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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 393,913 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia. Volker Schlöndorff is the 161st most popular film director (down from 131st in 2019), the 876th most popular biography from Germany (down from 755th in 2019) and the 10th 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 161 out of 1,581Before him are Denis Villeneuve, Ettore Scola, Jean Vigo, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Max Reinhardt, and Sergio Corbucci. After him are Guillermo del Toro, Jacques Rivette, Nagisa Oshima, William Friedkin, Masaki Kobayashi, and Alexander Dovzhenko.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Volker Schlöndorff ranks 54Before him are Marie Laforêt, Ali MacGraw, Scott Glenn, Joel Schumacher, Ratko Janev, and Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela. After him are Harry Kroto, Silvana Armenulić, Carlo Ginzburg, João Bernardo Vieira, Barry Seal, and Fikret Abdić.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Volker Schlöndorff ranks 876 out of 6,142Before him are Infanta Maria Josepha of Portugal (1857), Erich Kempka (1910), Princess Marianne of the Netherlands (1810), Hennig Brand (1630), Albert of Brandenburg (1490), and Stefan George (1868). After him are Otto I, Duke of Bavaria (1120), Maurice, Elector of Saxony (1521), Zwentibold (870), Peter Parler (1330), Ivan Rebroff (1931), and Georg-Hans Reinhardt (1887).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Germany

Among film directors born in Germany, Volker Schlöndorff ranks 10Before him are Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945), Werner Herzog (1942), F. W. Murnau (1888), Ernst Lubitsch (1892), Wolfgang Petersen (1941), and Roland Emmerich (1955). After him are Max Ophüls (1902), Robert Siodmak (1900), Thea von Harbou (1888), Douglas Sirk (1897), Margarethe von Trotta (1942), and Mike Nichols (1931).

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