Volker Schlöndorff Movies

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...

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...

The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.

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

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

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...

Together with African small farmholders Tony Rinaudo, an Australian agronomist, has been fighting against the spread of the desert for 30 years and...

An interview between Volker Schlöndorff and Billy Wilder.

Thirteen filmmakers talk about Henri Langlois and their relationship with him.

In these interviews, conducted in 2008, actor Alexandra Stewart and filmmakers Philippe Collin and Volker Schlöndorff discuss the making of The...

Adaptation of a story by Henry James.

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

West Germany in the 1970s. Many artists, journalists and intellectuals were branded as sympathizers of Baader-Meinhof's left-wing terrorism. The...