Volker Schlöndorff Movies

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

Ruth is the wife of Erich Halbfass, a well-heeled corsetry manufacturer. Business is booming, Erich splashes around in the house swimming pool and...

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

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...

Werner Herzog interviews guests on the art of filmmaking.

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

A documentary by Hans Günther Pflaum and Peter H. Schröder.

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

The life and work of the brilliant German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff, a cross-border artist who, by leaving Germany and making the whole world...

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

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

A genius inventor of forms, Alain Resnais is one of the fathers of cinematic modernity. This portrait, rich in archives, looks back on the career of...

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

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

Adaptation of a story by Henry James.

A documentary about the life of the actress Hildegard Knef.

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

Interviews with Alain Resnais' collaborators about the making of Last Year at Marienbad, including sketches and production photos.

Documentary film.