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| 1979 \u2013 162\u2032 \u2013\u00a0A Germany\/France Co-Production.\u00a0Drama, War, Classic, Films & Literature, Period & History, Co-Produced by France. Volker Schl\u00f6ndorff’s surreal and satirical feature–an Academy Award-winning adaptation of G\u00fcnter Grass’s acclaimed novel–centers on Oskar, born in Germany in 1924 with an advanced intellect. Repulsed by the hypocrisy of adults and the irresponsibility of society, he refuses to grow older after his third birthday. While the world around him careers toward the madness and folly of World War II, Oskar pounds incessantly on his beloved tin drum and perfects his uncannily piercing shrieks.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE TIN DRUM | 1979 \u2013 162\u2032 \u2013\u00a0A Germany\/France Co-Production.\u00a0Drama, War, Classic, Films & Literature, Period & History, Co-Produced by France. Written by: Jean-Claude Carri\u00e8re, Volker Schl\u00f6ndorff, G\u00fcnter Grass, Franz Seitz. Based on the Book by:\u00a0G\u00fcnter Grass. Directed by:\u00a0Volker Schl\u00f6ndorff. Starring:\u00a0David Bennent,\u00a0Mario Adorf,\u00a0Angela Winkler, Charles Aznavour, Katharina Thalbach,\u00a0Daniel Olbrychski, Tina Engel, Berta Drews. Official Selection […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,127,11,119,43,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-classic","category-co-produced-by-france","category-drama","category-films-literature","category-history","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22623,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22620\/revisions\/22623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWritten by: Jean-Claude Carri\u00e8re, Volker Schl\u00f6ndorff, G\u00fcnter Grass, Franz Seitz.
\nBased on the Book by:\u00a0G\u00fcnter Grass.
\nDirected by:\u00a0Volker Schl\u00f6ndorff.
\nStarring:\u00a0David Bennent,\u00a0Mario Adorf,\u00a0Angela Winkler, Charles Aznavour, Katharina Thalbach,\u00a0Daniel Olbrychski, Tina Engel, Berta Drews.
\nOfficial Selection Cannes International Film Festival 1979 (Co-Winner Palme d’or with Apocalypse Now). Academy Award Winning for Best Foreign Language Film (1980).
\nIn German with English subtitles.
\nA The Criterion Collection release. |<\/span><\/p>\nWATCH NOW<\/a><\/h3>\n