Volker Schlöndorff

Volker Schlöndorff

Directing
Born Mar 31, 1939
From Wiesbaden, 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 — Acting

Le Doulos
7.4
1962

Le Doulos

Man in Bar (uncredited)

Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
7.9
2022

Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer

Self

Cinématon
4.3
1978

Cinématon

N°572

Cave of Forgotten Dreams
7.1
2010

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Narrator (French version) (voice) (uncredited)

Léon Morin, Priest
7.1
1961

Léon Morin, Priest

German Soldier (uncredited)

Filmmakers in Action
6.8
2006

Filmmakers in Action

Self

Henri Langlois vu par...
4.0
2014

Henri Langlois vu par...

Self

Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
5.2
2017

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

Self

Merkel
6.9
2022

Merkel

Self

Fassbinder
6.2
2015

Fassbinder

Self

Code Name: Melville
6.7
2010

Code Name: Melville

Self

Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
6.8
2019

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

Self - Filmmaker

The Stones and Brian Jones
7.1
2024

The Stones and Brian Jones

Self

Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
1986

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

Self - The Director

I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
6.4
1992

I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me

Self

Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022

Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors

Self

Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg
7.2
2024

Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg

Self

Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
6.4
2002

Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song

Self

Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion
7.2
2022

Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion

Self

Hands Up!
5.8
1985

Hands Up!

Self (1981 footage)

From Caligari to Hitler
7.4
2015

From Caligari to Hitler

Self - Filmmaker

Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder
7.3
2017

Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder

Self

Mathias Kneißl
5.0
1971

Mathias Kneißl

6.0
2005

Von Sex bis Simmel

Self

2005

Who is Helene Schwarz?

Self

Chance at Love
5.8
1964

Chance at Love

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

Michael Nyman in Progress
1.5
2010

Michael Nyman in Progress

Self

Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century
7.5
2015

Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century

Self - Filmmaker

Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
2012

Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections

Self

Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit
7.5
2024

Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit

Self

Melville, le dernier samouraï
7.4
2020

Melville, le dernier samouraï

Self

Hollywood's Second World War
8.0
2019

Hollywood's Second World War

Self

Billy Wilder Speaks
6.9
2006

Billy Wilder Speaks

Self - Filmmaker / Interviewer

2003

Die Verhoevens

Himself

A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
8.5
2021

A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner

Self

The Night of the Filmmakers
5.0
1995

The Night of the Filmmakers

Self

Alain Resnais, the Audacious
9.0
2022

Alain Resnais, the Audacious

Self

Billy, How Did You Do It?
7.0
1992

Billy, How Did You Do It?

Self

Humor ist eine ernste Sache - Der Filmregisseur Kurt Hoffmann
1985

Humor ist eine ernste Sache - Der Filmregisseur Kurt Hoffmann

Self

Nuits transparentes
2011

Nuits transparentes

Last Year in Dachau
4.0
2020

Last Year in Dachau

Self - Narrator (voice)

Pan Olbrychski
7.0
2025

Pan Olbrychski

Self

Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst
5.0
2018

Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst

Self

Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
1976

Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

Self

Neuer Deutscher Film Report
1967

Neuer Deutscher Film Report

Malle's Fire Within
9.0
2008

Malle's Fire Within

Self

Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum
2020

Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum

Self - Filmmaker

2000

Schrott - Die Atzenposse

De qui dépend que l’oppression demeure ?
10.0
1975

De qui dépend que l’oppression demeure ?

Self

Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands
7.0
2004

Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands

Self (Interviewee)

Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial
2009

Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial

himself

5.0
2002

Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine

Self

Unraveling the Enigma: The Making of Marienbad
2009

Unraveling the Enigma: The Making of Marienbad

Self

Melville Steps Out of the Shadows
2010

Melville Steps Out of the Shadows

Interviewee

Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World
2016

Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World

Self

2010

Memories of Last Year in Marienbad

Himself - Narrator

2005

Gottschalk meets Petersen

Himself

Knef - Die frühen Jahre
2005

Knef - Die frühen Jahre

Self

2015

The Poet and the Filmmaker: Volker Schlöndorff on Baal

Interviewer

Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum
2001

Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum

Self

2019

Fuck the Message

Self

Filmography — Crew