The Tin Drum
1979 · 162 MIN · IMDB 7.4 · 26,741 VOTES · DIR. Volker Schlöndorff
Overview
Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his mother, Agnes, Oskar is reluctant to enter a world he sees as filled with hypocrisy and injustice, and vows on his third birthday to never grow up. Miraculously, he gets his wish. As the Nazis rise to power in Danzig, Oskar wills himself to remain a child, beating his tin drum incessantly and screaming in protest at the chaos surrounding him.
Dialogue Timeline — 918 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:01:31 I'll begin long before I existed.
00:07:08 Geese!
00:10:20 into the world.
00:16:01 And then, this big! And this.
00:21:01 The family story was: On his third birthday...
00:25:00 Oskar learn to write.
00:28:30 Amazing! Amazing!
00:34:07 A few little errands.
00:42:08 these eastern regions would have succumbed...
00:48:15 and from those rostrums, preach our destruction.
00:52:47 is crawling with Polacks.
01:01:43 Come on. Dig in.
01:07:01 And not because of Bronski.
01:13:00 Doesn't want to die.
01:18:15 The Lord has passed.
01:26:22 the territory of Germany was violated.
01:35:49 with the Greater German Reich.
01:43:25 You dive in, and you don't know a thing.
01:50:07 You nasty little dwarf!
01:55:20 Breast or drumstick?
01:58:14 You're surprised to see me in this uniform...
02:02:05 She will put you in her stew and then she will devour you
02:08:21 but not into your own heart.
02:15:46 Kurt, now what have you done?
Cast & Characters
David Bennent
Oskar Matzerath
Mario Adorf
Alfred Matzerath
Angela Winkler
Agnes Matzerath
Katharina Thalbach
Maria Matzerath
Daniel Olbrychski
Jan Bronski
Tina Engel
Anna Koljaiczek (jung)
Berta Drews
Anna Koljaiczek
Roland Teubner
Joseph Koljaiczek
Tadeusz Kunikowski
Onkel Vinzenz
Andréa Ferréol
Lina Greff
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed918
Dialogue density5.7 lines / min
First line00:01:31
Final line02:15:46
Production Record
DirectorVolker Schlöndorff
LanguageGerman
Budget$3,000,000
Revenue$17,000,000
IMDb votes26,741