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
Léon Morin, Priest (1961)
as German Soldier (uncredited)
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song (2002)
as Self
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer (2022)
as Self
Alain Resnais, the Audacious (2022)
as Self
Filmmakers in Action (2006)
as Self
The Stones and Brian Jones (2023)
as Self
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
as Narrator (French version) (voice) (uncredited)
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg (2024)
as Self
Le Doulos (1962)
as Man in Bar (uncredited)
Henri Langlois vu par... (2014)
as Self
Hollywood's Second World War (2019)
as Self
Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power (2019)
as Self - Filmmaker
Pan Olbrychski (2025)
as Self
Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst (2018)
as Self
Igor and After (2026)
Actor
Cinématon (1978)
as N°572
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life (2017)
as Self
Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder (2017)
as Self
Von Sex bis Simmel (2005)
as Self
Knef - Die frühen Jahre (2005)
as Self
Chance at Love (1964)
as German soldier (segment "Chance du guerrier, La") (uncredited)
From Caligari to Hitler (2015)
as Self - Filmmaker
Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World (2016)
as Self
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner (2021)
as Self
Melville, le dernier samouraï (2020)
as Self
Merkel (2022)
as Self
Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century (2015)
as Self - Filmmaker
Ulrich Matthes - Leidenschaft und Haltung (—)
as Self
Malle's Fire Within (2008)
as Self
Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion (2022)
as Self
Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors (2022)
as Self
Fassbinder (2015)
as Self
Strike (2007)
Actor
Hands Up! (1985)
as Self (1981 footage)
Neuer Deutscher Film Report (1967)
Actor
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections (2012)
as Self
Nuits transparentes (2011)
Actor
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me (1992)
as Self
De qui dépend que l’oppression demeure ? (1975)
as Self
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’ (1986)
as Self - The Director
Code Name: Melville (2010)
as Self
Melville Steps Out of the Shadows (2010)
as Interviewee
Memories of Last Year in Marienbad (2010)
as Himself - Narrator
Billy, How Did You Do It? (1992)
as Self
Last Year in Dachau (2020)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Who is Helene Schwarz? (2005)
as Self
The Night of the Filmmakers (1995)
as Self
Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit (2024)
as Self
Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine (2002)
as Self
Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum (2001)
as Self
Die Verhoevens (2003)
as Himself
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema (1976)
as Self
Michael Nyman in Progress (2010)
as Self
Billy Wilder Speaks (2006)
as Self - Filmmaker / Interviewer
Humor ist eine ernste Sache - Der Filmregisseur Kurt Hoffmann (1985)
as Self
Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands (2004)
as Self (Interviewee)
Schrott - Die Atzenposse (2000)
Actor
Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial (2009)
as himself
Mathias Kneißl (1971)
Actor
Fuck the Message (2019)
as Self
Unraveling the Enigma: The Making of Marienbad (2009)
as Self
Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum (2020)
as Self - Filmmaker
Gottschalk meets Petersen (2005)
as Himself
The Poet and the Filmmaker: Volker Schlöndorff on Baal (2015)
as Interviewer