The Forest Maker

Der Waldmacher

Four decades after The Tin Drum, the masterpiece that won the 1979 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, a living legend of New German Cinema shoots his first documentary and travels to Africa to draw a portrait of a hero. The Chief of all Farmers and winner of the “alternative Nobel prize” decided to experiment with a radical method that activates tree stumps and roots to make an “underground forest,” which can cover the whole continent and provide food to starving populations! A strong message of community, self-empowerment, and, above all, hope.

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Direction: Volker Schlöndorff
Script: Volker Schlöndorff
Cinematography: Jean Diouf, Paapa Kwaku Oduro, Axel Schneppat
Editing: Anette Fleming
Sound: Peter Sandmann, Detlef A. Schitto
Music: Bruno Coulais
Producers: Thomas Kufus, Volker Schlöndorff
Color: Color
Production Country: Germany
Production Year: 2022
Duration: 87΄

Volker Schlöndorff

Volker Schlöndorff is a German film director, screenwriter, and producer. He has studied Political Sciences as well as at the Institut des Hautes Études Cinematographique (IDHEC) in Paris, France. He is one of the major directors of the New German Cinema of the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1979 he won the Oscar for Best Foreign Feature film, as well as the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for The Tin Drum. His latest film is the documentary The Forest Maker which was the closing film for the First Evia Film Project (2022).

Filmography

1979 The Tin Drum
1985 Death of a Salesman
1991 Voyager
2011 Calm at Sea
2022 The Forest Maker