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Tin Drum [Criterion Voyager,Remastered]

DVD/APPROX. 142 MINS./1979/US R

Main feature:

Release May 18, 2004
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audio German: Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles English
Studio Criterion/Voyager
Year 1979
Genre Drama

Special features:

  • Audio commentary by director and cowriter Volker Schlöndorff
  • Isolated score by Maurice Jarre
  • Rare deleted scenes, featuring commentary by Schlondorff
  • Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum, a montage featuring Schlöndorff’s thoughts and recollections about the film, along with on-set photos, storyboards, and images not included in the final film
  • An illuminating collection of video interviews with Schlöndorff and actor David Bennent at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival; cowriter Jean-Claude Carrière and actor Mario Adorf; Schlöndorff and author Günter Grass during filming; and Schlöndorff after winning the Palme d’Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival
  • The Platform, a rare 1987 German recording of Günter Grass reading an excerpt from his novel Die Blechtromomel, accompanied by the music of famed improvisational percussionist Günter "Baby" Sommer
  • Reprinted excerpt of the screenplay’s original, unfilmed ending, with an introduction by Schlondorff
  • Banned in Oklahoma, a documentary by Gary D. Rhodes following the child pornography lawsuit involving around The Tin Drum
  • Production sketches, designs and promotional art
  • Original theatrical trailer
  • A statement by Gunter Grass about adapting his novel to the screen, and a new essay by film scholar Eric Rentschler, author of West German Film in the Course of Time

Cast and Crew:

Criterion/Voyager presents
"Tin Drum"
directed byVolker Schlöndorff
Production Year: 1979

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