The Tin Drum [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: Volker Schl?ndorff, Volker Schlondorff

Overview

Much of the brilliance of this disturbing adaptation of Gunter Grass's allegorical novel derives from the stunning performance of 12-year-old David Bennent. Oskar, a strange German-Polish boy who deliberately stops growing, recounts his fantastic experiences in the northern European city of Danzig during the rise and fall of the Nazis.

Product Details

Release Date:	01/15/2013
UPC:	0715515101813
Original Release:	1979
Rating:	R
Source:	Criterion
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Language:	English
Time:	2:43:00
Sales rank:	12,272

Special Features

New, restored high-definition digital transfer of the complete version, approved by director Volker Schl?ndorff; Newly remastered 5.1 surround soundtrack, approved by Schl?ndorff and presented in DTS-HD master audio; New interview with Schl?ndorff about the making of the film and the creation of the complete version; New interview with film scholar Timothy Corrigan; German audio recording of G?nter Grass reading an excerpt from his novel; The Tin Drum, illustrated with the corresponding scene from the film; Television interview excerpts featuring Schl?ndorff, Grass, actors David Bennent and Mario Adorf, and cowriter Jean-Claude Carri?re; Trailer; New english subtitle translation; ; Plus: a booklet featuring an essay by critic Geoffrey Macnab and 1978 statements by Grass about the adaptation of his novel

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

David Bennent	Oskar,Greff
Mario Adorf	Alfredo
Angela Winkler	Agnes
Daniel Olbrychski	Jan
Katharina Thalbach	Maria
Fritz Hakl	Bebra
Mariella Oliveri	Raswitha Raguna
Tina Engel	The Young Anna Kollaiczek
Berta Drews	The Old Anna Kollaiczek
Roland Teubner	Joseph Kollaiczek
Ernst Jacobi	Gauleiter Lobsack
Werner Rehm	Scheffler the Baker
Ilse Page	Gretchen Scheffler
K?te Jaenicke	Mother Truczinski
Charles Aznavour	Markus
Wigand Witting	Herbert Truczinski
Marek Walczewski	Schugger-Leo
Otto Sander	Meyn the Musician
Karl-Heinz Titelbach	Felix
Emil Feist	Circus Performer
Herbert Behrent	Circus Performer
Wojciech Pszoniak	Faingold
Bruno Thost	Cpl. Lankes
Gerda Blisse	Miss Spollenhauer
Joachim Hackethal	Father Wiehnke
Zygmunt Huebner	Dr. Michon
Mieczyslaw Czechowicz	Kobyella
Andr?a Ferr?ol	Lina Greff
Ilse Pag?	Gretchen Scheffler
Roland Beubner	Joseph Kollaiczek
Henning Schl?ter	Dr. Hollatz
Helmut Brasch	Old Heilandt
Maurice Jarre	Composer
Friedrich Meyer	Composer

Technical Credits

Frank Seitz

Volker Schl?ndorff

Jean-Claude Carri?re

Georg Laforet

Anatole Dauman	Executive Producer,Producer
Georges Iaconelli	Special Effects
Frank Seitz	Screenwriter
Volker Schl?ndorff	Screenwriter
Jean-Claude Carri?re	Screenwriter
Georg Laforet	Screenwriter,Producer
Anatole Daumon	Producer

Editorial Reviews

The first German film to win the Best Foreign Film Oscar, New German Cinema forefather Volker Schlöndorff's adaptation of The Tin Drum is a potent Fellini-esque epic of intuitive rebellion against a corrupt world. Shot on location in Poland, Germany, and France, the film mixes the palpable reality of ordinary life in prewar and World War II Danzig with the surreal, innocent perspective of stunted boy/man Oskar as he raises instinctive hell against the horrors he witnesses, first in his family and then as the Nazis take over his hometown. Reaching the heights of comedy in a chaotic Nazi rally and the depths of tragedy during the Danzig post-office siege, Oskar's incessant drum-beating and glass-shattering shriek become a powerful, if futile, protest. Twelve-year-old neophyte David Bennent, cast partly for his striking eyes, anchors a superb German cast, while such memorable images as a lone matriarch, grotesque eels, and a midget circus act underscore a society unhinged. Co-winner of Cannes' Palme d'Or (with, appropriately, Apocalypse Now [1979]), The Tin Drum became an international hit and a '90s target for censors in the U.S. Though his film covers only the first two-thirds of Günter Grass' novel, Schlöndorff has refrained from a Tin Drum 2.