In this interview, conducted in 2012, director Volker Schlöndorff discusses the making of THE TIN DRUM, his thoughts on adaptations, and the reasons for a remastered cut of the film.
In this 2012 interview, film scholar Timothy Corrigan (“New German Cinema: The Displaced Image”) discusses the themes and style of THE TIN DRUM and its place in the history of German cinema.
The following scene from THE TIN DRUM, in which Oskar disrupts a Nazi rally with his drumming, is accompanied by an audio recording of author Günter Grass reading the corresponding passage from his novel. Grass reads from the original German text, with musical accompaniment.
