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.
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Pan Olbrychski 2025
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Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit 2024
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Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg 2024
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The Stones and Brian Jones 2024
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Merkel 2022
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Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer 2022
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Alain Resnais, the Audacious 2022
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Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors 2022
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Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion 2022
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A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner 2021
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Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum 2020
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Last Year in Dachau 2020
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Melville, le dernier samouraï 2020
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Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power 2019
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Hollywood's Second World War 2019
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Fuck the Message 2019
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Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst 2018
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Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder 2017
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Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life 2017
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Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World 2016
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Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century 2015
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From Caligari to Hitler 2015
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The Poet and the Filmmaker: Volker Schlöndorff on Baal 2015
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Fassbinder 2015
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Henri Langlois vu par... 2014
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Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections 2012
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Nuits transparentes 2011
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Cave of Forgotten Dreams 2010
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Michael Nyman in Progress 2010
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Code Name: Melville 2010
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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
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Malle's Fire Within 2008
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Filmmakers in Action 2006
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Billy Wilder Speaks 2006
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Knef - Die frühen Jahre 2005
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Gottschalk meets Petersen 2005
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Who is Helene Schwarz? 2005
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Von Sex bis Simmel 2005
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Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands 2004
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Die Verhoevens 2003
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Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song 2002
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Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine 2002
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Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum 2001
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Schrott - Die Atzenposse 2000
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The Night of the Filmmakers 1995
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I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me 1992
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Billy, How Did You Do It? 1992
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Film Hour 1991
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Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’ 1986
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Humor ist eine ernste Sache - Der Filmregisseur Kurt Hoffmann 1985
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Hands Up! 1985
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Cinématon 1978
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Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema 1976
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De qui dépend que l’oppression demeure ? 1975
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Mathias Kneißl 1971
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Neuer Deutscher Film Report 1967
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Chance at Love 1964
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Le Doulos 1962
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Léon Morin, Priest 1961
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Heimsuchung 2026
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The Forest Maker 2022
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The Nameless Day 2017
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Return to Montauk 2017
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Henri Langlois vu par... 2014
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Diplomacy 2014
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Calm at Sea 2012
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Ulzhan 2007
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Strike 2007
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Billy Wilder Speaks 2006
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Enigma – Eine uneingestandene Liebe 2005
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The Ninth Day 2004
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Ten Minutes Older: The Cello 2002
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The Enlightenment 2002
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Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine 2002
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The Legend of Rita 2000
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Palmetto 1998
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The Ogre 1996
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The Michael Nyman Songbook 1992
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Billy, How Did You Do It? 1992
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Voyager 1991
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The Handmaid's Tale 1990
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A Gathering of Old Men 1987
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Death of a Salesman 1985
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Swann in Love 1984
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War and Peace 1982
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Circle of Deceit 1981
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The Candidate 1980
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The Tin Drum 1979
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Germany in Autumn 1978
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Portrait of Valeska Gert 1977
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Coup de Grâce 1976
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Georginas Gründe 1975
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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum 1975
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Stayover in Tirol 1974
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A Free Woman 1972
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The Morals of Ruth Halbfass 1972
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The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach 1971
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Baal 1970
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Michael Kohlhaas - The Rebel 1969
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Der Paukenspieler 1967
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Degree of Murder 1967
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Young Törless 1966
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Who Cares... 1960
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