Volker Schlöndorff (* 1939) is a German film director, screenwriter, and film producer. In 1980, his feature film “The Tin Drum” was awarded the Oscar for “Best Foreign Language Film.” Schlöndorff has received numerous other awards, such as the Palme d’Or, the German Film Award, the Carl Zuckmayer Medal, and the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Among the many projects he has realized as a filmmaker are the film drama “The Ninth Day” about clergy persecuted by the Nazis for their critical stance against Hitler’s regime, and a 2021 documentary featuring Holocaust survivor Leon Henry Schwarzbaum, who at the time was 100 years old.
