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Volker Schlöndorff

Highest Rated: 100% Circle of Deceit (1981)

Lowest Rated: 32% The Handmaid's Tale (1990)

Birthday: Mar 31, 1939

Birthplace: Wiesbaden, Germany

Volker Schlondorff is one of the major directors of the New German Cinema, the group of filmmakers who, in the late 1960s and early 70s, revitalized a moribund German film culture. He studied at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinematographiques in Paris in the late 1950s and, between 1960 and 1964, worked as an assistant to directors including Louis Malle, Alain Resnais and Jean-Pierre Melville.

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Highest rated movies

100% 75% Circle of Deceit
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100% 85% Young Toerless
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100% 75% Death of a Salesman
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94% 80% Diplomacy
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89% 73% The Ogre
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87% 69% Strike
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84% 84% The Tin Drum
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83% 84% The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
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80% 75% The Legends of Rita
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77% 79% The Ninth Day
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Volker Schlöndorff

Volker Schlöndorff TIN DRUM, (L-R), Author, Gunther Grass, David Bennent, Director, Volker Schlondorff, 1979 CIRCLE OF DECEIT, (aka DIE FALSCHUNG), Hanna Schygulla, Bruno Ganz, director Volker Schlondorff on set, 1981, (c) United Artists Classics PALMETTO, Elisabeth Shue, director Volker Schlondorff, on set, 1998. ©Columbia Pictures STRIKE, (aka STRAJK-DIE HELDIN VON DANZIG), director Volker Schlondorff (bottom left), Katharina Thalbach (center) on set, 2006. ©Red Envelope Entertainment THE HANDMAID'S TALE, Director Volker Schlondorff and Robert Duvall on the set, 1990, (c) Cinecon International View more photos

Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Forest Maker Director,
Producer 		- 2022
No Score Yet No Score Yet Return to Montauk Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer 		- 2017
46% 43% Return to Montauk Director - 2017
94% 80% Diplomacy Director,
Screenwriter 		$230.9K 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Fassbinder Story Self - 2014
No Score Yet No Score Yet Calm at Sea Director,
Writer 		- 2013
No Score Yet 43% La mer à l'aube (Calm at Sea) Director - 2012
No Score Yet 62% Ulzhan Director - 2007
87% 69% Strike Director $8.9K 2006
No Score Yet 79% Billy Wilder Speaks Unknown (Character) - 2006
77% 79% The Ninth Day Director $72.9K 2003
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ten Minutes Older: The Cello Director - 2002
80% 75% The Legends of Rita Director,
Writer 		$71.6K 1999
39% 31% Palmetto Director $5.8M 1998
89% 73% The Ogre Director,
Writer 		$49.2K 1996
56% 73% Voyager Director - 1991
32% 44% The Handmaid's Tale Director $1.2M 1990
No Score Yet No Score Yet Murder on the Bayou Director - 1987
No Score Yet 61% A Gathering of Old Men Director - 1987
100% 75% Death of a Salesman Director - 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet Private Conversations Unknown (Character) - 1985
56% 54% Swann in Love Director,
Screenwriter 		- 1984
100% 75% Circle of Deceit Director - 1981
84% 84% The Tin Drum Director,
Writer 		$5.5K 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet Nur zum Spaß, nur zum Spiel Director,
Writer 		- 1977
No Score Yet 75% Coup de Grace Director - 1976
83% 84% The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum Director,
Writer 		- 1975
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Free Woman Regie (Character),
Director 		- 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet Morals of Ruth Halbfass Director - 1971
No Score Yet 80% Baal Director,
Writer 		- 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach Director - 1970
No Score Yet No Score Yet Michael Kohlhaas Director,
Screenwriter 		- 1969
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Degree of Murder Director - 1967
No Score Yet 82% Young Töerless Director,
Writer 		- 1966
100% 85% Young Toerless Director - 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet Méditerranée Director - 1963