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Volker Schlöndorff
Arthur Miller's Death of a salesman
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14 editions published between 1985 and 2009 in English and held by 1,913 libraries worldwide Dark drama of a failed man, Willy Loman, whose life did not measure up to his expectations. Movie made for television.
The handmaid's tale
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31 editions published between 1990 and 2009 in English and German and held by 829 libraries worldwide Set in the near future, the handmaids of the title are women who can still bear children after the ravages of war caused wide-spread sterility. One of the handmaids, Kate, is caught trying to escape the Republic of Gilead and sent to the prison-like training center. She is sent from there to the home of the commander to bear his child, but revolutionary forces have other plans for her!
Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum
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11 editions published between 1975 and 2003 in German and Undetermined and held by 615 libraries worldwide In the period of several days, Katharina's privacy and her honor are destroyed, first by the police who terrorize her, and then by the yellow press, which creates in her name the image of a politicized Bonnie Parker.
Arthur Miller's death of a salesman includes private conversations
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2 editions published in 1998 in English and held by 589 libraries worldwide Death of a salesman : a social drama about an ageing travelling salesman who recognizes the emptiness of his life and commits suicide.
Death of a salesman
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46 editions published between 1985 and 2009 in 6 languages and held by 574 libraries worldwide Dark drama of a failed man, Willy Loman, whose life did not measure up to his expectations. Movie made for television.
Der neunte Tag The ninth day
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4 editions published between 2004 and 2006 in German and Multiple languages and held by 452 libraries worldwide A Gestapo officer arranges a nine-day furlough for a priest imprisoned in Dachau. If the priest can convince his bishop to capitulate to Nazi occupation, he will be freed.
Die Stille nach dem Schuss The legend of Rita
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4 editions published in 2001 in German and held by 390 libraries worldwide This political thriller, set in the final years of the Cold War, recounts the struggles of a young West German woman member of a terrorist group (loosely based on the real Baader-Meinhof gang). When the group disbands, she goes into hiding with an invented identity in East Germany. She struggles with the realities of a Communist state while keeping the distant ideal of socialism.
Die Blechtrommel
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64 editions published between 1978 and 2010 in 5 languages and held by 387 libraries worldwide Oskar Matzerath, a self-made dwarf, narrates this story of modern society--Germany from the turn of the century through the Nazi era--from a child's point of view.
Der Fangschuss
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22 editions published between 1976 and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 352 libraries worldwide Set in Latvia in 1919 at the end of the Russian civil war, a Prussian soldier rejects the advances of an aristocratic woman. She retaliates by joining the Bolsheviks.
Der junge Törless Young Törless
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5 editions published between 1966 and 2005 in German and held by 325 libraries worldwide Young Törless is to go to boarding school. His experiences there, the merciless torments of the pupils among themselves and the unsatisfactory answers of his teachers make it clear to Törless that good and bad cannot be differentiated in life. The boy leaves the boarding school at his own request after a short while. The incipient social and personal deformation in Musil's novel is skillfully implemented by Schlöndorff in close correspondence with the text but also in a more distant manner.
Strike
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4 editions published between 2007 and 2009 in German and Polish and held by 290 libraries worldwide "An illiterate single mother, Agnieszka Kowalska is a Socialist "heroine of labor" for working long hours as a shipyard welder ... until her superiors deny compensation to the widows of 21 workers killed in an industrial disaster. Risking her job, her life, and the love of her son to defy the bureacracy, Agnieszka inspires the largest labor strike in world history ... and becomes a national hero."--Container.
The ogre
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7 editions published between 1999 and 2007 in 3 languages and held by 261 libraries worldwide "A grotesque fairy tale about Hitler's Germany in which a naïve mechanic comes to symbolize the seductive appeal of the Nazi regime."--Container.
Die Faelschung
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5 editions published in 2004 in German and Multiple languages and held by 243 libraries worldwide Grateful for a respite from his imploding marriage, Hamburg newspaperman Georg arrives in civil war torn Beirut to chronicle the bloody Lebanese war. Inside a shell-pitted hotel, Georg and colleague Hoffman, join a cynical international coterie of competitive fellow journalists. Outside, they take their lives in their own hands, dodging bullets and conducting interviews that are always just a trigger pull away from becoming executions.
Palmetto
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12 editions published between 1998 and 2008 in 4 languages and held by 225 libraries worldwide Harry, a desperate Florida drifter, goes from perpetrator to patsy when he is lured into an abduction scam proposed by a mysterious blonde. Harry must scramble to untangle a mystery involving three women, false identities, cold corpses, and a string of clues that set him up for a very hard fall.
Private conversations on the set of Death of a salesman
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4 editions published between 1985 and 1986 in English and Undetermined and held by 224 libraries worldwide A documentary that goes behind the scenes to examine the making of the film version of Arthur Miller's Death of a salesman. Playwright Miller, Dustin Hoffman, and director Volker Schlöndorff discuss the production and the original play and are seen working on the set.
Voyager
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15 editions published between 1991 and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 212 libraries worldwide A man meets and travels across Europe with a beautiful young woman whose love rejuvenates his life until phantoms from his past confront him with an unbearable truth--that neither is who they believe themselves to be.
The lost honor of Katharina Blum Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum
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2 editions published in 1983 in German and held by 209 libraries worldwide "Characters and events are fictitious. Should the description of certain journalistic practices bear any similarity to the practices of the Bild-Zeitung this is neither intentional, nor fortuitious, but unavoidable."
Billy Wilder speaks conversations with Billy Wilder
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1 edition published in 2006 in English and held by 208 libraries worldwide This series of filmed interviews conducted by filmmaker Volker Schlondörff with acclaimed writer/director Billy Wilder is a lively lesson in filmmaking. Wilder tells hilarious anecdotes and offers keen insights into the craft of moviemaking and frank advice about survival in Hollywood. Filmed over two weeks in 1991.
Un amour de Swann Swann in love
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5 editions published between 1984 and 2004 in French and English and held by 199 libraries worldwide Set in Paris in the 1890s, Swann falls in love with a young courtesan, and soon finds himself tormented by his unrelenting sexual desire.
Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum
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52 editions published between 1975 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 156 libraries worldwide A young woman has a one-night stand with a man who turns out to be a suspected terrorist under government surveillance and becomes a target of media and police harassment. more
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American drama Business failures Catholic Church Clergy Criticism, interpretation, etc. Dachau (Concentration camp) Death of a salesman (Miller, Arthur) Depressed persons Documentary films Drama Dystopias Fathers and sons Feature films Feature films Fiction films Film and video adaptations Films for the hearing impaired Foreign films German Occupation of Luxembourg (1940-1944) Germany Germany (East) Germany (West) Historical films History Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Luxembourg Made-for-TV movies Man-woman relationships Miller, Arthur,--1915-2005 Misogyny Motion picture producers and directors Motion pictures, German Police Police questioning Sales personnel Schlöndorff, Volker Science fiction films Science fiction films Sensationalism in journalism Social history Suicide Television plays Terrorism Terrorism--Press coverage Terrorists Traveling sales personnel United States Video recordings--for the hearing impaired War films World War (1939-1945)
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Alternative Names
Schloendorff, Volker
Schlöndorff
Schlöndorff-Grass, ... 1939-
Schlondorff, Volker 1939-
Schlondorff, Volker 1939- Falsche Namensform
Shloendorff, Volker 1939-
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German
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English (239) French (133) Undetermined (60) No Linguistic content (30) Multiple languages (26) Spanish (26) Italian (12) Polish (6) Russian (2) Slovenian (2) Miscellaneous languages (2) Bulgarian (1) Covers
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