Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum
Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum

Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum

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2020•53 min•FR
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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.
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