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The Tin Drum

1979, Movie, R, 142 mins

TIN DRUM, THE | DIE BLECHTROMMEL
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Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film and cowinner (along with APOCALYPSE NOW) of the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival, THE TIN DRUM is a startlingly successful realization of an "unfilmable" novel by Gunter Grass, the leading German practitioner of magical realism. Oskar (David Bennent), born to a German rural family in the 1920s, becomes disgusted with the behavior of adults and decides, on his third birthday, not to grow any more, preferring ins... read more leave a comment
Year: 1979
Rated R

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David Bennent: Oskar Matzerath
Mario Adorf: Alfred Matzerath
Angela Winkler: Agnes Matzerath
Daniel Olbrychski: Jan Bronski
Katharina Thalbach: Maria
Charles Aznavour: Sigismund Markus

 

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