Volker Schlöndorff

Known for DirectingBorn 1939-03-31 (age 87)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.Read more

Movies & web series

Enigma – Eine uneingestandene Liebe

Die Verhoevens

Un film et son époque

Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum

De qui dépend que l’oppression demeure ?

Der Paukenspieler

Spécial cinéma

Alain Resnais, the Audacious

Malle's Fire Within

maybrit illner

Romy Award

Portrait of Valeska Gert

A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner

Neuer Deutscher Film Report

Hollywood's Second World War

Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer

Von Sex bis Simmel

Knef - Die frühen Jahre

Schrott - Die Atzenposse

Henry James Stories

Georginas Gründe

Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit

Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century

Melville, le dernier samouraï

From Caligari to Hitler

Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder

Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg

Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion

Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands

The Stones and Brian Jones

Strike

Filmmakers in Action

Pan Olbrychski

The Fire Within

Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum

Merkel

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Die Harald Schmidt Show

Diplomacy

American Masters

Who is Helene Schwarz?

Le Doulos

Last Year at Marienbad

Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power

Billy Wilder Speaks

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Billy, How Did You Do It?

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