Moved with family to Paris

First film as assistant director, "Zazie dans le Metro"

Worked as assistant to Alain Resnais, Jean-Pierre Melville and Louis Malle

Made first short film, "Who Cares?"

Returned to Germany

Directed first feature, "Young Torless"; earned an Oscar nomination as Best Foreign-Language Film

Co-wrote and directed "Michael Kohlhaas"

With Margarethe von Trotta, co-wrote "A Free Woman"; also directed

Co-directed and co-wrote (with von Trotta), "Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum/The Lost Honor of Katherina Blum"

Helmed an adaptation of Marguerite Yourcenar's novel "Coup de Grace"

Directed a 60-minute interview with actress Valeska Gert, "Nur zum Spass--nur zum Spiel"

Had biggest international success with "The Tin Drum"; first German film to receive the Academy Award as Best Foreign Language Film

Helmed "Swann in Love", adapted from Proust's "A la recherche du temps perdu"

Directed Dustin Hoffman in a TV production of "Death of a Salesman" (CBS); earned an Emmy nomination as Best Director

Helmed second American TV-movie "A Gathering of Old Men" (CBS)

American directorial debut. "The Handmaid's Tale", scripted by Harold Pinter

Returned to live in Berlin

Served as managing director of Babelsberg Film Studios

First feature in three years, "Voyager"

Helmed "The Ogre" at Babelsberg Studios

Returned to the USA in part because of a case in Oklhoma involving the censorship of the video version of "The Tin Drum"; because of one scene of simulated oral sex, film was found in violation of local child pornagraphy ordinances; those who rented the film had the copies retrieved by police

Directed the noirish "Palmetto"

Received praise for "The Legends of Rita", a film about a terrorist; screened at the Berlin Film Festival; released in the USA in 2001

With Axel Geis, named joint chairman of the European Film Center

Helmed the German film, "The Ninth Day"

Helmed "Strike," a film about the beginning of the Solidarity movement in Poland