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Volker Schlöndorff is a Berlin-based German filmmaker. He won an Oscar as well as the Palme d'or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival for The Tin Drum (1979), the film version of the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass. In 1991, he was the Head of the Jury at the 41st Berlin International Film Festival. Schlöndorff has adapted many literary works for his movies, including some critically well-received US productions, but he is also engaged in post-war German politics. He served as the chief executive for the UFA studio in Babelsberg. Schlöndorff also teaches film and literature at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where he conducts an Intensive Summer Seminar. He was married to fellow film director Margarethe von Trotta from 1971 to 1991. He is currently married to Angelika Schlöndorff, and the couple has one daughter.

The Handmaid's Tale ( 1990) | IMDb: 6

Drama , Science fiction

In a dystopian, polluted right-wing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.

Starring:

Natasha Richardson , Faye Dunaway , Aidan Quinn , Elizabeth McGovern , Victoria Tennant , Robert Duvall

Directed by:

Volker Schlöndorff

Produced by:

Gale Goldberg , Eberhard Junkersdorf , Wolfgang Glattes

The Tin Drum ( 1979) | IMDb: 7.5

Drama , History , War

Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his mother, Agnes, Oskar is reluctant to enter a world he sees as filled with hypocrisy and injustice, and vows on his third birthday to never grow up. Miraculously, he gets his wish. As the Nazis rise to power in Danzig, Oskar wills himself to remain a child, beating his tin drum incessantly and screaming in protest at the chaos surrounding him.

Starring:

Mario Adorf , Angela Winkler , David Bennent , Katharina Thalbach , Daniel Olbrychski , Tina Engel

Directed by:

Volker Schlöndorff

Produced by:

Eberhard Junkersdorf , Anatole Dauman , Franz Seitz Junior

Volker Schlöndorff Movies: Top 2 Performances by a Successful Director

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