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The Tin Drum [Region 2]
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5035017010174
Format: PAL
Languages: German (Original Language), Hebrew (Original Language), Italian (Original Language), Polish (Original Language), Russian (Original Language),
Number Of Discs: 1
Region Code: 2
Theatrical Release Date: April 11, 1980
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Editorial Review:
This Oscar-winning adaptation of Günter Grass's novel is an absurdist fantasy about a little German boy (David Bennent) who wills himself at the age of three not to grow up in protest of the Nazi regime. Made unnecessarily notorious in recent years due to overzealous censors in some parts of the United States, the film is more startling and surreal than obscene. Bennent is very good, and while the 1979 film doesn't meet the high standards of the best work from the then-renaissance of German film, it has a special place in the hearts of many who saw it upon its release. Directed by Volker Schlöndorff (The Handmaid's Tale). --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - STRANGE, DISTURBING & THOUGHT PROVOKING
I am not a big fan of watching movies that have subtitles, but this movie is so engrossing, I had no problem sitting through it. I think because what is happening on screen is so clear, I sort of knew what the actors were saying. The true star of this movie is the little boy, played by David Bennet and he does an incredible job. You may have seen him as "The Gump" in Ridley Scott's 'Legend'!
My brother turned me on to this film when it was new. He came home from college one weekend ... Read More
Rating: - The Tin Drum
This Oscar-winning adaptation of Gunter Grass's allegorical novel is an absurdist parable in which a willfully stunted manchild becomes the moral conscience of an entire nation. Schlondorff carefully walks the line between fascist critique and the merely freakish, packing his movie with a mesmerizing onslaught of Fellini-esque set pieces. Dark, discomfiting, and sometimes disturbing to watch, "The Tin Drum" is a bitter look at German history and the death of reason, featuring a tragic, haunting performance ... Read More
Rating: - Nightmarish.
I will not pretend that I understood this on a symbolic level. I did not. I cannot say that the movie was a pleasure to watch. It was not. But it was a series of absolutely unforgettable images. Akin to a nightmare. It was all that stuff that SNL skits mock about German film. You may need to be something of a stoic to sit it through; my boyfriend insists it was the worst torture he's ever endured on screen.
Rating:  - An Adult Locked Inside a Child's Body with a Tin Drum
What a disturbing, unpleasant and often disgusting this Palm D' Or and Oscar Winner for the Best Foreign Language Film is. Perhaps it is appropriate given a bizarre look at the history of Germany from the World War 1 through the rise of the Nazis as seen by a strange child who refused to grow at his third Birthday. Little Oscar symbolized a conscience of the citizens of Danzig when the Nazis are in power and the war rages. I am expected to sympathize with Oscar because he supposedly understands better than ... Read More
Rating: - Exquisite but degrading
At times exquisitely filmed, at times hideous to watch; there were several moments when I attempted to look away from the film, as the material on the screen was too repulsive to watch. To know that such acts of despair and horror actually might exist is enough to throw one into a fright of existential depression. In particular, the one scene when one of the husbands grips the decapitated head of a boar, and pulls still-alive wriggling eels out from its slimy mouth, and then subsequentely serves the eels for ... Read More
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