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