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Volker Schlöndorff
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Director, Screenwriter Born: March 31, 1939 in Wiesbaden, Germany Biography:Acclaimed German filmmaker "Volker Schlöndorff" was educated at Paris' Lycee Henry IV and the Sorbonne; he majored in political science and economics. While still in Paris, Schlöndorff studied directing at the highly regarded IDHEC film school. He worked in France for four years as an assistant director, then made his directorial bow with 1966's "Young Torless". Set in an exclusive boys school, the film was designed as a parable concerning the unprotested rise of Nazism; it won the critics prize at the Cannes Festival, and its box office success helped open career doors for many other "New German Cinema" directors, among them "Rainer Werner Fassbinder" and "Wim Wenders". Schlöndorff formed a partnership in the late '60s with a consortium of German TV stations which underwrote many of his subsequent projects. One of the more successful of these projects was "The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum" (1975), the... Full Biography
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