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Volker Schlöndorff

Personal Information

Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birth DateMar 31, 1939 (87 years old)
Zodiac Sign♈Aries
Place of BirthWiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
Career Span1960 – Present (67 yrs)
Known Credits124 Titles
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DirectingPopularity Score 1.3

Volker Schlöndorff

Total Works

124

100 movies • 24 shows

Avg Rating

6.5 / 10

across rated releases

Box Office

—

worldwide gross

Global Reach

#1

TMDB star index

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.

Signature Roles & Milestones

The Tin Drum
7.0
The Tin Drum
1979•movie
Role: Director
Last Year at Marienbad
7.4
Role: Second Assistant Director
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
7.1
as Narrator (French version) (voice) (uncredited)
Le Doulos
7.4
Le Doulos
1962•movie
as Man in Bar (uncredited)

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Full Filmography & Credits

Showing 124 titles featuring Volker Schlöndorff

The Tin Drum
7.0
The Tin Drum
1979•movie

Role: Director

Last Year at Marienbad
7.4

Role: Second Assistant Director

Cave of Forgotten Dreams
7.1

as Narrator (French version) (voice) (uncredited)

Le Doulos
7.4
Le Doulos
1962•movie

as Man in Bar (uncredited)

The Handmaid's Tale
6.1

Role: Director

The Fire Within
7.6
The Fire Within
1963•movie

Role: Assistant Director

Diplomacy
7.0
Diplomacy
2014•movie

Role: Director

Death of a Salesman
6.9

Role: Director

Léon Morin, Priest
7.1

as German Soldier (uncredited)

Palmetto
6.0
Palmetto
1998•movie

Role: Director

Viva Maria!
6.1
Viva Maria!
1965•movie

Role: Assistant Director

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
7.0

Role: Director

Young Törless
6.6
Young Törless
1966•movie

Role: Writer

Voyager
6.2
Voyager
1991•movie

Role: Director

Return to Montauk
5.6
Return to Montauk
2017•movie

Role: Producer

The Ogre
6.4
The Ogre
1996•movie

Role: Director

Swann in Love
5.5
Swann in Love
1984•movie

Role: Director

A Very Private Affair
5.2

Role: Assistant Director

Méditerranée
5.8
Méditerranée
1963•movie

Role: Co-Director

The Legend of Rita
6.0
The Legend of Rita
2000•movie

Role: Director

Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
6.6

Role: Director

Germany in Autumn
6.4
Germany in Autumn
1978•movie

Role: Director

Circle of Deceit
6.2
Circle of Deceit
1981•movie

Role: Director

From Caligari to Hitler
7.5

as Self - Filmmaker

Coup de Grâce
6.4
Coup de Grâce
1976•movie

Role: Director

The Ninth Day
6.5
The Ninth Day
2004•movie

Role: Director

American Masters
7.0
1 eps
American Masters
1986•series

as Self

Die Harald Schmidt Show
7.4
1 eps

as Self

Baal
5.5
Baal
1970•movie

Role: Director

Calm at Sea
6.6
Calm at Sea
2012•movie

Role: Director

The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach
6.5

Role: Director

Billy Wilder Speaks
6.7

as Self - Filmmaker / Interviewer

A Free Woman
6.6
A Free Woman
1972•movie

Role: Director

Degree of Murder
6.3
Degree of Murder
1967•movie

Role: Director

Rio das Mortes
5.3
Rio das Mortes
1971•movie

Role: Idea

Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
7.6

as Self

Ulzhan
5.9
Ulzhan
2007•movie

Role: Director

Merkel
7.0
Merkel
2022•movie

as Self

The Stones and Brian Jones
6.9

as Self

Hands Up!
5.7
Hands Up!
1985•movie

as Self (1981 footage)

Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
6.8

as Self - Filmmaker

I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
6.5

as Self

Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg
7.2

as Self

Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
6.5

as Self

Strike
7.2
Strike
2007•movie
German Genius
5.5
1 eps
German Genius
2023•series

as Volker Schlöndorff

A Gathering of Old Men
6.2

Role: Director

Fassbinder
6.2
Fassbinder
2015•movie

as Self

Champs-Elysées
6.8
1 eps
Champs-Elysées
1982•series

as Self

Code Name: Melville
6.7

as Self

Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion
7.0

as Self

Cinématon
4.9
Cinématon
1978•movie

as N°572

4.4
1 eps
Volle Kanne
1999•series

as Self

The Morals of Ruth Halbfass
5.0

Role: Director

Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit
7.2

as Self

Filmmakers in Action
7.2

as Self

Melville, le dernier samouraï
7.4

as Self

Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
5.2

as Self

NDR Talk Show
6.6
2 eps
NDR Talk Show
1979•series

as Self

7.2
1 eps
3 nach 9
1974•series

as Self

The Forest Maker
6.2
The Forest Maker
2022•movie

Role: Director

Michael Kohlhaas - The Rebel
6.2

Role: Director

The Nameless Day
6.0
The Nameless Day
2017•movie

Role: Writer

The Night of the Filmmakers
6.2

as Self

Billy, How Did You Do It?
6.0

as Self

Chance at Love
5.6
Chance at Love
1964•movie

as German soldier (segment "Chance du guerrier, La") (uncredited)

Last Year in Dachau
4.0

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Alain Resnais, the Audacious
8.2

as Self

Kölner Treff
6.8
1 eps
Kölner Treff
1976•series

as Self

Beckmann
4.5
1 eps
Beckmann
1999•series

as Self

The Ice Princess
5.8
The Ice Princess
1996•movie

Role: Executive Producer

Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands
7.3

as Self (Interviewee)

Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder
7.3

as Self

Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst
5.0

as Self

Nachtcafé
4.7
1 eps
Nachtcafé
1987•series

as Self

Abendschau
4.3
1 eps
Abendschau
2000•series

as Self

Morgenmagazin
5.3
1 eps
Morgenmagazin
1992•series

as Self

11 Uhr 20
5.2
3 eps
11 Uhr 20
1970•series

as Barkeepeer Henry

The Candidate
6.0
The Candidate
1980•movie

Role: Director

Everyman's Feast
4.0
Everyman's Feast
2002•movie

Role: Producer

Mathias Kneißl
6.5
Mathias Kneißl
1971•movie
Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century
7.5

as Self - Filmmaker

Hollywood's Second World War
8.0

as Self

Henri Langlois vu par...
5.0

as Self

A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
8.5

as Self

Spécial cinéma
9.5
2 eps
Spécial cinéma
1974•series

as Self

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
6.0
1 eps

as Self

maybrit illner
9.0
1 eps
maybrit illner
1999•series

as Self

Titel, Thesen, Temperamente
6.5
1 eps

as Self

War and Peace
4.5
War and Peace
1982•movie

Role: Director

Visitation
8.0
Visitation
2026•movie

Role: Writer

Malle's Fire Within
9.0

as Self

Michael Nyman in Progress
1.5

as Self

Neuer Deutscher Film Report
9.0
Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum
10.0

as Self

Knef - Die frühen Jahre
8.0

as Self

Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum
7.0

as Self - Filmmaker

Pan Olbrychski
7.0
Pan Olbrychski
2025•movie

as Self

De qui dépend que l’oppression demeure ?
10.0

as Self

Un film et son époque
10.0
1 eps

as Self

6.0
1 eps
ZDF-Mittagsmagazin
1989•series

as Self

Ciné regards
5.0
1 eps
Ciné regards
1978•series

as Self

Enigma – Eine uneingestandene Liebe
10.0

Role: Director

Portrait of Valeska Gert
9.0

Role: Director

Beto Nervio contra el poder de las tinieblas
7.0

Role: Associate Producer

Humor ist eine ernste Sache - Der Filmregisseur Kurt Hoffmann

as Self

Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’

as Self - The Director

Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors

as Self

Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections

as Self

Melville Steps Out of the Shadows

as Interviewee

Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

as Self

Nuits transparentes
Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World

as Self

Unraveling the Enigma: The Making of Marienbad

as Self

Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial

as himself

as Self

Igor and After
Igor and After
2026•movie
Billy, How Did You Do It?
6 eps

as Self

Square
1 eps
Square
2012•series

as Self

Film Lesson
1 eps
Film Lesson
1991•series

as Self

1 eps

as Self

Love Me Again

Role: Thanks

The Enlightenment
The Enlightenment
2002•movie

Role: Director

Who Cares...
Who Cares...
1960•movie

Role: Director