Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Volker Schlöndorff on the set of Baal (1970).
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Baal (1970) dir. by Volker Schlöndorff
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David Bennent in The Tin Drum (Volker Schlöndorff, 1979)
Cast: David Bennent, Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, Daniel Olbrychski, Katharina Thalbach, Tina Engel, Berta Drews, Heinz Bennent, Ernst Jacobi. Screenplay: Jean-Claude Carrière, Volker Schlöndorff, Franz Seitz, based on a novel by Günter Grass. Cinematography: Igor Luther. Production design: Piotr Dudzinski, Zeljco Senecic. Film editing: Suzanne Baron. Music: Maurice Jarre, Friedrich Meyer.
I don't have much of a taste for satiric grotesquerie. (I'm one of the few people I know who disliked A Confederacy of Dunces.) But Volker Schlöndorff's The Tin Drum did, after all, win not only the Cannes Palme d'Or but also the foreign film Oscar. It's true that 11-year-old David Bennent gives an astonishing performance as Oskar, who has consciously chosen to remain a 3-year-old for the rest of his life. But some of the scenes in which Oskar makes love to Maria (Katharina Thalbach) are queasy-making, with Bennent and 24-year-old Thalbach going through the required, if discreetly filmed, motions. And I find the acting in the film overstated and the thematic coherence of the story wobbly. I have to admire some of the comic sequences, such as the one in which Oskar sabotages a Nazi rally by playing a waltz rhythm on his drum, confusing the brass band and making the participants dance with one another. But as a fable about German history, which the film's source, Günter Grass's novel, is said to be, the movie lacks a focus that's clearer on the page than on the screen.
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Michael Kohlhaas - Der Rebell, 1969
Directed by Volker Schlöndorff
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Der junge Törless” (Young Torless),
Volker Schlöndorff
1966
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Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum, Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta (1975)
Cinematography: Jost Vacano
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Happy 85th, Volker Schlöndorff.
On the set of Young Törless (1966).
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These people are murderers. All of them. It's their very business to rob innocent people of their honor, often too take their lives. Otherwise nobody would buy their papers.
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum), Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta (1975)
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