Seventy Years of Cannes The Tin Drum in 1979 Current The Criterion

The Tin Drum is adapted from the first volume of novelist Günter Grass's celebrated The Danzig Trilogy (which also includes Cat and Mouse and Dog Years). First published in 1959, the book, about a little boy, Oskar, who refuses to grow, caused a huge controversy in Germany, both because of its bawdiness and because it dealt in such an ironic.. The controversy was touched off June 25, when Oklahoma City police seized copies of "Tin Drum" from six Blockbuster stores and from the home of ACLU employee Michael Camfield.

Daryl Lease is a columnist for The Free Lance-Star newspaper in Fredericksburg, Virginia. The Tin Drum (1979) is one of the most controversial and celebrated films in cinema history. Directed by Volker Schlöndorff and based on Günter Grass's Nobel Prize-winning novel, it follows.