Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his mother, Agnes, Oskar is reluctant to enter a world he sees as filled with hypocrisy and injustice, and vows on his third birthday to never grow up. Miraculously, he gets his wish. As the Nazis rise to power in Danzig, Oskar wills himself to remain a child, beating his tin drum incessantly and screaming in protest at the chaos surrounding him.
Director(s): Volker Schlöndorff
Writer(s): Jean-Claude Carrière, Franz Seitz Jr., Volker Schlöndorff
Producer(s): Franz Seitz Jr., Anatole Dauman, Eberhard Junkersdorf
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A smart movie powered by David Bennent's performance Oskar is a young man in World War II Germany who refuses to grow up when he was three years old. He deliberately let himself fall on a stair to ...
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