The Tin Drum/Trivia

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Banned in China: The film actually sparked a good deal of controversy because the very much underage actor buried his face in a naked woman's crotch (or so it seemed... it never dawned on Moral Guardians that trick photography was used) and other stuff that the Brain Bleach mercifully washed away. These cases were overruled, eventually.
  • Dawson Casting: David Bennent (Oskar) was a child at the time of filmming but he was not three years old, which was supposed to be the time in which he stopped aging. There is even a brief scene in which we see Oskar as a fetus in the womb.