Volker Schlöndorff Movies

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 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...

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

A film portrait of the influential Bavarian actor, director and screenwriter who publicly confessed his homosexuality.

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

Austrian television director Fritz Lehner makes his feature debut with the big-budget drama Jedermann's Fest, based on the 1911 play by Hugo von...

Werner Herzog interviews guests on the art of filmmaking.

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

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

Adaptation of a story by Henry James.

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

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

Documentary film.

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...

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

In the Frankfurt area, La Main Rouge hunts for Algerian soldiers who had deserted from the French army and fled across the German border.