Volker Schlöndorff

Directing·Mar 31, 1939·Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany

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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.

Film	Credit
Visitation2026 · Writer, Director, Producer	Writer, Director, Producer
IIgor and After2026 · Actor	Actor
Pan Olbrychski2025 · Self	Self
Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit2024 · Self	Self
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg2024 · Self	Self
The Stones and Brian Jones2024 · Self	Self
Merkel2022 · Self	Self
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer2022 · Self	Self
Alain Resnais, the Audacious2022 · Self	Self
Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors2022 · Self	Self
Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion2022 · Self	Self
The Forest Maker2022 · Director, Producer, Writer	Director, Producer, Writer
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner2021 · Self	Self
Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum2020 · Self - Filmmaker	Self - Filmmaker
Last Year in Dachau2020 · Self - Narrator (voice)	Self - Narrator (voice)
Melville, le dernier samouraï2020 · Self	Self
Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power2019 · Self - Filmmaker	Self - Filmmaker
Hollywood's Second World War2019 · Self	Self
FFuck the Message2019 · Self	Self
Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst2018 · Self	Self
Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder2017 · Self	Self
The Nameless Day2017 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Return to Montauk2017 · Producer, Director, Screenplay	Producer, Director, Screenplay
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life2017 · Self	Self
Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World2016 · Self	Self
Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century2015 · Self - Filmmaker	Self - Filmmaker
From Caligari to Hitler2015 · Self - Filmmaker	Self - Filmmaker
TThe Poet and the Filmmaker: Volker Schlöndorff on Baal2015 · Interviewer	Interviewer
Fassbinder2015 · Self	Self
Henri Langlois vu par...2014 · Self, Director	Self, Director
Diplomacy2014 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections2012 · Self	Self
Calm at Sea2012 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Nuits transparentes2011 · Actor	Actor
Cave of Forgotten Dreams2010 · Narrator (French version) (voice) (uncredited)	Narrator (French version) (voice) (uncredited)
Michael Nyman in Progress2010 · Self	Self
Code Name: Melville2010 · Self	Self
MMemories of Last Year in Marienbad2010 · Himself - Narrator, Producer	Himself - Narrator, Producer
Melville Steps Out of the Shadows2010 · Interviewee	Interviewee
Unraveling the Enigma: The Making of Marienbad2009 · Self	Self
Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial2009 · himself	himself
Malle's Fire Within2008 · Self	Self
Ulzhan2007 · Director	Director
Strike2007 · Actor, Director	Actor, Director
Filmmakers in Action2006 · Self	Self
Billy Wilder Speaks2006 · Self - Filmmaker / Interviewer, Director	Self - Filmmaker / Interviewer, Director
Knef - Die frühen Jahre2005 · Self	Self
Enigma – Eine uneingestandene Liebe2005 · Director	Director