Screening of “The Tin Drum”

Thu 08 May 2014, 8.30 pm
Madake

From The Onion Cellar:

To celebrate the opening of our own cafe/ event space HẦM HÀNH, this week’s Onion Cellar will be a special showing of THE TIN DRUM – the film adaptation of Gunter Grass’ incredible novel that gave us our name.

THE TIN DRUM (1979)
142′ / Dir – Volker Schlöndorff

“Danzig, Germany, 1924. Oskar Matzerath is born with an intellect beyond his infancy.

As he witnesses the hypocrisy of adulthood and the irresponsibility of society, Oskar rejects both, and, at his third birthday, refuses to grow older.

Caught in a state of perpetual childhood, Oskar lashes out at all he surveys with piercing screams and frantic poundings on his tin drum, while the unheeding, chaotic world marches onward to the madness and folly of World War II.

Honored with the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Volker Schlöndorff’s The Tin Drum is a visionary adaptation of Günter Grass’s acclaimed novel, an unforgettable fantasia of surreal imagery [horse’s head and eels], striking eroticism, and unflinching satire.”

Language: German, with English subtitles

FREE ENTRY. 10 FREE prints of an original illustration (based on the film) by Jessica Tjandra

The film is curated by The Onion Cellar

Special thanks to our media partner Hanoi Grapevine.

Watch the trailer:

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