
Volker Schlöndorff
Directing
🎂 1939-03-31
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.
Cast credits(103)

Self
1982
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1998

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1992

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self
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1997
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1999
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Self
2012
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1967

Self
1976
Self
2011
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1979
self
1997
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1990
Self
2022

Self
1979
Self
2010

Volker Schlöndorff
2023
Self
1989
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1990
Self
1984
self
2010
himself
2011

Self
1992
Himself
2018

Self
2003
Self
2012
Self
1973

Barkeepeer Henry
1970
himself
2002

Man in Bar (uncredited)
1962

German Soldier (uncredited)
1961

Narrator (French version) (voice) (uncredited)
2010

Self
2022

Self - The Director
1986

Self
2024

Self - Filmmaker
2019

N°572
1978

Self
2024
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2014

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2022

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2022

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2021

himself
2009

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2014

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2017

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2019

Self
2017
Interviewer
2015

German soldier (segment "Chance du guerrier, La") (uncredited)
1964

Self
2006

1967

Self
2015

Self
2022

Self (1981 footage)
1985

Self
2002
Himself
2003

Self
2016

Self
2018

Self - Filmmaker / Interviewer
2006

Self
2010

Self
1995
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2002

Self - Filmmaker
2015

Self
1976

Self
1992

Self - Narrator (voice)
2020

Self
2012
Self
2005

Self
2024

Self - Filmmaker
2015

Self
2025

Self
2005

1971

Self
1985

Self (Interviewee)
2004

Self
2010

Interviewee
2010

Self
1991

Self
2020

Self - Filmmaker
2020

Self
2009

2011
Himself
2005

Self
2001
2000
Himself - Narrator
2010
Self
2019

Self
2008

Self
1992

Self
2022

Self
1975

Self
2005
Directing (53)

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Second Assistant Director
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1962

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2014

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1991

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2017

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2012

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Assistant Director
1962

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2014

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1982
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2007

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1992

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2006
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2002

Co-Director
1963

Director
2017
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1967

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1980

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2022

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1960
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1974
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1977
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1992
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2005

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2002
Writing (30)
Writer
1976
Adaptation
1976

Screenplay
1979

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2014

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1975

Screenplay
1996

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1991

Screenplay
2017

Writer
1969

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2012

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1966

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1970

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1971

Screenplay
1978

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1981

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2000

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1972

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1967

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1982
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1975

Screenplay
1972

Idea
1971

Writer
2017
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1967

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1980

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2022

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1960
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1974
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1977
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