The Tin Drum

Name: The Tin Drum
Genre: War, Drama, Classic
Released: 1979
Duration: 142 min
Cast: Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, David Bennent, Katharina Thalbach, Daniel Olbrychski

Volker Schlöndorff19792h 22mWar, Drama, Classic

Why we chose it

Volker Schlöndorff’s film of Nobel laureate Günter Grass’s novel shared the Palme d’Or with “Apocalypse Now” and won an Oscar. Daniel Olbrychski plays Jan Bronski, lover of little Oskar’s mother, in a Free City of Danzig where a boy beats a drum and his scream can shatter glass.

Synopsis

It’s the 1920s in the Free City of Danzig, and on his third birthday Oskar is given a tin drum. Around the table sit the grown-ups: his mother Agnes, her husband Alfred and her cousin Jan. The boy studies each of them in turn and decides he will never become an adult, nor grow a single centimetre more. Outside the window, flags begin to fly.