The Tin Drum (film)

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The Tin Drum
original movie poster
Directed by	Volker Schlöndorff
Produced by	Franz Seitz Anatole Dauman
Written by	Volker Schlöndorff Jean-Claude Carrière Franz Seitz
Starring	Mario Adorf Angela Winkler David Bennent Katharina Thalbach
Release date(s)	May 3, 1979 11 April 1980
Running time	142 min
Language	German/Polish/Russian
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The Tin Drum is a 1978 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Gunter Grass. It was directed and co-written by Volker Schlöndorff.

The film won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes film festival and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

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In 1980, the film version of The Tin Drum was first cut, and then banned as child pornography by the Ontario Censor Board in Canada.^{[citation needed]}

Similarly, on June 25, 1997, the movie was banned from Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, citing the state's obscenity laws for portraying underage sexuality, and all copies in Oklahoma City were confiscated. Most were returned within a few months.[1]

[edit] Cast

Mario Adorf - Alfred Matzerath
Angela Winkler - Agnes Matzerath
Katharina Thalbach - Maria Matzerath
David Bennent - Oskar Matzerath
Daniel Olbrychski - Jan Bronski
Tina Engel - Anna Koljaiczek (young)
Berta Drews - Anna Koljaiczek (old)
Charles Aznavour - Sigismund Markus
Roland Teubner - Joseph Koljaiczek
Tadeusz Kunikowski - Uncle Vinzenz
Andréa Ferréol - Lina Greff
Heinz Bennent - Greff
Ilse Pagé - Gretchen Scheffler
Werner Rehm - Scheffler
Käte Jaenicke - Mother Truczinski
Helmut Brasch - Old Heilandt

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Preceded by: Get Out Your Handkerchiefs	Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film 1979	Succeeded by: Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears
Preceded by: The Tree of Wooden Clogs	Palme d'Or 1979 tied with Apocalypse Now	Succeeded by: All That Jazz tied with Kagemusha