Volker Schlöndorff

Volker Schlöndorff, born March 31, 1939, in Wiesbaden, Germany, is a film director and screenwriter who was a leading member of the postwar cinema movement in West Germany. Schlöndorff studied filmmaking in Paris, serving as an assistant to directors Louis Malle, Alain Resnais, and Jean-Pierre Melville. After directing several projects for French television in the…