Category Archives: Volker Schlondorff
Strike (2006)
“Should the union president report me to the authorities?” Strike is a fictionalized account of the contribution of one woman to the Polish Solidarity movement. When the film begins, it’s the 60s, and Agnieszka (Katharina Thalbach) works nights at the … Continue reading
Filed under German, Political/social films, Volker Schlondorff
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975)
“Typically bourgeois novels.” An introverted young German girl named Katharina Blum (Angela Winkler) meets a man at a party. Unaware that he’s under police surveillance, she takes him home for the night. When the police raid her flat the next … Continue reading
Filed under German, Political/social films, Volker Schlondorff
Legend of Rita (2000)
“To my liberation from the class enemy!” Rita Vogt (Bibiana Beglau) is one member of a West German urban guerilla group (obviously meant to be the RAF) who springs comrade, Andrea (Harald Schrott) from jail. Several people are shot during … Continue reading
Filed under German, Political/social films, Volker Schlondorff
Circle of Deceit (1981)
“Never stand still in Beirut.” German journalist Georg Laschen (Bruno Ganz) leaves behind his troubled marriage for Beirut, Lebanon to cover the outbreak of civil war in 1975. He arrives in a hotel full of other foreign journalists who’ve become … Continue reading
Filed under German, Hanna Schygulla, Political/social films, Volker Schlondorff
Le Coup de Grace (1976)
“Perhaps I like lost causes.” German director Volker Schlondorff has a knack for realism when recreating almost forgotten slices of history. The film Le Coup de Grace based on the novel by Marguerite Yourcenar, is set in the Baltic States … Continue reading
Filed under German, militarism, Volker Schlondorff
