Volker Schlöndorff
DirectingVolker 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
Le Doulos
Man in Bar (uncredited)
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
Self
Cinématon
N°572
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Narrator (French version) (voice) (uncredited)
Léon Morin, Priest
German Soldier (uncredited)
Filmmakers in Action
Self
Henri Langlois vu par...
Self
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
Self
Merkel
Self
Fassbinder
Self
Filmography — Acting
Le Doulos
Man in Bar (uncredited)
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
Self
Cinématon
N°572
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Narrator (French version) (voice) (uncredited)
Léon Morin, Priest
German Soldier (uncredited)
Filmmakers in Action
Self
Henri Langlois vu par...
Self
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
Self
Merkel
Self
Fassbinder
Self
Code Name: Melville
Self
Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
Self - Filmmaker
The Stones and Brian Jones
Self
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
Self - The Director
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
Self
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
Self
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg
Self
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
Self
Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion
Self
Hands Up!
Self (1981 footage)
From Caligari to Hitler
Self - Filmmaker
Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder
Self
Mathias Kneißl
Von Sex bis Simmel
Self
Who is Helene Schwarz?
Self
Chance at Love
German soldier (segment "Chance du guerrier, La") (uncredited)
Michael Nyman in Progress
Self
Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century
Self - Filmmaker
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
Self
Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit
Self
Melville, le dernier samouraï
Self
Hollywood's Second World War
Self
Billy Wilder Speaks
Self - Filmmaker / Interviewer
Die Verhoevens
Himself
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
Self
The Night of the Filmmakers
Self
Alain Resnais, the Audacious
Self
Billy, How Did You Do It?
Self
Humor ist eine ernste Sache - Der Filmregisseur Kurt Hoffmann
Self
Nuits transparentes
Last Year in Dachau
Self - Narrator (voice)
Pan Olbrychski
Self
Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst
Self
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
Self
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
Malle's Fire Within
Self
Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum
Self - Filmmaker
Schrott - Die Atzenposse
De qui dépend que l’oppression demeure ?
Self
Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands
Self (Interviewee)
Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial
himself
Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine
Self
Unraveling the Enigma: The Making of Marienbad
Self
Melville Steps Out of the Shadows
Interviewee
Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World
Self
Memories of Last Year in Marienbad
Himself - Narrator
Gottschalk meets Petersen
Himself
Knef - Die frühen Jahre
Self
The Poet and the Filmmaker: Volker Schlöndorff on Baal
Interviewer
Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum
Self
Fuck the Message
Self
Filmography — Crew
The Tin Drum
Screenplay
The Handmaid's Tale
Director
Death of a Salesman
Director
Palmetto
Director
Swann in Love
Director
The Ninth Day
Director
The Ogre
Director
Young Törless
Director
Baal
Director
Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
Director
Germany in Autumn
Director
Henri Langlois vu par...
Director
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
Screenplay
Voyager
Director
Return to Montauk
Producer
A Gathering of Old Men
Director
War and Peace
Writer
Calm at Sea
Director
Strike
Director
Diplomacy
Screenplay
Visitation
Writer
The Legend of Rita
Screenplay
Degree of Murder
Director
Michael Kohlhaas - The Rebel
Director
Circle of Deceit
Writer
The Forest Maker
Director
The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach
Writer
Coup de Grâce
Director
Ulzhan
Director
A Free Woman
Writer
Portrait of Valeska Gert
Writer
The Michael Nyman Songbook
Director
Everyman's Feast
Producer
Billy Wilder Speaks
Director
Der Paukenspieler
Director
Billy, How Did You Do It?
Director
The Nameless Day
Writer
Enigma – Eine uneingestandene Liebe
Director
The Morals of Ruth Halbfass
Director
Georginas Gründe
Writer
Stayover in Tirol
Producer
The Candidate
Director
Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine
Director
Who Cares...
Writer
Memories of Last Year in Marienbad
Producer
The Enlightenment
Director