
Directing
Community Rating
6.2
TMDB estimate
Born
March 31, 1939 (age 87)
Born in
Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
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.

Love Me Again
as Thanks
TBA

Visitation
as Writer, Director, Producer
2026
Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm
as Self
2026

Pan Olbrychski
as Self
2025

Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit
as Self
2024

Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg
as Self
2024

The Stones and Brian Jones
as Self
2024

German Genius
as Volker Schlöndorff
2023

Merkel
as Self
2022

Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
as Self
2022

Alain Resnais, the Audacious
as Self
2022

Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
as Self
2022

Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion
as Self
2022

The Forest Maker
as Director, Producer, Writer
2022
Studio 3 - Live aus Babelsberg
as Self
2022

A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
as Self
2021

Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum
as Self - Filmmaker
2020

Last Year in Dachau
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2020

Melville, le dernier samouraï
as Self
2020

Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
as Self - Filmmaker
2019