

Volker Schlöndorff
Acting
March 31, 1939
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.
The Filmography


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Diplomacy

Calm at Sea

Michael Nyman in Progress

Strike

Ten Minutes Older: The Cello

The Legend of Rita

Palmetto

The Ogre

The Night of the Filmmakers

Billy, How Did You Do It?

Film Hour

Voyager

The Handmaid's Tale

A Gathering of Old Men

Death of a Salesman

Swann in Love

War and Peace
