The Tin Drum Page #9

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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871
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01:12,431 -- 02:01:15,266
Oskar, what a splendid feast.
872
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01:19,772 -- 02:01:22,399
No goose, Greff?
873
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01:22,525 -- 02:01:24,192
You know I don't eat meat.
874
02:
01:52,179 -- 02:01:56,933
Now you've got a little brother.
875
02:
01:57,059 -- 02:01:59,102
You'll soon be able to play with him.
876
02:
01:59,228 -- 02:02:01,855
The butcher's son was killed.
877
02:
02:01,981 -- 02:02:04,524
He got the Iron Cross first class.
878
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02:04,650 -- 02:02:06,151
Second class!
879
02:
02:09,697 -- 02:02:11,823
In any case, he's dead.
880
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02:12,908 -- 02:02:15,076
Kurt, my son.
881
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02:16,495 -- 02:02:18,997
You are definitely my son.
882
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02:20,791 -- 02:02:23,334
When you're three,
883
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02:23,461 -- 02:02:25,128
I'll give you a drum,
884
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02:25,963 -- 02:02:28,298
and if you don't want to grow up,
885
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02:28,424 -- 02:02:30,383
I'll show you how it's done.
886
02:
02:42,855 -- 02:02:45,273
Come on up!
887
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02:47,902 -- 02:02:50,361
You'll freeze out there!
888
02:
03:00,539 -- 02:03:02,082
Want to come in?
889
02:
03:28,317 -- 02:03:30,068
Come a little closer, Oskar.
890
02:
03:31,904 -- 02:03:34,114
Come under the covers
where it's warm.
891
02:
03:34,240 -- 02:03:35,740
It's dreadfully cold.
892
02:
03:36,659 -- 02:03:38,827
Greff doesn't give us enough heat.
893
02:
03:38,953 -- 02:03:40,120
Come in!
894
02:
04:02,977 -- 02:04:04,978
Greff wants to harden his body.
895
02:
04:06,730 -- 02:04:09,065
He loves youth and hard bodies,
896
02:
04:09,191 -- 02:04:11,234
but he likes boys more than girls.
897
02:
04:24,123 -- 02:04:26,374
My feet are frozen.
898
02:
04:26,500 -- 02:04:28,293
A scout is never cold!
899
02:
05:33,692 -- 02:05:34,943
Help!
900
02:
06:27,913 -- 02:06:29,622
An autograph, please.
901
02:
06:36,964 -- 02:06:39,424
May I make the same request?
902
02:
06:40,968 -- 02:06:42,802
I loved your show.
903
02:
06:51,228 -- 02:06:53,313
My dear Oskar!
904
02:
06:54,440 -- 02:06:57,692
How glad I am
to see you again!
905
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06:57,818 -- 02:06:59,902
Didn't I tell you?
906
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07:00,029 -- 02:07:02,488
We're too little to lose each other.
907
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07:03,824 -- 02:07:06,701
Splendid, splendid!
You haven't grown an inch.
908
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07:08,704 -- 02:07:10,121
Roswitha!
909
02:
07:12,875 -- 02:07:15,376
Permit me to introduce Oskar,
910
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07:15,502 -- 02:07:18,296
an old friend
who sings glass to bits.
911
02:
07:19,214 -- 02:07:21,507
Signorina Roswitha Raguna,
912
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07:21,633 -- 02:07:24,093
the great somnambulist.
913
02:
07:24,219 -- 02:07:26,888
The joy of our soldiers
on every front,
914
02:
07:27,890 -- 02:07:29,515
and of my old age.
915
02:
07:39,943 -- 02:07:42,820
You're surprised to see me
in this uniform,
916
02:
07:43,906 -- 02:07:47,575
but the Propaganda Ministry
approached us
917
02:
07:47,701 -- 02:07:49,577
and asked us to appear
918
02:
07:49,703 -- 02:07:52,038
before the country's top leaders.
919
02:
07:53,082 -- 02:07:54,916
Filthy politics!
920
02:
07:55,042 -- 02:07:57,377
And now we entertain the troops.
921
02:
08:16,897 -- 02:08:18,606
A present from Oskar.
922
02:
08:29,159 -- 02:08:30,868
Join us, young man.
923
02:
08:30,994 -- 02:08:32,161
Play your drum,
924
02:
08:32,287 -- 02:08:35,915
sing light bulbs
and champagne glasses to bits.
925
02:
08:36,041 -- 02:08:38,793
The German army of occupation
in fair France,
926
02:
08:38,919 -- 02:08:41,796
in gay Paris, will thank you.
927
02:
08:59,523 -- 02:09:02,817
Dear tin soldiers of Paris,
928
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09:02,943 -- 02:09:06,779
Bebra's Front Line Theatre
will play for you,
929
02:
09:06,905 -- 02:09:08,406
sing for you,
930
02:
09:08,532 -- 02:09:11,367
and help you win the war!
931
02:
09:21,503 -- 02:09:23,629
What are you thinking about?
932
02:
09:25,215 -- 02:09:27,800
My grandmother's skirts.
933
02:
09:39,563 -- 02:09:41,898
And now, ladies and gentlemen,
934
02:
09:42,816 -- 02:09:45,234
for the first time in France,
935
02:
09:45,360 -- 02:09:47,904
a newcomer to our program,
936
02:
09:48,572 -- 02:09:50,823
the man with the secret weapon
937
02:
09:50,949 -- 02:09:53,493
we have heard so much about:
938
02:
09:54,411 -- 02:09:56,704
Oskar the drummer!
939
02:
09:56,830 -- 02:10:00,750
Oskar the glass killer!
940
02:
10:04,087 -- 02:10:05,421
Mazel tov.
941
02:
10:25,776 -- 02:10:28,903
And now, Signorina Raguna,
942
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10:29,029 -- 02:10:32,156
could you tell us,
943
02:
10:32,282 -- 02:10:35,159
as well as the ladies and gentlemen
present tonight,
944
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10:36,161 -- 02:10:38,746
the exact date of birth
945
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10:38,872 -- 02:10:41,916
of Lieutenant Herzog?
946
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10:43,252 -- 02:10:46,796
April 11,
947
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10:47,714 -- 02:10:51,634
1915,
948
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10:53,345 -- 02:10:54,804
in Bremen.
949
02:
10:55,430 -- 02:10:57,139
That's right.
950
02:
10:57,266 -- 02:10:58,474
And the place too.
951
02:
10:59,935 -- 02:11:04,313
Signorina Raguna,
the great somnambulist!
952
02:
11:07,818 -- 02:11:12,655
I see they're bringing him champagne.
953
02:
11:12,781 -- 02:11:16,242
But you'll never drink it.
954
02:
11:17,327 -- 02:11:18,327
Why not?
955
02:
11:51,653 -- 02:11:53,571
All together!
956
02:
11:53,697 -- 02:11:58,034
Is the black witch here today?
No, no, no!
957
02:
12:19,431 -- 02:12:20,681
Don't be afraid.
958
02:
12:20,807 -- 02:12:22,558
Nothing will happen.
959
02:
12:29,483 -- 02:12:31,942
My little man...
960
02:
13:05,060 -- 02:13:08,104
One corporal, five men,
nothing to report.
961
02:
13:10,524 -- 02:13:12,233
Thank you.
At ease, Corporal.
962
02:
13:12,359 -- 02:13:14,777
You see? Nothing to report.
963
02:
13:15,696 -- 02:13:17,738
It's been this way for years.
964
02:
13:17,864 -- 02:13:21,784
There's always the tide,
nature's contribution.
965
02:
13:21,910 -- 02:13:24,120
That's what keeps our men busy.
966
02:
13:25,038 -- 02:13:27,581
That's why we go on
building bunkers.
967
02:
13:27,708 -- 02:13:30,167
You have faith in concrete?
968
02:
13:30,293 -- 02:13:32,461
We haven't much faith in anything.
969
02:
13:33,088 -- 02:13:34,213
Am I right, Corporal?
970
02:
13:34,339 -- 02:13:36,632
Right, sir. In nothing!
971
02:
13:36,758 -- 02:13:38,968
But still you mix and pour.
972
02:
14:22,179 -- 02:14:24,305
Embrace, children.
973
02:
14:24,431 -- 02:14:26,599
Today, we play on concrete.
974
02:
14:27,350 -- 02:14:30,770
Tomorrow
it will make your teeth grind
975
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14:30,896 -- 02:14:33,189
and spoil your kisses.
976
02:
14:37,152 -- 02:14:40,446
Is the black witch here today?
No, no, no!
977
02:
14:40,572 -- 02:14:43,616
She will make an evil brew,
she will put you in her stew
978
02:
14:43,742 -- 02:14:45,326
And then she will devour you
979
02:
14:45,452 -- 02:14:48,037
Is the black witch here today?
Yes, yes, yes!
980
02:
14:48,163 -- 02:14:51,582
Look, there she is!
981
02:
15:06,807 -- 02:15:08,849

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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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