The Tin Drum
In Danzig between the wars, a boy so repelled by the adult world wills himself to stop growing at three, protesting through his tin drum and a glass-shattering scream.
Cannes Palme d'Or 1979 won (shared)
In the free city of Danzig between the two world wars, Oskar is so repelled by the adult world that on his third birthday he wills himself to stop growing. He keeps the body of a small child for years, banging a tin drum in protest and letting out a scream that shatters glass, as fascism rises around him.
The film literalises arrested development and the family romance, using a child who refuses to grow as a lens on the compromises and appetites of the adults around him. Shared the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1979, and adapted from the novel The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass.
Details
- 1979
- Germany
- German
- Film