Volker Schlöndorff
Directing
Born 1939-03-31 · 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.
Filmography
Pan Olbrychski
Aug 29, 2025
Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit
Jun 7, 2024
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg
May 3, 2024
The Stones and Brian Jones
Apr 25, 2024
Merkel
Nov 24, 2022
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
Oct 27, 2022
Alain Resnais, the Audacious
Sep 5, 2022
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
Sep 1, 2022
Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion
Aug 7, 2022
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
Feb 24, 2021
Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum
Aug 27, 2020
Last Year in Dachau
Jul 10, 2020
Melville, le dernier samouraï
Mar 29, 2020
Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
Nov 7, 2019
Hollywood's Second World War
Sep 3, 2019
Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst
May 24, 2018
Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder
Oct 28, 2017
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
Apr 27, 2017
Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World
Nov 25, 2016
Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century
Oct 17, 2015
From Caligari to Hitler
May 28, 2015
Fassbinder
Apr 30, 2015
Henri Langlois vu par...
Jul 27, 2014
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
May 25, 2012
Nuits transparentes
Apr 14, 2011
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Nov 3, 2010
Michael Nyman in Progress
Oct 8, 2010
Code Name: Melville
Mar 27, 2010
Melville Steps Out of the Shadows
Jan 1, 2010
Unraveling the Enigma: The Making of Marienbad
Jun 23, 2009