Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 162 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- German
- Country
- France, Germany, Poland
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
- In German — subtitles on.
The story
In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.
- puberty
- adultery
- lolita
- suicide
- based on novel or book
- nazi
- dwarf
- gdansk
- poland
- circus
- toxication
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Mario Adorf
Alfred Matzerath
Angela Winkler
Agnes Matzerath
David Bennent
Oskar Matzerath
Katharina Thalbach
Maria Matzerath
- Daniel Olbrychski — Jan Bronski
- Tina Engel — Young Anna Koljaiczek
- Berta Drews — Anna Koljaiczek
- Roland Teubner — Joseph Koljaiczek
- Tadeusz Kunikowski — Uncle Vinzenz
- Andréa Ferréol — Lina Greff
- Heinz Bennent — Greff
- Ilse Pagé — Gretchen Scheffler
- Werner Rehm — Scheffler
- Käte Jaenicke — Mother Truczinski
- Otto Sander — Meyn
- Directed
- Volker Schlöndorff
Production
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 · 547 ratings
- Studio
- Jadran Film, Artemis Film, Franz Seitz Filmproduktion, Argos films, Hallelujah Films, GGB-14
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
