Volker Schlöndorff Movies

A nearly illiterate woman becomes one of the founders of Poland's Solidarity union.

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...

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

Somewhere in the endless steppes of Central Asia lies a treasure. Frenchman Charles holds the key, a fragment of an ancient map. But in his restless...

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

Documentary of German electronic musical group Tangerine Dream.

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

This year’s gallery of artistically inspiring portraits of uncompromising eccentrics (among them The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld, Robert...

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...

In 1988, German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff sat down with legendary director Billy Wilder (1906-2002) at his office in Beverly Hills,...

Gérard Courant's "Filmed Diary" of December 14, 2011, produced in Dubai (United Arab Emirates). Between December 7 and 15, 2011, Gérard...

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

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...

Inspired by the real-life events of Mathias Kneißl, a marginal man, son of poor farmers from Bavaria, in the late XIX century. Mathias stole...

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

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

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