Screenplay: Volker Schlöndorff

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

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

Plot 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

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

Plot 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...

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

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

Plot 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...

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

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

Plot 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...

Direction Volker Schlöndorff · Gisela Grischow

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

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

Direction Volker Schlöndorff · Margarethe von Trotta

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

Plot 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...

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

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

Plot 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...

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

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

Plot 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...

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

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

Plot 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

Plot 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...

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

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

Plot "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...

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

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

Plot 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...

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

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

Plot 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...

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

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

Plot 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...

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

Cast Stellan Skarsgard · Nina Hoss · Niels Arestrup · Robert Seeliger

Plot During a book tour in the United States, writer, Max, meets and falls in love with a much younger German woman. They spend a glorious and passionate time together. However,...

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

Cast Thomas Thieme · Devid Striesow · Ursina Lardi · Stephanie Amarell

Plot The retired Chief superintendent Jakob Franck who often had to inform relatives as a "death messenger", now hopes to lead a life beyond the dead.

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

Cast David Warner · Anna Karina · Thomas Holtzmann · Michael Gothard

Plot It's medieval times. Kohlhaas merchants with horses. When going to the local fair to sell his horses, is forced by a noble to leave him part of the merchandise as...

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

Cast Senta Berger · Peter Ehrlich · Helmut Griem · Margarethe von Trotta

Plot Ruth Halbfass has been married to the industrialist Erich Halbfass for sixteen years in a loveless marriage and they have a fourteen year-old teenage daughter, Aglaia. Ruth has a love...

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

Cast Anita Pallenberg · Hans Peter Hallwachs · Manfred Fischbeck · Werner Enke

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

Cast Margarethe von Trotta · Friedhelm Ptok · Martin Lüttge · Ute Ellin