Whether you are a German speaker wanting to check the translation, an English speaker with visual impairments, or a collector preserving a lost dub, the dual audio edition elevates the film from a viewing experience to a study experience. The tin drum itself is a single object that makes a single sound. But the stories built around that sound—in German and in English—are two different beasts entirely.

: Official releases, including the Criterion Collection , provide a new English subtitle translation. Go to product viewer dialog for this item. The Tin Drum (criterion Collection) (blu-ray, 1979)

(now Gdańsk, Poland) during the 1920s and 30s, the film follows Oskar Matzerath

Günter Grass’s The Tin Drum is a novel of doubling: Oskar Matzerath is both child and adult, narrator and protagonist, perpetrator and victim. It makes perfect sense, then, to approach the book through a —listening to it in both German and English.