The Tin Drum

Volker Schlöndorff, 1979
Colour, cert 15, 142 mins

Saturday 3 May, 2.30pm
Sainsbury Wing Theatre

This is a moving evocation of Günter Grass’s provocative novel, which drew on the author’s own experiences as a youth in Nazi Germany.

A tumultuous period of history is revealed through the skewed but invigorating perspective of Oskar, a baby born with a fully formed intellect. In protest at the adult world, Oskar decides on his third birthday not to grow up, and takes to banging his tin drum and releasing glass-shattering screams.

Schlöndorff blends satire, eroticism and surreal imagery to convey, as he saw it, ‘a country unable to mourn’, without ever compromising our sympathy for the characters.

Tickets: £4/£3 concessions

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