The Tin Drum

Director: Volker Schlöndorff

1979 / 142min / DCP

Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 32nd Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Schlöndorff’s adaptation of Günter Grass’s 1959 magical realist novel of the same name tells the tale of anti-hero Oskar Matzerath (David Bennett), a child with the mental facilities of an adult reluctantly born in Weimar Republic–era Danzig, who, repelled by the rampant hypocrisy and decadence he sees in the grown-ups all around him, decides at three years of age that he won’t grow any older… and doesn’t! (This might be a good time to mention that Oskar is armed against the hostile world with a piercing shriek that can shatter glass and eardrums—which only provides so much protection as the clouds of war gather overhead.) Eccentric, outrageous, and compelling cinema.

Distributor: Janus Films

Part of Maybe If You Smile They Will One Day All Return