Volker Schlöndorff
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.
| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 5.13 |
| Birthday | 1939-03-31 |
| Place of Birth | Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany |
| Also Known As |
1985
Humor ist eine ernste Sache - Der Filmregisseur Kurt Hoffmann
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From Caligari to Hitler
7.4/24
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2010
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
7.1/331
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2024
The Stones and Brian Jones
8/4
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1971
Mathias Kneißl
5/1
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1992
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
6.4/10
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Code Name: Melville
6.7/6
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Code Name: Melville
2002
Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine
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Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine
1995
The Night of the Filmmakers
5/3
A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring an assembly of German filmmakers.
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2005
Von Sex bis Simmel
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2003
Die Verhoevens
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The history of a family, in the film business now for three generations, behind and in front of the camera. The film is not only a foray through the h...
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Die Verhoevens
1985
Hands Up!
5.8/9
The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.
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Hands Up!
1986
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
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Playwright Arthur Miller, director Volker Schlöndorff and actor Dustin Hoffman are seen creating the Roxbury Productions and Punch Productions telepla...
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Who is Helene Schwarz?
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Billy, How Did You Do It?
7/2
An interview between Volker Schlöndorff and Billy Wilder.
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Billy, How Did You Do It?
2008
Malle's Fire Within
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In these interviews, conducted in 2008, actor Alexandra Stewart and filmmakers Philippe Collin and Volker Schlöndorff discuss the making of The Fire W...
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2022
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
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From the 1950s onwards, Erika and Ulrich Gregor brought countless film historical milestones to Berlin and shaped cinema discourse in post-war Germany...
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2010
Memories of Last Year in Marienbad
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A documentary about the film Last Year at Marienbad
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2011
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
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Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
7.9/8
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2000
Schrott - Die Atzenposse
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2015
Fassbinder
6.2/8
A film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director and screenwriter who publicly confessed
his homosexuality.
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2022
Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion
7.2/5
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2010
Michael Nyman in Progress
1.5/1
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Chance at Love
5.8/2
Four sketches revolving around the themes of luck and love.
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2022
Merkel
7.1/7
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1991
Film Lesson
5.5/6
Werner Herzog interviews guests on the art of filmmaking.
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Film Lesson
2024
Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit
7.5/2
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Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
6.4/8
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Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
2010
Melville Steps Out of the Shadows
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A documentary about the making of Jean-Pierre Melville's 1949 film "Le silence de la mer"
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Melville Steps Out of the Shadows
1967
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
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Interview film with the protagonists of the New German Cinema in 1966.
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2004
Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands
7/2
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Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
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Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
2017
Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder
7.3/3
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1978
Cinématon
4.3/6
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2006
Billy Wilder Speaks
7/18
In 1988, German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff sat down with legendary director Billy Wilder (1906-2002) at his office in Beverly Hills, California, and...
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2006
Filmmakers in Action
6.8/4
What is the state of cinema and what being a filmmaker means? What are the measures taken to protect authors' copyright? What is their legal status in...
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1961
Léon Morin, Priest
7/151
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2015
Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century
7.5/2
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2011
Nuits transparentes
0/0
Strolling through France (Roanne, Nice and Carcassonne) with some excursions abroad (Munich, Montreal, New York).
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2015
The Poet and the Filmmaker: Volker Schlöndorff on Baal
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2005
Gottschalk meets Petersen
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2018
Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst
5/3
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Hollywood's Second World War
8/2
For the USA, World War 2 was an all-out war - to mobilize the masses, the US government launched a huge propaganda campaign and cinema, the medium of...
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2001
Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum
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2019
Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
6.8/12
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2016
Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World
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Documentary of German electronic musical group Tangerine Dream.
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2005
Knef - Die frühen Jahre
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A documentary about the life of the actress Hildegard Knef.
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Knef - Die frühen Jahre
2009
Unraveling the Enigma: The Making of Marienbad
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Interviews with Alain Resnais' collaborators about the making of Last Year at Marienbad, including sketches and production photos.
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2020
Melville, le dernier samouraï
7.8/4
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2009
Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial
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This documentary explores the creation of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin as designed by architect Peter Eisenman. Reaction of the German public to t...
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Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial
2014
Henri Langlois vu par...
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Thirteen filmmakers talk about Henri Langlois and their relationship with him.
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2020
Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum
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The life and work of the brilliant German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff, a cross-border artist who, by leaving Germany and making the whole world his p...
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Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum
2019
Fuck the Message
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2020
Last Year in Dachau
4/4
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2021
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
8.5/2
Born in Berlin in 1896, Lotte Eisner became famous for her passionate involvement in the world of both German and French cinema. In 1936, together wit...
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2024
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg
8/2
An exploration of the life of Anita Pallenberg, European actress and rock ’n’ roll muse. Told in Anita’s own words, from her unpublished memoir, and i...
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