Volker Schlöndorff
Born in Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany — Mar 31 1939
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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…
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Die Harald Schmidt Show
Self
American Masters
Self
German Film Award
Self
Bavarian Film Awards
Self
The Tin Drum
Writing
German Genius
Volker Schlöndorff
Un film et son époque
Self
Je später der Abend
Self
The Handmaid's Tale
Directing
Museums-Check mit Markus Brock
Self
Death of a Salesman
Directing
Palmetto
Directing
Swann in Love
Directing
Voyager
Directing
Last Year at Marienbad
Directing
Viva Maria!
Directing
Cinématon
N°572
Was wurde aus...?
himself
Le Doulos
Man in Bar (uncredited)
The Ninth Day
Directing
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
Self
Henri Langlois vu par...
Self
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Narrator (French version) (voice) (uncredited)
Léon Morin, Priest
German Soldier (uncredited)
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg
Self
The Ogre
Directing
11 Uhr 20
Barkeepeer Henry
A Very Private Affair
Directing
Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
Self - Filmmaker
Fassbinder
Self
Return to Montauk
Production
Filmmakers in Action
Self
Nouvelles d'Henry James
Writing
Diplomacy
Writing
Young Törless
Directing
The Fire Within
Directing
Hands Up!
Self (1981 footage)
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
Self
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
Writing
Méditerranée
Directing
Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
Directing
A Gathering of Old Men
Directing
Circle of Deceit
Writing
Billy Wilder Speaks
Self - Filmmaker / Interviewer
Calm at Sea
Directing
Baal
Directing
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
Self
Michael Kohlhaas - The Rebel
Directing
Ulzhan
Directing
Coup de Grâce
Directing
Everyman's Feast
Production
Germany in Autumn
Directing
A Free Woman
Writing
Stayover in Tirol
Production
Heimsuchung
Writing
Hollywood's Second World War
Self
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
Self
War and Peace
Writing
Billy, How Did You Do It?
Self
Code Name: Melville
Self
Die Verhoevens
Himself
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm
Self
Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion
Self
Love Me Again
Crew
The Stones and Brian Jones
Self
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
Self
Alain Resnais, the Audacious
Self
Who is Helene Schwarz?
Self
Merkel
Self
Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century
Self - Filmmaker
Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder
Self
The Legend of Rita
Writing
Von Sex bis Simmel
Self
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
Self
Chance at Love
German soldier (segment "Chance du guerrier, La") (uncredited)
Bewegte Republik Deutschland
Self
The Morals of Ruth Halbfass
Directing
The Ice Princess
Production
Mathias Kneißl
Schrott - Die Atzenposse
Rio das Mortes
Writing
Gottschalk meets Petersen
Himself
Georginas Gründe
Writing
Degree of Murder
Directing
Billy, How Did You Do It?
Self
Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands
Self (Interviewee)
Pan Olbrychski
Self
From Caligari to Hitler
Self - Filmmaker
Last Year in Dachau
Self - Narrator (voice)
Strike
Directing
Melville, le dernier samouraï
Self
The Nameless Day
Writing
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
Self - The Director
Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst
Self
The Night of the Filmmakers
Self
Der Paukenspieler
Directing
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
Self
The Michael Nyman Songbook
Directing
The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach
Writing
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
Self
Portrait of Valeska Gert
Writing
Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit
Self
Malle's Fire Within
Self
The Forest Maker
Directing
Enigma – Eine uneingestandene Liebe
Directing
Knef - Die frühen Jahre
Self
Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World
Self
Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial
himself
Beto Nervio contra el poder de las tinieblas
Production
Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum
Self
The Candidate
Directing
Nuits transparentes
Michael Nyman in Progress
Self
Who Cares...
Writing
Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum
Self - Filmmaker
De qui dépend que l’oppression demeure ?
Self
Open Opera – Wer wird Carmen?
Self
Humor ist eine ernste Sache - Der Filmregisseur Kurt Hoffmann
Self
Memories of Last Year in Marienbad
Himself - Narrator
Unraveling the Enigma: The Making of Marienbad
Self
The Poet and the Filmmaker: Volker Schlöndorff on Baal
Interviewer
Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine
Self
Melville Steps Out of the Shadows
Interviewee
The Enlightenment
Directing
Fuck the Message
Self