“Die Blechtrommel”, or “The Tin Drum”, is an oddly disturbing movie. Young Oskar Metzerath (David Bennent) is born aware, knows from birth that he will receive a tin drum on his third birthday, and sometime later decides that growing to adulthood is a very bad idea and stops himself from doing so. He stays a child for something on twenty years, through World War II. He is in Danzig, and lives through the German takeover, both of Danzig and of Poland. During the war, he joins a troupe of others like him, who travel around France entertaining the German troops.

The DVD also contains some illustrations used in the production of the movie for storyboarding. They’re quite interesting, if mostly unreadable. It is interesting to watch the scribbles that guided the shots.