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The Tin Drum

1979 · Movie · 142 min

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Scores

  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer84%as of 2024-08-14
  • Rotten Tomatoes average7.5/10as of 2021-10-05
  • Metacritic63/100as of 2025-10-17

What it is

The Tin Drum is a 1979 anti-war film adapted from Günter Grass's 1959 novel, directed by Volker Schlöndorff from a screenplay co-written by Schlöndorff, Jean-Claude Carrière, and Franz Seitz.

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At a glance

Genres
War / Drama
Original language
Italian

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