| Record Number |
766747 |
| Title |
The tin drum [videorecording]. |
| Publisher/Date |
Kew, Victoria Umbrella Entertainment, 2017. |
| Pagination etc. |
1 videodisc (approximately 136 min.) : digital, optical ; 12 cm. |
| Contents note |
Based on the novel by Günter Grass. |
| "DAVID3638" |
| "World Classics" -- cover. |
| DVD extras: theatrical trailer. |
| Creation Note |
Producers, Franz Seitz, Volker Schlöndorff and Anatole Dauman ; director, Volker Schlöndorff ; screenplay, Jean-Claude Carrière, Volker Schlöndorff and Franz Seitz in collaboration with Günter Grass. |
| Performer note |
David Bennent, Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Daniel Olbrychski. |
| Summary Note |
Novelist Gunter Grass assisted in this brilliant film adaptation of his groundbreaking novel, which depicts the horrors of two world wars in Germany via the brazen gaze of a very special young boy. Frustrated by the lies and hypocrisies that surround him, three year-old Oskar resorts to breaking glass with his shrill voice and banging relentlessly on his tin drum. With the fascists rising-up in his Polish-German hometown of Danzig, and the events leading up to the onslaught of Nazism coming to a head, Oskar is determined to boycott the adult world and remain a child forever.Vividly portrayed by the diminutive David Bennet, and brilliantly directed by master of the New German cinema, Volker Schlondorff, Oskar's epic coming-of-age story is a milestone of European film, and deservedly won top prize at Cannes and the Academy Awards. |
| Target audience note |
Rated: MA 15+ (Strong sex scenes, war themes and violence) |
| Language note |
In German with English subtitles. |
| Subject |
Feature films -- Germany |
| Germany -- History -- 1945-1955 -- Drama |
| Foreign films |
| Added Author |
Schlöndorff, Volker director,
screenplay. |
| Adorf, Mario actor. |
| Winkler, Angela actor. |
| Drews, Berta actor. |
| Bennent, David actor. |
Seitz, Franz producer,
screenplay. |
| Carrière, Jean-Claude, 1931- screenplay. |
| Grass, Günter, 1927- Blechtrommel. |
| Corporate Author |
Bioskop Film (Company) |
| Artemis Film (Company) |
| Argos Films (Company) |
| Shelf Location |
DVD F TIND |
