Volker Schlöndorff
Birthday: Born in 1939-03-31 in Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
Deathday: Alive
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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Un film et son époque
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American Masters
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American Masters is a PBS television series which produces biographies on enduring writers, musicians, visual and performing artists, dramatists, filmmakers, and others who have left an indelible impression on the cultural landscape of the United States....
Die Harald Schmidt Show
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The Harald Schmidt Show is a German late night talk show hosted on Sky Deutschland by comedian Harald Schmidt. The show first aired from 5 December 1995 to 23 December 2003 on Sat.1. Schmidt then moved his show to Das Erste as Harald Schmidt and Schmidt & Pocher, but he returned to Sat.1 on 13 September 2011. After cancellation on Sat.1, the show continued on Sky Deutschland in September 2012....
Spécial cinéma
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Billy Wilder, wie haben Sie's gemacht?
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Director Billy Wilder is interviewed by German critic Hellmut Karasek and director Volker Schlöndorff about his movies....
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
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A talk show presented by Michel Drucker...
Square
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Kölner Treff
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Champs-Elysées
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Nachtcafé
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maybrit illner
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NDR Talk Show
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Beckmann
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Reinhold Beckmann hosts a weekly talk show....
Abendschau
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The Berliner Abendschau is the news magazine for Berlin....
Abendschau
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The Berliner Abendschau is the news magazine for Berlin....
German Genius
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Morgenmagazin
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11 Uhr 20
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Movie Credits
Humor ist eine ernste Sache - Der Filmregisseur Kurt Hoffmann
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From Caligari to Hitler
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Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1919, when the Republic of Weimar is born, to 1933, when the Nazis come into power. (Followed by Hitler's Hollywood, 2017.)...
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
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Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natural setting....
The Stones and Brian Jones
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A look at the relationships and rivalries within The Rolling Stones in their formative years, as well as the creative musical genius of Brian Jones, key to the success of the band....
Mathias Kneißl
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Inspired by the real life events of Mathias Kneißl, a marginal man, son of poor farmers from Bavaria, in the late XIX Century. Mathias stole from the riches to give to the poor, becoming a hero for the rural people, and a popular social rebel. He was chased by the police until his unfortunate sentence....
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
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A documentary about the life and work of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder....
Code Name: Melville
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Mixing interviews, rare archival footage and film extracts, the film shows how Melville's works were impacted by what he experienced in his youth during WWII, and how it structured his whole approach to cinema, not only in its thematic but also in its aesthetics....
The Night of the Filmmakers
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A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring an assembly of German filmmakers....
Hands Up!
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The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories....
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
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Playwright Arthur Miller, director Volker Schlöndorff and actor Dustin Hoffman are seen creating the Roxbury Productions and Punch Productions teleplay Death of a Salesman (1985)....
Who is Helene Schwarz?
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Only the chosen few know this woman who started working as a secretary for the German Film and Television Academy (DFFB) on 13 February, 1966. The path of Helen’s career is paved with famous names – including that of Wolfgang Petersen, Holger Meins (who later became a member of the Red Army Faction) as well as directors Wolfgang Becker, Detlev Buck and Christian Petzold. All have fond memories of forgetting their troubles after having poured their hearts out over a cup of coffee in Helene’s offi...
Billy, How Did You Do It?
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An interview between Volker Schlöndorff and Billy Wilder....
Malle's Fire Within
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In these interviews, conducted in 2008, actor Alexandra Stewart and filmmakers Philippe Collin and Volker Schlöndorff discuss the making of The Fire Within....
Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors
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From the 1950s onwards, Erika and Ulrich Gregor brought countless film historical milestones to Berlin and shaped cinema discourse in post-war Germany. A look at the life and work of the couple without whom Arsenal and the Forum wouldn’t exist....
Werner Herzog - Radikaler Träumer
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With exclusive behind-the-scenes access into Herzog’s everyday life, rare archive material and in-depth interviews with celebrated collaborators – including Christian Bale, Nicole Kidman, and Robert Pattinson, we are given an exciting glimpse into the work and personal life of the iconic artist....
Fassbinder
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A film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director and screenwriter who publicly confessed his homosexuality....
Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion
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Austrian actress Romy Schneider (1938) and French actor Alain Delon (1935), once fervent lovers in the early sixties, maintained a close friendship and a certain working relationship after their breakup until her death in 1984: a universal and eternal love....
Michael Nyman in Progress
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Featuring unprecedented access to Michael Nyman's working life, this film shows one of the great composers of our time in all his diversity and endless energy. From London to Berlin, Mexico, Poland, the Netherlands, and Portugal the film is also a journey through the musical world today. It shows Michael Nyman, the musician, in his concerts with The Michael Nyman Band and live collaborations with other internationally known musicians and orchestras. But throughout his journeys, this film discove...
Chance at Love
Character: German soldier (segment "Chance du guerrier, La") (uncredited)
Four sketches revolving around the themes of luck and love....
Merkel
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Driven by extensive archive material and interviews with those who know her, this is the astonishing story of how a triple outsider – a woman, a scientist, and an East German – became the de facto leader of the “Free World”, told for the first time for an international audience....
Film Hour
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Werner Herzog interviews guests on the art of filmmaking....
Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit
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Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song
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The films, affairs and struggles of the iconic star of The Blue Angel as told by Rosemary Clooney, Roger Corman, Deanna Durbin and many more....
Melville Steps Out of the Shadows
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A documentary about the making of Jean-Pierre Melville's 1949 film "Le silence de la mer"...
Neuer Deutscher Film Report
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Interview film with the protagonists of the New German Cinema in 1966....
Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands
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Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
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BBC documentary about the rise of the New German Cinema and several of its most important figures....
Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder
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A funny walk through the life story of Billy Wilder (1906-2002), a cinematic genius; a portrait of a filmmaker who never was a boring man, a superb mind who had ten commandments, of which the first nine were: “Thou shalt not bore.”...
Cinématon
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Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff,...
Billy Wilder Speaks
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In 1988, German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff sat down with legendary director Billy Wilder (1906-2002) at his office in Beverly Hills, California, and turned on his camera for a series of filmed interviews. (A recut of the 1992 TV miniseries Billy, How Did You Do It?)...
Filmmakers in Action
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What is the state of cinema and what being a filmmaker means? What are the measures taken to protect authors' copyright? What is their legal status in different countries? (Sequel to “Filmmakers vs. Tycoons.”)...
Léon Morin, Priest
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Barny, although a Marxist, is intrigued by the mysteries of religion. In confession, she teases a priest, Léon Morin, but he is a young and intelligent man and ready to discuss anything....
Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century
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An unparalleled portrait of Arthur Miller (1915-2005), a major writer who left an indelible mark on the world. Miller's life is intimately connected with the great themes that marked the 20th century. Glamour, fame, social criticism and Marilyn Monroe....
Nuits transparentes
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Strolling through France (Roanne, Nice and Carcassonne) with some excursions abroad (Munich, Montreal, New York)....
Sympathisanten - Unser deutscher Herbst
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West Germany in the 1970s. Many artists, journalists and intellectuals were branded as sympathizers of Baader-Meinhof's left-wing terrorism. The parents of the director, too: Margarethe von Trotta and his stepfather, Volker Schlöndorff. With extensive archive materials and film clips as well as Margarethe von Trotta's private diaries the film portrays one German family and the society of the time....
Hollywood's Second World War
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For the USA, World War 2 was an all-out war - to mobilize the masses, the US government launched a huge propaganda campaign and cinema, the medium of the masses, was quite simply their most important weapon. Government authorities monitored the production of feature films and the military itself produced documentaries aimed at rallying the American people to support the troops. This film tells the story of four Hollywood directors of European origin, who returned to the "Old World" during the Se...
Volker Schlöndorff Remembers The Tin Drum
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A documentary-montage of sketches, photos, storyboards, and film excerpts that is accompanied by Volker Schlöndorff's thoughts about his 1979 film THE TIN DRUM....
Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power
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The views and thoughts of Canadian writer Margaret Atwood have never been more relevant than today. Readers turn to her work for answers as they confront the rise of authoritarian leaders, deal with increasingly intrusive technologies, and discuss climate change. Her books are useful as survival tools for hard times. But few know her private life. Who is the woman behind the stories? How does she always seem to know what is coming?...
Tangerine Dream: Sound from Another World
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Documentary of German electronic musical group Tangerine Dream....
Knef - Die frühen Jahre
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A documentary about the life of the actress Hildegard Knef....
Unraveling the Enigma: The Making of Marienbad
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Interviews with Alain Resnais' collaborators about the making of Last Year at Marienbad, including sketches and production photos....
Melville, le dernier samouraï
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Like nobody else Jean-Pierre Melville influenced modern filmmaking. This documentary follows his creative process step by step, showing him becoming the father of the Nouvelle Vague and one of the most iconic directors of French cinema....
Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial
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This documentary explores the creation of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin as designed by architect Peter Eisenman. Reaction of the German public to the completed memorial is also shown....
Henri Langlois vu par...
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Thirteen filmmakers talk about Henri Langlois and their relationship with him....
Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum
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The life and work of the brilliant German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff, a cross-border artist who, by leaving Germany and making the whole world his place of work, acquired the objective perspective necessary to portray his country's society better than anyone else while providing a unique and original point of view on the troubled history of the European continent....
Last Year in Dachau
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
Near Munich, in Bavaria, Germany, is the Schleißheim Palace, where French filmmaker Alain Resnais shot his film Last Year at Marienbad in 1960. Nearby is the Dachau concentration camp, where thousands of people were killed between 1933 and 1945. An essay about the present and the past, beauty and horror, life and death....
A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner
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Born in Berlin in 1896, Lotte Eisner became famous for her passionate involvement in the world of both German and French cinema. In 1936, together with Henri Langlois, she founded the Cinémathèque Française with the goal of saving from destruction films, costumes, sets, posters, and other treasures of the 7th Art. A Jew exiled in Paris, she became a pillar of the capital's cultural scene, where she promoted German cinema....
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg
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An exploration of the life of Anita Pallenberg, European actress and rock ’n’ roll muse. Told in Anita’s own words, from her unpublished memoir, and in the words of her family, this bittersweet film is a never-seen-before look at life with The Rolling Stones....
Pan Olbrychski
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Alain Resnais, l'audacieux
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A genius inventor of forms, Alain Resnais is one of the fathers of cinematic modernity. This portrait, rich in archives, looks back on the career of a discreet non-conformist, in perpetual search of renewal to fight against anxiety....
Le Doulos
Character: Man in Bar (uncredited)
Enigmatic gangster Silien may or may not be responsible for informing on Faugel, who was just released from prison and is already involved in what should be a simple heist. By the end of this brutal, twisting, and multilayered policier, who will be left to trust?...
De qui dépend que l’oppression demeure ?
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On May 21, 1975, the trial of the members of the Red Army Faction (also known as the Baader-Meinstein Gang) began. Four members appeared before the Stuttgart court to answer for the attacks that had been raging for five years in the young Federal Republic of Germany. The documentary, whose title is borrowed from Berthold Brecht's In Praise of Dialectics, recounts the conditions of the trials and detention of the Baader-Meinstein Gang members and the disqualification of Klaus Croissant as their l...
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
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An account of the life and work of legendary cinematographer and director Carlo Di Palma (1925-2004) and an emotional journey through the great moments of cinema, from Italian neorealism to the masterpieces of Woody Allen....