Volker Schlöndorff
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Volker Schlöndorff (born in Wiesbaden, Germany on March 31 1939) is a German filmmaker.
He won an Oscar as well as the Palme d'or at the Cannes Film Festival for The Tin Drum (1979), the film version of the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass.
Schlöndorff has adapted many literary works for his movies, including some critically well-received US productions, but he is also engaged in post-war German politics. He served as the chief executive for the UFA studio in Babelsberg. Volker Schlöndorff also teaches film and literature at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where he conducts an Intensive Summer Seminar.
He was married to fellow film director Margarethe von Trotta from 1971 to 1991.
Filmography
- Young Törless (Der Junge Törless, 1966)
- A Degree of Murder (Mord und Totschlag, 1967)
- Michael Kohlhaas - Der Rebell (1969)
- Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach (Der Plötzliche Reichtum der armen Leute von Kombach, 1971)
- The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Die Verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum oder: Wie Gewalt entstehen und wohin sie führen kann, 1975)
- Coup de Grâce (Der Fangschuß, 1976)
- The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel, 1979)
- The Candidate (Der Kandidat, 1980)
- The Circle of Deceit (1981)
- War and Peace (Krieg und Frieden, 1983)
- Un Amour de Swann (1984)
- Death of a Salesman (Der Tod eines Handlungsreisenden, 1985)
- The Handmaid's Tale (Die Geschichte der Dienerin, 1990)*The Voyager (Homo Faber, 1991)
- Billy How Did You Do It? (Billy Wilder, wie haben Sie's gemacht, 1992)
- The Michael Nyman Songbook (1992)
- The Ogre (Der Unhold, 1996)
- Palmetto (Dumme sterben nicht aus, 1998)
- The Legend of Rita (Die Stille nach dem Schuß, 2000)
- Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (segment "The Enlightenment", 2002)
- The Ninth Day (Der Neunte Tag, 2004)
- Strike (2006)
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