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A student in one of this director’s films relates his inability to understand imaginary numbers to his classmates’ cruel torture of Basini. The opening of another film by this man cuts between a man filming a terrorist walking around a pier and the black and white point of view of his camera. In a third film by this director, a woman dressed entirely in red begins vomiting after seeing a (*) horse head used as bait for eel fishing, which her husband immediately (-5[1])buys for dinner. This man included text about the tabloid Bild-Zeitung (10[1])over a funeral for the final scene of The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, which this man co-directed (10[1])with his then-wife Margarethe von Trotta. In another film (-5[1])by this director, the title red and white instrument is obtained on the third birthday of Oskar Matzerath. For 10 points, name this key figure (10[1])of New German Cinema best known for The Tin Drum. ■END■ (0[1])

ANSWER: Volker Schlöndorff (The film in the first line is Young Törless.)
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