Additional information for The Tin Drum, which has a domestic theatrical release set for April 11, 2980. The film is being distributed by Unknown and has not yet been rated. The Tin Drum has a total running time of 142 minutes.
18
Chile
K-16
Finland
-12
France
III
Hong Kong
R18
New Zealand
18
Norway
15
Sweden
X
UK
R
USA
16
West Germany
R21
Singapore
MA
Australia
18
Argentina
R
Canada
142min
162min
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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 ... See full summary
This movie was set in Danzig, Germany before, during and at the end of WWII. The main character is Oskar Matzerath(David Bennent). His mother Agnes Matzerath(Angela Winkler) has two love interests, her Polish cousin, Jan Bronski(Daniel Olbrychski) and a German Alfred Matzerath(Mario Adorf). She ends up marrying Alfred Matzerath but continues to have an affair with Jan Bronski. She becomes pregnant with Oskar, so it isn't for sure that Matzerath is really his father. On Oskar's third birthday he is given a tin drum. After observing the adult world he decides that he does not want to be part of it. He throws himself down the cellar stairs to halt his growth. He is successful and no longer grows. He becomes very attached to his drum and whenever someone tries to take away his drum he is able to scream in such a high pitched scream that he shatters glass around him. The Nazi invasion of their Polish town begins. Oscar's mother Agnes ends up killing herself by eating large amount of raw fish. Jan Bronski continues to work at the Polish Post office and ends up being killed by the Nazis. This was considered the first day of the war. Oskar's peasant cousin, Maria(Katharina Thalbach) comes to live with Oskar and her Father. She becomes Oskar's step mother and love interest. Oskar and Maria have sex and she becomes pregnant. Although one can't be sure whos son he is, Oskar believes it is his son. Maria's son Kurt is born. . During the war Oskar joins a troupe of traveling dwarfs who perform to escape the war. He ends up meeting his second love, which ends tragically before the end of the war.
Oskar returns home for his fathers funeral. At the funeral his son Kurt hits his head with a rock. Instantly Oskar begins to grow.
Volker Schlöndorff
Director(s)
Jean-Claude Carrière
Günter Grass
Günter Grass
Volker Schlöndorff
Franz Seitz
Writer(s)
Eberhard Junkersdorf
executive producer
Hans Prescher
producer: HR
Franz Seitz
producer
Anatole Dauman
producer (uncredited)
Volker Schlöndorff
producer (uncredited)
Producer(s)
Maurice Jarre
Composer(s)
Alfred Matzerath
Mario Adorf
Agnes Matzerath
Angela Winkler
Oskar Matzerath
David Bennent
Maria Matzerath
Katharina Thalbach
Jan Bronski
Daniel Olbrychski
Anna Koljaiczek (jung)
Tina Engel
Anna Koljaiczek
Berta Drews
Joseph Koljaiczek
Roland Teubner
Onkel Vinzenz
Tadeusz Kunikowski
Lina Greff (as Andréa Ferreol)
Andréa Ferréol
Greff
Heinz Bennent
Gretchen Scheffler
Ilse Pagé
Scheffler
Werner Rehm
Mutter Truczinski
Käte Jaenicke
Der Alte Heilandt (as Helmuth Brasch)
Helmut Brasch
Musiker Meyn
Otto Sander
Herbert Truczinski
Wigand Witting
Roswitha
Mariella Oliveri
Bebra
Fritz Hakl
1.Clown
Emil Feist
2.Clown
Herbert Behrendt
Felix
Karl Heinz Tittelbach
Sigismund Markus
Charles Aznavour
Schugger-Leo
Marek Walczewski
Löbsack
Ernst Jacobi
Fajngold
Wojciech Pszoniak
Frl. Spollenhauer
Gerda Blisse
Hochwürden Wiehnke
Joachim Hackethal
Dr. Hollatz
Henning Schlüter
Dr. Michon (as Zygmunt Huebner)
Zygmunt Hubner
Kobyella
Mieczyslaw Czechowicz
Obergefreiter Lankes
Bruno Thost
Pvt. Herzog
Alexander von Richthofen
Stauer (as L. Grzmocinski)
Lech Grzmocinski
1.Gendarme (as S. Michalski)
Stanislaw Michalski
2.Gendarme
J. Kapinski
Oberartz - Medical Chief
Dietrich Frauboes
Felix (voice) (uncredited)
Horst Gentzen
Himself (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Adolf Hitler
Eel Catcher (voice) (uncredited)
Reinhard Kolldehoff
The Tin Drum
No theatrical release dates have been decided.
Director(s)
Günter Grass
Günter Grass
Volker Schlöndorff
Franz Seitz
Writer(s)
executive producer
Hans Prescher
producer: HR
Franz Seitz
producer
Anatole Dauman
producer (uncredited)
Volker Schlöndorff
producer (uncredited)
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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