Volker Schlöndorff Movies

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

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

After accidentally killing her ex-lover, a young woman hides the body with the help of two men she's romantically involved with, leading to a...

Rita Vogt is a radical West German terrorist who abandons the revolution and settles in East Germany with a new identity provided by the East German...

An adaptation of the Henry James short story Les raisons de Georgina.

An intriguing Hans Christian Anderson-style fairy tale aesthetic and voice over narration. Sudden Wealth is a despairing chronicle of a group of...

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

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...

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...

An interview between Volker Schlöndorff and Billy Wilder.

Strolling through France (Roanne, Nice and Carcassonne) with some excursions abroad (Munich, Montreal, New York).

Adaptation of a story by Henry James.

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...

Somewhere in the endless steppes of Central Asia lies a treasure. One man holds the key to it, a fragment of an ancient map. But in his restless...

Ewa and Halina are forcibly separated from each other by Ewa’s father in their youth because of their love for each other. When Ewa’s...

Five film directors were given the task of making short films based on titles of drawings by Paul Klee.

Like nobody else Jean-Pierre Melville influenced modern filmmaking. This documentary follows his creative process step by step, showing him becoming...

A divorced woman in her thirties fights a losing battle in Munich to attain belated self-fulfillment. The die is cast in a briskly impersonal society...