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The Tin Drum (German: Die Blechtrommel, pronounced [diː ˈblɛçˌtʁɔml̩] ⓘ) is a 1959 novel by Günter Grass, the first book of his Danzig Trilogy. It was adapted into a 1979 film , which won both the 1979 Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1980.
The Tin Drum (German: Die Blechtrommel) is a 1979 internationally co-produced magical realistic dark comedy anti-war film adaptation of Günter Grass's novel of the same name, directed by Volker Schlöndorff from a screenplay co-written by Schlöndorff, Jean-Claude Carrière, and Franz Seitz.
The trilogy focuses on the interwar and wartime period in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). The three books in the trilogy are: The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel), published in 1959; Cat and Mouse (Katz und Maus), published in 1961; Dog Years (Hundejahre), published in 1963
1979 1979 Banned in several towns for showing controversial themes about Christianity. [3] The Tin Drum: 1979 1997 Briefly banned in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, when a district court judge deemed the film child pornography. The shot in question depicted a child embracing a naked woman. The verdict was overturned on appeal. [81]
The Tin Drum was adapted as a film of the same name, which won both the 1979 Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 1999, the Swedish Academy awarded Grass the Nobel Prize in Literature, praising him as a writer "whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history". [7]
Mario Adorf (German: [ˈmaː.ʁio ˈaː.dɔʁf] ⓘ; born 8 September 1930) is a German actor, considered to be one of the great veteran character actors of European cinema.. Since 1954, he has played both leading and supporting roles in over 200 film and television productions, among them the 1979 Oscar-winning film The Tin D
The Tin Drum, a 1959 novel by Günter Grass The Tin Drum (film) , the film adaptation of that novel Tin Drum (album) , a 1981 album by the new wave/art pop band Japan
There really deserves to be more about the book rather than the movie. After all, it's the book that won Grass the Nobel Prize. I don't know enough about Grass and the book (other than having read it) to do this myself, but I thought I should call to attention the lack of information on the book.--70.245.244.104 16:57, 13 January 2006 (UTC)