But the film, oh my, is this Schlöndorff guy brilliant. It featured basically every German actor who was anyone at the time. The young hottie, Maria, is supposed to be 16 in the film, but was played by then 25 yo Katharina Thalbach who is today the Grand Old Dame of the German acting scene. And they had Charles Aznavour - CHARLES! AZNAVOUR! - as the Jewish toy dealer from whom Oskar's mother obtained his steady supply of tin drums before he poisoned himself in the Reichskristallnacht and had his shop vandalized by brown Nazi scum.
If you can bear to watch it in German with subtitles, by all means, do. (It's not on Amazon Prime in the States, but Netflix, maybe?).
Watch on youtube.com