The Tin Drum: Difference between revisions
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Two German soldiers can be seen with unknown flamethrowers.
Two German soldiers can be seen with unknown flamethrowers.
[[File:Blechtrommel-Flame1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|The first soldier lays down flame.]]
[[File:Blechtrommel-Flame1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|The first soldier lays down flame.]]
[[File:Blechtrommel-Flame2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|The second flamethrower is seen. In fact, flamethrowers were used during the siege, infamously to burn surrendering Józef Wąsik alive.]]
[[File:Blechtrommel-Flame2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|The second flamethrower is seen. In fact, flamethrowers were used during the siege, infamously to burn surrendering Józef Wąsik alive. This incident is not present in the movie.]]
The Tin Drum is the 1979 film adaptation of Günter Grass' novel of the same name by Volker Schlöndorff. Free City of Danzig, 1924: A child is born into the Matzerath family. From the moment of his birth, little Oskar is an extremely precocious, quick-witted little boy. Even in his mother's arms, the infant begins to view his surroundings with great skepticism. On his third birthday, Oskar receives a tin drum as a present. On this day, out of a fundamental attitude of rejection, he decides to stop growing by throwing himself down the cellar stairs. He does develop mentally and as a man, but his physical appearance automatically creates a certain distance between Oskar and the world of "adults" from that day onwards. On his pounding tin drum, he articulates his protest against the mendacious, scheming world of adults, which is revealed to him on the one hand in the terror of the Nazis and the other in various sex affairs of his family members.
The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1980 at the 52nd Academy Awards.
The following weapons were used in the film The Tin Drum:
Jan Bronski (Daniel Olbrychski), Kobyella (Mieczyslaw Czechowicz), and other Polish defenders can be seen using Mannlicher M95M short rifles. These rifles are the Yugoslavian conversion of the Austro-Hungarian M1895.
Some Polish defenders are armed with Austrian full-length Steyr Mannlicher M1895 rifles and carbines. SS Heimwehr Danzig and Sturmabteilung (SA) members can also seen with this rifle during the surrender of the Polish defenders.
During the post office siege, American White M3 Scout Cars were mocked up to resemble Austrian Steyr ADGZs which were actually used by the German attackers.
A 10.5 cm leichte FeldHaubitze 18/40 standing in for the historically correct predecessor is deployed by the attackers of the Post Office. Two 7.5 cm le.IG 18 infantry support guns were also used by the Waffen SS but are not depicted in the movie.
