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The Tin Drum ()

Die Blechtrommel (original title)
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In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.
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  • Won 1 Oscar. Another 17 wins & 6 nominations.
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Alfred Matzerath
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Agnes Matzerath
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Oskar Matzerath
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Maria Matzerath
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Jan Bronski
Tina Engel ...
Anna Koljaiczek (jung)
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Anna Koljaiczek
Roland Teubner ...
Joseph Koljaiczek
Tadeusz Kunikowski ...
Onkel Vinzenz
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Lina Greff (as Andréa Ferreol)
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Greff
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Gretchen Scheffler
Werner Rehm ...
Scheffler
Käte Jaenicke ...
Mutter Truczinski
Helmut Brasch ...
Der Alte Heilandt (as Helmuth Brasch)
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Musiker Meyn
Wigand Witting ...
Herbert Truczinski
Mariella Oliveri ...
Roswitha
Fritz Hakl ...
Bebra
Emil Feist ...
1. Clown
Herbert Behrendt ...
2. Clown
Karl Heinz Tittelbach ...
Felix
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Sigismund Markus
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Schugger-Leo
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Löbsack
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Fajngold
Gerda Blisse ...
Frl. Spollenhauer
Joachim Hackethal ...
Hochwürden Wiehnke
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Dr. Hollatz
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Dr. Michon (as Zygmunt Huebner)
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Kobyella
Bruno Thost ...
Obergefreiter Lankes
Alexander von Richthofen ...
Pvt. Herzog
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Stauer (as L. Grzmocinski)
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1. Gendarme (as S. Michalski)
J. Kapinski ...
2. Gendarme
Dietrich Frauboes ...
Oberartz - Medical Chief
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Mädchen auf Beerdigungsfeier (uncredited)
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Rasputin (uncredited)
Horst Gentzen ...
Felix (uncredited) (voice)
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Self (uncredited) (archiveFootage) (voice)
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Eel Catcher (uncredited) (voice)
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Gesundheitspolizist (uncredited)
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Extra (uncredited)
Lutz Riedel ...
Soldier (uncredited) (voice)
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Peter (uncredited)
Herbert Weissbach ...
Fajngold (uncredited) (voice)

Directed by

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Volker Schlöndorff

Written by

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Günter Grass ... (novel)
 
Jean-Claude Carrière ... (writer)
Volker Schlöndorff ... (writer)
Franz Seitz ... (writer)
Günter Grass ... (additional dialogue)

Produced by

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Roger Corman ... distribution producer (uncredited)
Anatole Dauman ... producer (uncredited)
Eberhard Junkersdorf ... line producer
Hans Prescher ... producer: HR
Volker Schlöndorff ... producer (uncredited)
Franz Seitz ... producer

Music by

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Maurice Jarre
Friedrich Meyer

Cinematography by

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Igor Luther

Editing by

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Suzanne Baron

Editorial Department

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Helga Kusterka ... assistant editor
Philipp Orgassa ... digital restoration colorist
Agape von Dorstewitz ... assistant editor (as Agape Dorstewitz)
Barbara von Weitershausen ... assistant editor (as Barbara v. Weitershausen)

Production Design by

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Piotr Dudzinski
Zeljko Senecic

Art Direction by

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Nicos Perakis

Set Decoration by

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Marijan Marcius ... (as Marijan Marcijus)
Edouard Pezzoli
Paul Weber

Costume Design by

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Inge Heer
Dagmar Niefind
Yoshio Yabara ... (as Yoshy Yabara)

Makeup Department

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Rino Carboni ... makeup artist
Albina Mackic ... makeup artist
Vitaliana Patacca ... hair stylist (as Vitaliana Potacka)
Ingeborg Thiess ... hair stylist
Alfredo Tiberi ... makeup artist
Teresa Tomaszewska ... makeup artist
Ruzica Vidmar ... key makeup artist (as Ruza Vidmar)

Production Management

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Dominik Baltic ... unit manager
Donko Buljan ... production manager
Emir Cejvan ... production manager
Ute Ehmke ... production manager
André Heinrich ... production manager
Siegfried Hofbauer ... production manager
Herbert Kerz ... production manager
Czeslaw Klak ... unit manager
Urszula Orczykowska ... production manager
Ferid Terzic ... unit production manager
Marko Vrdoljak ... production manager
Emir Vrodoljak ... production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Wolfgang Krake ... assistant director
Branko Lustig ... assistant director
Richard Malbequi ... assistant director
Andrzej Reiter ... assistant director
Alexander von Richthofen ... assistant director

Art Department

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Dominique Antony ... set constructor
Pierre Audouard ... props
Ivo Baltic ... props
Franz Bauer ... props
Ewa Kowalska ... set constructor
Tadeusz Kunikowski ... props
Christian Lenz ... props
Bernd Lepel ... set designer
Boleslaw Miziolek ... props
Barbara Nowak ... set designer
Stanislaw Nowak ... painter
Tihomir Piletic ... set designer
Thomas Schulz ... props
Bogdan Serwa ... painter
Ivo Stjejan ... props

Sound Department

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Peter Beil ... sound
Walter Grundauer ... sound
Peter Kellerhals ... sound (as Walter Kellerhals)
Hans-Dieter Schwarz ... sound mixer (as Hans Dieter Schwarz)

Special Effects by

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Georges Iaconelli ... pyrotechnician (as Georges Jaconelli)
Josif Karovski ... weapons
Krzysztof Szwed ... pyrotechnician
Nikola Vujasinovic ... pyrotechnician

Camera and Electrical Department

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Peter Arnold ... assistant camera
Slawomir Baranski ... gaffer
Pero Bernakovic ... electrician
Andrzej Biskupski ... still photographer
Zvonko Blaskovic ... gaffer
Karl Dillitzer ... lighting technician
Antun Gorisek ... grip
Ulla Hübner ... still photographer
Stanislav Jesih ... lighting technician
Eugeniusz Kapelak ... electrician
Vlado Loncaric ... gaffer
Marijan Marcius ... grip
Stanislaw Piech ... lighting technician
Drago Poldrugac ... gaffer
Karl Reiter ... still photographer
Peter Seitz ... still photographer
Nikolaus Starkmeth ... assistant camera
Paul Weber ... lighting technician

Costume and Wardrobe Department

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Krystyna Bartosik ... wardrobe
Anica Cerovac ... wardrobe
Marko Cerovac ... costumer
Zofia Jedrzejczak ... wardrobe
Renée Miquel ... wardrobe
Elzbieta Radke ... costumer
Franjo Simek ... wardrobe

Location Management

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Mladen Cernjak ... assistant location manager
Louis Mayr ... location manager
Jean Claude Mouliére ... location manager
Günther M. Stocklöv ... location manager (as Günter Stocklöv)
Zygmunt Wójcik ... location manager

Music Department

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Lothar Brühne ... composer: song "Kann Denn Liebe Sünde Sein?" (uncredited)
Maurice Jarre ... conductor (uncredited)
Jan Latham-Koenig ... musician: piano (uncredited)
Carl Loubé ... orchestra (uncredited)
Sidney Sax ... orchestra contractor (uncredited)
Eric Tomlinson ... music engineer (uncredited)

Script and Continuity Department

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Lilo Schick ... script supervisor

Additional Crew

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Andrzej Dojnik ... production assistant
Paulette Hufnagel ... production administrator
Ingrid Höller ... production secretary
Franjo Proscan ... production secretary
Gabriele Seitz ... press relations
Amelia Statkiewicz ... production administrator
Ivan Steiger ... toys provided by
Erich Ebert ... voice dubbing: Charles Aznavour (uncredited)
Horst Gentzen ... voice dubbing: Karl Heinz Tittelbach (uncredited)
Reinhard Kolldehoff ... voice dubbing (uncredited)
Lutz Riedel ... voice dubbing (uncredited)
Frank Schröder ... voice dubbing (uncredited)
Anna Thalbach ... voice dubbing: Katharina Talbach- restored scene in director's cut (uncredited)
Herbert Weissbach ... voice dubbing: Wojciech Pszoniak (uncredited)
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Storyline

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Plot Summary

Danzig in the 1920s-1930s. Oskar Matzerath, son of a local dealer, is a most unusual boy. Equipped with full intellect right from birth, he decides on his third birthday not to grow up as he sees the crazy world around him on the eve of World War II. He refuses to join society and his tin drum symbolizes his protest against the middle-class mentality of his family and neighbourhood, which stand for all passive people in Nazi Germany at the time. But (almost) nobody listens to him, so the catastrophe continues. Written by Anonymous

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Taglines Academy Award Winner Best Foreign Language Film 1979 See more »
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Also Known As
  • Le tambour (France)
  • Blaszany bębenek (Poland)
  • The Tin Drum (United States)
  • The Tin Drum (Egypt, English title)
  • The Tin Drum (Israel, English title)
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Runtime
  • 142 min
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Trivia In June 1997, at the urging of a Christian fundamentalist group, and after viewing a few isolated scenes, an Oklahoma County District Court judge ruled that the film contained child pornography, as defined by Oklahoma's obscenity laws, and was therefore illegal. Oklahoma City police confiscated all copies of the film from libraries and rental outlets, without obtaining the necessary search warrants or court orders. They intimidated video store managers into giving them the addresses of customers with rental copies, went to those homes, and confiscated the movies. The local District Attorney announced that anyone possessing a copy of the movie would be arrested. The D.A. was forced to back down within weeks, and most of the seized videos had been returned by December. By October 1998, after several related lawsuits, U.S. federal courts ruled that the movie did not violate Oklahoma obscenity laws, and the seizure of the videotapes had been unconstitutional. The U.S. Court of Appeals closed the final case in May 2001, and the movie is once again available in Oklahoma County. See more »
Goofs While the German soldiers attack the Polish post office, one fires an MG42 machine gun from his shoulder. The German army didn't use that weapon before 1942. It's also not supposed to be fired while standing. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Pieces of Silver (1989). See more »
Quotes Oskar Matzerath: There once was a drummer. His name was Oskar. He lost his poor mama, who had eat to much fish. There was once a credulous people... who believed in Santa Claus. But Santa Claus was really... the gas man! There was once a toy merchant. His name was Sigismund Markus... and he sold tin drums lacquered red and white. There was once a drummer. His name was Oskar. There was once a toy merchant... whose name was Markus... and he took all the toys in the world away with him.
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