Acting credits
77
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Volker Schlöndorff
Directing
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Movies: 100Series: 23Crew credits: 52
TMDB ID: 10249
IMDb ID: nm0772522
Known for: Directing
Born: March 31, 1939
Age: 87
Place of birth: Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1960 - 2026
Years active: 67
Average TMDB rating: 6.49
Wikidata: Q57316
Other jobs
Director (35)Assistant Director (4)Writer (3)Producer (2)Associate Producer (1)Co-Director (1)Editor (1)Executive Producer (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.
Oct 15
Writer
Visitation
2026 • Movie
Igor and After
2026 • Movie
as Self
Pan Olbrychski
2025 • Movie
as Self
Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit
2024 • Movie
as Self
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg
2024 • Movie
as Self
The Stones and Brian Jones
2024 • Movie
as Self
Merkel
2022 • Movie
as Self
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
2022 • Movie
as Self
Alain Resnais, the Audacious
2022 • Movie
as Self
Come with Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
2022 • Movie
as Self
Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion
2022 • Movie
Director
The Forest Maker
2022 • Movie
as Self
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
2021 • Movie
as Self - Filmmaker
Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum
2020 • Movie
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Last Year in Dachau
2020 • Movie
as Self
Melville, le dernier samouraï
2020 • Movie
as Self - Filmmaker
Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
2019 • Movie
as Self
Hollywood's Second World War
2019 • Movie
as Self
Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst
2018 • Movie
as Self
Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder
2017 • Movie
Writer
The Nameless Day
2017 • Movie
Producer
Return to Montauk
2017 • Movie
as Self
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
2017 • Movie
as Self
Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World
2016 • Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Volker Schlöndorff.
as Self • 1 eps
Mein liebster Dokumentarfilm
2026 • Series
as Volker Schlöndorff • 1 eps
German Genius
2023 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Square
2012 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Un film et son époque
2003 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Abendschau
2000 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
maybrit illner
1999 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Volle Kanne
1999 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Beckmann
1999 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Die Harald Schmidt Show
1995 • Series
as Self • 6 eps
Billy, How Did You Do It?
1992 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Morgenmagazin
1992 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Film Lesson
1991 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
ZDF-Mittagsmagazin
1989 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Nachtcafé
1987 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
American Masters
1986 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Champs-Elysées
1982 • Series
as Self • 2 eps
NDR Talk Show
1979 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Ciné regards
1978 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Kölner Treff
1976 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975 • Series
as Self • 1 eps
3 nach 9
1974 • Series
as Self • 2 eps
Spécial cinéma
1974 • Series
as Barkeepeer Henry • 3 eps
11 Uhr 20
1970 • Series