| Uniform Title |
The tin drum (Motion picture : 1979) |
| Title |
The tin drum. |
| Published |
Kew, Victoria : Distributed by Umbrella Entertainment, ©2017. |
| ©1979 |
| Description |
1 DVD-video (136 minutes) : sound, colour ; 12 cm. |
| Notes |
Catalogued from container. |
| Umbrella Entertainment : DAVID3638. |
| 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. |
| Credits |
Director, Volker Schlondorff ; producers, Franz Seitz, Volker Schlondorff and Anatole Dauman ; screenplay, Jean-Claude Carriere, Volker Schlondorff and Franz Seitz in collaboration with Gunter Grass. |
| Performers |
David Bennent, Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Daniel Olbrychski. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Target audience note |
Censorship classification : MA15+. |
| System details |
DVD video, Dolby digital 5.1 & Mono German, PAL, Region 4, 16:9 Widescreen, 1.66:1. |
| Language note |
In German with English subtitles. |
| Awards note |
Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1980. |
| Subjects |
Grass, Gunter, -- 1927-2015 -- Film adaptations |
| Boys -- Germany -- Drama |
| Children and war -- Drama |
| Drum -- Drama |
| National socialism -- Drama |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany -- Drama |
| Feature films -- Germany |
| Motion pictures, German |
| Foreign language films |
| Germany -- History -- 20th century -- Drama |
| Genre |
War films |
| Historical films |
| Coming-of-age films |
| Film adaptations |
| Feature films |
| Fiction films |
| Other Names |
Schlondorff, Volker director, screenwriter. |
| Adorf, Mario actor. |
| Winkler, Angela, 1944- actor. |
| Bennent, David actor. |
| Carrière, Jean-Claude, 1931- screenwriter. |
| Grass, Günter, 1927-2015. Blechtrommel Motion picture adaptation of (work): |
| Series |
World classics |
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