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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 film centers on Oskar Matzerath, a boy born and raised in the Free City of Danzig prior to and during World War II, who recalls the story's events as an unreliable narrator. Oskar is the son of a half-Polish Kashubian woman, Agnes Bronski, who is married to a German chef named Alfred Matzerath.
His works also show a sustained concern for the marginal and marginalized subjects, such as Oskar Matzerath, the dwarf in The Tin Drum, whose body was considered an aberration unworthy of life in the Nazi ideology, or the Roma and Sinti people deemed impure and unworthy by the Nazis and subjected to eugenics and genocide, as were the Jews. [33 ...
Grass was a great influence for John Irving, as well as a close friend. The main characters of both novels, Owen Meany and Oskar Matzerath, share the same initials as well as some other characteristics, and their stories show some parallels. [1] Irving has confirmed the similarities. [2]
The film eventually jumps to 1996, when she finally receives his death certificate, and then to 2014, when the 85-year-old Eunice only fleetingly remembers her past.
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
Island Pictures was a Los Angeles-based film company founded by producer Chris Blackwell. [1] It was acquired by PolyGram Filmed Entertainment in July 1989 for $270 million. [ 2 ] [ 1 ] By 1994, it had produced 120 films, [ 1 ] including the Oscar-winning Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) and Spike Lee 's She's Gotta Have It . [ 1 ]
A family member reported the two men missing to Skamania County police at around 1 a.m. on Dec. 25. A “grueling” three-day search was conducted for the men as over 60 volunteer search and ...