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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 9780780027978
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0780027973
Label: Criterion
Manufacturer: Criterion
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Criterion
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 18, 2004
Running Time: 142 minutes
Sales Rank: 21146
Studio: Criterion
Theatrical Release Date: April 11, 1980
Editorial Review:
Description:
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.
Amazon.com:
This Oscar-winning adaptation of Günter 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 Schlöndorff (The Handmaid's Tale). --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Film within History
This is one of those films that one watches with a sense of increasing admiration but perhaps in my case diminishing pleasure. It is surely one of the best-made German films of the post-war period. One can't fault the acting and directing; surely the music is as haunting as it is memorable. this time around I found the film less interesting and more repulsive than I had remembered it. Its overall meaning is also rather allusive. The boy has powers that are not explained, nor is their allegorical ... Read More
Rating: - More to it than meets the eye
Allegorical story or absurdist fantasy? Whichever this is, its a high class piece of filmmaking from director Volker Schlondorff. David Bennett who plays the drum beating young Oskar holds the film together. His is a marvellous performance. Its no surprise to find that unlike a lot of child 'stars' he is still working in films and television today. There is a steely determination to everything Oskar does in this film, which in action and metaphor represent either his or some of the society he lives ... Read More
Rating:  - STRANGE, DISTURBING & THOUGHT PROVOKING
I am not a big fan of watching films that have subtitles, but this movie is so engrossing, it was easy to adjust to. I think because what is happening on screen is so clear, I knew what the actors were trying to say. 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 ... Read More
Rating: - The Tin Drum
This Oscar-winning adaptation of Gunter Grass's allegorical novel is an absurdist parable in which a willfully stunted manchild becomes the moral conscience of an entire nation. Schlondorff carefully walks the line between fascist critique and the merely freakish, packing his movie with a mesmerizing onslaught of Fellini-esque set pieces. Dark, discomfiting, and sometimes disturbing to watch, "The Tin Drum" is a bitter look at German history and the death of reason, featuring a tragic, haunting performance ... Read More
Rating: - Nightmarish.
I will not pretend that I understood this on a symbolic level. I did not. I cannot say that the movie was a pleasure to watch. It was not. But it was a series of absolutely unforgettable images. Akin to a nightmare. It was all that stuff that SNL skits mock about German film. You may need to be something of a stoic to sit it through; my boyfriend insists it was the worst torture he's ever endured on screen.
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