Acting credits
72
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Volker Schlöndorff
Directing
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 97Series: 19Crew credits: 50
TMDB ID: 10249
IMDb ID: nm0772522
Known for: Directing
Born: March 31, 1939
Age: 86
Place of birth: Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1960 - 2025
Years active: 66
Average TMDB rating: 6.49
Wikidata: Q57316
Other jobs
Director (26)Writer (6)Assistant Director (4)Screenplay (4)Producer (2)Associate Producer (1)Co-Director (1)Editor (1)
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.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Volker Schlöndorff.
7.0
Pan Olbrychski
as Self
2025 Movie
7.5
Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit
as Self
2024 Movie
7.1
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg
as Self
2024 Movie
7.1
The Stones and Brian Jones
as Self
2024 Movie
6.9
Merkel
as Self
2022 Movie
7.9
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
as Self
2022 Movie
9.0
Alain Resnais, the Audacious
as Self
2022 Movie
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
as Self
2022 Movie
7.2
Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion
as Self
2022 Movie
5.8
The Forest Maker
Director
2022 Movie
8.5
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
as Self
2021 Movie
Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum
as Self - Filmmaker
2020 Movie
4.0
Last Year in Dachau
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2020 Movie
7.4
Melville, le dernier samouraï
as Self
2020 Movie
6.8
Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
as Self - Filmmaker
2019 Movie
8.0
Hollywood's Second World War
as Self
2019 Movie
5.0
Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst
as Self
2018 Movie
7.3
Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder
as Self
2017 Movie
6.0
The Nameless Day
Writer
2017 Movie
5.6
Return to Montauk
Producer
2017 Movie
5.2
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
as Self
2017 Movie
Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World
as Self
2016 Movie
7.5
Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century
as Self - Filmmaker
2015 Movie
7.4
From Caligari to Hitler
as Self - Filmmaker
2015 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Volker Schlöndorff.
5.5
German Genius
as Volker Schlöndorff • 1 eps
2023 Series
Square
as Self • 1 eps
2012 Series
10.0
Un film et son époque
as Self • 1 eps
2003 Series
6.0
Abendschau
as Self • 1 eps
2000 Series
8.0
maybrit illner
as Self • 1 eps
1999 Series
3.8
Volle Kanne
as Self • 1 eps
1999 Series
2.0
Beckmann
as Self • 1 eps
1999 Series
7.1
Die Harald Schmidt Show
as Self • 1 eps
1995 Series
Billy, How Did You Do It?
as Self • 6 eps
1992 Series
3.5
Morgenmagazin
as Self • 1 eps
1992 Series
Film Lesson
as Self • 1 eps
1991 Series
4.7
Nachtcafé
as Self • 1 eps
1987 Series
7.5
American Masters
as Self • 1 eps
1986 Series
6.3
Champs-Elysées
as Self • 1 eps
1982 Series
6.5
NDR Talk Show
as Self • 2 eps
1979 Series
6.0
Kölner Treff
as Self • 1 eps
1976 Series
6.0
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self • 1 eps
1975 Series
Spécial cinéma
as Self • 2 eps
1974 Series
4.2
11 Uhr 20
as Barkeepeer Henry • 3 eps
1970 Series