Volker Schlöndorff

Biography

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.

Directed

1. The Tin Drum (1979) — Director
2. The Handmaid's Tale (1990) — Director
3. Diplomacy (2014) — Director
4. Death of a Salesman (1985) — Director
5. Palmetto (1998) — Director
6. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975) — Director
7. Young Törless (1966) — Director
8. Voyager (1991) — Director
9. The Ogre (1996) — Director
10. Return to Montauk (2017) — Director
11. Swann in Love (1984) — Director
12. The Legend of Rita (2000) — Director
13. Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002) — Director
14. Germany in Autumn (1978) — Director
15. Coup de Grâce (1976) — Director
16. Circle of Deceit (1981) — Director
17. The Ninth Day (2004) — Director
18. Calm at Sea (2012) — Director
19. Baal (1970) — Director
20. The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach (1971) — Director
21. A Free Woman (1972) — Director
22. Billy Wilder Speaks (2006) — Director
23. Degree of Murder (1967) — Director
24. Ulzhan (2007) — Director
25. Strike (2007) — Director
26. A Gathering of Old Men (1987) — Director
27. The Morals of Ruth Halbfass (1972) — Director
28. The Forest Maker (2022) — Director
29. Michael Kohlhaas - The Rebel (1969) — Director
30. The Nameless Day (2017) — Director
31. Billy, How Did You Do It? (1992) — Director
32. The Candidate (1980) — Director
33. War and Peace (1982) — Director
34. Enigma – Eine uneingestandene Liebe (2005) — Director
35. Der Paukenspieler (1967) — Director
36. Georginas Gründe (1975) — Director
37. Stayover in Tirol (1974) — Director
38. Portrait of Valeska Gert (1977) — Director
39. Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine (2002) — Director
40. Henri Langlois vu par... (2014) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) — Narrator (French version) (voice) (uncredited)
2. Le Doulos (1962) — Man in Bar (uncredited)
3. Léon Morin, Priest (1961) — German Soldier (uncredited)
4. From Caligari to Hitler (2015) — Self - Filmmaker
5. American Masters (1986) — Self
6. Billy Wilder Speaks (2006) — Self - Filmmaker / Interviewer
7. Die Harald Schmidt Show (1995) — Self
8. Merkel (2022) — Self
9. Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer (2022) — Self
10. Hands Up! (1985) — Self (1981 footage)
11. Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power (2019) — Self - Filmmaker
12. I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me (1992) — Self
13. Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg (2024) — Self
14. Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song (2002) — Self
15. Strike (2007)
16. German Genius (2023) — Volker Schlöndorff
17. The Stones and Brian Jones (2024) — Self
18. Fassbinder (2015) — Self
19. Champs-Elysées (1982) — Self
20. Code Name: Melville (2010) — Self
21. Cinématon (1978) — N°572
22. Volle Kanne (1999) — Self
23. Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion (2022) — Self
24. Filmmakers in Action (2006) — Self
25. Melville, le dernier samouraï (2020) — Self
26. Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life (2017) — Self
27. NDR Talk Show (1979) — Self
28. 3 nach 9 (1974) — Self
29. The Night of the Filmmakers (1995) — Self
30. Billy, How Did You Do It? (1992) — Self
31. Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit (2024) — Self
32. Last Year in Dachau (2020) — Self - Narrator (voice)
33. Kölner Treff (1976) — Self
34. Chance at Love (1964) — German soldier (segment "Chance du guerrier, La") (uncredited)
35. Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands (2004) — Self (Interviewee)
36. Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder (2017) — Self
37. Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst (2018) — Self
38. Alain Resnais, the Audacious (2022) — Self
39. Goldene Kamera (1984) — Self
40. Nachtcafé (1987) — Self