The Tin Drum

(1980)

7.4 /10

26,516 votes

IMDb

Release & Runtime

April 11, 1980 · 2 hr 22 min

Awards

Won 1 Oscar. 18 wins & 6 nominations total

Languages

German Italian Hebrew Polish Russian

Countries

West Germany France Poland

Drama War

Danzig in the 1920s-1930s. Oskar Matzerath, son of a local dealer, is a most unusual boy. Equipped with full intellect right from birth, he decides on his third birthday not to grow up as he sees the crazy world around him on the eve of World War II. He refuses to join society and his tin drum symbolizes his protest against the middle-class mentality of his family and neighbourhood, which stand for all passive people in Nazi Germany at the time. But (almost) nobody listens to him, so the catastrophe continues.

Cast: David Bennent, Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler and others

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