The Tin Drum

1979 R 2h 42m 7.5

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.

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.

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Info about The Tin Drum

Studio(s): Jadran Film, Artemis Film

Originally Released: United States on Apr 11, 1980

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Box Office Gross: $17,000,000.00

Budget: $3,000,000.00

Genres: Drama, War

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