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The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel)

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(No longer in theaters)
  • Rating: R
  • Director: Volker Schlondorff   Cast: Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, David Bennent, Katharina Thalbach, Daniel Olbrychski
  • Running Time: 142 minutes
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Genre

Drama

Release Date

Sep 21, 2012

Review

Volker Schlöndorff’s Oscar-winning epic based on Günter Grass’s symbolic tome about a German boy who refuses to grow up as he experiences the madness of adults both before and during WWII has lost neither its ability to shock and disturb nor its biting, absurdist sense of humor.

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