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
Cast Credits
Pan Olbrychski
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2025
Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2024
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2024
The Stones and Brian Jones
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2024
German Genius
Character: Volker Schlöndorff
TV • 2023
Merkel
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2022
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2022
Alain Resnais, the Audacious
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2022
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2022
Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2022
Studio 3 – Live aus Babelsberg
Character: Self
TV • 2022
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2021
Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum
Character: Self - Filmmaker
MOVIE • 2020
Last Year in Dachau
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
MOVIE • 2020
Melville, le dernier samouraï
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2020
Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
Character: Self - Filmmaker
MOVIE • 2019
Hollywood's Second World War
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2019
Fuck the Message
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2019
Was tut sich - im deutschen Film?
Character: Himself
TV • 2018
Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst
Character: Self
MOVIE • 2018
Crew
Crew Credits
The Forest Maker
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2022
The Forest Maker
Role: Producer
MOVIE • 2022
The Forest Maker
Role: Writer
MOVIE • 2022
The Nameless Day
Role: Writer
MOVIE • 2017
The Nameless Day
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2017
Return to Montauk
Role: Producer
MOVIE • 2017
Return to Montauk
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2017
Return to Montauk
Role: Screenplay
MOVIE • 2017
Henri Langlois vu par...
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2014
Diplomacy
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2014
Diplomacy
Role: Screenplay
MOVIE • 2014
Calm at Sea
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2012
Calm at Sea
Role: Writer
MOVIE • 2012
Memories of Last Year in Marienbad
Role: Producer
MOVIE • 2010
Memories of Last Year in Marienbad
Role: Editor
MOVIE • 2010
Ulzhan
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2007
Strike
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2007
Billy Wilder Speaks
Role: Editor
MOVIE • 2006
Billy Wilder Speaks
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2006
Enigma – Eine uneingestandene Liebe
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2005