Volker Schlondorff

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The Tin Drum review by from Shepherds Bush,England

Memorable?Yes Oscar-Worthy All-Time Classic?No 1 April 2007
...s fantastic,surreal or allegoric through a relatively literal, realistic medium?Volker Schlondorff,with copious thanks to his astonishing lead man David Bennent as the,stunted at... Read customer review

The Ninth Day (2004)
Starring: Ulrich Matthes, August Diehl, Hilmar Thate
Director: Volker Schlondorff
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In World War II, after a period living hell on earth in the concentration camp of Dachau with other catholic priests, Father Abbé Henri Kremer (Ulrich Matthes) gets a nine days leave to return to his home town for his mother's funeral. Along this period, the SS Gestapo lieutenant Gebhardt (August ..read more »

55% from 6 members
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The Ogre (1996)
Starring: John Malkovich, Gottfried John, Marianne Sagebrecht
Director: Volker Schlondorff
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Frenchman Abel Tiffauges likes children, and wants to protect them against grown-ups. Falsely suspected as a child molester, he is recruited as a soldier in the Second World War, but soon is captured and held as a prisoner of war. After serving in Goering's hunting lodge, he becomes the dogsbody in ..read more »

38% from 8 members
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The Handmaid's Tale on DVD (1990)
Starring: Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Aidan Quinn
Director: Volker Schlondorff
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In the not-so-distant future, strong-willed and beautiful Kate (Richardson) possesses a precious commodity that most women have lost and most men want to control, violently if necessary... fertility. Forced into a brain-washing bootcamp that turns fertile women into surrogate mothers for social-..read more »

57% from 2,704 members

Swann in Love (1984)
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Ornella Muti, Alain Delon
Director: Volker Schlondorff
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From internationally acclaimed director Volker Schlöndorff comes Swann In Love, a tale of obsessive love set against the colorful backdrop of Paris in the 1890s. Swann (Irons) falls in love with a young courtesan, and soon finds himself tormented by his unrelenting sexual desire. Based on the novel ..read more »

54% from 45 members
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The Tin Drum on DVD (1979)
Starring: Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, Heinz Bennent
Director: Volker Schlondorff
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In Volker Schlöndorff's award-winning adaptation of Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass' allegorical novel, David Bennent plays Oskar, the young son of a German rural family, circa 1925. On his third birthday, Oskar receives a shiny new tin drum. At this point, rather than mature into one of the ..read more »

70% from 2,723 members

The Tin Drum (1979)
Starring: Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, Heinz Bennent
Director: Volker Schlondorff
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In Volker Schlöndorff's award-winning adaptation of Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass' allegorical novel, David Bennent plays Oskar, the young son of a German rural family, circa 1925. On his third birthday, Oskar receives a shiny new tin drum. At this point, rather than mature into one of the ..read more »

77% from 50 members

Lost Honor Of Katharina Blum (1975)
Starring: Angela Winkler, Dieter Laser, Heinz Bennent
Director: Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlondorff
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When Katharina Blum spends the night with an alleged terrorist, her quiet, ordered life falls into ruins. Suddenly a suspect, Katharina is subject to a vicious smear campaign by the police and a ruthless tabloid journalist, testing the limits of her dignity and her sanity. Volker Schlondorff and ..read more »

59% from 24 members
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The Lost Honour Of Katharina Blum - Blu-ray (1975)
Starring: Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Dieter Laser
Director: Volker Schlondorff, Margarethe von Trotta
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Drama based on the true account of events, which happened in Germany in the 1970s. Katharina Blum takes home an army deserter and finds herself the most hated woman in Germany. German dialogue with subtitles.

67% from 65 members

The Ninth Day - 3.0 stars
The Ogre - 2.0 stars
The Handmaid's Tale - 3.0 stars
Swann in Love - 3.0 stars
The Tin Drum - 3.5 stars

The Ogre - 2.0 stars
The Ninth Day - 3.0 stars
Swann in Love - 3.0 stars
Lost Honor Of Katharina Blum - 3.0 stars
The Tin Drum - 4.0 stars

Mario Adorf - 4 times - show films
Angela Winkler - 4 times - show films
Heinz Bennent - 4 times - show films
Katharina Thalbach - 2 times - show films
Jurgen Prochnow - 2 times - show films

Margarethe von Trotta - 2 times - show films