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.
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 (Movies)
Pan Olbrychski
Character:Self
Release Date:29/08/2025
Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit
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Release Date:07/06/2024
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg
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Release Date:03/05/2024
The Stones and Brian Jones
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Release Date:25/04/2024
Merkel
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Release Date:24/11/2022
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
Character:Self
Release Date:27/10/2022
Alain Resnais, the Audacious
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Release Date:05/09/2022
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
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Release Date:01/09/2022
Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion
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Release Date:07/08/2022
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
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Release Date:24/02/2021
Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum
Character:Self - Filmmaker
Release Date:27/08/2020
Last Year in Dachau
Character:Self - Narrator (voice)
Release Date:10/07/2020
Melville, le dernier samouraï
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Release Date:29/03/2020
Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
Character:Self - Filmmaker
Release Date:07/11/2019
Hollywood's Second World War
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Release Date:03/09/2019
Fuck the Message
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Release Date:24/01/2019
Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst
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Release Date:24/05/2018
Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder
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Release Date:28/10/2017
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
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Release Date:27/04/2017
Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World
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Release Date:25/11/2016
Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century
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Release Date:17/10/2015
From Caligari to Hitler
Character:Self - Filmmaker
Release Date:28/05/2015
The Poet and the Filmmaker: Volker Schlöndorff on Baal
Character:Interviewer
Release Date:06/05/2015
Fassbinder
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Release Date:30/04/2015
Henri Langlois vu par...
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Release Date:27/07/2014
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
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Release Date:25/05/2012
Nuits transparentes
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Release Date:14/04/2011
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Character:Narrator (French version) (voice) (uncredited)
Release Date:03/11/2010
Michael Nyman in Progress
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Release Date:08/10/2010
Code Name: Melville
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Release Date:27/03/2010
Memories of Last Year in Marienbad
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Release Date:01/01/2010
Melville Steps Out of the Shadows
Character:Interviewee
Release Date:01/01/2010
Unraveling the Enigma: The Making of Marienbad
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Release Date:23/06/2009
Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial
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Release Date:20/02/2009
Malle's Fire Within
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Release Date:13/05/2008
Filmmakers in Action
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Release Date:15/09/2006
Billy Wilder Speaks
Character:Self - Filmmaker / Interviewer
Release Date:22/06/2006
Knef - Die frühen Jahre
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Release Date:25/11/2005
Gottschalk meets Petersen
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Release Date:14/05/2005
Who is Helene Schwarz?
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Release Date:13/02/2005
Von Sex bis Simmel
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Release Date:04/02/2005
Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands
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Release Date:28/04/2004
Die Verhoevens
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Release Date:29/06/2003
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
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Release Date:21/03/2002
Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine
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Release Date:18/03/2002
Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum
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Release Date:13/11/2001
Schrott - Die Atzenposse
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Release Date:13/01/2000
The Night of the Filmmakers
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Release Date:12/02/1995
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
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Release Date:11/06/1992
Billy, How Did You Do It?
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Release Date:25/01/1992
Film Hour
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Release Date:20/12/1991
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
Character:Self - The Director
Release Date:23/06/1986
Humor ist eine ernste Sache - Der Filmregisseur Kurt Hoffmann
Character:Self
Release Date:12/11/1985
Hands Up!
Character:Self (1981 footage)
Release Date:21/01/1985
Cinématon
Character:N°572
Release Date:20/12/1978
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
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Release Date:02/12/1976
De qui dépend que l’oppression demeure ?
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Release Date:01/01/1975
Mathias Kneißl
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Release Date:27/05/1971
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
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Release Date:01/01/1967
Chance at Love
Character:German soldier (segment "Chance du guerrier, La") (uncredited)
Release Date:30/10/1964
Le Doulos
Character:Man in Bar (uncredited)
Release Date:13/12/1962
Léon Morin, Priest
Character:German Soldier (uncredited)
Release Date:22/09/1961
Television Appearances
German Genius
Character:Volker Schlöndorff
Studio 3 - Live aus Babelsberg
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Was tut sich - im deutschen Film?
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Bewegte Republik Deutschland
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Open Opera – Wer wird Carmen?
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Square
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Günther Jauch
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Was wurde aus...?
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Museums-Check mit Markus Brock
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Westpol: Eins zu eins
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Un film et son époque
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Gero von Boehm begegnet...
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Im Glashaus - Das philosophische Quartett
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Abendschau
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Abendschau
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maybrit illner
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Volle Kanne
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Beckmann
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Alpha Forum
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Nachtstudio
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Im Dialog
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Die Harald Schmidt Show
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Billy, How Did You Do It?
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Morgenmagazin
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Zeil um Zehn
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Romy Award
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ZDF-Mittagsmagazin
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Nachtcafé
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American Masters
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Goldene Kamera
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Champs-Elysées
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Bavarian Film Awards
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NDR Talk Show
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Kölner Treff
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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
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3 nach 9
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Spécial cinéma
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Je später der Abend
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11 Uhr 20
Character:Barkeepeer Henry
Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
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German Film Award
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