After a meeting held in Marseille, on the 26th of November, 2015, the German-French Conveying Commission, for the first time, decided on requests for assistance from the Franco-German development fund. Oscar-winning filmmaker, Volker Schlöndorff, was granted EUR215,000 in funding, to go towards his latest project; an adaptation of the novel by Max Frisch, Return to Montauk (aka Rückkehr nach Montauk).
Writer and Director, Volker Schlöndorff is best-known for the Oscar-winning Die Blechtrommel (1979), (aka The Tin Drum), and WWII drama Diplomatie (2014), (aka Diplomacy).