Volker Schlöndorff
Film director
1939 –
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Who is Volker Schlöndorff?
Volker Schlöndorff is a Berlin-based 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 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, the film version of the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass.
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- Born
- Mar 31, 1939
Wiesbaden - Also known as
- Volker Schlondorff
- Volker Schloendorff
- Parents
- Spouses
- Margarethe von Trotta
(1971 - 1991) - Angelika Schlöndorff
(1992 - )
- Margarethe von Trotta
- Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Education
- Sorbonne
- Lived in
- Berlin
- Wiesbaden
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on July 23, 2013
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