Volker Schlöndorff
Directing • AGE 87
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-...
Filmography
Visitation
Writer
2026
Pan Olbrychski
Self
2025
Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit
Self
2024
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg
Self
2024
The Stones and Brian Jones
Self
2024
German Genius
Volker Schlöndorff
2023
Merkel
Self
2022
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
Self
2022
Alain Resnais, the Audacious
Self
2022
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
Self
2022
Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion
Self
2022
The Forest Maker
Director
2022
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
Self
2021
Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum
Self - Filmmaker
2020
Last Year in Dachau
Self - Narrator (voice)
2020
Melville, le dernier samouraï
Self
2020
Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
Self - Filmmaker
2019
Hollywood's Second World War
Self
2019
Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst
Self
2018
Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder
Self
2017
The Nameless Day
Writer
2017
Return to Montauk
Producer
2017
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
Self
2017
Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World
Self
2016
Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century
Self - Filmmaker
2015
From Caligari to Hitler
Self - Filmmaker
2015
Fassbinder
Self
2015
Henri Langlois vu par...
Self
2014
Diplomacy
Director
2014
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
Self
2012
Calm at Sea
Director
2012
Square
Self
2012
Nuits transparentes
2011
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Narrator (French version) (voice) (uncredited)
2010
Michael Nyman in Progress
Self
2010
Code Name: Melville
Self
2010
Melville Steps Out of the Shadows
Interviewee
2010
Unraveling the Enigma: The Making of Marienbad
Self
2009
Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial
himself
2009
Malle's Fire Within
Self
2008
Ulzhan
Director
2007
Strike
Director
2007
Filmmakers in Action
Self
2006
Billy Wilder Speaks
Self - Filmmaker / Interviewer
2006
Knef - Die frühen Jahre
Self
2005
Enigma – Eine uneingestandene Liebe
Director
2005
The Ninth Day
Director
2004
Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands
Self (Interviewee)
2004
Un film et son époque
Self
2003
Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
Director
2002
The Enlightenment
Director
2002
Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
Self
2002
Everyman's Feast
Producer
2002
Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum
Self
2001
The Legend of Rita
Director
2000
Abendschau
Self
2000
maybrit illner
Self
1999
Beckmann
Self
1999
Palmetto
Director
1998
The Ice Princess
Executive Producer
1996
The Ogre
Director
1996
Die Harald Schmidt Show
Self
1995
The Night of the Filmmakers
Self
1995
Billy, How Did You Do It?
Self
1992
Morgenmagazin
Self
1992
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
Self
1992
Billy, How Did You Do It?
Self
1992
Film Lesson
Self
1991
Voyager
Director
1991
The Handmaid's Tale
Director
1990
A Gathering of Old Men
Director
1987
Nachtcafé
Self
1987
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
Self - The Director
1986
American Masters
Self
1986
Humor ist eine ernste Sache - Der Filmregisseur Kurt Hoffmann
Self
1985
Death of a Salesman
Director
1985
Hands Up!
Self (1981 footage)
1985
Swann in Love
Director
1984
War and Peace
Writer
1982
Champs-Elysées
Self
1982
Circle of Deceit
Writer
1981
The Candidate
Director
1980
The Tin Drum
Screenplay
1979
NDR Talk Show
Self
1979
Cinématon
N°572
1978
Germany in Autumn
Screenplay
1978
Beto Nervio contra el poder de las tinieblas
Associate Producer
1978
Portrait of Valeska Gert
Director
1977
Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
Self
1976
Coup de Grâce
Director
1976
Kölner Treff
Self
1976
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
1975
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
Screenplay
1975
De qui dépend que l’oppression demeure ?
Self
1975
Spécial cinéma
Self
1974
A Free Woman
Writer
1972
The Morals of Ruth Halbfass
Director
1972
Mathias Kneißl
1971
The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach
Director
1971
Rio das Mortes
Idea
1971
11 Uhr 20
Barkeepeer Henry
1970
Baal
Director
1970
Michael Kohlhaas - The Rebel
Director
1969
Degree of Murder
Director
1967
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
1967
Young Törless
Writer
1966
Viva Maria!
Assistant Director
1965
Chance at Love
German soldier (segment "Chance du guerrier, La") (uncredited)
1964
The Fire Within
Assistant Director
1963
Méditerranée
Co-Director
1963
Le Doulos
Man in Bar (uncredited)
1962
A Very Private Affair
Assistant Director
1962
Last Year at Marienbad
Second Assistant Director
1961
Léon Morin, Priest
German Soldier (uncredited)
1961
Who Cares...
Writer
1960
Love Me Again
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