Volker Schlöndorff
Director
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.
Filmography
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
as Narrator (French version) (voice) (uncredited) 2010
Le Doulos
as Man in Bar (uncredited) 1962
Léon Morin, Priest
as German Soldier (uncredited) 1961
From Caligari to Hitler
as Self - Filmmaker 2015
Billy Wilder Speaks
as Self - Filmmaker / Interviewer 2006
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
as Self 2022
Merkel
as Self 2022
Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
as Self - Filmmaker 2019
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
as Self 1992
Hands Up!
as Self (1981 footage) 1985
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg
as Self 2024
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
as Self 2002
Fassbinder
as Self 2015
The Stones and Brian Jones
as Self 2024
Code Name: Melville
as Self 2010
Film Hour
as Self 1991
Cinématon
as N°572 1978