Volker Schlöndorff

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.

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.Volker Schlöndorff  at European Graduate School. Biography and bibliography. (Retrieved May 14, 2010)

References

Other websites

 Volker Schlöndorff  Faculty Website @ European Graduate School. Biography and bibliography.

 Volker Schlöndorff's Cinématon - A 4 minutes online portrait by Gérard Courant
 Volker Schlöndorff Collection  at Deutsches Filminstitut, Frankfurt (German)

Category:Academy Award winning directors
Category:1939 births
Category:Living people
Category:German movie directors
Category:German movie producers
Category:German screenwriters
Category:People from Berlin