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Volker Schlöndorff

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Volker Schlöndorff (German pronunciation: [ˈfɔlkɐ ˈʃløːndɔʁf] ; born 31 March 1939) is a German film director, screenwriter and producer who has worked in Germany, France and the United States. He was a prominent member of the New German Cinema of the late 1960s and early 1970s. He has won an Oscar as well as the Palme d'Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival for The Tin Drum (1979), the film version of the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Volker Schlöndorff is the 143rd most popular film director (down from 138th in 2019), the 873rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 798th in 2019) and the 9th most popular German Film Director.

Volker Schlöndorff is a German filmmaker who is most famous for his work on "The Tin Drum," an adaptation of the novel by Günter Grass.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Volker Schlöndorff ranks 143 out of 2,041. Before him are Terrence Malick, Jonathan Demme, Jiří Menzel, Michael Powell, Henri-Georges Clouzot, and Sergei Bondarchuk. After him are Bille August, Jim Jarmusch, Nikita Mikhalkov, Wong Kar-wai, Ang Lee, and Robert Benton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Volker Schlöndorff ranks 50. Before him are Richard Kiel, Marie Laforêt, João Bernardo Vieira, Michael Cimino, Sonny Chiba, and Ray Manzarek. After him are Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Stanisław Dziwisz, Susumu Tonegawa, Leland H. Hartwell, Alfredo Palacio, and Carlo Ginzburg.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Volker Schlöndorff ranks 873 out of 7,253. Before him are Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen (1622), Franz Joseph Gall (1758), Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876), Max Liebermann (1847), Frederica Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt (1751), and Wilhelm Windelband (1848). After him are Sophie of Württemberg (1818), Wolfgang Wilhelm, Count Palatine of Neuburg (1578), Henry II, Duke of Austria (1107), Thietmar of Merseburg (975), Saloninus (242), and William IV, Duke of Bavaria (1493).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Germany

Among film directors born in Germany, Volker Schlöndorff ranks 9. Before him are Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945), Michael Haneke (1942), Werner Herzog (1942), F. W. Murnau (1888), Ernst Lubitsch (1892), and Wolfgang Petersen (1941). After him are Max Ophüls (1902), Roland Emmerich (1955), Margarethe von Trotta (1942), Thea von Harbou (1888), Mike Nichols (1931), and Douglas Sirk (1897).

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