The Tin Drum - Criterion Collection

The Tin Drum - Criterion Collection
by Gary Don Rhodes, Volker Schl?ndorff

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Actor: Angela Winkler, Anita Hill, David Bennent, Gerry Spence, Mario Adorf
Director: Gary Don Rhodes, Volker Schl?ndorff
Brand: Image Entertainment
Writer: Gary Don Rhodes
Writer: Volker Schl?ndorff
Producer: Anatole Dauman
Writer: Franz Seitz
Writer: G?nter Grass
Writer: Jean-Claude Carri?re
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: German (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 142 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-05-18
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Criterion

Movie Reviews of The Tin Drum - Criterion Collection

Movie Review: Honorable intention; weird execution
Summary: 2 Stars

Yes, I get symbolism and allegory and the representation of a complacent society letting itself be steamrolled by the Nazis. It was someone's intention to show all of this, but the film is so weird and off-putting that the message tends to get pushed aside by such grotesque elements as these:
The horse's head filled with eels
The nasty soup Oskar is forced to drink
The graphic sexuality involving Oskar and Maria
Oskar and Maria sharing a spat-upon treat (this really turned my stomach)
Oskar's grandmother being raped while hiding his good-for-nothing arsonist grandfather-to-be under her skirts
Oskar and others playing cards (???) while the building they're in is being bombed and invaded by gun-wielding Nazis
Oskar being the world's freakiest-looking kid, with the world's most irritating drum--not to mention his shrieking.

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Summary of The Tin Drum - Criterion Collection

Based 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.

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 Keogh

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