Volker Schlöndorff Movies

A documentary about the making of Jean-Pierre Melville's 1949 film "Le silence de la mer"

Augustinus's philosophy time is captured from the point of view of an amazing little flying philosopher

A documentary about the film Last Year at Marienbad

An interview between Volker Schlöndorff and Billy Wilder.

Near Munich, in Bavaria, Germany, is the Schleißheim Palace, where French filmmaker Alain Resnais shot his film Last Year at Marienbad in 1960....

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...

A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring an assembly of German filmmakers.

He is the despicable child killer in Fritz Lang's M. Drawing on testimonies and archives, this portrait sheds light on Peter Lorre's turbulent career...

Horst Wendlandt tells the story of his cinematic work since the sixties. The dialogue between the "old and the young filmmaker" creates a fascinating...

A documentary-montage of sketches, photos, storyboards, and film excerpts that is accompanied by Volker Schlöndorff's thoughts about his 1979...

This is another variation of the Cinderella story: the bright and beautiful Ella lives in the household of a lord since her mother died. She's...

A comic strip detective and a superhero are hired to investigate separatedly the successive murders of CEOs within a real life corporation...

The history of a family, in the film business now for three generations, behind and in front of the camera. The film is not only a foray through the...

Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a map of the Rio das Mortes. Michel's...

The third episodic film, after Deutschland im Herbst and Der Kandidat, in which notable German filmmakers reflect on the state of their country. A...

BBC documentary about the rise of the New German Cinema and several of its most important figures.

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...

In 1988, German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff sat down with legendary director Billy Wilder (1906-2002) at his office in Beverly Hills,...

Made with an eye to the autumn of 1980 when the German parliamentary elections took place, The Candidate examines Germany’s history past and...