Volker Schlöndorff

Born March 31, 1939· Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany

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Emerging from a wartime childhood in Wiesbaden, he moved to Paris in the mid-1950s, earned a degree in political science at the Sorbonne and honed his cinematic skills at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques, where early work as Louis Malle’s assistant on films such as Zazie dans le Métro launched his career. Returning to Germany, his debut feature Young Törless (1966) earned the FIPR…

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources