Volker Schlöndorff Retrospective @ BIFFES 2022
Film Festival
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Bangalore - PVR Cinemas, Orion Mall, Bengaluru
We celebrate the 13th edition of the Bengaluru International Film Festival (BIFFES) with a very special contribution: a Retrospective of the seminal German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff, accompanied by an online conversation between the filmmaker himself and Bangalore's veteran film critic and expert MK Raghavendra. Also exciting to note that the Schlöndorff films will be shown online in India for the very first time. Of course the package includes the iconic Oscar winner: The Tin Drum.
For updated screening schedule and entry information, visit the BIFFES 2022 website.
Volker Schlöndorff, (born 1939 in Wiesbaden, Germany), is considered to be one of the leading exponents of post-war West German cinema and is particularly known for his literary adaptations and his interest in themes of the recent past.
Schlöndorff won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and the Palme d’Or, the highest prize awarded to competing films at the French Film Festival in Cannes, for his film Die Blechtrommel (The Tin Drum).
Volker Schlöndorff has generously agreed to join us online in a conversation with MK Raghavendra on Monday March 7, 2022, 7.00 p.m. (IST).
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Meeting ID: 894 5497 6259
Passcode: 702009
Volker Schlöndorff Retrospective @ BIFFES 2022:
The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel) - Director's Cut
1979/2010 | 162 min.
On his third birthday little Oskar decides, out of general refusal of the world of the grownups and whose mental development had already completed the moment of his birth, to stop growing from now on. He throws himself down the basement stairs of his house and becomes a puzzle to the doctors, especially with his ability to shatter glass through singing. With the red and white tin drum, a birthday present, Oskar, from now on, drums a distance between himself and his surroundings, creating his very own language against ideology and fanaticism and to protest against the hubris of the people in his surroundings.
The young Toerless (Der junge Törless)
1966 | 87 min.
Based on the novel The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil, the film tells the story of Törless, a pupil in an old and remote boarding school in Austria, shortly before the First World War.
A strict hierarchy prevails among the students, which manifests itself in various forms of humiliation, among other things. When Törless and three of his fellow students learn that their Jewish classmate Basini has become a thief because of gambling debts, they exploit this knowledge to systematically humiliate him.
*Degree of Murder (Mord und Totschlag)
1967 | 87 min.
Marie, a young waitress in a café, shoots her boyfriend Hans when she learns that he wants to leave her. With the help of her ex-boyfriend Fritz and his buddy Gunther, who has just been released from prison, she disposes of the body. She then returns unaffected to her usual daily routine.
The lost honour of Katharina Blum (Die verlorene Ehre von Katharina Blum)
1975 | 106 min.
After celebrating a lively carnival party, the young, single and attractive housekeeper Katharina Blum spends the night with a chance acquaintance. Next morning her apartment is stormed by the special branch in search of the man - a suspected terrorist – but he has already left. Through this incident, Katharina Blum comes sadly to the attention of both the police and media.
Germany in Autumn (Deutschland im Herbst)
1978 | 119 min.
A collective film by German filmmakers contributing their reportage, political statements and artistic comments on the political situation in Germany after the kidnapping of the industrialist Hanns Martin Schleyer.
*The Legends of Rita (Die Stille nach dem Schuss)
2000 | 102 min.
A group of RAF terrorists need to flee the Federal Republic of Germany after a disastrous rescue attempt during which a lawyer was killed. Unexpected help comes from the Stasi, who not only give them a place to hide but also provide them with new identities. Thus, Rita Vogt is given the chance of a new life as a worker in the GDR. Yet, the search for her is still going on and her anonymity in the GDR does not last long.
*These films will be also screened online.*
For updated screening schedule and entry information, visit the BIFFES 2022 website.
Volker Schlöndorff, (born 1939 in Wiesbaden, Germany), is considered to be one of the leading exponents of post-war West German cinema and is particularly known for his literary adaptations and his interest in themes of the recent past.
Schlöndorff won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and the Palme d’Or, the highest prize awarded to competing films at the French Film Festival in Cannes, for his film Die Blechtrommel (The Tin Drum).
Volker Schlöndorff has generously agreed to join us online in a conversation with MK Raghavendra on Monday March 7, 2022, 7.00 p.m. (IST).
Login details to attend the event:
Login Link
Meeting ID: 894 5497 6259
Passcode: 702009
Volker Schlöndorff Retrospective @ BIFFES 2022:
The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel) - Director's Cut
1979/2010 | 162 min.
On his third birthday little Oskar decides, out of general refusal of the world of the grownups and whose mental development had already completed the moment of his birth, to stop growing from now on. He throws himself down the basement stairs of his house and becomes a puzzle to the doctors, especially with his ability to shatter glass through singing. With the red and white tin drum, a birthday present, Oskar, from now on, drums a distance between himself and his surroundings, creating his very own language against ideology and fanaticism and to protest against the hubris of the people in his surroundings.
The young Toerless (Der junge Törless)
1966 | 87 min.
Based on the novel The Confusions of Young Törless by Robert Musil, the film tells the story of Törless, a pupil in an old and remote boarding school in Austria, shortly before the First World War.
A strict hierarchy prevails among the students, which manifests itself in various forms of humiliation, among other things. When Törless and three of his fellow students learn that their Jewish classmate Basini has become a thief because of gambling debts, they exploit this knowledge to systematically humiliate him.
*Degree of Murder (Mord und Totschlag)
1967 | 87 min.
Marie, a young waitress in a café, shoots her boyfriend Hans when she learns that he wants to leave her. With the help of her ex-boyfriend Fritz and his buddy Gunther, who has just been released from prison, she disposes of the body. She then returns unaffected to her usual daily routine.
The lost honour of Katharina Blum (Die verlorene Ehre von Katharina Blum)
1975 | 106 min.
After celebrating a lively carnival party, the young, single and attractive housekeeper Katharina Blum spends the night with a chance acquaintance. Next morning her apartment is stormed by the special branch in search of the man - a suspected terrorist – but he has already left. Through this incident, Katharina Blum comes sadly to the attention of both the police and media.
Germany in Autumn (Deutschland im Herbst)
1978 | 119 min.
A collective film by German filmmakers contributing their reportage, political statements and artistic comments on the political situation in Germany after the kidnapping of the industrialist Hanns Martin Schleyer.
*The Legends of Rita (Die Stille nach dem Schuss)
2000 | 102 min.
A group of RAF terrorists need to flee the Federal Republic of Germany after a disastrous rescue attempt during which a lawyer was killed. Unexpected help comes from the Stasi, who not only give them a place to hide but also provide them with new identities. Thus, Rita Vogt is given the chance of a new life as a worker in the GDR. Yet, the search for her is still going on and her anonymity in the GDR does not last long.
*These films will be also screened online.*
Location
Bangalore - PVR Cinemas, Orion Mall
Orion Mall, 3rd Floor, Brigade Gateway
26/1 Dr. Rajkumar Road
Malleshwaram West
Bengaluru 560001
India
Orion Mall, 3rd Floor, Brigade Gateway
26/1 Dr. Rajkumar Road
Malleshwaram West
Bengaluru 560001
India
Location
Bangalore - PVR Cinemas, Orion Mall
Orion Mall, 3rd Floor, Brigade Gateway
26/1 Dr. Rajkumar Road
Malleshwaram West
Bengaluru 560001
India
Orion Mall, 3rd Floor, Brigade Gateway
26/1 Dr. Rajkumar Road
Malleshwaram West
Bengaluru 560001
India