Volker Schlöndorff

Volker Schlöndorff was born in 1939 in Wiesbaden, the son of a doctor. Schooled in France from the mid-fifties, he took his baccalauréat in Paris, where he was a regular at the Cinémathèque, then became assistant to Louis Malle, Alain Resnais and Jean-Pierre Melville. Back in Germany, he made his first feature film in 1966. Married from 1971 to 1991 to Margarethe von Trotta, with whom he co-directed a film, he then worked in the United States, then settled in Berlin and Potsdam after the fall of the Wall; from 1992 to 1997 he headed the Babelsberg studios.

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• CinemaThe Tin DrumDie BlechtrommelVolker Schlöndorff · 1979Cinema