The Tin Drum
a.k.a. Le Tambour, Die Blechtrommel
Director:
Volker Schlöndorff
Cast:
Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, David Bennent, Daniel Olbrychski
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- DVD Release Date: 05/18/2004
- Original Release: 1979
- Rating:
- Sales Rank: 5,452
Features
Audio commentary by director and cowriter Volker Schlöndorff; Remastered Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack; Isolated music track, featuring the score by Academy Award®-winning composer Maurice Jarre; Rare deleted scenes; "Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum," a 21-minute audio/video montage featuring Schlöndorff’s thoughts and recollections about the film; Video interviews with Schlöndorff and actor David Bennent at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival, cowriter Jean-Claude Carrière and actor Mario Adorf, Schlöndorff and author Günter Grass during filming, and Schlöndorff after winning the Palme d’Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival; "The Platform," a rare 1987 German recording of Günter Grass reading an excerpt from his novel The Tin Drum, accompanied by the music of famed improvisational percussionist Günter "Baby" Sommer; Reprinted excerpt of the screenplay's original, unfilmed ending; "Banned in Oklahoma," a documentary by Gary D. Rhodes following the child pornography lawsuit revolving around The Tin Drum; Production sketches, designs and promotional art; Original theatrical trailer; New digital transfer, with restored image and sound and enhanced for widescreen televisions.
Full Product DetailsScene Index
Side #1 -- Disc 1
1. Grandparents [7:30]
2. Free State [3:08]
3. A Boy [2:29]
4. The Grown-Up World [8:21]
5. Shards [4:12]
6. Explanation and Persecution [6:28]
7. Every Thursday [10:54]
8. 53 [6:20]
9. Historic Days [8:16]
10. Fresh Eels [8:17]
11. Confession [4:12]
12. The Secret [4:49]
13. Passing [6:39]
14. Kristallnacht [2:30]
15. "A Grand Hand" [10:25]
16. Union [2:00]
17. New Help [7:02]
18. No Precautions [8:43]
19. Heat [1:57]
20. "Little Brother" [2:40]
21. Front Line Theater [12:09]
22. Homecoming [4:59]
23. A Kashubian [7:32]
1. Writing the Script [7:30]
2. The Cast [3:08]
3. Building the Womb [2:29]
4. Class/Simple Tricks [8:21]
5. Important Objects and Design [4:12]
6. Magic of Editing/Chaos [6:28]
7. Combining Locations/Real Attraction [10:54]
8. Little Circuses [6:20]
9. Discovering Politics [8:16]
10. Catching Eels/Special Moments [8:17]
11. Two Different Means [4:12]
12. Beyond Acting [4:49]
13. Turning Point/Mixing Cultures [6:39]
14. Destruction [2:30]
15. Billy Wilder/Academy Award [10:25]
16. Concentrating on Basics [2:00]
17. Unavoidable Nudity [7:02]
18. Tricks of the Trade [8:43]
19. Art and Life [1:57]
20. A Director's Job [2:40]
21. Allegory of Artistic Endeavor [12:09]
22. Soviet Censorship/Responsibility [4:59]
23. "A Big Lie"/A Moving Moment [7:32]
Editorial Reviews
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, All Movie Guide
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