Volker Schlöndorff
Directing
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(106)
movieIgor and After
as · 2026 · 0.0
tvMein liebster Dokumentarfilm
as Self · 2026 · 0.0
moviePan Olbrychski
as Self · 2025 · 7.0
moviePeter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit
as Self · 2024 · 7.5
movieCatching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg
as Self · 2024 · 7.2
movieThe Stones and Brian Jones
as Self · 2024 · 7.1
tvGerman Genius
as Volker Schlöndorff · 2023 · 5.5
movieMerkel
as Self · 2022 · 7.0
movieWerner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
as Self · 2022 · 7.9
movieAlain Resnais, the Audacious
as Self · 2022 · 9.0
movieCome With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
as Self · 2022 · 0.0
movieRomy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion
as Self · 2022 · 7.2
tvStudio 3 - Live aus Babelsberg
as Self · 2022 · 0.0
movieA Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
as Self · 2021 · 8.5
movieVolker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum
as Self - Filmmaker · 2020 · 7.0
movieLast Year in Dachau
as Self - Narrator (voice) · 2020 · 4.0
movieMelville, le dernier samouraï
as Self · 2020 · 7.4
movieMargaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
as Self - Filmmaker · 2019 · 6.8
movieHollywood's Second World War
as Self · 2019 · 8.0
movieFuck the Message
as Self · 2019 · 0.0
tvWas tut sich - im deutschen Film?
as Himself · 2018 · 0.0
movieSympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst
as Self · 2018 · 5.0
movieNever Be Boring: Billy Wilder
as Self · 2017 · 7.3
movieWater and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
as Self · 2017 · 5.2