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Born March 31, 1939 · 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.
Heimsuchung
2026

The Forest Maker
2022

The Nameless Day
2017

Return to Montauk
2017

Henri Langlois vu par...
2014

Diplomacy
2014

Calm at Sea
2012

Ulzhan
2007

Strike
2007

Billy Wilder Speaks
2006

Enigma – Eine uneingestandene Liebe
2005

The Ninth Day
2004

Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
2002

The Enlightenment
2002
Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine
2002

The Legend of Rita
2000

Palmetto
1998

The Ogre
1996
The Michael Nyman Songbook
1992

Billy, How Did You Do It?
1992

Voyager
1991

The Handmaid's Tale
1990

A Gathering of Old Men
1987

Death of a Salesman
1985

Swann in Love
1984

War and Peace
1982

Circle of Deceit
1981

The Candidate
1980

The Tin Drum
1979

Germany in Autumn
1978
Portrait of Valeska Gert
1977

Coup de Grâce
1976
Georginas Gründe
1975

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
1975
Stayover in Tirol
1974

A Free Woman
1972

The Morals of Ruth Halbfass
1972

The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach
1971

Baal
1970

Michael Kohlhaas - The Rebel
1969
Der Paukenspieler
1967

Degree of Murder
1967

Young Törless
1966

Who Cares...
1960

Pan Olbrychski
2025

Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit
2024

Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg
2024

The Stones and Brian Jones
2024

Merkel
2022

Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
2022

Alain Resnais, the Audacious
2022

Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022

Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion
2022

A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
2021

Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum
2020

Last Year in Dachau
2020

Melville, le dernier samouraï
2020

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

Hollywood's Second World War
2019
Fuck the Message
2019

Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst
2018

Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder
2017

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

Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World
2016

Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century
2015

From Caligari to Hitler
2015
The Poet and the Filmmaker: Volker Schlöndorff on Baal
2015

Fassbinder
2015

Henri Langlois vu par...
2014

Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
2012