Die Blechtrommel - Director's Cut
Volker Schlöndorff / DE, FR, PL, YUCS, 1979 / 163 min.
Germany in the late 1920s. Three-year old boy Oskar refuses to keep growing. When he screams, he breaks windows and with his tin drum he manages to disrupt the Nazi’s parades. Oscar for the best foreign language production, Golden Palm in Cannes.
“On his third birthday, Oskar fell down the cellar stairs, he was okay, but wouldn’t grow after that.” This is how Günter Grass describes the child Oskar who annoys adults with his tin drum in his novel Die Blechtrommel (1959).
Details
Director
Volker Schlöndorff
Production year
1979
Country
DE, FR, PL, YUCS
Original title
Die Blechtrommel - Director's Cut
Length
163 min.
Language
German
Subtitles
ENG
Format
DCP
Part of
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