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Death of a Salesman

Death of a Salesman (1985) more movies like this

directed by Volker Schlöndorff
featuring Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich, Kate Reid, Stephen Lang, Charles Durning

In 1984, actor Dustin Hoffman starred in a critically-acclaimed Broadway revival of playwright Arthur Miller's classic Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Death of a Salesman. A year later, Hoffman and most of his fellow cast members starred in this made-for-TV production, the first English-language film by German director Volker Schlondorff. Hoffman ...

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Voyager

Voyager (1992) more movies like this

directed by Volker Schlöndorff
featuring Sam Shepard, Julie Delpy, Barbara Sukowa, Dieter Kirchlechner, Traci Lind

Set in the 1950s, Voyager concerns the travels of an American construction engineer (Sam Shepard) who is wandering throughout Europe, recounting his life story through a series of flashbacks while meeting a variety of new characters. At first, he meets a man whom he knew during his time as a student in Europe in the days before World War II. ...

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The Handmaid's Tale

The Handmaid's Tale (1990) more movies like this

directed by Volker Schlöndorff
featuring Natasha Richardson, Robert Duvall, Faye Dunaway, Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth McGovern

In this dystopian fable, a librarian wife and mother becomes the childbearing pawn of a Christian theocracy. In the near future, as war rages across the fictional North American Republic of Gilead and pollution has rendered 99 percent of the female population sterile, Kate (Natasha Richardson) sees her husband killed and her daughter kidnapped ...

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Palmetto

Palmetto (1998) more movies like this

directed by Volker Schlöndorff
featuring Woody Harrelson, Elisabeth Shue, Gina Gershon, Rolf Hoppe, Michael Rapaport

When new evidence confirms that he was framed, reporter Harry Barber (Woody Harrelson) is released from prison after serving two years. He then goes on to demonstrate repeatedly that he is the dumbest, most masochistic noir hero since Adam ate the apple. His original plan, to leave Palmetto, is foiled when he runs into his girlfriend Nina (Gina ...

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The Ogre

The Ogre (1999) more movies like this

directed by Volker Schlöndorff
featuring John Malkovich, Marianne Sägebrecht, Volker Spengler, Dieter Laser

Based on a novel by French author Michel Tournier, this drama chronicles the redemption of Abel, a French POW responsible for kidnapping dozens of young boys for recruitment by the Nazi SS during WW II. The film opens with black-and-white shots of Abel's childhood in Paris. The year is 1925 and already he has problems getting along with teachers ...

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Swann in Love

Swann in Love (1984) more movies like this

directed by Volker Schlöndorff
featuring Jeremy Irons, Ornella Muti, Alain Delon, Fanny Ardant, Marie-Christine Barrault

This ambitious attempt to film a portion of Marcel Proust's epic novel Remembrance of Things Past stars Jeremy Irons as Charles Swann, a Jewish intellectual who has managed to overcome growing anti-Semitism in 19th century France and travels in an elite social circle. But Swann has become obsessed with Odette (Ornella Muti), a courtesan who cares ...

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Young Torless

Young Torless (1966) more movies like this

directed by Volker Schlöndorff
featuring Mathieu Carrière, Barbara Steele

Robert Musil's novel Die Verwirrungen des Zoglings Torless was the source for this allegorical German film. Mathieu Carriere plays Torless, a student in a costly boarding school during the glory days of the Hapsburg empire. While at school, Carriere is a bystander to the sadistic behavior of fellow students Alfred Dietz and Bernd Tischer. Carriere ...

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The Ninth Day

The Ninth Day (2005) more movies like this

directed by Volker Schlöndorff
featuring Ulrich Matthes, August Diehl, Bibiana Beglau, Jean-Paul Raths, Ivan Jirik

Acclaimed filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff directed this story of a war of words between a Nazi soldier and a man of the cloth. In 1942, Henri Kremer (Ulrich Matthes) is a Catholic priest who, like three thousand other Catholic clergymen, has been sent to the Dachau prison camp by Nazi authorities for espousing his faith and speaking out against the ...

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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975) more movies like this

directed by Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff
featuring Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Dieter Laser, Heinz Bennent, Hannelore Hoger

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum marks the directorial debut for actress Margarethe von Trotta, who co-directed the film with her then-husband Volker Schlöndorff. At a costume party, Katharina Blum (Angela Winkler) meets Ludwig Goetten (Jürgen Prochnow ) and spends the night with him. The next morning, he's gone and the police bust into her ...

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Strike

Strike (2007) more movies like this

directed by Volker Schlöndorff
featuring Katharina Thalbach, Dominique Horwitz, Andrzej Chyra, Andrzej Grabowski, Wojciech Solarz, Ewa Telega

An ordinary working woman helps to spark a revolution in this historical drama inspired by a true story. Agnieszka Kowalska (Katharina Thalbach) has been working as a welder in the shipyards of Gdansk, Poland, since 1950, struggling to support her son since divorcing her husband. Working conditions at the shipyard have always been difficult and ...

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The Legend of Rita (2001) more movies like this

directed by Volker Schlöndorff

Noted German director Volker Schlondorff helms this riveting exploration of 1970s West German political terrorism. The film opens with Rita (Bibiana Beglau) reminiscing to her unseen friend Tatjana of her life as a radical. Cut to a flashback of her along with her like-minded colleagues robbing a bank. Later while traveling from Beirut to East ...

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Circle of Deceit (1981) more movies like this

directed by Volker Schlöndorff
featuring Bruno Ganz, Hanna Schygulla, Jerzy Skolimowski, Gila Von Weitershausen, Jean Carmet

Bruno Ganz plays a West German journalist whose frequent assignments to war-torn nations have left him jaundiced. He is assigned to cover the civil war in Beirut. The combination of his harrowing experiences on the job and his after-hours relationship with widow Hannah Schygulla affects Ganz deeply, in spite of the wall he's built around himself. ...

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Deutschland im Herbst (1978) more movies like this

directed by Alexander Kluge, Alf Brustellin, Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus, Bernhard Sinkel, Edgar Reitz, Hans Peter Cloos, Katja Rupé, Maximiliane Mainka, Peter Schubert, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Volker Schlöndorff
featuring Caroline Chaniolleau, Lisi Mangold

This provocative film anthology contains nine short fiction and documentary films believed to have had great influence on the development of New German Cinema. Each of the five was directed by a different German filmmaker and are set during the politically tempestuous summer of 1977 in West Germany when terrorism ran rampant. Filmmakers include ...

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Le Coup De Grace (1976) more movies like this

directed by Volker Schlöndorff
featuring Margarethe von Trotta, Matthais Habich, Rudiger Kirschstein, Mathieu Carrière

1976's Coup de Grace (released in Germany as Der Fangschluss) was inspired by a Marguerite Yourcenar novel and directed by Volker Schlondorff. The story is set in Latvia in 1919, at the height of the Soviet Civil War. Margarethe von Trotta plays an aristocrat sympathetic to the Communist cause. Besides her ruinous habit of falling love with men ...

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Baal (1970)

directed by Volker Schlöndorff

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A Gathering of Old Men (1987) more movies like this

directed by Volker Schlöndorff
featuring Holly Hunter, Richard Widmark

Gathering of Old Men was based on the novel by Ernest J. Gaines, who'd previously written The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Like Pittman, Gathering builds its narrative upon a tapestry of deep-bred racial intolerance in the South. When a bigoted white Louisiana tenant farmer is killed, black sharecropper Louis Gossett Jr. is the most likely ...

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The Tin Drum (1979) more movies like this

directed by Volker Schlöndorff
featuring Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, David Bennent, Daniel Olbrychski, Katharina Thalbach

In Volker Schlöndorff's award-winning adaptation of Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass' allegorical novel, David Bennent plays Oskar, the young son of a German rural family, circa 1925. On his third birthday, Oskar receives a shiny new tin drum. At this point, rather than mature into one of the miserable specimens of grown-up humanity that he sees ...

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