Volker Schlöndorff - Videos
06/10/2011
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Volker Schlöndorff, German filmamker, lecturing on his film Homo Faber (1991). In this lecture Volker Schlöndorff speaks about Max Frisch, his novel Homo Faber, Oedipus, Sophocles, tragedy, Carl Jung, myth,World War II, Hannah Ardent, transgression and punishment, love, he also elaborates on fate, coincidence and accident, and the human ignorance which accompanies them. Volker Schlondorff also shows and discusses a number of clips from his film Homo Faber. European Graduate School EGS
06/10/2011
Length: 2:07:00
Volker Schlöndorff, German filmmaker, lecturing on his film Death of a Salesman (1985). In this lecture Volker Schlöndorff discusses Arthur Miller, American culture, consumerism, values, generational conflict, tragedy, the end of idealism and the dissolution of the American dream. Wolker Schlondorff also discusses the stage design and the use of music in film, as well as the overall process of making the film. At the end of the lecture, the filmmaker answers a number of students`questions. European Graduate School EGS
06/10/2011
Length: 2:29:05
Volker Schlöndorff, German filmmaker, lecturing on his film Tin Drum (1979). In this lecture Volker Schlöndorff discusses Gunter Grass, the man, the writer, their working relationship, and his novel Tin Drum. He also discusses the chronology of World War II and the rise of fascism, as well as the parallel the novel draws between the life of Oscar and the development of this tragic period in European history. Schlöndorff also discusses the meaning of Oscars view of his own birth, and his decision to not group up and stay a child, as to evade entering the obscene 'real' world, the paradigm of film and literature, and the obstacles encountered in turning a novel into a film. European Graduate School EGS
Length: 2:29:24
Volker Schlöndorff, German filmmaker, lecturing on the role of a director. In this lecture, Volker Schlöndorff discusses his own experience as a director, his motivation and purpose in film, the transmission of experience, historical context, and the concept and considerations of set design and location. Schlondorff refers to Louis Malle, Jean-Pierre Melville, Quentin Tarantino, Billy Wilder and Alfred Hitchcock, as well as a few of his own films, including: The Lost Honour of Katarina Blum, Coup de Grace, Tin Drum, Germany in Autumn and The Death of a Salesman. European Graduate School. EGS
06/09/2011
Length: 1:17:26
Volker Schlöndorff, German filmmaker, lecturing on his film The Ninth Day (2004). In this lecture, Volker Schlondorff speaks about Father Jean Bernard, Dachau, morality, power, temptation, Satan, decision, strengh, Primo Levi, Jesus and Judas, necessity and failure, God. He also discusses the problems and strategies of monologue and dialogue, and the minimalism of scripts. Volker Schlondorff, during this lecture, also shows a series of clips from The Ninth Day (2004). European Graduate School EGS
Length: 0:54:48
Volker Schlöndorff, German filmmaker, lecturing on his film A Gathering of Old Men (1987). In this lecture Volker Schlöndorff speaks about Ernest Gaines, racism, social structure, the American south, the destruction of slaves' memories and traditions, the notion of divide and conquer, capitalism and colonialism. At the end of the lecture, Volker Schlöndorff answers a few questions from students. European Graduate School EGS
Mario Adorf, Katharina Thalbach, David Bennent and director Volker Schlöndorff speaking about "The Tin Drum" (Die Blechtrommel), the novel by Günter Grass about the young Oskar Matzerath who refuses to grow up. Beckmann, ARD. German television. May 3, 2010. (German)
"La vie ma fait ce que je suis" Schlondorff presents a somewhat autobiographic lecture where he contemplates the notion of having an identity or having a plurality of identities.
Screenwriter and director Volker Schlöndorff reading from his autobiography at the Mishkenot Sha'ananim Konrad Adenauer Conference Centre, Jerusalem, Israel on January 11, 2010. Schlöndorff's 1979 adaptation of Gunter Grass book The Tin Drum was awarded both the Golden Palm at Cannes and the Oscar, he directed many films and several operas.
Schlondorff inroduces his film Die Fälschung aka Circle of Deceit aka False Witness / Le Faussaire. He describes his agenda as personified by the protagonist in this film., the notion of truth from the level of the intimate to the distanced experience of truth through media.