Volker Schlöndorff
Known for: Directing
Born: March 31, 1939
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
113 movies · 44 TV shows, newest first
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Visitation
2026
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Igor and After
2026NR
Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm
2026
7.0
Pan Olbrychski
2025
7.2
Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit
2024
7.2
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg
2024
7.1
The Stones and Brian Jones
2024
5.5
German Genius
2023
7.0
Merkel
2022
7.6
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
2022
8.3
Alain Resnais, the Audacious
2022
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Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022
7.0
Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion
2022
6.2
The Forest Maker
2022NR
Studio 3 - Live aus Babelsberg
2022
8.5
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
2021
7.0
Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum
2020
4.0
Last Year in Dachau
2020
7.4
Melville, le dernier samouraï
2020
6.8
Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
2019
8.0
Hollywood's Second World War
2019NR
Fuck the Message
2019NR
Was tut sich - im deutschen Film?
2018
5.0
Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst
2018
7.3
Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder
2017
6.0
The Nameless Day
2017
5.6
Return to Montauk
2017
5.2
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
2017
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Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World
2016
7.5
Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century
2015
7.4
From Caligari to Hitler
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The Poet and the Filmmaker: Volker Schlöndorff on Baal
2015
6.2
Fassbinder
2015
5.0
Henri Langlois vu par...
2014
7.0
Diplomacy
2014NR
Bewegte Republik Deutschland
2014NR
Open Opera – Wer wird Carmen?
2012
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Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
2012
6.6
Calm at Sea
2012
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Square
2012NR
Günther Jauch
2011
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Nuits transparentes
2011NR
Was wurde aus...?
2011
7.1
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2010
1.5
Michael Nyman in Progress
2010NR
Museums-Check mit Markus Brock
2010
6.7
Code Name: Melville
2010NR
Westpol
2010NR
Memories of Last Year in Marienbad
2010
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Melville Steps Out of the Shadows
2010
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Unraveling the Enigma: The Making of Marienbad
2009
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Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial
2009
9.0
Malle's Fire Within
2008
5.9
Ulzhan
2007
7.2
Strike
2007
7.2
Filmmakers in Action
2006
6.7
Billy Wilder Speaks
2006
8.0
Knef - Die frühen Jahre
2005
10.0
Enigma – Eine uneingestandene Liebe
2005NR
Gottschalk meets Petersen
20057.0
Who is Helene Schwarz?
20058.0
Von Sex bis Simmel
2005
6.5
The Ninth Day
2004
7.3
Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands
200410.0
Die Verhoevens
2003
10.0
Un film et son époque
2003
6.6
Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
2002
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The Enlightenment
2002NR
Gero von Boehm begegnet...
2002
6.5
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
20025.0
Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine
2002
4.0
Everyman's Feast
2002NR
Im Glashaus - Das philosophische Quartett
2002
10.0
Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum
2001
6.0
The Legend of Rita
2000
4.3
Abendschau
20008.0
Schrott - Die Atzenposse
2000
9.0
maybrit illner
19994.4
Volle Kanne
1999
4.5
Beckmann
1999
6.0
Palmetto
1998NR
Alpha Forum
1998NR
Nachtstudio
1997NR
Im Dialog
1997
5.8
The Ice Princess
1996
6.4
The Ogre
1996
7.3
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995
6.3
The Night of the Filmmakers
1995
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Billy, How Did You Do It?
1992
5.3
Morgenmagazin
1992
6.5
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
1992NR
The Michael Nyman Songbook
19926.0
Billy, How Did You Do It?
1992
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Film Lesson
1991
6.2
Voyager
1991
6.1
The Handmaid's Tale
1990NR
Zeil um Zehn
19909.0
Romy Award
19906.0
ZDF-Mittagsmagazin
1989
6.2
A Gathering of Old Men
1987
4.7
Nachtcafé
1987
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Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
1986
7.0
American Masters
1986
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Humor ist eine ernste Sache - Der Filmregisseur Kurt Hoffmann
1985
6.9
Death of a Salesman
1985
5.7
Hands Up!
1985
5.6
Swann in Love
19845.7
Goldene Kamera
1984
4.5
War and Peace
1982
6.8
Champs-Elysées
1982
6.1
Circle of Deceit
1981
6.0
The Candidate
1980NR
Bavarian Film Awards
1979
7.0
The Tin Drum
1979
6.6
NDR Talk Show
1979
4.9
Cinématon
1978
6.4
Germany in Autumn
1978
5.0
Ciné regards
1978
7.0
Beto Nervio contra el poder de las tinieblas
1978
9.0
Portrait of Valeska Gert
1977
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Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
1976
6.4
Coup de Grâce
19768.0
Henry James Stories
1976
6.8
Kölner Treff
19768.0
Georginas Gründe
1975
6.0
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
7.0
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
1975
10.0
De qui dépend que l’oppression demeure ?
19757.2
3 nach 9
19747.0
Stayover in Tirol
1974
9.5
Spécial cinéma
19747.0
Je später der Abend
1973
6.6
A Free Woman
1972
5.0
The Morals of Ruth Halbfass
1972
6.5
Mathias Kneißl
1971
6.5
The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach
1971
5.3
Rio das Mortes
1971
5.2
11 Uhr 20
1970
5.5
Baal
1970
6.2
Michael Kohlhaas - The Rebel
19696.5
Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
196710.0
Der Paukenspieler
1967
6.3
Degree of Murder
1967
9.0
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
1967
6.6
Young Törless
1966
6.0
Viva Maria!
1965
5.6
Chance at Love
1964
7.6
The Fire Within
1963
5.8
Méditerranée
1963
7.4
Le Doulos
1962
5.1
A Very Private Affair
1962
7.4
Last Year at Marienbad
1961
7.1
Léon Morin, Priest
1961
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Who Cares...
19606.0
German Film Award
1951NR
Ulrich Matthes - Leidenschaft und Haltung
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Love Me Again
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