The Tin Drum DVD Details

New digital transfer

with restored image and sound and enhanced for widescreen televisions

Remastered Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack

Audio commentary by director and co-writer Volker Schlöndorff

Isolated score by Maurice Jarre

New and improved English subtitle translation

Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition

Rare deleted scenes

featuring commentary by Schlöndorff

Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum

a montage featuring Schlöndorff's thoughts and recollections about the film

along with on-set photos

storyboards

and images not included in the final film

An illuminating collection of video interviews: With Schlöndorff and actor David Bennent at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival; co-writer Jean-Claude Carrière and actor Mario Adorf; Schlöndorff and author Günter Grass during filming; and Schlöndorff after winning the Palme D'Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival

The Platform

a rare 1987 recording of a Günter Grass reading an excerpt from his novel Die Blechtrommel

accompanied by the music of famed improvisational percussionist Günter Baby Sommer

Reprinted excerpt from the original screenplay's unfilmed ending

with an introduction by Schlöndorff

Banned in Oklahoma

a documentary by Gary D. Rhodes following the child pornography lawsuit involving The Tin Drum

Production sketches

designs

and promotional art

Original theatrical trailer

A statment by Günter Grass about adapting his novel to the screen

and a new essay by film scholar Eric Rentschler

author of West German Film in the Course of Time