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Volker Schlöndorff to Direct Film on Composer Antonio Vivaldi’s Revolutionary All-Female Orchestra (EXCLUSIVE)
Oscar-winning German director Volker Schlondorff is set to direct an untitled film on composer Antonio Vivaldi and the first all-female orchestra.
German director Volker Schlöndorff, who won the Cannes’ Palme d’Or and an Oscar for his 1979 drama “The Tin Drum,” is set to direct a film about how Antonio Vivaldi — the 18th-century Italian composer of “The Four Seasons” — formed what is touted as the world’s first all-female orchestra. He worked all his life as a musical educator and violin teacher in an orphanage in Venice called the Pio Ospedale della Pietà, established by the local ruling class to raise young women and give them prospects “beyond an arranged marriage or becoming prostitutes,” Palermo said. Besides “Tin Drum,” Schlöndorff’s other credits comprise “A Degree of Murder” (1967) starring Anita Pallenberg; “The Lost Honor of Katarina Blum” (1975); “The Handmaid’s Tale” with Natasha Richardson, Robert Duvall and Faye Dunaway (1989); “Ogre,” (1996); “Palmetto” (1998) with Woody Harrelson; “The Ninth Day” (2004) and WWII drama “Diplomacy” (2014).
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