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Volker Schlöndorff

Volker Schlöndorff

Directing

Born: March 31, 1939Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany

Volker Schlöndorff is a Berlin-based German filmmaker. He won an Oscar as well as the Palme d'or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival for The Tin Drum (1979), the film version of the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass. In 1991, he was the Head of the Jury at the 41st Berlin International Film Festival. Schlöndorff has adapted many literary works for his movies, including some critically well-received US productions, but he is also engaged in post-war German politics. He served as the chief executive for the UFA studio in Babelsberg. Schlöndorff also teaches film and literature at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where he conducts an Intensive Summer Seminar. He was married to fellow film director Margarethe von Trotta from 1971 to 1991. He is currently married to Angelika Schlöndorff, and the couple has one daughter.

Known For
Filmography
Pan Olbrychski

Pan Olbrychski

Self

2025
Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit

Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit

Self

2024
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg

Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg

Self

2024
The Stones and Brian Jones

The Stones and Brian Jones

Self

2024
Merkel

Merkel

Self

2022
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer

Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer

Self

2022
Alain Resnais, the Audacious

Alain Resnais, the Audacious

Self

2022
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors

Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors

Self

2022
Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion

Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion

Self

2022
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner

A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner

Self

2021
Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum

Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum

Self - Filmmaker

2020
Last Year in Dachau

Last Year in Dachau

Self - Narrator (voice)

2020
Melville, le dernier samouraï

Melville, le dernier samouraï

Self

2020
Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power

Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power

Self - Filmmaker

2019
Hollywood's Second World War

Hollywood's Second World War

Self

2019

Fuck the Message

Self

2019
Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst

Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst

Self

2018
Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder

Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder

Self

2017
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life

Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life

Self

2017
Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World

Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World

Self

2016
Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century

Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century

Self - Filmmaker

2015
From Caligari to Hitler

From Caligari to Hitler

Self - Filmmaker

2015

The Poet and the Filmmaker: Volker Schlöndorff on Baal

Interviewer

2015
Fassbinder

Fassbinder

Self

2015
Henri Langlois vu par...

Henri Langlois vu par...

Self

2014
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections

Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections

Self

2012
Nuits transparentes

Nuits transparentes

2011
Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Narrator (French version) (voice) (uncredited)

2010
Michael Nyman in Progress

Michael Nyman in Progress

Self

2010
Code Name: Melville

Code Name: Melville

Self

2010
Melville Steps Out of the Shadows

Melville Steps Out of the Shadows

Interviewee

2010

Memories of Last Year in Marienbad

Himself - Narrator

2010
Unraveling the Enigma: The Making of Marienbad

Unraveling the Enigma: The Making of Marienbad

Self

2009
Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial

Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial

himself

2009
Malle's Fire Within

Malle's Fire Within

Self

2008
Filmmakers in Action

Filmmakers in Action

Self

2006
Billy Wilder Speaks

Billy Wilder Speaks

Self - Filmmaker / Interviewer

2006
Knef - Die frühen Jahre

Knef - Die frühen Jahre

Self

2005

Gottschalk meets Petersen

Himself

2005

Who is Helene Schwarz?

Self

2005

Von Sex bis Simmel

Self

2005
Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands

Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands

Self (Interviewee)

2004

Die Verhoevens

Himself

2003
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song

Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song

Self

2002

Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine

Self

2002
Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum

Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum

Self

2001

Schrott - Die Atzenposse

2000
The Night of the Filmmakers

The Night of the Filmmakers

Self

1995
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me

I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me

Self

1992
Billy, How Did You Do It?

Billy, How Did You Do It?

Self

1992
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’

Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’

Self - The Director

1986
Humor ist eine ernste Sache - Der Filmregisseur Kurt Hoffmann

Humor ist eine ernste Sache - Der Filmregisseur Kurt Hoffmann

Self

1985
Hands Up!

Hands Up!

Self (1981 footage)

1985
Cinématon

Cinématon

N°572

1978
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

Self

1976
De qui dépend que l’oppression demeure ?

De qui dépend que l’oppression demeure ?

Self

1975
Mathias Kneißl

Mathias Kneißl

1971
Neuer Deutscher Film Report

Neuer Deutscher Film Report

1967
Chance at Love

Chance at Love

German soldier (segment "Chance du guerrier, La") (uncredited)

1964
Le Doulos

Le Doulos

Man in Bar (uncredited)

1962
Léon Morin, Priest

Léon Morin, Priest

German Soldier (uncredited)

1961