The Tin Drum

A savage, sweeping epic of society in chaos.

May 02, 1979 2h 42m

6.9

473 votes

Synopsis

Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his mother, Agnes, Oskar is reluctant to enter a world he sees as filled with hypocrisy and injustice, and vows on his third birthday to never grow up. Miraculously, he gets his wish. As the Nazis rise to power in Danzig, Oskar wills himself to remain a child, beating his tin drum incessantly and screaming in protest at the chaos surrounding him.

Title	The Tin Drum
Companies	Jadran Film, Artemis Film, Franz Seitz Filmproduktion, Argos Films, Hallelujah Films, GGB-14, Neue Bioskop Film, Auditrust
Countries	France, Germany, Yugoslavia
Keywords	puberty, adultery, lolita, suicide, based on novel or book, nazi, dwarf, gdansk, poland, circus, toxication, germany, married couple, pregnancy, world war ii, family's daily life, dark comedy, suffocation, lone wolf, kaschubia, synagogue, hitler youth, coming of age, family feud, red army, prenatal, 1920s, 1940s, new german cinema, 1930s, invasion of normandy, war drama