Volker Schlöndorff
Directing
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.
Directed (44)
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
Acting (61)
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
