Oska, un niño precoz pone fin a su crecimiento al cumplir tres años, mediante una brutal y deliberada caída. Ese día le regalarán un tambor de hojalata al que será fiel durante el resto de su vida.

Famously sharing the Palme d’Or with Apocalypse Now, Schlöndorff’s scandalous adaptation of Günter Grass’ novel wound up as one of the highest-grossing German films of the decade. A new generation acutely examines the one that came before it: just like a child, now grown up, looks at their parents.