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- 1980
- R
- New World Pictures
- 2 h 22 m
- 1980
- R
- New World Pictures
- 2 h 22 m
Summary In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.
Directed By: Volker Schlöndorff
- 1980
- R
- New World Pictures
- 2 h 22 m
- 1980
- R
- New World Pictures
- 2 h 22 m
The Tin Drum
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Summary In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.
Directed By: Volker Schlöndorff
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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64% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
63
64% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
36% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
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The Tin Drum, adapted from the eponymous novel by Günter Grass, doesn’t cast the story in a new light, though it does deepen a few of its subplots.
Schlöndorff's Tin Drum, like most adaptations of great literature, serves mostly as a fascinating but superficial gloss on material that just doesn’t lend itself well to visual storytelling.
The Tin Drum is a disturbing film, rich with black humor, that takes a decidedly bitter and horrific look at the German people.
Whether this talent symbolizes racist aggression or mournful shock is left unsettlingly unclear, however, and while Oskar is a sphinxlike contradiction, Schlöndorff has a tendency to sketch the rest of the cast as simple grotesques or symbols of decadence that are unconvincingly humanized in the final third.
My problem is that I kept seeing Oskar not as a symbol of courage but as an unsavory brat; the film's foreground obscured its larger meaning.
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Production Company
Franz Seitz Filmproduktion,
Bioskop Film,
Artemis Film,
Hallelujah Films,
GGB-14,
Argos Films,
Jadran Film,
Film Polski
Release Date Apr 11, 1980
Duration 2 h 22 m
Rating R
Tagline Academy Award Winner Best Foreign Language Film 1979
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
German Film Awards
• 1 Win & 5 Nominations
National Board of Review, USA
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
