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