The Tin Drum
by Volker Schl?ndorff
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Actor: Angela Winkler, Daniel Olbrychski, David Bennent, Katharina Thalbach, Mario AdorfDirector: Volker Schl?ndorff
DVD: 2 Layers, Region Code 0
Audio: German (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Digital Video Transfer, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.66:1
Running Time: 142 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-02-16
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Image Entertainment
Movie Reviews of The Tin Drum
Movie Review: STRANGE, DISTURBING & THOUGHT PROVOKING
Summary: 5 Stars
I am not a big fan of watching movies that have subtitles, but this movie is so engrossing, I had no problem sitting through it. I think because what is happening on screen is so clear, I sort of knew what the actors were saying. The true star of this movie is the little boy, played by David Bennet and he does an incredible job. You may have seen him as "The Gump" in Ridley Scott's 'Legend'!
My brother turned me on to this film when it was new. He came home from college one weekend with it and it has been forever burned into my mind ever since. It is like no other film I have ever seen! Nightmarish, strange, bizarre, disturbing and very interesting, but not for everyone's taste for sure. If you like truly bizarre films you have to see this one!
Summary of The Tin Drum
This Oscar-winning adaptation of G?nter Grass's novel is an absurdist fantasy about a little German boy (David Bennent) who wills himself at the age of three not to grow up in protest of the Nazi regime. Made unnecessarily notorious in recent years due to overzealous censors in some parts of the United States, the film is more startling and surreal than obscene. Bennent is very good, and while the 1979 film doesn't meet the high standards of the best work from the then-renaissance of German film, it has a special place in the hearts of many who saw it upon its release. Directed by Volker Schl?ndorff (The Handmaid's Tale). --Tom KeoghBased on the classic novel by Gunter Grass, this drama of a young boy who beats a tin drum to combat his feelings of desperation and anger during the rise of the Third Reich is as dark and disturbing as it is utterly compelling. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
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