Volker Schlöndorff
German film director, screenwriter and film producer (born 1939)
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- Der plötzliche Reichtum der armen Leute von Kombach
- Eine Ästhetik des Humanen. Böll
- Das Andere Bayern
- Baal
- Blechtrommel
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Directing · Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
Volker Schlöndorff is a Berlin-based German filmmaker. He won an Oscar as well as the Palme d'or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival for The Tin Drum (1979), the film version of the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass. In 1991, he was the Head of the Jury at the 41st Berlin International Film Festival. Schlöndorff has adapted many literary works for his movies, including some critically…
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- Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm — Self2026
- Pan Olbrychski — Self2025
- The Stones and Brian Jones — Self2024
- Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit — Self2024
- Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg — Self2024
- German Genius — Volker Schlöndorff2023
- Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors — Self2022
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Volker Schlöndorff ( German pronunciation: [ˈfɔlkɐ ˈʃløːndɔʁf] ; born 31 March 1939) is a German film director, screenwriter and producer who has worked in Germany, France and the United States. He was a prominent member of the New German Cinema of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
He is most known for his anti-war film The Tin Drum (1979), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the Palme d'Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.
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1939 birthsAcademic staff of European Graduate SchoolBest Adaptation César Award winnersBest Director German Film Award winnersCommanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of GermanyDirectors of Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award winnersDirectors of Palme d'Or winnersInstitut des hautes études cinématographiques alumniLiving peopleMass media people from HesseMembers of the Academy of Arts, Berlin