Die Blechtrommel [videorecording] = The tin drum / Janus Films ; eine deutsch/französische Gemeinschaftsproduktion der Franz Seitz Film / Bioskop Film / Artemis Film / Hallelujah Film / GGB 14. KG / Argos Films, Paris ; in zusammenarbeit mit Jadran Film, Zagreb und Film Polski, Warschau ; nach dem Roman von [= based on the novel by] Günter Grass ; Produzent [= Producer], Franz Seitz ; Regie [= Director], Volker Schlöndorff ; Drehbuch [= Screenplay], Jean-Claude Carrière, Franz Seitz, Volker Schlöndorff ; die Dialoge sind von Günter Grass bearbeitet und ergänzt.
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FilmPublisher number: TIN020 | Criterion CollectionLanguage: German, English Original language: German Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs)Publication details: [United States] : Criterion Collection, 2004.Edition: Widescreen edDescription: 2 videodiscs (142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. & guideISBN: - 0780027973
- 9780780027978
- Art director, Nicos Perakis; Bild [= Photography], Igor Luther ; Schnitt [= Editing], Suzanne Baron ; Musik [= music], Maurice Jarre.
- Academy Award: Best Foreign Language Film
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Main Library | DVD | WORLD Die Blec | Available | 33111007395128 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In Volker Schlöndorff's award-winning adaptation of Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass' allegorical novel, David Bennent plays Oskar, the young son of a German rural family, circa 1925. On his third birthday, Oskar receives a shiny new tin drum. At this point, rather than mature into one of the miserable specimens of grown-up humanity that he sees around him, he vows never to get any older or any bigger. Whenever the world around him becomes too much to bear, the boy begins to hammer on his drum; should anyone try to take the toy away from him, he emits an ear-piercing scream that literally shatters glass. As Germany goes to hell during the 1930s and '40s, the never-aging Oskar continues savagely beating his drum, serving as the angry conscience of a world gone mad. The intense and visceral Tin Drum was one of the most financially successful German films of the 1970s and won the 1979 Oscar for Best Foreign Film and the 1979 Golden Palm (which it shared with Apocalypse Now). In the late '90s, the film became the center of a censorship controversy when some U.S. videotapes were confiscated because of the film's supposed violation of a child pornography statute. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Based on: Die Blechtrommel by Günter Grass.
New digital transfer with restored image and sound.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1979.
Bonus features: Disc 1: Optional audio feature commentary by director Volker Schlöndorff ; Maurice Jarre's score isolated on analog track 2 (optional setting) ; Disc two: Deleted scenes, with newly-recorded commentary by Volker Schlöndorff ; Volker Schlöndorff remembers The tin drum (2001) ; Excerpts from French television broadcasts: video interviews with Schlöndorff and actor David Bennent at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival, interview with Schlöndorff after winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes, Schlöndorff and Günter Grass on location during filming, co-scriptwriter Jean-Claude Carrière and actor Mario Adorf discussing their work with Schlöndorff and Grass ; "The platform" : a comparison of the filmed scene and a rare 1987 recording of Günter Grass reading the excerpt from his novel with musical accompaniment from percussionist, Günter "Baby" Sommer ; Reprinted excerpt from the original screenplay's unfilmed ending ; Banned in Oklahoma, a documentary by Gary D. Rhodes following the child pornography lawsuit involving The tin drum ; production stills; original theatrical trailer.
Art director, Nicos Perakis; Bild [= Photography], Igor Luther ; Schnitt [= Editing], Suzanne Baron ; Musik [= music], Maurice Jarre.
Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, David Bennent, Katharina Thalbach, Daniel Olbrychski.
"Danzig, 1924. Oskar Matzerath is born with an intellect beyond his infancy. As he witnesses the hypocrisy of adulthood and the irresponsibility of society, Oskar rejects both, and, on his third birthday, refuses to grow. Caught in a baffling state of perpetual childhood, Oskar lashes out at all he surveys with piercing screams and frantic poundings on his tin drum, while the unheeding, chaotic world marches onward to the madness and folly of World War II."--Container.
MPAA rating: Not rated.
DVD ; NTSC, Region 1; enhanced widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; enhanced for 16.9 televisions; Dolby Digital 5.1 or 1.0 mono (feature); dual-layer disc; new digital transfer, with restored image and sound.
In German with optional English subtitles (main feature and bonus features).
Academy Award: Best Foreign Language Film