| 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 |