Rating: R
Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 05/18/2004
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: Ger
Sound: DD1/DD5.1
Run Time: 142 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: Criterion
In
Volker Schlöndorff's award-winning adaptation of Nobel Prize winner
Günter Grass' allegorical novel,
David Bennent plays
Oskar, the young son of a German rural family, circa 1925. On his third birthday,
Oskar receives a shiny new tin drum. At this point, rather than mature into one of the miserable specimens of grown-up humanity that he sees around him, he vows never to get any older or any bigger. Whenever the world around him becomes too much to bear, the boy begins to hammer on his drum; should anyone try to take the toy away from him, he emits an ear-piercing scream that literally shatters glass. As Germany goes to hell during the 1930s and '40s, the never-aging
Oskar continues savagely beating his drum, serving as the angry conscience of a world gone mad. The intense and visceral
Tin Drum was one of the most financially successful German films of the 1970s and won the 1979 Oscar for Best Foreign Film and the 1979 Golden Palm (which it shared with
Apocalypse Now). In the late '90s, the film became the center of a censorship controversy when some U.S. videotapes were confiscated because of the film's supposed violation of a child pornography statute.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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