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Volker Schlondorff - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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Volker Schlondorf - biography, date of birth, place of birth, filmography, clips, Director, Writer, Producer, Actor.
Born March 31, 1939, Wiesbaden, Germany - German film director, screenwriter, producer and actor.
Attended high school in Wiesbaden. In 1956, as part of a school exchange program, he went to France, where he stayed for ten years. In 1959 he graduated from the Lyceum of Henry IV in Paris (he studied in the same class with Bertrand Tavernier). Studied political science and attended the IDHEC Film School in Paris. He translated German classic films into French at the French Cinematheque, where he met Fritz Lang.
In 1960, under the pseudonym Volker Loki, he directed the short film Who Cares? (Wen kummert's) about an Algerian in Frankfurt am Main. The Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle der Filmwirtschaft (Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle der Filmwirtschaft) commission did not allow the film to be screened due to its clearly expressed position against the friendly nation (France). In the winter of 1960, he worked as Ludwig Berger's assistant at SFB, West Berlin Television; together with Louis Malle he shot reports on South-East Asia and Algeria for French television.
Since 1960 he has been a trainee and assistant to Louis Malle, Jean-Pierre Melville and Alain Rene. In 1965, he directed the first full-length feature film Young Thurles based on the novel The Mental Troubles of Thurles' Disciple by Robert Musil, receiving a script award in the amount of DM 200,000. The film received a number of prizes and became one of the first international successes of young German cinema. His second film, Murder, Accidental and Intentional, was the young German director's first color film, and the 1968 adaptation of Michael Kohlhaas represented the first attempt at a major international production. In 1969 Schlendorf founded Hallelujah-Film GmbH (Hallelujah Film) together with Peter Fleischmann, and in 1974 with Reinhard Hauff - Bioskop-Film GmbH (Bioskop Film).
In 1975, the film "The Shame of Katarina Blum" based on the novel of the same name by Heinrich Boll enjoyed great success at the box office. It was filmed with Margareta von Trotta, Schlondorf's wife from 1971 to 1991.
In 1979, Tin Drum, based on the novel of the same name by Gunther Grass, won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and in 1980 - the Oscar for Best Foreign Film.
