Volker Schlöndorff
Directing
Born: March 31, 1939 (age 87) · Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
Highest Rated
Biography
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
Last Year at Marienbad
1961
The Tin Drum
1979
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2010
Le Doulos
1962
The Handmaid's Tale
1990
The Fire Within
1963
Diplomacy
2014
Death of a Salesman
1985
Léon Morin, Priest
1961
Palmetto
1998
Viva Maria!
1965
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
1975
Photos (2)
Movies (10)
Le Doulos
Man in Bar (uncredited)
Léon Morin, Priest
German Soldier (uncredited)
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Narrator (French version) (voice) (uncredited)
Chance at Love
German soldier (segment "Chance du guerrier, La") (uncredited)
Cinématon
N°572
Mathias Kneißl
1971
Strike
2007
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
1967
Nuits transparentes
2011
Melville Steps Out of the Shadows
Interviewee
TV Shows (2)
Self / Appearances (61)
Ciné regards
Self · 1 eps
Morgenmagazin
Self · 1 eps
Abendschau
Self · 1 eps
Abendschau
self · 1 eps
Die Harald Schmidt Show
Self · 1 eps
Kölner Treff
Self · 1 eps
NDR Talk Show
Self · 2 eps
maybrit illner
Self · 1 eps
Nachtcafé
Self · 1 eps
American Masters
Self · 1 eps
Spécial cinéma
Self · 2 eps
Beckmann
Self · 1 eps
Champs-Elysées
Self · 1 eps
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self · 1 eps
Square
Self · 1 eps
Un film et son époque
Self · 1 eps
Knef - Die frühen Jahre
Self
Film Lesson
Self · 1 eps
Filmmakers in Action
Self
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
Self
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg
Self
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
Self
The Stones and Brian Jones
Self
Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands
Self (Interviewee)
Henri Langlois vu par...
Self
Billy, How Did You Do It?
Self · 6 eps
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
Self
Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
Self - Filmmaker
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
Self
Hands Up!
Self (1981 footage)
Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder
Self
Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
Self
Hollywood's Second World War
Self
Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century
Self - Filmmaker
Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion
Self
Fassbinder
Self
From Caligari to Hitler
Self - Filmmaker
Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World
Self
Code Name: Melville
Self
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
Self
Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst
Self
Merkel
Self
Billy Wilder Speaks
Self - Filmmaker / Interviewer
Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum
Self
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
Self - The Director
De qui dépend que l’oppression demeure ?
Self
Alain Resnais, the Audacious
Self
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
Self
Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum
Self - Filmmaker
Melville, le dernier samouraï
Self
Pan Olbrychski
Self
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
Self
Michael Nyman in Progress
Self
Last Year in Dachau
Self - Narrator (voice)
Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial
himself
Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit
Self
The Night of the Filmmakers
Self
Billy, How Did You Do It?
Self
Malle's Fire Within
Self
Humor ist eine ernste Sache - Der Filmregisseur Kurt Hoffmann
Self
Unraveling the Enigma: The Making of Marienbad
Self
Upcoming (4)
Directing (46)
The Tin Drum
Director
The Handmaid's Tale
Director
Palmetto
Director
Last Year at Marienbad
Second Assistant Director
Viva Maria!
Assistant Director
A Very Private Affair
Assistant Director
Death of a Salesman
Director
Diplomacy
Director
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
Director
Swann in Love
Director
The Forest Maker
Director
Le Doulos
First Assistant Director
The Fire Within
Assistant Director
Léon Morin, Priest
Assistant Director
Circle of Deceit
Director
The Ogre
Director
Coup de Grâce
Director
Germany in Autumn
Director
Return to Montauk
Director
The Ninth Day
Director
Voyager
Director
Young Törless
Director
A Free Woman
Director
Michael Kohlhaas - The Rebel
Director
Henri Langlois vu par...
Director
Billy, How Did You Do It?
Director
Degree of Murder
Director
A Gathering of Old Men
Director
The Legend of Rita
Director
Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
Director
The Nameless Day
Director
Baal
Director
The Candidate
Director
Billy Wilder Speaks
Director
Calm at Sea
Director
Ulzhan
Director
War and Peace
Director
Portrait of Valeska Gert
Director
Méditerranée
Co-Director
Strike
Director
The Morals of Ruth Halbfass
Director
The Enlightenment
Director
Enigma – Eine uneingestandene Liebe
Director
Billy, How Did You Do It?
Director
The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach
Director
Who Cares...
Director
Writing (24)
The Tin Drum
Screenplay
Diplomacy
Screenplay
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
Screenplay
The Forest Maker
Writer
Circle of Deceit
Writer
The Ogre
Screenplay
Germany in Autumn
Screenplay
Return to Montauk
Screenplay
Voyager
Screenplay
Young Törless
Writer
A Free Woman
Writer
Michael Kohlhaas - The Rebel
Writer
Degree of Murder
Writer
The Legend of Rita
Screenplay
The Nameless Day
Writer
Baal
Screenplay
Rio das Mortes
Idea
The Candidate
Writer
Calm at Sea
Writer
War and Peace
Writer
Portrait of Valeska Gert
Writer
The Morals of Ruth Halbfass
Screenplay
The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach
Writer
Who Cares...
Writer
Producing (8)
The Forest Maker
Producer
Everyman's Feast
Producer
Return to Montauk
Producer
A Free Woman
Producer
Baal
Producer
The Ice Princess
Executive Producer
Beto Nervio contra el poder de las tinieblas
Associate Producer
The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach
Producer