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The Tin Drum

Die Blechtrommel

1979

Volker Schlöndorff

David Bennent, Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, Daniel Olbrychski ...

7.1

11,835

Drama 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 as he sees the crazy world around him at the eve of World War II. So he refuses the society and his tin drum symbolizes his protest against the middle-class mentality of his family and neighborhood, which stand for all passive people in Nazi Germany at ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Charles Champlin Los Angeles Times	"The Tin Drum is, in fact, almost everything anybody could ask a film to be. It is strikingly original and continuously surprising."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"The movie invites us to see the world through the eyes of little Oskar (...) My problem is that I kept seeing Oskar not as a symbol of courage but as an unsavory brat (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Mike D'Angelo AV Club	"Schlöndorff's Tin Drum, like most adaptations of great literature, serves mostly as a fascinating but superficial gloss on material that just doesn’t lend itself well to visual storytelling."	NEU
United Kingdom	William Thomas Empire	"Beautiful to look at, but shot with a cruel and unerring eye, it gives no quarter to the German people for their complicity in events (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Gary Arnold The Washington Post	"The Tin Drum is likely to be remembered as another conspicuous example of why the urge to film certain books ought to be resisted."	NEU
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"The story it tells is so outsized, bizarre, funny, and eccentric, the movie compels attention	POS

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