The Tin Drum

Much of the brilliance of this disturbing adaptation of Gunter Grass’s allegorical novel derives from the stunning performance of 12-year-old David Bennent. Oskar, a strange German-Polish boy who deliberately stops growing, recounts his fantastic experiences in the northern European city of Danzig during the rise and fall of the Nazis., Adaptation of the Gunter Grass novel. A young boy growing up in post-World War I Germany is given a small toy drum for his third birthday. Seeing the despair of the adults around him, he vows to never grow up. As the world grows madder throughout the 1930s and ’40s, he continues beating his drum, trying to keep his rhythm while growing up in a world that has lost its senses., Oskar, an unusual boy born with a full adult intellect, decides on his third birthday, as the Nazis take control of Germany, to no longer grow physically. He beats his tin drum in protest against the passive middle-class mentality of those around him. Memorable sequences abound in this lavish epic. Based on the classic novel by Nobel Prize winner Gunter Grass.