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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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first spontaneous reactions.
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He'll take over the business.
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Now we know
what we're slaving for.
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When little Oskar is three years old,
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he shall have a tin drum.
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Only the prospect of the tin drum
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prevented me from expressing
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more forcefully
my desire to return to the womb.
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Besides, my umbilical cord
had been cut.
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There was nothing more to be done.
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And so it was that I could
hardly wait till my third birthday.
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Oh, it's little Oskar.
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Want some more cake?
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Your mouth's filthy.
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Another sip, Grandma?
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We must learn to respect
our own body.
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Alex!
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The main thing
is a stable currency.
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And plenty to drink!
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So here's to the stable mark
and the three-pfennig roll!
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To youth!
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And beauty!
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May I call you Gretchen?
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Then I'll call her Lina.
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We won't be so young
when next we meet!
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September 12,
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1927.
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Next year, you'll be this big,
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and then this big,
and then this big,
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and then as big as me.
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Fresh from the cellar.
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Here are the glasses.
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Playing, Mr. Scheffler?
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Go ahead. I'll just watch.
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Besides, it's my bedtime.
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He's always tired.
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You shouldn't have married a baker.
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It's been a long time since Grandma
let anyone under her skirts.
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I don't understand this game.
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Let's see where the jacks are.
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Hey, cousin, you're out of diamonds!
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Don't argue. Play.
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I have two diamonds myself.
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How would I know?
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That day,
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reflecting on the grown-up world
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and my own future,
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I decided to call a halt,
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to stop growing then and there
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and remain a three-year-old,
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a gnome, once and for all!
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One, two, three...
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My God, there he is.
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He fell down the stairs!
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Why was the cellar door open?
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Alfred, it's your fault!
You left the cellar door open!
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I was just getting beer for everyone!
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Run and get the doctor.
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You! It's your fault!
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You left the cellar door open!
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Stop!
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Calm down!
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My little Oskar...
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How could this have happened?
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Two weeks in bed
and Oskar will be as good as new.
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Just a slight concussion.
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Plenty of compresses.
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My fall was a complete success.
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The family story was:
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On his third birthday,
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our little Oskar
fell down the cellar stairs.
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He didn't break any bones,
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but he never grew again after that,
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not a fraction of an inch.
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That drum again.
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There's my little Oskar,
all well again.
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Morning!
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It's Poland's very first stamp,
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over 100 years old.
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Lunch time!
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I have to go.
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Stay, he's cooked mushrooms.
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I'm on duty at the post office.
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Not in the house, I said.
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Besides, it's broken.
You'll hurt yourself.
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You staying for lunch?
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Post office time.
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Let me have that.
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If you hurt yourself,
it will be my fault again.
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See? I told you so.
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Give me that drum
and I'll give you some chocolate.
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Let them have it.
I'll get you a new one.
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No! Oskar don't want!
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We'll see about that.
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Alfred, why must you always
use force?
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My drum!
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And thus I discovered
that my voice
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was capable of a scream
so high-pitched
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that no one dared
take my drum away.
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Shards bring luck.
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Because when my drum
was taken away,
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I screamed,
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and when I screamed,
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valuable articles burst into bits.
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Is the black witch here today?
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No, no, no!
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She will make an evil brew
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She will put you in her stew
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And then she will devour you
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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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