Danzig in the 1920s/1930s. Oskar Matzerath, son of a local dealer, is a most unusual boy. Equipped with full intellect right from his birth he decides at his third birthday not to grow up as he sees the crazy world around him at the eve of World War II. So he refuses the society and his tin drum symbolizes his protest against the middle-class mentality of his family and neighborhood, which stand for all passive people in Nazi Germany at that time. However, (almost) nobody listens to him, so the catastrophe goes on…
Release Date: 11 April 1980Runtime: 132 min
Stars:
- Andréa Ferréol
- Angela Winkler
- Berta Drews
- Daniel Olbrychski
- David Bennent
- Heinz Bennent
- Helmut Brasch
- Ilse Pagé
- Käte Jaenicke
- Katharina Thalbach
- Mario Adorf
- Roland Teubner
- Tadeusz Kunikowski
- Tina Engel
- Werner Rehm
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
