The Tin Drum (1979 film)

The Tin Drum, released in Germany as Die Blechtrommel, is a 1979 anti-war film directed by Volker Schlondorff, a co-production of West Germany, France, Yugoslavia and Poland adapted from Gunter Grass's 1959 novel. It centers on Oskar Matzerath, a boy in Danzig who deliberately halts his own physical growth and remains child-sized into adulthood while witnessing the rise of Nazi Germany and the devastation of the Second World War, told with darkly comic and magical-realist elements. The film won the Palme d'Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival, sharing the prize with Apocalypse Now, and became the first film from Germany or in the German language to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It was commercially successful in Germany but drew censorship controversies in Ireland, Canada and the United States, and The New York Times later included it among its list of the best one thousand films ever made. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/