Watch Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum for Free: How to Stream the Movie Online at 123Movies. . The life and work of the brilliant German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff, a cross-border artist who, by leaving Germany and making the whole world his place of work, acquired the objective perspective necessary to portray his country's society better than anyone else while providing a unique and original point of view on the troubled history of the European continent.