@article{309137, note = {Originally released as a motion picture in 1979.}, author = {Adorf, Mario. and Winkler, Angela, and Bennent, David. and Thalbach, Katharina, and Olbrychski, Daniel. and Luther, Igor. and Baron, Suzanne. and Jarre, Maurice. and Meyer, Friedrich. and Insdorf, Annette. and Grass, Günter,}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/309137}, title = {Die Blechtrommel The tin drum / [videorecording] =}, publisher = {Criterion Collection,}, abstract = {Chronicles Danzig in the 1920s/1930s and the life and times of Oskar Matzerath the son of a local dealer, a most unusual boy. Equipped with full intellect right from his birth, he decides at his third birthday not to grow up as he sees the crazy world around him at the eve of World War II. So he refuses the society and his tin drum symbolizes his protest against the middle-class mentality of his family and neighborhood, which stand for all passive people in Nazi Germany at that time.}, recid = {309137}, pages = {2 videodiscs (142 min.) :}, address = {[United States] :}, year = {2004}, }