DIE BLECHTROMMEL

In 1927, at the age of three, the precocious Oskar resolves to stop growing and confront the deceitful world of the adults that surround him with the defiance of a minor. With his loud protests, he rebels against National Socialism and the conformism that paved the way for it. Only at the age of twenty, after the end of the war, does he abandon his defiance. The Nobel Prize-winning novel, published two decades prior to the film adaptation, initially proved challenging to adapt given its many narrative twists and turns. Nevertheless Schlöndorff managed to remain close to the original text, limited himself to selected motifs and characters and consistently followed, by means of a linear narrative, the perspective of his hero; performed with an intense seriousness by 12-year-old David Bennent. The only cinematic adaptation of the novel to date, the film has been the recipient of a Golden Palm at Cannes and the first German Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, but also the object of accusations of child pornography and screening bans in the People's Republic of China.

Text: Rainer Mende

Tue 04.11. I 21:00 I OBENKINO I German OV