Film · Drama, History, War
The Tin Drum (1979)
A savage, sweeping epic of society in chaos.
In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.
- Director
- Volker Schlöndorff
- Writers
- Volker Schlöndorff, Franz Seitz Junior, Jean-Claude Carrière
- Country
- France, Germany, Serbia
- Language
- German
- Release date
- May 2, 1979
- Original title
- Die Blechtrommel
The Tin Drum cast
Mario AdorfAlfred Matzerath
Angela WinklerAgnes Matzerath
David BennentOskar Matzerath
Katharina ThalbachMaria Matzerath
Daniel OlbrychskiJan Bronski
Tina EngelYoung Anna Koljaiczek
Berta DrewsAnna Koljaiczek- Roland TeubnerJoseph Koljaiczek
- Tadeusz KunikowskiUncle Vinzenz
Andréa FerréolLina Greff
Heinz BennentGreff
Ilse PagéGretchen Scheffler- Werner RehmScheffler
- Käte JaenickeMother Truczinski
Otto SanderMeyn
Charles AznavourSigismund Markus- Fritz HaklBebra
- Mariella OliveriRoswitha
Ernst JacobiLöbsack
Henning SchlüterDr. Hollatz
