Volker Schlondorff
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Volker Schlöndorff (born 31 March 1939) is a German filmmaker who has worked in Germany, France, and the United States.
He was a key figure in the late 1960s and early 1970s German cinema, which also included Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Margarethe von Trotta, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. At the 1979 Cannes Film Festival, he received an Oscar as well as the Palme d'or for The Tin Drum (1979), the film adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass' book The Tin Drum (1979).
Early life
Volker Schlöndorff was born in Wiesbaden, Germany, to the physician Dr. Georg Schlöndorff. In 1944, his mother was killed in a kitchen fire. In 1956, his family moved to Paris, where Schlöndorff received honors for his work in philosophy. He studied political science at the Sorbonne while still researching film at Institut des Haute Etudes Cinematographique, where he worked with Bertrand Tavernier and met Louis Malle. Malle's first job as his assistant director on Zazie (1960), which continued with the films A Very Private Affair (1962), The Fire Within (1963), and Viva Maria! (1965). Schlöndorff served as assistant director on Alain Resnais' Last Year in Marienbad and Jean-Pierre Melville's Léon Morin, Priest (both 1961). Who Cares? He made his first short film during this period. In 1960, there were French people living in Frankfurt, France. On the 40-minute documentary Méditerranée, he coproduced with filmmaker Jean-Daniel Pollet that was released in 1963. Since its initial release, the film has received acclaim from Jean-Luc Godard and has been regarded consistently in the popular book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die.
Personal life
Schlöndorff was married to fellow film director Margarethe von Trotta from 1971 to 1991 and assisted with her son's education from her first marriage. He is now married to Angelika Schlöndorff, and the couple have one child.
He founded Bioskop, a production company that made both his own and von Trotta's films.
He was the Head of the Jury at the 41st Berlin International Film Festival in 1991.
Schlöndorff teaches film and literature at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where he teaches an intensive summer Seminar.
Early film career
Schlöndorff made his debut film Young Törless (Der junge Törless, 1966), before he returned to Germany to make his debut in Young Törless. The film, which was based on Robert Musil's novel The Confusions of Young Törless, was premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1966. Törless witnesses the bullying of a fellow student at a semi-military Austrian boarding school, but does nothing to prevent it, despite his superior and mature intelligence. He gradually began to accept his personal responsibility for the bullying by doing nothing to prevent it and flees away from the school. The comparison to pre-war Germany was obvious, and the film was lauded upon its debut, winning the FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes.
With the Oberhausen Manifesto, a new young German filmmakers was encouraged to revive filmmaking in Germany, much like the French New Wave of the previous few years. Schlöndorff was keen to join the group, and Young Törless is one of the New German Cinema's most popular films.
A Degree of Murder (1967), a counter-culture-saturated film with a musical score by Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones, was Schlöndorff's next film. Anita Pallenberg, Jones' then-girlfriend, accidentally kills her boyfriend and hides her body with the help of two male friends. Following its debut among young "swinging sixties" teenagers, the film was very popular.
Man on Horseback – Man on Horseback – Histhor Culture Generation (Michael Kohlhaas, 1969), was later released as part of another film that related to the counter-culture period (Michael Kohlhaas – Der Rebell, 1969). Michael Kohlhaas is a horse trader who has been cheated by a local nobleman and has been close to starting a revolution to seek revenge. David Warner, Anna Karina, and Anita Pallenberg appeared in both German and English versions of the film.
Schlöndorff followed him on Baal (1970), a West German television adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's first play, starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Margarethe von Trotta, who were set to marry in 1971. Schlöndorff brought the tale of a self-destructive poet to modern-day Munich. He made another television film, The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach (1971), starring Fassbinder. The film depicts seven peasants in 19th-century Germany who rob the local tax collection cart, but are so poor that they are unable to cope with their newfound wealth.
Ruth Halbfass (1972) looked at a group of people who have lost their sense of morals and co-starred in Trotta. Von Trotta and Schlöndorff's forthcoming film, A Free Woman, will star and co-write (Strohfeuer, 1972). In Munich, the film took a feminist look at modern women's lives. Elizabeth Junker, a recently divorced woman who must struggle to live her life alone, has everything that her husband can relate to him, including the villa and son that they had shared together as a married couple. The film is loosely based on von Trotta's experience with her separation from her first husband.
Schlöndorff produced the TV film Stayover in Tirol (1974); directed his first opera in Frankfurt, a Leo Janá's Kánová production; and adapted "Georgina's Reasons" by Henry James for French television as Les raisons de Georgina (1975).
Hollywood and later career
Swann in Love (1984), Marcel Proust's first two volumes of In Search of Lost Time, was Schlöndorff's first English-language film. Jeremy Irons, Ornella Muti, Alain Delon, and Fanny Ardant star Jeremy Irons, were shot in France and financed by Gaumont, and starred Jeremy Irons, Ornella Muti, Alain Delon, and Fanny Ardant.
Schlöndorff then went to the United States to film Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, starring Dustin Hoffman as Willy Loman and John Malkovich as Biff. Both actors received Emmy awards for their appearances, and Schlöndorff was nominated for an Emmy for his direction. In 1985, the film premiered on television and was later released theatrically throughout Europe.
Schlöndorff produced A Gathering of Old Men, another TV film in the United States based on Ernest J. Gaines' book A Gathering of Old Men. Richard Widmark, Holly Hunter, and Lou Gossett Jr. are among the film's racial profiling issues in 1970s Louisiana.
Schlöndorff's Tale (1990), a Hollywood science fiction film, brought Schlöndorff back to theaters. The film takes place in a dystopian near future in which the majority of women are sterile due to pollution. Kate (Natasha Richardson) was arrested after attempting to flee to Canada and being compelled to become a "Handmaid." Handmaids are fertile women who have been enslaved by the state and put in the households of wealthy men, who have "ceremonial" sex with them in the hopes of having a child. She becomes the Commander's Handmaid (Robert Duvall), Fred, who is married to Serena Joy (Faye Dunaway). Kate, who has been renamed "Offred" because she is now attached to Fred's family, allows the Commander's driver (Aidan Quinn) to impregnate her and falls in love with him, saving her from execution. At the 40th Berlin International Film Festival, the film was in competition.
This was shortly followed by Voyager (1991). Sam Shepard appears in the film as a man who survives a plane crash, then finds love of his life (Julie Delpy) on his next trip and begins to question his good fortune after having spent the majority of his life being cruel to others. The film was based on Max Frisch's novel Homo Faber but was not a success at the box office. In 1992, he produced The Michael Nyman Songbook, a concert film.
Billy Wilder, How Did You Do It?, Schlöndorff's first documentary on Austrian-born filmmaker Billy Wilder, in which he and German journalist Hellmuth Karasek interviewed Wilder about his work over two weeks in 1988. It was on German television in 1992 and then shown on TCM in the United States under the name Billy Wilder Speaks in 2006. Schlöndorff had been a passionate fan of Wilder for many years and sought his help in the creation of The Tin Drum.
Plans to demolish Babelsberg, Schlöndorff's historic film studios were appalled by the attempts to save them in the early 1990s. He served as the Chief Executive for Babelsberg's UFA studio from 1992 to 1997. During that period, he assisted Jiang Wen in completing his film In the Heat of the Sun (1994) in Germany, with the studio's complete financial assistance. He was also involved in the film being chosen for the 51st Venice International Film Festival. With the episode "Le parfait soldat," he appeared on French television series Lumière sur le massacre in 1996.
Schlöndorff's most well-known feature film since The Tin Drum was shot in Germany in 1996. The film, based on a Michel Tournier novel and starring John Malkovich as the titular Abel Tiffauges, revisited several of the Tin Drum's time and place. Tiffauges is a slow-witted French soldier who has been accused of child molestation. He is made a servant at an elite German training camp and kidnaps local children, but in his heart to prevent them from being captured by the Nazis and put them in an internment camp, but in his heart to protect them. The film premiered at the 1996 Venice Film Festival and was named UNICEF Laureate. The film was released in Germany in 1996 and received rave reviews. Schlöndorff said he wanted to film a sequel to The Tin Drum because the film was based only on the first two thirds of the novel. However, actor David Bennent was too old to reprise his role, and he did not want to recast Oscar, so he sees The Ogre as an unofficial sequel to his masterpiece.
Schlöndorff made a return to Hollywood in the form of Palmetto (1998). Woody Harrelson was sent to prison for exposing misconduct in the local government in a noir story. He is unable to find work after being released from jail and trying to find a job, Rhea Malroux (Elisabeth Shue), a femme fatale who begged him to help her extort money from her millionaire husband. Schlöndorff's last film in the United States to date was not a financial success, and it was Schlöndorff's last film in the United States to date.
Schlöndorff made the film The Legend of Rita (2000) in Germany. The film is based on the lives of members of the Red Army Faction who exiled to East Germany in the 1970s, and it most closely looks like real RAF member Inge Viett. Rita abandons the revolution and lives in East Germany under the cover of the clandestine service, but she is concerned about finding and punishing her past wrongdeeds.
Schlöndorff produced The Ninth Day (2004) after Ein Prosen, a documentary that had seen Seele oder er hat no one and a contribution to the omnibus film Ten Minutes Older (both in 2002). The film is Schlöndorff's third film to focus on World War II and is based on Father Jean Bernard's diary. Father Henri Kremer, a Catholic priest who is interned at a Dachau concentration camp during the Second World War, is Ulrich Matthes. He is inexplicably released for nine days and sent to Luxembourg. There, he meets a young SS soldier who informs him that his job there is to convince the local bishop to cooperate with the Nazi Party, although in that case, he will not be sent back to Dachau. He is now confronted with the moral dilemma of betraying his faith or returning to the concentration camp.
Enigma – Eine unethical Liebe (2005) – Schlöndorff completed the television film Enigma – Eine unendliche Liebe (2005). He returned to Danzig to film Strike (2006), a docudrama about labour strikes at the Gda Shipyard during the Polish 1970 demonstrations. The film is also a history of the Solidarity Movement in Poland leading up to Communism's demise.
Philippe Torton of Schlöndorff (2007) stars Philippe Torsenbai as a treasure hunter who has lost his soul, and Ayanat Ksenbai as Ulzhan, the woman who falls in love with him. David Bennent also co-starred. He worked with Andrew Turner, who had previously been a runway model for late Alexander McQueen in the summer of 2012. The 62th Berlin International Film Festival showcased Schlöndorff's World War II-era film Diplomacy, dedicated to his friend Richard C. Holbrooke. It was set in 1944 and explores how Dietrich von Choltitz, the German military governor of Paris, was compelled not to follow Hitler's instructions not to demolish the city if it fell into enemy hands.
Awards
- 1978 Special Recognition award (shared) at the 28th Berlin International Film Festival for Germany in Autumn
- 1979 Palme d'Or Cannes Film Festival The Tin Drum
- 1980 Academy Awards Best Foreign Language Film The Tin Drum
- 2004 Bavarian Film Awards Honorary Award
- 2009 Camerimage Lifetime Achievement Award
- 2019 Commander's cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany