The Tin Drum Volker Schlöndorff Digital Life VHS

The Tin Drum
starring: Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, David Bennent, Katharina Thalbach, Daniel Olbrychski
directed by: Volker Schlöndorff

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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 5024165507032
Format: PAL
Number Of Discs: 1
Sales Rank: 152901
Theatrical Release Date: April 11, 1980

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This Oscar-winning adaptation of Günter Grass's novel is an absurdist fantasy about a little German boy (David Bennent) who wills himself at the age of three not to grow up in protest of the Nazi regime. Made unnecessarily notorious in recent years due to overzealous censors in some parts of the United States, the film is more startling and surreal than obscene. Bennent is very good, and while the 1979 film doesn't meet the high standards of the best work from the then-renaissance of German film, it has a special place in the hearts of many who saw it upon its release. Directed by Volker Schlöndorff (The Handmaid's Tale). --Tom Keogh

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- Film within History
This is one of those films that one watches with a sense of increasing admiration but perhaps in my case diminishing pleasure. It is surely one of the best-made German films of the post-war period. One can't fault the acting and directing; surely the music is as haunting as it is memorable. this time around I found the film less interesting and more repulsive than I had remembered it. Its overall meaning is also rather allusive. The boy has powers that are not explained, nor is their allegorical meaning to which many refer. The boy is an intolerable little monster, but what does it mean that nobody has the guts to take him on? Who does he represent? Much is made of his background, the story of his mother;'s birth, the seduction of his grandmother: where's all this going? The film lovingly concentrates on the grotesque. Lots of toilet-going, eating, and vomiting scenes are filmed in close-up as though they possessed ... Read More

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- More to it than meets the eye
Allegorical story or absurdist fantasy? Whichever this is, its a high class piece of filmmaking from director Volker Schlondorff. David Bennett who plays the drum beating young Oskar holds the film together. His is a marvellous performance. Its no surprise to find that unlike a lot of child 'stars' he is still working in films and television today. There is a steely determination to everything Oskar does in this film, which in action and metaphor represent either his or some of the society he lives in's hatred of the Nazi Germany regime.

Perhaps my favourite scene is where Oskar hides under the bandstand and through the power of his own drumming he corrupts the playing of the band at the Nazi rally, so that eventually everybody is dancing rather than playing at being Nazis. Then it rains and everybody departs (another metaphor?) leaving the head Nazi alone with nobody to shout at!

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- STRANGE, DISTURBING & THOUGHT PROVOKING
I am not a big fan of watching films that have subtitles, but this movie is so engrossing, it was easy to adjust to. I think because what is happening on screen is so clear, I knew what the actors were trying to say. The true star of this movie is the little boy, played by David Bennet and he does an incredible job. You may have seen him as "The Gump" in Ridley Scott's 'Legend'!

My brother turned me on to this film when it was new. He came home from college one weekend with it and it has been forever burned into my mind ever since. It is like no other film I have ever seen! Nightmarish, surreal, strange, erotic, bizarre, disturbing and very interesting, but not for everyone's taste for sure. If you like truly bizarre films you have to see this one! Fans of Eraserhead come to mind!

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- The Tin Drum
This Oscar-winning adaptation of Gunter Grass's allegorical novel is an absurdist parable in which a willfully stunted manchild becomes the moral conscience of an entire nation. Schlondorff carefully walks the line between fascist critique and the merely freakish, packing his movie with a mesmerizing onslaught of Fellini-esque set pieces. Dark, discomfiting, and sometimes disturbing to watch, "The Tin Drum" is a bitter look at German history and the death of reason, featuring a tragic, haunting performance by bug-eyed, 12-year-old wunderkind Bennent.

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