Volker Schlöndorff Movies

Ute Lemper sings a collection of art songs by Michael Nyman based on texts by Paul Celan, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, William Shakespeare and Arthur...

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...

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.

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

From the 1950s onwards, Erika and Ulrich Gregor brought countless film historical milestones to Berlin and shaped cinema discourse in post-war...

On May 21, 1975, the trial of the members of the Red Army Faction (also known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang) began. Four members appeared before the...

Playwright Arthur Miller, director Volker Schlöndorff and actor Dustin Hoffman are seen creating the Roxbury Productions and Punch Productions...

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...

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

This documentary explores the creation of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin as designed by architect Peter Eisenman. Reaction of the German public to...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

A documentary about the film Last Year at Marienbad