After a shell explodes on the Western Front, Adrien Fournier comes to in the mysterious silence of the Officers' Ward.
He understands little except that his life has been altered forever, as he begins an unprecedented journey to the remotest outposts of human experience, where heroism, friendship, pity and humor take unexpected new forms.
Saturday Play 09.11.2002 The Officers' Ward by Marc Dugain
Gunter Grass' classic novel of the rise and fall of Hitler as seen through the eyes of the dwarfish narrator, Oskar Matzerath. Not caring for the world he is growing up in, a small boy determines to remain a child. The epic sweep of Grass' novel satirises German nationalism and the rise and fall of the Nazi movement.
Episode 1: Germany, 1930. Hitler rises to power.Three-year-old Oskar decides to stop growing and talking. Instead, he plays his tin drum through the dark years of Nazism.
Günter Grass - The Tin Drum - 1 of 2 - BBC 1999-03-07
Episode 2: The Second World War is raging. Oskar, on the run, discovers sex, jazz and the black market. Soon his mad drumming will make him a star.
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Tin Drum Cast:
Oskar - Phil Daniels
Matzerath - Kenneth Cranham
Maria - Tracey Wiles
Bebra - David Collins
Rosvita - Jane Whittenshaw
Klebb - Nigel Anthony
Lankers - Jonathon Keeble
Dorothea - Patience Tomlinson
Zeigler - Geoffrey Whitehead
Soldier - Divid Timson
Spiv - Andrew Branch
Directed by Peter Kavanagh
Adapted in two parts by Mike Walker
The Officer's Ward was brilliant, btw. Thanks so much for the upload. Unfortunately, some of the ones that my dh and I did want to watch were not all there. Que sera, sera. Hope everyone who is ill is feeling better, and I wish the same for my family as well. Have a grate one,