The movie "The Tin Drum" 1979

Oskar Matzerath is born in 1924 in the Free City of Danzig and, at the age of three, decides to stop growing, living with his tin drum through the years when the Nazis take power and the war begins. Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler and David Bennent star in the film directed by Volker Schlöndorff, based on the novel by Günter Grass. It won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film at the 1980 ceremony. More »