Volker Schlöndorff
Birthday: 1939-03-31
Place of Birth: Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
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.
Movies
From Caligari to Hitler
Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1919, when the Republic of ...
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Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing ...
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The Stones and Brian Jones
A look at the relationships and rivalries within The Rolling Stones in their formative years, as wel...
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Mathias Kneißl
Inspired by the real-life events of Mathias Kneißl, a marginal man, son of poor farmers from Bavaria...
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I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
A documentary about the life and work of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder....
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Code Name: Melville
Mixing interviews, rare archival footage and film extracts, the film shows how Melville's works were...
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Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine
Horst Wendlandt tells the story of his cinematic work since the sixties. The dialogue between the "o...
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The Night of the Filmmakers
A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring an assembly of German filmmakers....
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Die Verhoevens
The history of a family, in the film business now for three generations, behind and in front of the ...
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Hands Up!
The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories....
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Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
Playwright Arthur Miller, director Volker Schlöndorff and actor Dustin Hoffman are seen creating the...
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Who is Helene Schwarz?
Only the chosen few know this woman who started working as a secretary for the German Film and Telev...
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Malle's Fire Within
In these interviews, conducted in 2008, actor Alexandra Stewart and filmmakers Philippe Collin and V...
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Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
From the 1950s onwards, Erika and Ulrich Gregor brought countless film historical milestones to Berl...
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Memories of Last Year in Marienbad
A documentary about the film Last Year at Marienbad...
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Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
Gérard Courant's "Filmed Diary" of December 14, 2011, produced in Dubai (United Arab Emirates). Betw...
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Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
With exclusive behind-the-scenes access into Herzog’s everyday life, rare archive material and in-de...
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Fassbinder
A film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director, and screenwriter who publicly confessed...
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Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion
Austrian actress Romy Schneider (1938) and French actor Alain Delon (1935), once fervent lovers in t...
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Michael Nyman in Progress
Featuring unprecedented access to Michael Nyman's working life, this film shows one of the great com...
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Merkel
Driven by extensive archive material and interviews with those who know her, this is the astonishing...
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Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit
He is the despicable child killer in Fritz Lang's M. Drawing on testimonies and archives, this portr...
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Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
The films, affairs and struggles of the iconic star of The Blue Angel as told by Rosemary Clooney, R...
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Melville Steps Out of the Shadows
A documentary about the making of Jean-Pierre Melville's 1949 film "Le silence de la mer"...
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Neuer Deutscher Film Report
Interview film with the protagonists of the New German Cinema in 1966....
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Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
BBC documentary about the rise of the New German Cinema and several of its most important figures....
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Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder
A funny walk through the life story of Billy Wilder (1906-2002), a cinematic genius; a portrait of a...
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Cinématon
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest...
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Billy Wilder Speaks
In 1988, German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff sat down with legendary director Billy Wilder (1906-200...
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Filmmakers in Action
What is the state of cinema and what being a filmmaker means? What are the measures taken to protect...
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Léon Morin, Priest
Barny, although a Marxist, is intrigued by the mysteries of religion. In confession, she teases a pr...
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Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century
An unparalleled portrait of Arthur Miller (1915-2005), a major writer who left an indelible mark on ...
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Nuits transparentes
Strolling through France (Roanne, Nice and Carcassonne) with some excursions abroad (Munich, Montrea...
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The Poet and the Filmmaker: Volker Schlöndorff on Baal
In this feature-length interview, conducted by Robert Fischer in February 2015, Volker Schlöndorff t...
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Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst
West Germany in the 1970s. Many artists, journalists and intellectuals were branded as sympathizers ...
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Hollywood's Second World War
For the USA, World War 2 was an all-out war - to mobilize the masses, the US government launched a h...
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Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum
A documentary-montage of sketches, photos, storyboards, and film excerpts that is accompanied by Vo...
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Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
The views and thoughts of Canadian writer Margaret Atwood have never been more relevant than today. ...
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Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World
Documentary of German electronic musical group Tangerine Dream....
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Unraveling the Enigma: The Making of Marienbad
Interviews with Alain Resnais' collaborators about the making of Last Year at Marienbad, including s...
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Melville, le dernier samouraï
Like nobody else Jean-Pierre Melville influenced modern filmmaking. This documentary follows his cre...
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Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial
This documentary explores the creation of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin as designed by architect ...
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Henri Langlois vu par...
Thirteen filmmakers share personal reflections on Henri Langlois—the visionary founder of the Cinéma...
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Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum
The life and work of the brilliant German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff, a cross-border artist who, b...
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Last Year in Dachau
Near Munich, in Bavaria, Germany, is the Schleißheim Palace, where French filmmaker Alain Resnais sh...
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A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
Born in Berlin in 1896, Lotte Eisner became famous for her passionate involvement in the world of bo...
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Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg
An exploration of the life of Anita Pallenberg, European actress and rock ’n’ roll muse. Told in Ani...
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Pan Olbrychski
Biographical documentary film presenting the silhouette and artistic path of the outstanding actor D...
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Alain Resnais, the Audacious
A genius inventor of forms, Alain Resnais is one of the fathers of cinematic modernity. This portrai...
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Le Doulos
Enigmatic gangster Silien may or may not be responsible for informing on Faugel, who was just relea...
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De qui dépend que l’oppression demeure ?
On May 21, 1975, the trial of the members of the Red Army Faction (also known as the Baader-Meinstei...
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Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
An account of the life and work of legendary cinematographer and director Carlo Di Palma (1925-2004)...
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