The Tin Drum

142 minutes • 1979 • 7.5

Volker Schlöndorff's Oscar-winning masterpiece is being relaunched in a newly restored version, so it now appears more beautiful than ever on the big screen.

The Tin Drum is told from Oskar Metzerath's point of view. He grows up in the war-threatened and eventually bombed-out city of Danzig / Gdansk. When he receives a tin drum as a gift for his third birthday, he refuses to grow up, even as he gets older - as a protest against the world around him. When he later experiences the rise of Nazism, he hits the drum and utters glass-shattering screams when he feels challenged.

The Tin Drum is pictorially a surprising and shocking mix of raw war depictions and surrealistic elements, with origins in a child's imagination.