FILM DIRECTOR

Volker Schlöndorff

1939 - Today

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Volker Schlöndorff (German pronunciation: [ˈfɔlkɐ ˈʃløːndɔʁf] ; born 31 March 1939) is a German film director, screenwriter and producer who has worked in Germany, France and the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Volker Schlöndorff has received more than 418,737 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia. Volker Schlöndorff is the 138th most popular film director (up from 161st in 2019), the 798th most popular biography from Germany (up from 876th in 2019) and the 9th most popular German Film Director.

Volker Schlöndorff is a German filmmaker who is most famous for his work on "The Tin Drum," an adaptation of the novel by Günter Grass.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Volker Schlöndorff ranks 138 out of 2,041. Before him are Wong Kar-wai, Giuseppe Tornatore, Lasse Hallström, Erich von Stroheim, Lewis Milestone, and Jacques Demy. After him are Moustapha Akkad, D. W. Griffith, Michael Cimino, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, and Vsevolod Meyerhold.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Volker Schlöndorff ranks 43. Before him are Marvin Gaye, Paul Hogan, Jean-Marie Lehn, Mark Margolis, Ray Manzarek, and Wes Craven. After him are Michael Cimino, Kenzō Takada, Junko Tabei, Henry Mintzberg, Phil Spector, and Harry Kroto.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Volker Schlöndorff ranks 798 out of 7,253. Before him are Horst Ludwig Störmer (1949), Johann Christoph Adelung (1732), Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck (1870), Eduard Dietl (1890), Johannes Peter Müller (1801), and Thietmar of Merseburg (975). After him are Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1925), Jürgen Prochnow (1941), Max Schmeling (1905), Hans-Valentin Hube (1890), Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1629), and Christina of Holstein-Gottorp (1573).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Germany

Among film directors born in Germany, Volker Schlöndorff ranks 9. Before him are Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945), Michael Haneke (1942), Werner Herzog (1942), Ernst Lubitsch (1892), F. W. Murnau (1888), and Wolfgang Petersen (1941). After him are Roland Emmerich (1955), Max Ophüls (1902), Margarethe von Trotta (1942), Douglas Sirk (1897), Thea von Harbou (1888), and Robert Siodmak (1900).

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Filmography

Last Year at Marienbad
Director
In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before.
May 25o 19617.4 / 10
The Tin Drum
Director
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.
May 2o 19796.938 / 10
Le Doulos
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Enigmatic gangster Silien may or may not be responsible for informing on Faugel, who was just released from prison and is already involved in what should be a simple heist. By the end of this brutal, twisting, and multilayered policier, who will be left to trust?
Dec 13o 19627.4 / 10