The Tin Drum Page #10

Synopsis: 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 that time. However, (almost) nobody listens to him, so the catastrophe goes on...

Genre: Drama, War

Director(s): Volker Schlöndorff

Actors: Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, David Bennent, Katharina Thalbach

Production: Kinowelt

Won 1 Oscar. Another 15 wins & 5 nominations.


IMDB:: 7.6
Rotten Tomatoes:: 80%

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: R
Year:: 1979
: 142 min
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A picnic in the open air!
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Nature gives us appetite!
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15:17,692 -- 02:15:20,986
Real Hungarian salami. Wonderful!
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15:21,112 -- 02:15:24,156
And chocolate from Holland!
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15:24,950 -- 02:15:28,452
Enjoy your meal!
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15:37,295 -- 02:15:38,796
Caviar!
987
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15:40,882 -- 02:15:43,217
Rescued from Stalingrad.
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16:24,050 -- 02:16:26,760
Tell me, Corporal Lankes.
989
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16:26,887 -- 02:16:28,095
Over there I see...
990
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16:29,014 -- 02:16:32,099
...five black spots on the beach.
991
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16:35,854 -- 02:16:39,064
These are the nuns from Lisieux.
They come at low tide
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to pick up mussels and shrimp.
993
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16:57,167 -- 02:16:59,168
Dora 7, Corporal Lankes speaking.
994
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Corporal, I see movement upfront!
Are you blind?
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They're nuns, Lieutenant.
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What if they were a fifth column?
997
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Yes, Lieutenant.
998
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Clear the beach!
It's off limits!
999
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They're just looking for shellfish.
1000
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I know them.
1001
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That's an order!
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Yes, Lieutenant.
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Come in!
1004
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Children! Quick!
1005
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The Americans are coming.
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Oskar, I must have coffee!
1007
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Roswitha, we're leaving.
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Roswitha,
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I don't know how old you were.
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I only know
that you smelled of cinnamon
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and nutmeg.
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You could see
into the hearts of men,
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but not into your own heart.
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Ah, dear Oskar,
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we dwarfs and fools
shouldn't dance on concrete
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that was poured for giants.
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Good luck! And keep your chin up!
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Hey, Kurt, Oskar's come back
for your birthday.
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Your little brother
just turned three.
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I brought you a present.
1021
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Are you allowed
to wear that uniform?
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Where have you been?
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We looked all over for you.
1024
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The police looked high and low.
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We had to swear
we hadn't bumped you off.
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Anyhow, you're back!
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I'll prepare something to eat.
1028
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You must be starving.
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I'll draw you a bath.
1030
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You've caused nothing but trouble.
1031
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They wanted to put you
in a clinic.
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You deserve it,
running away as you did.
1033
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The Gestapo... Hide!
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No news, gentlemen.
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We're desperate.
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The abnormal child has been sighted.
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Here in Langfuhr?
1038
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You should have reported it,
not a neighbour.
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As we had agreed.
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The child
needs treatment.
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He can't be seen
on the street anymore.
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That may be, but...
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As a Party member, you should share
the Fhrer's concern
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for racial purity.
1045
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Here's the warrant to put the kid
in the clinic at Kohlhammer.
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I won't let him be put away!
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Mr. Matzerath, just sign here.
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Never!
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I promised my wife
on her deathbed.
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I'm his father,
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not the race bureau!
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I've agreed with everything,
but this, never!
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It's going too far.
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I won't do it.
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My own son...
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They all say it should be done.
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Obviously they don't have children.
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Calm down.
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You'll wake up the kid.
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You think this means nothing to me?
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But they all say
that's how it's done now.
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Many have left,
nobody has ever come back.
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Agnes would have never
put up with this.
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Yes, but she was his mother,
and hoped he would get better.
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You can see...
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...that he hasn't.
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He can neither live nor die.
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No way!
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Beethoven.
Now there was a genius.
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What have they done with us?
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Turn it off. It's all over.
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Final victory!
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Alfred, get rid of your party pin.
The Russkis will be here any minute.
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Bury it under the potatoes.
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Good morning to you.
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Excuse me.
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Is this the Matzerath grocery store?
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And you are Mrs. Matzerath?
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Luba,
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look at the scale!
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A real decimal scale!
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A fuel tank,
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a sausage spear...
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And the cash register!
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I'm Mr. Fajngold,
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from Lemberg,
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and this is my wife Luba
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and my six children.
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Günter Grass

Günter Wilhelm Grass (German: [ˈɡʏntɐ ˈɡʁas]; 16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.He was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). As a teenager, he served as a drafted soldier from late 1944 in the Waffen-SS and was taken prisoner of war by US forces at the end of the war in May 1945. He was released in April 1946. Trained as a stonemason and sculptor, Grass began writing in the 1950s. In his fiction, he frequently returned to the Danzig of his childhood. Grass is best known for his first novel, The Tin Drum (1959), a key text in European magic realism. It was the first book of his Danzig Trilogy, the other two being Cat and Mouse and Dog Years. His works are frequently considered to have a left-wing political dimension, and Grass was an active supporter of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). The Tin Drum was adapted as a film of the same name, which won both the 1979 Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 1999, the Swedish Academy awarded him the Nobel Prize in Literature, praising him as a writer "whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history". more…

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