Directed by:
Volker SchlöndorffCinematography:
Igor LutherCast:
Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, David Bennent, Katharina Thalbach, Daniel Olbrychski, Tina Engel, Berta Drews, Andréa Ferréol, Heinz Bennent, Ilse Pagé (more)Plots(1)
When Oskar Matzerath (the extraordinary David Bennent, just twelve at the time) receives a tin drum for his third birthday, he vows to stop growing there and then – and woe betide anyone who tries to take his beloved drum away from him, as he has a banshee shriek that can shatter glass. As a result, he retains a permanent child’s-eye perspective on the rise of Nazism as experienced through petit-bourgeois life in his native Danzig, the ‘free city’ claimed by both Germany and Poland whose invasion in 1939 helped kick-start World War II. With the help of Luis Buñuel’s favourite screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, director Volker Schlöndorff turns Günter Grass’s magical-realist masterpiece into a carnivalesque frenzy of bizarre, grotesque yet unnervingly compelling images as Oskar turns his increasingly jaded eye and caustic tongue on the insane follies of the adult world that he refuses to join. (Arrow Academy)
(more)Cast
Mario Adorf
Switzerland
Best movies:
Winnetou (1963)
The Devil Strikes at Night (1957)
Marco Polo (1982) (series)
Angela Winkler
German Empire
Best movies:
Hunting Scenes from Bavaria (1969)
The Tin Drum (1979)
Danton (1983)
David Bennent
Switzerland
Best movies:
The Tin Drum (1979)
Happy as Lazzaro (2018)
Fog in August (2016)
Katharina Thalbach
East Germany
Best movies:
Head Full of Honey (2014)
The Tin Drum (1979)
Sophie's Choice (1982)
Daniel Olbrychski
Poland
Best movies:
Gibel imperii (2005) (series)
The Promised Land (1974)
Potop (1974)
Tina Engel
West Germany
Best movies:
The Tin Drum (1979)
Womb (2010)
God´s mighty servant (2011) (TV movie)
Berta Drews
German Empire
Best movies:
It Happened in Broad Daylight (1958)
The Tin Drum (1979)
Einer von uns beiden (1974)
Andréa Ferréol
France
Best movies:
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)
The Tin Drum (1979)
Heinz Bennent
German Empire
Best movies:
From the Life of the Marionettes (1980) (TV movie)
Die Wildente (1976)
Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness (1979)
Ilse Pagé
German Empire
Best movies:
Winnetou (1963)
The Tin Drum (1979)
Berlin - Ecke Schönhauser (1957)
Werner Rehm
German Empire
Käte Jaenicke
German Empire
Best movies:
Holocaust (1978) (series)
The Tin Drum (1979)
Angry Harvest (1985)
Helmut Brasch
German Empire
Best movies:
The Devil Strikes at Night (1957)
The Tin Drum (1979)
Go for It, Baby (1968)
Otto Sander
German Empire
Best movies:
The Boat (1981)
Wings of Desire (1987)
Comedian Harmonists (1997)
Wigand Witting
Best movies:
The Tin Drum (1979)
The Year of the First Kiss (2002)
Calm at Sea (2011)
Mariella Oliveri
Best movies:
The Tin Drum (1979)
Fritz Hakl
Austria
Best movies:
The Tin Drum (1979)
Charles Aznavour
France
Best movies:
Der Zauberberg (1982)
The Tin Drum (1979)
High Infidelity (1964)
Marek Walczewski
Poland
Best movies:
The Promised Land (1974)
The Tin Drum (1979)
King Size (1987)
Ernst Jacobi
German Empire
Best movies:
The White Ribbon (2009)
The Tin Drum (1979)
Die Halbstarken (1956)