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Actors: David Bennent, Angela Winkler, Daniel Olbrychski, Mario Adorf
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Tin Drum |
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Based on Gunter Grass's astounding novel, this 1979 German film by Volker Schlondorff tells the story of Oskar Matzerath (Bennent), a boy who knows the world is a rotten place even before his birth. In Danzig in the 1920s and 1930s, Naziism is on the rise, his mother Agnes (Winkler) is having an affair with her cousin Jan Bronski (Olbrychski) right under his father's nose, so Oskar decides at the age of 3 not to grow up. He stays small and stunted, banging on his tin drum to protest a world going crazy. Filmed in Berlin, Gdansk, Normandy, Paris, and Croatia, this bizarre, wondrous, savage, satirical, and extremely earthy 142-minute movie was the most expensive German film ever made before "Das Boot." It won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film and shared the Golden Palm at Cannes with "Apocalypse Now," though for a time in the 1990s it was banned in the U.S. and Canada because it allegedly qualified as child pornography.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Taboo Sex Story?
Yes
Kind of sex:
- incest
War impact on civilians/veterans
Yes
Kind of conflict:
- war (general)
- war, WW II
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- a kid
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
- obsessed
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- German
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Unclothed?
- full frontal
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- German
Main Adversary
Identity:
- general circumstances
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Germany
- Eastern Europe
Misc setting
- resort/hotel
- fort/military installation
- school
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- all mixed up
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- licking
- impregnation/reproduction
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing nude male butt
- seeing full frontal--women
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- German
Subtitles?
- Yes
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
Is this movie based on a
- book
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