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.
Keywords
1920s
1930s
1940s
adultery
based on novel or book
circus
coming of age
dark comedy
dwarf
family feud
family's daily life
gdansk, poland
germany
hitler youth
invasion of normandy
kaschubia
lolita
lone wolf
married couple
nazi
new german cinema
pregnancy
prenatal
puberty
red army
suffocation
suicide
synagogue
toxication
war drama