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The Tin Drum

The Tin Drum

(Die Blechtrommel), Volker Schlöndorff / FR - D, 1979
German-Polish version / Czech subtitles, 154 min

The Tin Drum, one of the major works of German literature, was long thought to be unfilmable because of one special problematic question: Who should play the little Oscar? A child or a Lilliputian? At the age of three Oscar rebels against the adult world by deciding to stop growing up. Since then he is closely tied to his tin drum...