The Tin Drum (1979)

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Danzig, 1924. De kleine Oskar is van bij zijn geboorte een vreemd kereltje. Hij was liever niet geboren want de wereld bevalt hem helemaal niet. Toch verlangt hij er naar om zo snel mogelijk drie jaar te worden. Dan krijgt hij van zijn moeder een blikken trommel. Op die dag besluit Oskar om niet meer te groeien en laat zich van een trap vallen. Oskar blijft inderdaad klein en verstoort met zijn trommel en zijn hoge stem - waarmee hij glas kan breken - het leven van de volwassenen. Door zijn opengesperde angstige kinderogen volgen we de opkomst van het Nationaal Socialisme en de catastrofe van de oorlog.

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Novelist Günter Grass assisted in this brilliant film adaptation of his groundbreaking novel, which depicts the significant events in German history since the turn of the century as seen through the eyes of a bizarre child. In this allegorical film, a three-year-old boy observes the hypocrisy of the adult world and decides to remain a child forever by not growing any taller. His primary efforts to communicate consist of glass-shattering screams and banging on his tin drum. But as this unusual lad matures, and the events leading up to the onslaught of Nazism come to a head, he proves to have a keener perception o...
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f life than those around him. Volker Schlondorff's powerful drama deservedly won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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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 Germ...
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any 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.
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