Volker Schlöndorff
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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
Credits
Le Doulos (1962)
as Man in Bar (uncredited)
Filmmakers in Action (2006)
as Self
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
as Narrator (French version) (voice) (uncredited)
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg (2024)
as Self
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer (2022)
as Self
Knef - Die frühen Jahre (2005)
as Self
Léon Morin, Priest (1961)
as German Soldier (uncredited)
Henri Langlois vu par... (2014)
as Self
The Stones and Brian Jones (2024)
as Self
Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power (2019)
as Self - Filmmaker
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life (2017)
as Self
From Caligari to Hitler (2015)
as Self - Filmmaker
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’ (1986)
as Self - The Director
Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder (2017)
as Self
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song (2002)
as Self
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner (2021)
as Self
Fassbinder (2015)
as Self
Hollywood's Second World War (2019)
as Self
Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors (2022)
as Self
Chance at Love (1964)
as German soldier (segment "Chance du guerrier, La") (uncredited)
Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century (2015)
as Self - Filmmaker
Igor and After (2026)
Actor
Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion (2022)
as Self
Cinématon (1978)
as N°572
Hands Up! (1985)
as Self (1981 footage)
Code Name: Melville (2010)
as Self
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections (2012)
as Self
Alain Resnais, the Audacious (2022)
as Self
Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine (2002)
as Self
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me (1992)
as Self
Von Sex bis Simmel (2005)
as Self
Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst (2018)
as Self
Mathias Kneißl (1971)
Actor
Merkel (2022)
as Self
Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World (2016)
as Self
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema (1976)
as Self
Die Verhoevens (2003)
as Himself
Strike (2007)
Actor
Billy Wilder Speaks (2006)
as Self - Filmmaker / Interviewer
Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum (2001)
as Self
Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum (2020)
as Self - Filmmaker
Pan Olbrychski (2025)
as Self
Nuits transparentes (2011)
Actor
Neuer Deutscher Film Report (1967)
Actor
Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands (2004)
as Self (Interviewee)
Schrott - Die Atzenposse (2000)
Actor
The Night of the Filmmakers (1995)
as Self
Who is Helene Schwarz? (2005)
as Self
Ulrich Matthes - Leidenschaft und Haltung (—)
as Self
Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit (2024)
as Self
Last Year in Dachau (2020)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial (2009)
as himself
Melville, le dernier samouraï (2020)
as Self
Billy, How Did You Do It? (1992)
as Self
Humor ist eine ernste Sache - Der Filmregisseur Kurt Hoffmann (1985)
as Self
Gottschalk meets Petersen (2005)
as Himself
Malle's Fire Within (2008)
as Self
Unraveling the Enigma: The Making of Marienbad (2009)
as Self
Memories of Last Year in Marienbad (2010)
as Himself - Narrator
The Poet and the Filmmaker: Volker Schlöndorff on Baal (2015)
as Interviewer
Michael Nyman in Progress (2010)
as Self
Melville Steps Out of the Shadows (2010)
as Interviewee
De qui dépend que l’oppression demeure ? (1975)
as Self
Fuck the Message (2019)
as Self