Volker Schlöndorff discusses the director’s cut of his 1979 film “The Tin Drum,” an adaptation of Günter Grass’s first novel. He also talks about his documentary, “Billy, How Did You Do It?” about two weeks of filmed conversation with the director Billy Wilder. “The Tin Drum” is playing at Film Forum through September 27 and “Billy, How Did You Do It?” is playing September 23.
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Volker Schlöndorff
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Comments [5]
great antiwar movie...dramatic, moving, scathing satire...
I read that the Dutch had the most volunteers for the ss.
LL - nobody was conscripted into SS. One had to volunteer ...
I just read on Wikipedia that Wyler came to the US in 1923 so he may not fit your timeline.
Don't forget William Wyler.
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