The life and work of the brilliant German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff, a cross-border artist who, by leaving Germany and making the whole world his place of work, acquired the objective perspective necessary to portray his country's society better than anyone else while providing a unique and original point of view on the troubled history of the European continent.
Direction
Gibert lets Schlöndorff narrate his own mythology.
Production
Archival footage woven like personal memory palace.
Director
Pierre-Henri Gibert
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Schlöndorff was assistant director to Louis Malle and Alain Resnais in Paris before his own breakthrough.
The documentary's French production context explains its fascination with Schlöndorff as 'German who escaped' rather than 'German who returned.'
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