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.
Known For
Top 40 Movies
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg
2024
Léon Morin, Priest
1961
Le Doulos
1962
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
2022
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2010
Cinématon
1978
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
2021
Henri Langlois vu par...
2014
Pan Olbrychski
2025
Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion
2022
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
2002
Hands Up!
1985
Filmmakers in Action
2006
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
2017
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
1967
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
1986
Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century
2015
Merkel
2022
Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
2019
Melville, le dernier samouraï
2020
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022
Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder
2017
Fassbinder
2015
Mathias Kneißl
1971
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
1976
The Stones and Brian Jones
2024
Billy Wilder Speaks
2006
Chance at Love
1964
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
1992
From Caligari to Hitler
2015
Hollywood's Second World War
2019
Alain Resnais, the Audacious
2022
Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands
2004
Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst
2018
Code Name: Melville
2010
Billy, How Did You Do It?
1992