Voyager is a 1991 English-language drama film directed by Volker Schlöndorff and starring Sam Shepard, Julie Delpy, and Barbara Sukowa. Adapted by screenwriter Rudy Wurlitzer from the 1957 novel Homo Faber by Max Frisch, the film is about a successful engineer traveling throughout Europe and the Americas whose world view based on logic, probability, and technology is challenged when he falls victim to fate, or a series of incredible coincidences.
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Volker Schlöndorff is a German film director, screenwriter and producer who has worked in Germany, France and the United States. He was a prominent member of the New German Cinema of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Schlöndorff in November 2009
Schlöndorff (left) with Dustin Hoffman at the 1984 Venice Film Festival
Volker Schlöndorff and Nina Hoss at the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival
Schlöndorff with his wife Angelika in 2017