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The Tin Drum (1979)
★ 7.0 · 531 ratings on TMDB
A savage, sweeping epic of society in chaos.
In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.
DirectorVolker Schlöndorff
The emergence reading
The Tin Drum keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, authority, war, survival, identity.
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