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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...

Genre: Drama, War

Director(s): Volker Schlöndorff

Actors: Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, David Bennent, Katharina Thalbach

Production: Kinowelt

Won 1 Oscar. Another 15 wins & 5 nominations.


IMDB:: 7.6
Rotten Tomatoes:: 80%

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: R
Year:: 1979
: 142 min
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Now we've got peace.
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Germans, Poles, Kashubians,
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we'll all live together in peace.
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I don't know.
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Well, you'll see.
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The two men, so different
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despite their similar feelings
for Mama,
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liked each other,
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and from that trinity
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they brought me, Oskar,
into the world.
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The Sun was in the sign of Virgo.
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Neptune moved
into the tenth house of middle life,
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anchoring Oskar somewhere
between wonder and illusion.
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Push!
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Push, Agnes, push!
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It's coming!
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I first saw the light of this world
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in the form of a 60-watt bulb.
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Alfred!
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It's a boy!
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I knew it would be a boy,
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even if I sometimes said
it would be a girl.
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Not so hot.
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Crying and impersonating
a meat-coloured baby,
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I listened keenly
and with a critical ear
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to my parents'
first spontaneous reactions.
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He'll take over the business.
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Now we know
what we're slaving for.
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When little Oskar is three years old,
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he shall have a tin drum.
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Only the prospect of the tin drum
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prevented me from expressing
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more forcefully
my desire to return to the womb.
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Besides, my umbilical cord
had been cut.
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There was nothing more to be done.
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And so it was that I could
hardly wait till my third birthday.
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Oh, it's little Oskar.
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Want some more cake?
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Your mouth's filthy.
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Another sip, Grandma?
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We must learn to respect
our own body.
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Günter Grass

Günter Wilhelm Grass (German: [ˈɡʏntɐ ˈɡʁas]; 16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.He was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). As a teenager, he served as a drafted soldier from late 1944 in the Waffen-SS and was taken prisoner of war by US forces at the end of the war in May 1945. He was released in April 1946. Trained as a stonemason and sculptor, Grass began writing in the 1950s. In his fiction, he frequently returned to the Danzig of his childhood. Grass is best known for his first novel, The Tin Drum (1959), a key text in European magic realism. It was the first book of his Danzig Trilogy, the other two being Cat and Mouse and Dog Years. His works are frequently considered to have a left-wing political dimension, and Grass was an active supporter of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). The Tin Drum was adapted as a film of the same name, which won both the 1979 Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 1999, the Swedish Academy awarded him the Nobel Prize in Literature, praising him as a writer "whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history". more…

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