Franz Seitz Film
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. & guide.
Language
Deutsch
Description
"Danzig, 1924. Oskar Matzerath is born with an intellect beyond his infancy. As he witnesses the hypocrisy of adulthood and the irresponsibility of society, Oskar rejects both, and, on his third birthday, refuses to grow. Caught in a baffling state of perpetual childhood, Oskar lashes out at all he surveys with piercing screams and frantic poundings on his tin drum, while the unheeding, chaotic world marches onward to the madness and folly of World...
Series
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 177 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
The tale of a composer who sells his soul to Satan to ensure his own creativity, but finds he cannot keep to his bargain to refrain from all close human relationships and his closest friends die as a result.
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (324 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A young engineer goes to visit his cousin at a tubercular sanatorium in the Swiss Alps intending to stay three weeks, but ends by staying on for seven years to observe the disturbed personnel and patients. The unfolding exchanges between the protagonists are meant to present a microcosm of the society of pre-World War I Europe in this dramatization based on a Nobel Prize-winning novel.
