-DISC SET
Here’s a quick birthday shout-out to Academy Award–winning, New German Cinema trailblazing Volker Schlöndorff, who turns seventy today. The tireless Schlöndorff is reportedly celebrating in (his) style: he’s currently on a reading tour through Germany, promoting his new autobiography, Light...
“A country unable to mourn,” Volker Schlöndorff wrote in his journal as he adapted Günter Grass’ novel, The Tin Drum. “Germany, to this day, is the poisoned heart of Europe.” When the film premiered in West German cinemas in early May 1979, it figured within a country’s larger...
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