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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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Look, there she is!
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Things'll change around here!
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Beat it, damn kids!
I'm coming down!
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O glorious call of the sun...
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I'll take that one.
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Look, if you please,
at this extraordinary potato.
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This tumescent, luxuriant flesh,
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forever conceiving new shapes...
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and yet so chaste.
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I love the potato
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because it speaks to me.
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Yes, spuds are bigger this year
than last.
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What are you doing?
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Oskar learn to write.
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Forget it.
You'll never learn to read and write.
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The great classics,
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the eternal truths,
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die unto life!
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Hold it.
Now I've got all of you.
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For you on your first day of school.
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Eyes this way, please.
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My name is Spollenhauer,
and I am your teacher.
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And now, dear children,
do any of you know a song?
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You must be little Oskar.
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We've heard so much about you.
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You play that so well.
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Isn't our Oskar a fine drummer?
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But now let's put the drum away.
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It must be sleepy.
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After school,
you can have it back again.
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You're a naughty Oskar.
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I will now read you the schedule.
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Monday:
Writing,
arithmetic, reading,
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religion.
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All together:
Writing,
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arithmetic.
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Oskar, stop that!
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Religion.
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- Miss Spollenhauer.
- Oskar!
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- Miss... Miss Spollenhauer...
- Get out!
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Strange.
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Very strange.
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How old is he, did you say?
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Six, Doctor.
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Inge, kindly undress Oskar.
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How long is it
since he fell down the stairs?
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Three years on September 12.
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We'd better examine his spine again.
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Be a good boy.
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I'll give it right back.
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Oskar, give me your drum.
I'll hold it.
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See, you can't get out of your shirt.
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Oskar, if you're not good,
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the doctor won't make you well.
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Come, child. Give me the drum.
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Amazing.
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I shall write a paper
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about this
for one of our medical journals,
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if you have no objection.
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Amazing.
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"The destructive force
of this local phenomenon
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"is such as to suggest
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"an anomalous formation
of the lower larynx
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"in little Oskar Matzerath.
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"Nor can we exclude the hypothesis
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"of a concomitant development
of the vocal cords."
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Did you hear that?
In a medical journal.
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Does the doctor say
why he won't grow?
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You'll have to ask him that.
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Why he won't grow!
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Cut it out.
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He's yours as much as mine.
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If not more.
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Who left the cellar door open,
you or me?
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A, B, C, D, E,
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I'm a little headachy.
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F, G, H, I, J, K,
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what will the doctor say?
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L, M, N, O,
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I'm ready to go.
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P, Q, R, S, T,
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feeling quite feisty.
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U, V, W, X,
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troubles will be axed.
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Y and Z,
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I'm off to bed!
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You're not listening, Oskar!
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Again.
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A, B, C, D, E,
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I'm a little headachy.
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F, G, H, I, J, K,
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what will...
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Oskar read!
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This isn't for you.
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Rasputin...
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Rashu, Rashu, Rapupin.
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O-skar.
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No:
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O-rgy.
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Orgy! Oskar read!
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"All within me, said Rasputin,
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"is pure light
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"which will cleanse your sins.
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"Not surprisingly,
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"the ladies of the Court
flung themselves at the prophet."
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- Rasputin was...
- Is he making progress?
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What? You're reading Rasputin?
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No danger he'll understand?
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I'm trying hard
but he learns nothing.
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Where are you up to?
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"The Gorokhova Street drawing room...
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"Rasputin was alone
with Irina and the Grand Duchess,
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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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