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 +'''Volker Schlöndorff''' (born 31 March 1939) is a German filmmaker 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, which also included [[Werner Herzog]], [[Wim Wenders]], [[Margarethe von Trotta]] and [[Rainer Werner Fassbinder]].
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 +He won an [[Academy Awards|Oscar]] as well as the [[Palme d'Or]] at the [[1979 Cannes Film Festival]] for ''[[The Tin Drum (film)|The Tin Drum]]'' (1979), the film version of the novel by [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]]-winning author [[Günter Grass]].
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 +==Filmography==
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 +===Features===
 +*1966: ''[[Young Törless]]''
 +*1967: ''[[A Degree of Murder]]''
 +*1969: ''[[Man on Horseback]]''
 +*1971: ''[[The Morals of Ruth Halbfass]]''
 +*1972: ''A Free Woman''
 +*1975: ''[[The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (film)|The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum]]''
 +*1976: ''[[Coup de Grâce (1976 film)|Coup de Grâce]]''
 +*1979: ''[[The Tin Drum (film)|The Tin Drum]]''
 +*1981: ''[[Die Fälschung|The Circle of Deceit]]''
 +*1984: ''[[Swann in Love (film)|Swann in Love]]''
 +*1990: ''[[The Handmaid's Tale (film)|The Handmaid's Tale]]''
 +*1991: ''[[Voyager (film)|Voyager]]''
 +*1996: ''[[The Ogre (1996 film)|The Ogre]]''
 +*1998: ''[[Palmetto (movie)|Palmetto]]''
 +*2000: ''[[The Legend of Rita]]''
 +*2004: ''[[The Ninth Day]]''
 +*2006: ''[[Strike (2006 film)|Strike]]''
 +*2007: ''[[Ulzhan]]''
 +*2012: ''[[Calm at Sea]]''
 +*2014: ''[[Diplomacy (2014 film)|Diplomacy]]''
 +*2017: ''[[Return to Montauk]]''
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 +===TV films===
 +*1970: ''[[Baal (film)|Baal]]''
 +*1970: ''{{Interlanguage link multi|Der plötzliche Reichtum der armen Leute von Kombach|de|3=Der plötzliche Reichtum der armen Leute von Kombach|lt=The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach}}''
 +*1974: ''[[Übernachtung in Tirol]]''
 +*1985: ''[[Death of a Salesman (1985 film)|Death of a Salesman]]''
 +*1987: ''[[A Gathering of Old Men (film)|A Gathering of Old Men]]''
 +*2005: ''[[Enigma – Eine uneingestandene Liebe]]''
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 +===Documentaries and shorts subjects===
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 +*1960: ''[[Wun kummert's|Who cares?]]'' (short)
 +*1963: ''[[Méditerranée (1963 film)|Méditerranée]]'' (documentary)
 +*1967: ''[[Der Paukenspieler]]'' (segment "Ein unheimlicher Moment")
 +*1975: ''[[The Novels of Henry James]]'' (TV series, episode "Georgina's Reasons")
 +*1977: ''[[Just for Fun, Just for Play]]'' (documentary)
 +*1978: ''[[Germany in Autumn]]'' (segment "Die verschobene Antigone")
 +*1980: ''[[The Candidate (1980 film)|The Candidate]]'' (documentary)
 +*1983: ''[[War and Peace (1982 film)|War and Peace]]'' (short)
 +*1992: ''[[Billy Wilder, How Did You Do It?]]'' (documentary, aka ''Billy Wilder Speaks'')
 +*1992: ''[[The Michael Nyman Songbook]]'' (documentary)
 +*1996: ''[[Lumière sur un massacre]]'' (TV series, episode "Le parfait soldat")
 +*2002: ''[[Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine]]''
 +*2002: ''[[Ten Minutes Older: The Cello]]'' (segment "The Enlightenment")
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 +==Awards==
 +*1978 Special Recognition award (shared) at the [[28th Berlin International Film Festival]] for ''[[Germany in Autumn]]''
 +*1979 [[Palme d'Or]] Cannes Film Festival ''The Tin Drum''
 +*1980 [[Academy Awards]] Best Foreign Language Film ''The Tin Drum''
 +*2004 [[Bayerischer Filmpreis|Bavarian Film Awards]] Honorary Award
 +*2009 [[Camerimage]] Lifetime Achievement Award
 +*2019 Commander's cross of the [[Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany]]
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 +==Cultural References==
 +* ''Good Bye Schlöndorff'', a performance by Lebanese artist and musician Waël Koudaih alias [[Rayess Bek]] based on extracts of ''Die Fälschung'' and audio tapes from the [[Lebanese Civil War]].
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 +==See also==
 +*[[New German Cinema]]
 +*[[Cinema of Germany]]
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Volker Schlöndorff (born 31 March 1939) is a German filmmaker 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, which also included Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Margarethe von Trotta and Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

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.

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