The Tin Drum Page #6

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
437 Views


they were this thick, the eels.

547

01:
07:11,944 -- 01:07:14,404

He wanted 1.50,

548

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07:14,530 -- 01:07:16,531

but I gave him a gulden.

549

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07:53,986 -- 01:07:57,238

Don't expect me

to touch your eels.

550

01:
07:57,364 -- 01:07:59,574

Don't put on airs.

551

01:
07:59,700 -- 01:08:02,535

I'll never eat fish again.

Certainly not eels.

552

01:
08:02,661 -- 01:08:06,748

You've always eaten them

and you knew where they came from.

553

01:
08:07,958 -- 01:08:09,167

Quiet!

554

01:
08:10,002 -- 01:08:12,253

Stop that drumming

once and for all!

555

01:
08:12,379 -- 01:08:13,505

Leave the child alone!

556

01:
08:13,631 -- 01:08:14,923

And sit down!

557

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08:15,049 -- 01:08:18,176

Who was to blame?

Who left the cellar door open?

558

01:
08:18,302 -- 01:08:19,886

That's old news.

559

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08:21,639 -- 01:08:24,724

See if they're not delicious.

560

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08:24,850 -- 01:08:27,393

Come on. Dig in.

561

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08:27,520 -- 01:08:30,647

Fresh eel with dill sauce,

562

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08:31,482 -- 01:08:34,984

bay leaf

and a twist of lemon peel.

563

01:
08:35,110 -- 01:08:37,821

Don't make her eat

if she doesn't want to.

564

01:
08:37,947 -- 01:08:39,072

Keep out of this.

565

01:
08:39,198 -- 01:08:42,325

Leave her alone.

She'll only vomit.

566

01:
08:42,451 -- 01:08:44,577

I paid good money for these eels.

567

01:
08:44,703 -- 01:08:47,205

Just try them.

568

01:
08:47,331 -- 01:08:51,668

They've been well cleaned

and washed.

569

01:
08:54,421 -- 01:08:57,757

No gall. Light, healthy liver.

570

01:
08:57,883 -- 01:08:59,592

And so fresh!

571

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09:04,640 -- 01:09:06,516

Oskar, sit down.

572

01:
09:09,103 -- 01:09:10,979

I slaved over the stove for hours.

573

01:
09:11,105 -- 01:09:14,023

Some people would be

very happy to eat my eels.

574

01:
09:43,304 -- 01:09:44,971

I don't know what to do!

575

01:
09:45,097 -- 01:09:47,015

Alfred, calm down.

576

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09:47,141 -- 01:09:50,268

I can't talk to her.

And the fish is getting cold.

577

01:
09:50,394 -- 01:09:52,228

Women are more sensitive.

578

01:
09:52,980 -- 01:09:56,983

You talk to her.

If only she'd calm down.

579

01:
11:57,312 -- 01:11:59,814

Shouldn't I warm them up at least?

580

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12:35,267 -- 01:12:37,310

Don't do it with Bronski.

581

01:
12:38,645 -- 01:12:41,898

He joined the wrong side when

he went with the Polish post office.

582

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12:42,024 -- 01:12:44,192

Don't bet on the Poles.

583

01:
12:44,318 -- 01:12:47,403

If you must bet, bet on the Germans.

584

01:
12:47,529 -- 01:12:49,781

Sooner or later, they'll take over.

585

01:
12:50,866 -- 01:12:54,118

Imagine when the Germans come

and you're stuck with Bronski,

586

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12:54,244 -- 01:12:55,703

that meshugge Pole.

587

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12:55,829 -- 01:12:59,165

You'll be in trouble then.

588

01:
12:59,291 -- 01:13:02,543

Why not bet on Matzerath?

589

01:
13:08,175 -- 01:13:13,429

Or, if you'd do me the great honour,

bet on me,

590

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13:14,765 -- 01:13:16,432

Sigismund Markus,

591

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13:16,558 -- 01:13:18,601

who was just baptized.

592

01:
13:18,727 -- 01:13:20,728

No, Markus. Please!

593

01:
13:20,854 -- 01:13:22,522

We could go to London

594

01:
13:22,648 -- 01:13:25,817

like everybody else,

before the Germans come.

595

01:
13:30,823 -- 01:13:32,448

Look. There he is.

596

01:
13:33,367 -- 01:13:35,827

We'll take him with us to London.

597

01:
13:35,953 -- 01:13:37,912

He'll live like a prince.

598

01:
13:40,124 -- 01:13:43,000

Thank you, Markus,

but it's impossible,

599

01:
13:43,127 -- 01:13:45,253

and not because of Bronski.

600

01:
13:45,379 -- 01:13:48,840

I'm glad to hear that. I had a feeling

it wasn't because of him.

601

01:
13:48,966 -- 01:13:51,050

Steer clear of Bronski,

602

01:
13:51,176 -- 01:13:52,885

and stick to Matzerath.

603

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15:09,671 -- 01:15:10,671

Come on.

604

01:
15:12,674 -- 01:15:13,841

Play.

605

01:
15:14,635 -- 01:15:15,927

One two, one two...

606

01:
15:19,640 -- 01:15:21,349

You can't

607

01:
15:21,475 -- 01:15:22,808

or you won't?

608

01:
15:23,685 -- 01:15:25,144

Rascal!

609

01:
15:25,270 -- 01:15:26,771

'Cause you can do everything else.

610

01:
15:27,522 -- 01:15:31,359

I have sinned

in thought, word and deed.

611

01:
15:31,485 -- 01:15:33,444

Alone or with others?

612

01:
15:33,570 -- 01:15:35,029

With someone else.

613

01:
15:35,155 -- 01:15:36,614

When and where?

614

01:
15:37,407 -- 01:15:39,742

Thursdays, on the Tischlergasse.

615

01:
15:39,868 -- 01:15:43,120

But, child,

that same filthy neighbourhood?

616

01:
15:43,247 -- 01:15:44,872

I can't help it, Father.

617

01:
15:44,998 -- 01:15:47,541

I try, but I can't.

618

01:
15:47,668 -- 01:15:51,045

But the consequences,

my dear Mrs. Matzerath?

619

01:
15:52,422 -- 01:15:54,090

They're already here, Father.

620

01:
15:55,133 -- 01:15:56,759

They're already here.

621

01:
16:05,519 -- 01:16:07,395

What do you think you're doing?

622

01:
16:07,521 -- 01:16:08,688

Little brat.

623

01:
16:18,240 -- 01:16:21,158

Father, what will I do

with the child?

624

01:
16:22,494 -- 01:16:25,663

I love my little Oskar,

625

01:
16:25,789 -- 01:16:28,708

but he's already 14.

626

01:
16:28,834 -- 01:16:31,877

He's always in trouble,

and now this!

627

01:
16:33,422 -- 01:16:36,716

Pray, Mrs. Matzerath, pray.

628

01:
16:38,844 -- 01:16:40,970

Oskar, stop it.

629

01:
16:46,685 -- 01:16:47,727

Agnes?

630

01:
18:33,041 -- 01:18:36,168

What did I tell you?

Fish again.

631

01:
18:37,254 -- 01:18:39,088

She doesn't eat.

She gulps it down.

632

01:
18:39,214 -- 01:18:41,298

And she's surprised

it doesn't stay down.

633

01:
18:41,425 -- 01:18:43,008

God, how can this be?

634

01:
18:44,219 -- 01:18:46,345

This has been going on

for three weeks.

635

01:
18:46,471 -- 01:18:48,722

First it was kippers and sardines.

636

01:
18:48,849 -- 01:18:51,142

Now it's pickled herring.

637

01:
18:53,019 -- 01:18:55,020

I've tried everything.

638

01:
18:55,147 -- 01:18:56,814

I'm at the end of my rope.

639

01:
18:57,774 -- 01:18:59,525

Why didn't you call me sooner?

640

01:
19:14,624 -- 01:19:16,542

Agnes, tell me what's wrong.

641

01:
19:20,755 -- 01:19:22,715

You know

fish doesn't agree with you!

642

01:
19:23,842 -- 01:19:25,384

Take it from me.

643

01:
19:25,510 -- 01:19:30,723

The Fhrer prefers

a single communist joining the party

644

01:
19:30,849 -- 01:19:33,225

to one bourgeois bureaucrat...

645

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19:39,483 -- 01:19:40,608

Doesn't want to live,

646

01:
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doesn't want to die.

647

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19:43,028 -- 01:19:45,029

I don't know.

648

01:
19:46,781 -- 01:19:50,451

It's too much of everything,

and it keeps piling up.

649

01:
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I used to say that too,

but I made it.

650

01:
19:58,627 -- 01:20:00,294

Think it was easy

651

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20:00,420 -- 01:20:03,464

when Koljaiczek, your father,

652

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20:04,716 -- 01:20:06,759

disappeared under the timber

653

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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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