Volker Schloendorff’s Cinema: Adaptation, Politics and the Movie-Appropriate examines the work of major postwar Germandirector Volker Schloendorff in historical, economic, and artistic contexts. . In spite of Schloendorff’s successes with films like The Lost Honor ofKatharina Blum and The Tin Drum, as well as his acclaimed work in the U.S. with Death of a Salesman, Gathering of Old Men and The Handmaid’s Tale, this is the first in-depthcritical study of the filmmaker’s career.