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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