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title: "The Tin Drum: cast and crew"
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cast: 24
crew: 12
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# The Tin Drum (1979): cast and crew

24 cast and 12 crew, as credited (TMDB). Cast in billing order.

## Cast

- [Mario Adorf](https://film.one/person/mario-adorf.md) as Alfred Matzerath
- [Angela Winkler](https://film.one/person/angela-winkler.md) as Agnes Matzerath
- [David Bennent](https://film.one/person/david-bennent.md) as Oskar Matzerath
- [Katharina Thalbach](https://film.one/person/katharina-thalbach.md) as Maria Matzerath
- [Daniel Olbrychski](https://film.one/person/daniel-olbrychski.md) as Jan Bronski
- [Tina Engel](https://film.one/person/tina-engel.md) as Young Anna Koljaiczek
- [Berta Drews](https://film.one/person/berta-drews.md) as Anna Koljaiczek
- [Roland Teubner](https://film.one/person/roland-teubner.md) as Joseph Koljaiczek
- [Tadeusz Kunikowski](https://film.one/person/tadeusz-kunikowski.md) as Uncle Vinzenz
- [Andréa Ferréol](https://film.one/person/andrea-ferreol.md) as Lina Greff
- [Heinz Bennent](https://film.one/person/heinz-bennent.md) as Greff
- [Ilse Pagé](https://film.one/person/ilse-page.md) as Gretchen Scheffler
- Werner Rehm as Scheffler
- Käte Jaenicke as Mother Truczinski
- [Otto Sander](https://film.one/person/otto-sander.md) as Meyn
- Charles Aznavour as Sigismund Markus
- Fritz Hakl as Bebra
- Mariella Oliveri as Roswitha
- [Ernst Jacobi](https://film.one/person/ernst-jacobi.md) as Löbsack
- Henning Schlüter as Dr. Hollatz
- Marek Walczewski as Schugger-Leo
- Wojciech Pszoniak as Fajngold
- Gustaw Holoubek as Priest
- Günter Meisner as Gestapo Agent

## Directing

- [Volker Schlöndorff](https://film.one/person/volker-schlondorff.md): Director

## Writing

- [Jean-Claude Carrière](https://film.one/person/jean-claude-carriere.md): Screenplay
- [Günter Grass](https://film.one/person/gunter-grass.md): Author
- [Franz Seitz Jr.](https://film.one/person/franz-seitz-junior.md): Screenplay
- [Volker Schlöndorff](https://film.one/person/volker-schlondorff.md): Screenplay

## Production

- [Franz Seitz Jr.](https://film.one/person/franz-seitz-junior.md): Producer
- [Anatole Dauman](https://film.one/person/anatole-dauman.md): Producer
- [Eberhard Junkersdorf](https://film.one/person/eberhard-junkersdorf.md): Producer

## Camera

- [Igor Luther](https://film.one/person/igor-luther.md): Director of Photography

## Editing

- [Suzanne Baron](https://film.one/person/suzanne-baron.md): Editor

## Sound and music

- [Maurice Jarre](https://film.one/person/maurice-jarre.md): Original Music Composer

## Art

- [Nikos Perakis](https://film.one/person/nikos-perakis.md): Production Design, Art Direction

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