The Tin Drum (Die Blechtromme) 1979 Watch Free in HD

The film tells a story of Oskar Matzerath who is a son of a local dealer and is a extraordinary boy. On his third birthday, he makes an important decision not to grow up after witnessing the dark side of the world at the eve of World War II. Then he is immersed in his tin drum to find the safe and sound.

Genre:

Drama, War

Actors:

Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, David Bennent, Katharina Thalbach, Daniel Olbrychski, Tina Engel, Berta Drews, Roland Teubner, Tadeusz Kunikowski, Andréa Ferréol, Heinz Bennent, ...»

Director:

Volker Schlöndorff

Country:

Germany

Release:

1979

IMDb:

7.5

Quality:

Duration:

142 min

PopMatters

If ever [the characters in] a film embodied Hannah Arendt's principle of "the banality of evil", it's The Tin Drum...

January 23, 2013

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Q Network Film Desk

the film is more memorable for its quirky commingling of the epic and the intimate and its often startling visuals than for any of its big themes

August 03, 2004

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ReelTalk Movie Reviews

This movie rests on the small shoulders of David Bennent as 'three-year-old' Oskar Matzerath, and the undersized twelve-year-old comes up wonderful.

November 08, 2010

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Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

Walks a taut, high rope between doubles and split selves, docu-realism and surrealism, brutality and naïveté, sacred and profane, and history and myth, without falling into the safety net of childish fantasy. (It only falters in its final half-hour.)

July 11, 2013

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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Technically and stylistically, The Tin Drum is an astounding work. Thematically, it strives for an importance it only sometimes achieves

October 04, 2006

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Ozus' World Movie Reviews

The literal adaptation doesn't transfer that well to film.

January 30, 2011

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Video-Reviewmaster.com

Fascinating allegory with war, death themes and little boy who won't grow up.

March 22, 2008

Scene-Stealers.com

There are many themes running through The Tin Drum: resistance against an unkind world, the need for acceptance, the horrors of romance and war, and the final idea that growth is inevitable and unfortunately, necessary.

January 16, 2013

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Slant Magazine

In Volker Schlöndorff's restored version of his 1979 classic, Oskar Matzerath emerges as a tragic anti-hero, whose lustful imagination and prodigious magical gifts can't shield him from the juggernaut of war.

September 18, 2012

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Filmcritic.com

Oskar's story touches on so many facets of life it's hard to know where to start analyzing.

May 09, 2004

ColeSmithey.com

Context is everything. Although often mistaken as a black comedy, Volker Schlöndorff's bold adaptation of Günter Grass's abstractly autobiographical 1959 novel is an exemplary model of European magic realist cinema.

April 15, 2009

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Time Out

Schlöndorff has a tendency to sketch the rest of the cast as simple grotesques or symbols of decadence that are unconvincingly humanized in the final third.

September 18, 2012

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