Plot Summary

SPECIAL FEATURES:

• New digital transfer, with restored image and sound and enhanced for widescreen televisions
• Audio commentary by director and cowriter Volker Schlondorff
• Remastered Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack
• Isolated score by Maurice Jarre
• Rare deleted scenes,featuring commentary by Schlondorff
• Volker Schlond'orff Remembers The Tin Drum, a montage featuring Schlondorff's thoughts and recollections about the film, along with on-set photos, storyboards, and images not included in the final film
• An illuminating collection of video interviews: with Schlondorff and actor David Bennent at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival; co-writer Jean-Claude Carriere and actor Mario Adorf; Schlondorff and author Gunter Grass during filming; and Schlondorff after winning the Palme d'Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival
• "The Platform," a rare 1987 German recording of Gunter Grass reading an excerpt from his novel The Tin Drum, accompanied by the music of famed improvisational percussionist Gunter "Baby" Sommer
• Reprinted excerpt of the screenplay's original, unfilmed ending
• Banned in Oklahoma, a documentary by Gary D. Rhodes following the child pornography lawsuit revolving around The Tin Drum
• Production sketches, designs and promotional art
• Original theatrical trailer
• New and improved English subtitle translation
• Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition