The Tin Drum / Die Bleichtommel
West Germany, Yugoslavia, France, Poland , 1979

Directed by: Volker Schlöndorff
Script: Jean-Claude Carrière, GĂĽnter Grass, Volker Schlöndorff, Franz Seitz
Producer: Hans Prescher, Franz Seitz, Anatole Dauman, Volker Schlöndorff
Production company: Argos Films, Artémis Productions, Bioskop Film, Film Polski Film Agency, Franz Seitz Filmproduktion, GGB-14, Hallelujah Films, Jadran Film
Cinematography: Igor Luther
Editing: Suzanne Baron
Music: Maurice Jarre
Cast: Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, David Bennent, Katharina Thalbach, Charles Aznavour

Format: boja, color, video
Running time: 142'

Synopsis
David Bennent plays Oskar, the young son of a Kashubian family in a rural area of the Free City of Danzig, 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 degenerates towards Nazism and war in the 1930s and 1940s, the unageing Oskar continues savagely beating his drum.

Awards
1980 Academy Awards - Oscar, Best Foreign Language Film 1979 Cannes Film Festival - Golden Palm (Tied with Apocalypse Now „Apokalipsa danas“, 1979). 1979 German Film Awards - Challenge Award 'Golden Bowl'

Directors Biography
Volker Schlöndorff is born in Wiesbaden, Germany on March 31, 1939. He is a Berlin-based German filmmaker. He won an Oscar as well as the Palme d'or at the Cannes Film Festival for The Tin Drum (1979). Schlöndorff has adapted many literary works for his movies, including some critically well-received US productions.

Location and screening schedule: BUG cinema &TD, Tuesday, October 21st at 18.00