Volker Schlöndorff Movies

“Grotesque dancer” Valeska Gert speaks with inimitable repartee and typical Berlin brashness about her scandals and the people she met....

Ruth is the wife of well-heeled corsetry manufacturer Erich Halbfass. As business booms, Erich lives frivolously and their daughter Aglaia attends...

Documentary of German electronic musical group Tangerine Dream.

An unparalleled portrait of Arthur Miller (1915-2005), a major writer who left an indelible mark on the world. Miller's life is intimately connected...

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

A documentary about the life of the actress Hildegard Knef.

Interview film with the protagonists of the New German Cinema in 1966.

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

Like nobody else Jean-Pierre Melville influenced modern filmmaking. This documentary follows his creative process step by step, showing him becoming...

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...

Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a map of the Rio das Mortes. Michel's...

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

Playwright Arthur Miller, director Volker Schlöndorff and actor Dustin Hoffman are seen creating the Roxbury Productions and Punch Productions...

Augustinus's philosophy time is captured from the point of view of an amazing little flying philosopher

In an attempt to escape 19th-century poverty, eight farmers and day laborers attack a prince's money transport in the Hessian Hinterland.

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

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.

The history of a family, in the film business now for three generations, behind and in front of the camera. The film is not only a foray through the...