The Tin Drum (Criterion Collection) (2-DVD) R
A savage, sweeping epic of society in chaos.
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 43 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 15, 2013
- Originally Released: 1979
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | David Bennent, Mario Adorf & Angela Winkler | |
Directed by | Volker Schlöndorff | |
Edited by | Suzanne Baron | |
Screenplay by | Jean-Claude Carrière, Volker Schlöndorff & Franz Seitz | |
Composition by | Maurice Jarre | |
Story by | Gunter Grass | |
Produced by | Franz Seitz & Anatole Dauman | |
Director of Photography: | Igor Luther |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1979 -
Best Foreign Language Film: Not Applicable
Cannes 1979 -
Palme d'Or: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
The Tin Drum is, in fact, almost everything anybody could ask a film to be. It is strikingly original and continuously surprising.
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Los Angeles Times
[Bennent] adroitly captures a 3-year-old’s solipsistic conviction that the entire world is his personal playground.
A.V. Club
Rating: 3/5 --
Schlöndorff has a tendency to sketch the rest of the cast as simple grotesques or symbols of decadence that are unconvincingly humanized in the final third.
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Time Out
Rating: 4/4 --
In Volker Schlöndorff's restored version of his 1979 classic, Oskar Matzerath emerges as a tragic anti-hero, whose lustful imagination and prodigious magical gifts can't shield him from the juggernaut of war.
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Slant Magazine
The best parts of The Tin Drum are its powerful and forceful images, the primitivism of the narrative, its overwhelming and justified beauty, and its child actor David Bennent. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Rating: 2/4 --
The difficulty with The Tin Drum [is that it's] either (a) an allegory about one person's protest against the inhumanity of the world, or (b) the story of an obnoxious little boy.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: B- --
The literal adaptation doesn't transfer that well to film.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Product Description:
Novelist Günter Grass assisted in this brilliant film adaptation of his groundbreaking novel, which depicts the significant events in German history since the turn of the century as seen through the eyes of a bizarre child. In this allegorical film, a three-year-old boy observes the hypocrisy of the adult world and decides to remain a child forever by not growing any taller. His primary efforts to communicate consist of glass-shattering screams and banging on his tin drum. But as this unusual lad matures, and the events leading up to the onslaught of Nazism come to a head, he proves to have a keener perception of life than those around him. Volker Schlondorff's powerful drama deservedly won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
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- UPC: 715515101912
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