Volker Schlöndorff
German film director, screenwriter and film producer
Volker Schlöndorff (born 31 March 1939) is a German movie director, screenwriter, and movie producer. He is a very important director of the New German Cinema of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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| Born | 31 March 1939 |
| Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter, producer |
| Years active | 1960–present |
| Spouse(s) | Margarethe von Trotta (1971-1991; divorced) Angelika Schlöndorff |
He won an Oscar as well as the Palme d'or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival for The Tin Drum (1979), the movie version of the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass.[1]
References
change- ↑ Volker Schlöndorff Archived 2010-04-22 at the Wayback Machine at European Graduate School. Biography and bibliography. (Retrieved May 14, 2010)
Other websites
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Media related to Volker Schlöndorff at Wikimedia Commons
- Volker Schlöndorff Archived 2010-04-22 at the Wayback Machine Faculty Website @ European Graduate School. Biography and bibliography.
- Volker Schlöndorff on IMDb
- Volker Schlöndorff's Cinématon - A 4 minutes online portrait by Gérard Courant
- Volker Schlöndorff Collection Archived 2014-02-09 at the Wayback Machine at Deutsches Filminstitut, Frankfurt (German)
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