Volker Schlöndorff
German film director, screenwriter and film producer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Volker Schlöndorff (born 31 March 1939) is a German movie director, screenwriter, and movie producer. He is a very important director of the New German Cinema of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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Volker Schlöndorff | |
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Born | (1939-03-31) 31 March 1939 (age 85) |
Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter, producer |
Years active | 1960–present |
Spouse(s) | Margarethe von Trotta (1971-1991; divorced) Angelika Schlöndorff |
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He won an Oscar as well as the Palme d'or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival for The Tin Drum (1979), the movie version of the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass.[1]