In this magical-realist epic based on the classic picaresque novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass, a three-year old boy named Oskar Mazarath decides to stop growing up––literally––just a few years before the Nazis’ rise of power in Germany. Born with the mind of an adult, and the bizarre ability to shatter glass with his scream, Oskar embarks on a series of adventures that disrupt the everyday order of Nazi-controlled society. Along the way, Oskar’s story showcases the myriad ways in which Germans complied with and adapted to the Nazi regime. Directed by the eminent German auteur Volker Schlöndorff, The Tin Drum won both an Oscar and the Palme d’or at the Cannes Festival in 1979. With its anarchic, sometimes grotesque humor, The Tin Drum it as provocative today as when it was first released. We are showing the newest restoration. 163 min.
Part of the Emory Cinematheque series “Resisting Fascism.” Each film in the series will be introduced by Paul Buchholz, assistant professor of German Studies, with contributions from other faculty in Emory’s Department of German Studies.
