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Volker Schlöndorff
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…
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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.
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2026
Visitation
Movie Writer
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2026
Igor and After
Movie
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2026
Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm
TV show Self
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2025
Pan Olbrychski
Movie Self
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2024
Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit
Movie Self
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2024
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg
Movie Self
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2024
The Stones and Brian Jones
Movie Self
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2023
German Genius
TV show Volker Schlöndorff
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2022
Merkel
Movie Self
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2022
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
Movie Self
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2022
Alain Resnais, the Audacious
Movie Self
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2022
Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
Movie Self
- 2022
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2022
The Forest Maker
Movie Director
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2022
Studio 3 - Live aus Babelsberg
TV show Self
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2021
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
Movie Self
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2020
Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum
Movie Self - Filmmaker
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2020
Last Year in Dachau
Movie Self - Narrator (voice)
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2020
Melville, le dernier samouraï
Movie Self
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2019
Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
Movie Self - Filmmaker
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2019
Hollywood's Second World War
Movie Self
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2019
Fuck the Message
Movie Self
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2018
Was tut sich - im deutschen Film?
TV show Himself
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2018
Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst
Movie Self
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2017
Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder
Movie Self
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2017
The Nameless Day
Movie Writer
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2017
Return to Montauk
Movie Producer
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2016
Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World
Movie Self
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2015
Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century
Movie Self - Filmmaker
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2015
From Caligari to Hitler
Movie Self - Filmmaker
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2015
The Poet and the Filmmaker: Volker Schlöndorff on Baal
Movie Interviewer
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2015
Fassbinder
Movie Self
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2014
Henri Langlois vu par...
Movie Self
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2014
Diplomacy
Movie Director
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2014
Bewegte Republik Deutschland
TV show Self
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2012
Open Opera – Wer wird Carmen?
TV show Self
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2012
Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections
Movie Self
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2012
Calm at Sea
Movie Director
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2012
Square
TV show Self
