Volker Schlöndorff
Directing · Screenplay · Director · Writer
Born Mar 31, 1939 · Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
Active 1960–present · Awards: Officer of the Legion of Honour, Bavarian Order of Merit, Order of Merit of Brandenburg, Konrad Wolf Prize, Romy, Carl Zuckmayer Medal, Brüder-Grimm-Poetikprofessur, Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of 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.
Filmography
Visitation (2026) — Writer · Director · ProducerLast Year at Marienbad (1961) — Second Assistant DirectorThe Tin Drum (1979) — Screenplay · DirectorLe Doulos (1962) — Man in Bar (uncredited) · First Assistant DirectorThe Fire Within (1963) — Assistant DirectorCave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) — Narrator (French version) (voice) (uncredited)Diplomacy (2014) — Director · ScreenplayLéon Morin, Priest (1961) — German Soldier (uncredited) · Assistant DirectorDeath of a Salesman (1985) — DirectorThe Handmaid's Tale (1990) — DirectorThe Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975) — Screenplay · DirectorPalmetto (1998) — DirectorViva Maria! (1965) — Assistant DirectorYoung Törless (1966) — Writer · DirectorThe Ogre (1996) — Director · ScreenplayVoyager (1991) — Director · ScreenplayTen Minutes Older: The Cello (2002) — DirectorEnigma – Eine uneingestandene Liebe (2005) — DirectorDer Paukenspieler (1967) — Director · WriterGermany in Autumn (1978) — Screenplay · DirectorCoup de Grâce (1976) — DirectorThe Ninth Day (2004) — DirectorReturn to Montauk (2017) — Producer · Director · ScreenplayThe Legend of Rita (2000) — Director · Screenplay