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Movies directed by Volker Schlöndorff

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Has studied economy and political sciences as well as at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinematographique (IDHEC) in Paris, France. Worked as an assistant director with Louis Malle, Jean-Pierre Melville and Alain Resnais. Founded his own production company Bioskop Film together with Reinhard Hauff and Eberhard Junkersdorf in 1973. Has directed several operas in Frankfurt a/M, Berlin (Germany) and  ...  show all 

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975)

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010 10:06
The Lost Honor of Katharina BlumGenres: Drama
Countries: West Germany
Directors: Volker Schlöndorff
Actors: Angela Winkler | Mario Adorf | Dieter Laser | Jürgen Prochnow | Heinz Bennent | Hannelore Hoger | Rolf Becker | Harald Kuhlmann | Herbert Fux | Regine Lutz | Werner Eichhorn | Karl Heinz Vosgerau | Angelika Hillebrecht | Horatius Häberle | Henry van Lyck
Katharina Blum is a young handsome German maid. She meets Ludwig, and they fall in love at once. They spend the night together. In the morning, the police bursts in her flat, looking for Ludwig : he is a terrorist. But he was no longer here. Katharina is arrested, humiliated, suspected to be a terrorist herself, dragged in the mud by the newspapers... A plea for democracy and individual rights.
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Die Blechtrommel (1979)

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010 09:06
Die BlechtrommelGenres: Drama | History | War
Countries: France | Poland | West Germany | Yugoslavia
Directors: Volker Schlöndorff
Actors: Mario Adorf | Angela Winkler | David Bennent | Katharina Thalbach | Daniel Olbrychski | Tina Engel | Berta Drews | Roland Teubner | Tadeusz Kunikowski | Andréa Ferréol | Heinz Bennent | Ilse Pagé | Werner Rehm | Käte Jaenicke | Helmut Brasch
Danzig in the 1920s/1930s. Oskar Matzerath, son of a local dealer, is a most unusual boy. Equipped with full intellect right from his birth he decides at his third birthday not to grow up as he sees the crazy world around him at the eve of World War II. So he refuses the society and his tin drum symbolizes his protest against the middle-class mentality of his family and neighborhood, which stand for all passive people in Nazi Germany at that time. However, (almost) nobody listens to him, so the catastrophe goes on...
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