Volker Schlöndorff
Directing · Born 1939-03-31 · age 87 · 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.
Titles
Last Year at Marienbad
The Tin Drum
Le Doulos
The Handmaid's Tale
The Fire Within
Diplomacy
Death of a Salesman
Léon Morin, Priest
Palmetto
Viva Maria!
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
Young Törless
Voyager
The Ogre
Return to Montauk
Swann in Love
A Very Private Affair
Méditerranée
The Legend of Rita
Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
Germany in Autumn
Coup de Grâce
Circle of Deceit
The Ninth Day
Calm at Sea
Baal
The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach
Billy Wilder Speaks
A Free Woman
Degree of Murder
Rio das Mortes
Ulzhan
Strike
A Gathering of Old Men
German Genius
Cinématon
The Morals of Ruth Halbfass
The Forest Maker
Michael Kohlhaas - The Rebel
The Nameless Day
Billy, How Did You Do It?
The Ice Princess
Chance at Love
The Candidate
11 Uhr 20
Everyman's Feast
Mathias Kneißl
War and Peace
Enigma – Eine uneingestandene Liebe
Der Paukenspieler
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
Portrait of Valeska Gert
Schrott - Die Atzenposse
Georginas Gründe
Henry James Stories
Stayover in Tirol
Beto Nervio contra el poder de las tinieblas
Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine
Henri Langlois vu par...
Melville Steps Out of the Shadows