The Tin Drum
(1979)
★ 7 IMDb · 552 votes
Year: 1979
Runtime: 142 мин
Country: France, Germany
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Cast: Марио Адорф, Angela Winkler, David Bennent, Катарина Тальбах, Даниэль Ольбрыхский, Tina Engel, Berta Drews, Roland Teubner, Tadeusz Kunikowski, Andréa Ferréol
Plot
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.