The The Tin Drum
Synopsis
Danzig in the 1920s/1930s. Oskar Matzerath, son of a local dealer, is a most unusual boy. Equipped with full intellect right from his birth he decides at his third birthday not to grow up as he sees the crazy world around him at the eve of World War II. So he refuses the society and his tin drum symbolizes his protest against the middle-class mentality of his family and neighborhood, which stand for all passive people in Nazi Germany at that time. However, (almost) nobody listens to him, so the catastrophe goes on...
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (12)
Production and distribution (3)
- Co-productions : Argos Films, Auditrust
- Foreign production companies : Bioskop Film, Hallelujah Film, Artemis Film, Jadran Film, Film Polski
- French distribution : Argos Films
Full credits (8)
- Executive Producer : Anatole Dauman
- Screenwriters : Jean-Claude Carrière, Volker Schlöndorff, Franz Seitz
- Music Composer : Maurice Jarre
- Editor : Suzanne Baron
- Foreign producers : Franz Seitz, Eberhard Junkersdorf
- Author of original work : Günter Grass
- Co-producer : Anatole Dauman
- Assistant editor : Barbara Von Weitershausen
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama, Historical
- Themes : Childhood
- Production language : German
- Coproducer countries : Germany (80.0%), France (20.0%)
