The Tin Drum Page #7

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


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and never came back?

654

01:
20:10,472 -- 01:20:12,264

But at least he was gone!

655

01:
20:12,390 -- 01:20:14,600

The man was gone, you say!

656

01:
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How can you talk like that

657

01:
20:17,103 -- 01:20:19,730

when you do it with two

and never get enough?

658

01:
20:19,856 -- 01:20:21,774

That'll do, Mother!

659

01:
20:21,900 -- 01:20:24,109

You're pregnant! So what?

660

01:
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There's plenty of room here.

661

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When will it be?

662

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Never!

663

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I had no way of knowing!

664

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Help her.

665

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Why don't you want the child?

666

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It doesn't matter whose it is.

667

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No trumpet playing here.

668

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Go and blow that thing

with your Brown Shirts.

669

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Soon your blowing will all be over.

670

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- Nazi swine!

- Red pig!

671

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What are you doing here?

672

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You got no business here!

673

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Wanna know what you are?

674

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A kike.

That's what you are.

675

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See what they're doing to Markus,

676

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who was baptized

just like them?

677

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Is your drum broken?

678

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Come see me.

You'll have a new drum.

679

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A beautiful day!

680

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She's gone to the place

where everything's so cheap.

681

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Habemus dominum.

682

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Yes, Leo-Meshugge,

it's a beautiful day.

683

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An unforgettable day.

684

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I, too, have seen the Lord.

685

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You've seen the Lord?

686

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A beautiful day.

687

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The Lord has passed.

688

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He was in a hurry.

689

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There once was a drummer.

690

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His name was Oskar.

691

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He lost his poor mama,

who had eaten too much fish.

692

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There once was a gullible people

693

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who believed in Santa Claus.

694

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But Santa Claus was really

695

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the gas man!

696

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There once was a toy merchant.

697

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His name was Sigismund Markus,

698

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and he sold tin drums

lacquered red and white.

699

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There was once a drummer.

700

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His name was Oskar.

701

01:
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There once was a toy merchant

702

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whose name was Markus...

703

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and he took all the toys

in the world away with him.

704

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German Danzig Sentinel!

705

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September 1, 1939.

706

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You know the date, I assume.

707

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That was when I committed

my second crime.

708

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For I, Oskar the drummer,

709

01:
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not only drummed

my poor mama into her grave.

710

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I also dragged

711

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my poor uncle, and presumably

my father, Jan Bronski,

712

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to the Polish post office,

713

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so causing his death.

714

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Halt. You can't go through.

715

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Off limits. Nobody's allowed in.

716

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We only want to see Kobyella.

717

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He's a Pole! Stop him!

718

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It's high time.

719

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The ammunition's over there.

720

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What are you doing here?

721

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Kobyella. Repair drum!

722

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Impossible.

He has no time for you now.

723

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Go and hide somewhere, Oskar.

724

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I have to stay here.

Go on, hurry.

725

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September 1st.

726

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German territory was violated.

727

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Last night, for the first time,

728

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Poles opened fire on German soil

729

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with regular troops.

730

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Since 5:
45 this morning

their fire has been returned.

731

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From now on,

bomb will be answered with bomb.

732

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The drum!

733

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Get down!

734

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Oskar, take cover!

735

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You can't stay here, Oskar.

736

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Kobyella, don't give up.

737

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I'll fasten you down.

Then you won't tip over.

738

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One play, 2 contras,

739

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3 schneiders, 4 times clubs

makes 48, or 12 pfennigs.

740

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Hey, don't be a spoilsport.

741

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I can't play by myself.

742

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Pull yourself together.

743

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Kobyella, what's wrong?

744

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Kobyella...

745

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Kobyella, I beg you!

746

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I've got a Grand Hand.

747

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Agnes!

748

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She's dead.

749

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We surrender!

750

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Don't shoot!

751

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Hold your fire!

752

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They filmed us for a newsreel

753

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that was shown

in all the movie houses.

754

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Oskar's experience

at the Polish post office in Danzig

755

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went down in history

as the first battle

756

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of World War II.

757

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The Hanseatic Free City of Danzig

758

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celebrated the union

of its brick Gothic

759

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with the greater German Reich.

760

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This is a big moment in your life.

761

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Keep your eyes open.

You'll have stories to tell!

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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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