The Tin Drum Page #4

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
Production: Kinowelt
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 15 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.6
Rotten Tomatoes:
80%
R
Year:
1979
142 min
430 Views


"who smiled faintly.

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"A holy man is in our midst,

she whispered,

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"staring dreamily..."

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"They were drawn

into loving caresses.

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"He ignited their kisses.

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"The prophet's burning eyes

bewitched them all.

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"Soon they collapsed

upon his chest."

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Have mercy!

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"His black beard grazed her breasts.

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"Voluptuous bodies

sprawled over the holy man..."

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You might wonder:

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To what shoddy background

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did this young man owe

his upbringing?

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But while my poor mama

and Gretchen Scheffler

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couldn't get enough of Rasputin,

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I discovered

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

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Elective Affinities.

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And thus I grew,

not in size but in spirit,

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torn between Rasputin and Goethe

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to the point of merging

the two books,

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following demonic passages

with more enlightened ones,

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just like in real life.

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Uncle Heilandt,

come spit in the soup.

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Look what I found in the pond!

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Two frogs!

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They're still alive!

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Make Oskar taste the soup!

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Now it's your turn.

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You'll love it.

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Open your mouth.

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Good, huh?

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My street and its backyards

hemmed me in.

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I longed for space

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and took every opportunity

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to escape the persecution

by the soup cooks

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by going into town

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alone or with Mama.

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Your drum's busted?

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Want me to mend it?

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No, he's getting a new one.

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My respects.

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Hello, Uncle Jan.

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I must leave you now.

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I have a few errands to run.

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This is for your drum, Oskar.

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Is it enough?

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Good day, Mr. Markus.

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Who do we have here?

Mrs. Matzerath.

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And little Oskar.

Here for a new drum?

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Yes, Mr. Markus. Again.

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He's always at it.

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I never know

what day of the week it is,

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except when you come in.

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Then something tells me

it must be Thursday again.

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You have such beautiful hands.

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Worth their weight in gold.

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See that box? Hand it to me.

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Look here, Mrs. Agnes.

Beautiful silk stockings.

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Pure silk.

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Fine quality.

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One, two, three pairs for you.

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They'll suit you fine,

it's a bargain.

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Much too expensive for me.

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They're worth it.

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Maybe another time.

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I'll let them go for half a gulden.

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That cheap?

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No, Markus,

that's giving them away.

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Take them,

and don't ask questions.

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And now, Oskar,

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what can I do for the little prince?

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Oh, is it a new drum we need?

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Just choose one.

You know where they are!

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See, Oskar?

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He's so happy.

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Mr. Markus, could little Oskar

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stay with you for half an hour?

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I have some important errands.

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I'll watch him

like the apple of my eye.

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See to your important errands,

and don't worry.

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The little prince will stay with me

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while you take care

of your important errands,

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just like every Thursday.

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We're closing off the street!

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Danzig is

and always has been German.

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The Corridor is

and always has been German.

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All these territories owe

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their cultural development

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exclusively to the German people.

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If not for the German people,

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these eastern territories

would have succumbed to barbarism.

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Have a nice stroll?

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Everyone can hear the Fhrer

but us!

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What's wrong with you?

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I suffer from an illness.

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What is it?

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I've gone bird-brained!

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And now, ladies and gentlemen,

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the smallest of the small:

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Bebra and his midgets!

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My word!

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Now it's three-year-olds

who choose to stop growing.

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My name is Bebra.

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Directly descended

from Prince Eugene...

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whose father was Louis XIV,

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and not some Savoyard,

as has been claimed.

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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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