The Tin Drum Vintage Movie Poster 1979. Single sided, folded as original issued. The Tin Drum is a 1979 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Gunter Grass. It was directed and co-written by Volker Schlondorff. It was mostly shot in West Germany. Plot, Danzig in the 1920s/1930s. Oskar Matzerath, son of a local dealer, is a most unusual boy. Equipped with full intellect right from his birth he decides at his third birthday not to grow up as he sees the crazy world around him at the eve of World War II. So he refuses the society and his tin drum symbolizes his protest against the middle-class mentality of his family and neighborhood, which stand for all passive people in Nazi Germany at that time. However, (almost) nobody listens to him, so the catastrophe goes on... Measures 24"x 41"