Die Blechtrommel (Original title)Limeni Dobos (Alternative title)Le Tambour (Alternative title)The Tin Drum (Alternative title)
Date: May 1979 (Release)Countries: Federal Republic of Germany, France, Yugoslavia, PolandDirector: Volker Schlöndorff
Synopsis: Oskar the diminutive hero of Gunter Grass' novel, resolved to stop growing at the age of three. He delivers his self-centred history of two decisive inter-war decades in the divided city of Danzig in retrospect and from his adult confinement in a mental asylum.
Genre: Drama
Releases
Date: May 1979Country: Federal Republic of GermanyRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Eastmancolor - SoundRuntime: 142 mins Dialogue (original): German
Date: 25 March 1980Country: United KingdomRelease type: Pre-ReleaseFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - SoundLength: 35 FeetDialogue (original): GermanDistributor: United Artists
Date: June 1980Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - SoundRuntime: 141 mins Length: 12708 FeetDialogue (original): German / Subtitles: EnglishDistributor: United Artists
Date: 20 January 1995Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - SoundDialogue (original): German / Subtitles: EnglishDistributor: British Film Institute
Date: May 1979 (Release)Countries: Federal Republic of Germany, France, Yugoslavia, PolandDirector: Volker Schlöndorff
Synopsis: Oskar the diminutive hero of Gunter Grass' novel, resolved to stop growing at the age of three. He delivers his self-centred history of two decisive inter-war decades in the divided city of Danzig in retrospect and from his adult confinement in a mental asylum.
Genre: Drama
Releases
Date: May 1979Country: Federal Republic of GermanyRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Eastmancolor - SoundRuntime: 142 mins Dialogue (original): German
Date: 25 March 1980Country: United KingdomRelease type: Pre-ReleaseFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - SoundLength: 35 FeetDialogue (original): GermanDistributor: United Artists
Date: June 1980Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - SoundRuntime: 141 mins Length: 12708 FeetDialogue (original): German / Subtitles: EnglishDistributor: United Artists
Date: 20 January 1995Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - SoundDialogue (original): German / Subtitles: EnglishDistributor: British Film Institute
Credits
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Production Company: Franz Seitz Filmproduktion, Production Company: Munich Bioskop-Film, Production Company: Hallelujah-Film, Production Company: GGB 14 KG, Production Company: Argos-Films, Production Company: Jadran Film (Zagreb), Production Company: Film Polski, Executive Producer: Eberhard Junkersdorf, Producer: Franz Seitz, Unit Manager: Louis Mayr, Unit Manager: Günter Stocklov, Unit Manager: Ute Ehmke, Unit Manager: Jean-Claude Moulière, Zygmunt Wojcik, Production Manager: Herbert Kerz, Production Manager: Siegfried Hofbauer, Production Manager: Donko Buljan, Production Manager: Urszula Orczykowska, Production Manager: André Heinrich, Production Administrator: Paulette Hufnagel, Assistant Director: Branko Lustig, Assistant Director: Alexander von Richthofen, Assistant Director: Wolfgang Kroke, Assistant Director: Andrzej Reiter, Assistant Director: Richard Malbequi, Script Supervisor: Lilo Schick, Screenplay: Jean-Claude Carrière, Screenplay: Franz Seitz, Screenplay: Volker Schlöndorff, Dialogue: Günter Grass, Based on the novel by: Günter Grass, Director of Photography: Igor Luther, Lighting: Karl Dillitzer, Camera Assistant: Peter Arnold, Camera Assistant: Nikolaus Starkmeth, Stills Photography: Peter Seitz, Stills Photography: Karl Reiter, Stills Photography: Ulla Hubner, Special Effects: Georges Jaconelli, Editor: Suzanne Baron, Assistant Editor: Agape Dorstewitz, Assistant Editor: Barbara von Weitershausen, Assistant Editor: Helga Kusterka, Art Director: Nicos Perakis, Set Designer: Bernd Lepel, Set Decorator: Paul Weber, Set Decorator: Edouard Pezzoli, Set Decorator: Marijan Marcijus, Sets: Zeljko Senecic, Piotr Dudzinski, Props: Franz Bauer, Props: Christian Lenz, Thomas Schulz, Costumes: Dagmar Niefind, Costumes: Inge Heer, Costumes: Yoshy Yabara, Make-up: Rino Carboni, Make-up: Alfredo Tiberi, Hairstyles: Vitaliana Potacka, Ingeborg Thiess, Music: Maurice Jarre, Scene Music: Friedrich Meyer, Sound: Walter Kelerhals, Sound: Walter Grundauer, Sound: Peter Beil, Sound Mixer: Hans-Dieter Schwarz, Post-synchronization: Jesse Vogel, Subtitles: Ralph Manheim, Press Representative: Gabriele Seitz
Cast
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Mario Adorf (Alfred Matzerath), Angela Winkler (Agnes Matzerath), David Bennent (Oskar), Katharina Thalbach (Maria Matzerath), Daniel Olbrychski (Jan Bronski), Tina Engel (Anna Koljaiczek, as a young woman), Berta Drews (Anna Koljaiczek, as an old woman), Roland Teubner (Joseph Koljaiczek), Tadeusz Kunikowski (Uncle Vinzenz), Andréa Ferréol (Lina Greff), Heinz Bennent (Greff), Ilse Pagé (Gretchen Scheffler), Werner Rehm (Scheffler, the baker), Käte Jaenicke (Mother Truczinski), Helmuth Brasch (Old Heilandt), Otto Sander (Meyn, the musician), Wigand Witting (Herbert Truczinski), Mariella Oliveri (Roswitha Raguna), Fritz Hakl (Bebra), Emil Feist (clown 1), Herbert Behrendt (clown 2), Karl-Heinz Tittelbach (Felix), Charles Aznavour (Sigismund Markus), Marek Walczewski (Schugger-Leo), Ernst Jacobi (Gauleiter Lobsack), Wojciech Pszoniak (Fajngold), Gerda Blisse (Miss Spollenhauer), Joachim Hackethal (Father Wiehnke), Henning Schlüter (Dr Hollatz), Zygmunt Huebner (Dr Michon), Mieczyslav Czechowicz (Kobyella), Bruno Thost (Corporal Lankes), Alexander von Richthofen (Lieutenant Herzog), Lech Grzmocinski (Stauer), Stanislaw Michalski (gendarme 1), J. Kapinski (gendarme 2), Dietrich Frauboes (army colonel doctor)