Direction: Volker Schlöndorff

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

Cast Mathieu Carrière · Marian Seidowsky · Barbara Steele · Bernd Tischer

Synopsis At an Austrian boys' boarding school in the early 1900s, intelligent Torless observes the sadistic behavior of his fellow students, doing nothing to help a victimized classmate...

Direction Volker Schlöndorff · Gisela Grischow

Cast Hellmuth Karasek · Volker Schlöndorff · Billy Wilder

Synopsis Director Billy Wilder is interviewed by German critic Hellmut Karasek and director Volker Schlöndorff about his movies.

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

Cast David Bennent · Mario Adorf · Angela Winkler · Daniel Olbrychski

Synopsis Danzig in the 1920s/1930s. Oskar Matzerath, son of a local dealer, is a most unusual boy. Equipped with full intellect right from his birth he decides at his third birthday not to grow up as he sees the crazy world...

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

Cast Georg Lehn · Reinhard Hauff · Wolfgang Bächler · Karl-Josef Cramer

Synopsis In 19th century in Hesse, a group of poor peasants rebel against institutional and economic domination by robbing the tax collection stagecoach. However, the machinery of power implements its countermeasures and reacts with extreme violence. The revolt fails and the...

Direction Stefan Aust · Axel Engstfeld · Alexander Kluge · Volker Schlöndorff

Cast Hans-Michael Rehberg · Axel-Torg Gros · Jürgen Prochnow · Bruno Ganz

Synopsis At the peak of the Cold War, the short-range missile crisis, neutron bombs could have potentially annihilated Central Europe. 300,000 protesters in Bonn. German Chancellor Schmidt resigns. Why make a film collage about war? "Nothing is more discouraging than not...

Direction Volker Schlöndorff · Gisela Grischow

Cast Billy Wilder · Jean Arthur · Humphrey Bogart · James Cagney

Synopsis Billy Wilder discusses his life and films in interviews filmed by Volker Schlondorff over two weeks in 1988.

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

Cast Dustin Hoffman · Kate Reid · John Malkovich · Stephen Lang

Direction Volker Schlöndorff · Margarethe von Trotta

Cast Angela Winkler · Mario Adorf · Dieter Laser · Jürgen Prochnow

Synopsis Katharina Blum is a young handsome German maid. She meets Ludwig, and they fall in love at once. They spend the night together. In the morning, the police bursts in her flat, looking for Ludwig : he is a terrorist....

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

Cast Bibiana Beglau · Martin Wuttke · Nadja Uhl · Harald Schrott

Synopsis Rita Vogt is a radical West German terrorist who abandons the revolution and settles in East Germany with a new identity provided by the East German secret service. She lives in constant fear of having her cover blown, which unavoidably...

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

Cast Margarethe von Trotta · Matthias Habich · Rüdiger Kirschstein · Marc Eyraud

Synopsis A countess' unrequited love for an army officer leads to disaster.

Direction Alf Brustellin · Hans Peter Cloos · Rainer Werner Fassbinder · Alexander Kluge

Cast Heinz Bennent · Wolf Biermann · Caroline Chaniolleau · Hildegard Friese

Synopsis Through documentary and fiction footage, the body of work of the New German Cinema offers a general view of Germany in the late 70's. A time marked by the left-wing terrorism of the Baader Meinhof group. With an aim to...

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

Cast André Dussollier · Niels Arestrup · Robert Stadlober · Paula Beer

Synopsis A historical drama that depicts the relationship between Dietrich von Choltitz, the German military governor of occupied Paris, and Swedish consul-general Raoul Nordling.

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

Cast Sam Shepard · Julie Delpy · Barbara Sukowa · Dieter Kirchlechner

Synopsis Walter Faber has survived a crash with an airplane. His next trip is by ship. On board this ship he meets the enchanting Sabeth and they have a passionate love affair. Together they travel to her home in Greece, but...

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

Cast Léo Paul Salmain · Ulrich Matthes · Martin Loizillon · Jacob Matschenz

Synopsis "Calm at Sea" is a fact-based drama about the German occupation of France, including the story of Guy Moquet, the young French communist hero executed by the Nazis who remains a symbol of the French Resistance, as well as those...

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

Cast Ulrich Matthes · August Diehl · Bibiana Beglau · Hilmar Thate

Direction Bernardo Bertolucci · Claire Denis · Mike Figgis · Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Valeria Bruni Tedeschi · Dominic West · Daniel Craig · Chiara Mastalli

Synopsis A companion film to the highly acclaimed TEN MINUTES OLDER: THE TRUMPET. Eight influential directors interpret the theme of time. Official selection of the Venice, Toronto and San Sebastian Film Festivals.

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

Cast John Malkovich · Armin Mueller-Stahl · Marianne Sägebrecht · Gottfried John

Synopsis From Volker Schlöndorff, the esteemed director of The Legend Of Rita, The Tin Drum, Swann In Love, and Death Of A Salesman, comes The Ogre, a startling view on fascism and its peculiar appeal. With his extraordinary eye for haunting...

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

Cast Bruno Ganz · Hanna Schygulla · Jean Carmet · Jerzy Skolimowski

Synopsis Laschen, a German journalist, travels to the city of Beirut during the fights between Christians and Palestinians to produce an essay about the situation. Together with his photographer, he meets some important people and discovers the everyday face of the...

Direction Jean-Daniel Pollet · Volker Schlöndorff

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

Cast Rainer Werner Fassbinder · Sigi Graue · Margarethe von Trotta · Günther Neutze

Synopsis The film follows Baal, a young, ingenious, and unstable poet-balladeer with a scandalous zest for life, love, and liquor, through multiple sexual encounters and cruel, shocking personal adventures that end with his premature death.