Directing

2022

… Director

2017		The Nameless Day … Director
2017		Return to Montauk … Director

2014		Henri Langlois vu par... … Director
2014		Diplomacy … Director

2012

… Director

2007		Ulzhan … Director
2007		Strike … Director

2006

… Director

2005

… Director

2004

… Director

2002		The Enlightenment … Director
2002		Ten Minutes Older: The Cello … Director
2002		Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine … Director

2000

… Director

1998

… Director

1996

… Director

1992		The Michael Nyman Songbook … Director
1992		Billy, How Did You Do It? … Director

1991

… Director

1990

… Director

1987

… Director

1985

… Director

1984

… Director

1982

… Director

1981

… Director

1980

… Director

1979

… Director

1978

… Director

1977

… Director

1976

… Director

1975		Georginas Gründe … Director
1975		The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum … Director

1974

… Director

1972		A Free Woman … Director
1972		The Morals of Ruth Halbfass … Director

1971

… Director

1970

… Director

1969

… Director

1967		Der Paukenspieler … Director
1967		A Degree of Murder … Director

1966

… Director

1965

… Assistant Director

1963		The Fire Within … Assistant Director
1963		Méditerranée … Co-Director

1962		Le Doulos … Assistant Director
1962		A Very Private Affair … Assistant Director

1961		Léon Morin, Priest … Assistant Director
1961		Last Year at Marienbad … Second Assistant Director

1960

… Director

Acting

2024		Peter Lorre : Derrière le masque du maudit as Himself
2024		The Stones and Brian Jones as Self

2022		Merkel as Self
2022		Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer as Self
2022		Come With Me to the Cinema – The Gregors as Volker Schlöndorff
2022		Romy Schneider & Alain Delon: An Enduring Passion as Self

2020		A Life for Movies: Lotte Eisner as Self
2020		Volker Schlöndorff: The Beat of the Drum as Self - Filmmaker
2020		Last Year in Dachau as Self - Narrator (voice)
2020		Melville, le dernier samouraï as Self

2019		Margaret Atwood: A Word After a Word After a Word Is Power as Self - Filmmaker
2019		Hollywood's Second World War as Self
2019		Fuck the Message as Self

2018

as Self

2017

as Self

2016

as Self

2015		Arthur Miller: A Man of His Century as Self - Filmmaker
2015		From Caligari to Hitler as Self - Filmmaker
2015		The Poet and the Filmmaker: Volker Schlöndorff on Baal as Interviewer
2015		Fassbinder as Self

2014

as Self

2011		Dubai Winter Diary VI: Light and Reflections as Self
2011		Nuits transparentes

2010		Cave of Forgotten Dreams as Narrator (French version) (voice) (uncredited)
2010		Michael Nyman in Progress as Self
2010		Melville Steps Out of the Shadows as Interviewee
2010		Memories of Last Year in Marienbad as Himself - Narrator

2009		Unraveling the Enigma: The Making of Marienbad as Self
2009		Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial as himself

2008		Code Name: Melville as Self
2008		Malle's Fire Within as Self

2006		Filmmakers in Action as Self
2006		Billy Wilder Speaks as Self - Filmmaker / Interviewer

2005		Knef - Die frühen Jahre as Self
2005		Gottschalk meets Petersen as Himself
2005		Who is Helene Schwarz?
2005		Von Sex bis Simmel as Self

2004

as Self (Interviewee)

2003

as Himself

2002		Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song as Self
2002		Ein Produzent hat Seele oder er hat keine as Self

2001

as Self

2000

1995

as Self

1992		I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me as Self
1992		Billy, How Did You Do It? as Self

1991

as Self

1986

as Self - The Director

1985		Humor ist eine ernste Sache - Der Filmregisseur Kurt Hoffmann as Self
1985		Hands Up! as Self (1981 footage)

1978

as N°572

1976

as Self

1971

1967

1964

1961

as German soldier (uncredited)

Writing

2022

… Writer

2017		The Nameless Day … Writer
2017		Return to Montauk … Screenplay

2014

… Screenplay

2012

… Writer

2000

… Screenplay

1996

… Screenplay

1991

… Screenplay

1982

… Writer

1981

… Writer

1980

… Writer

1979

… Screenplay

1978

… Screenplay

1977

… Writer

1975		Georginas Gründe … Writer
1975		The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum … Screenplay

1974

… Writer

1972		A Free Woman … Writer
1972		The Morals of Ruth Halbfass … Screenplay

1971

… Writer

1970

… Screenplay

1969

… Writer

1967		Der Paukenspieler … Writer
1967		A Degree of Murder … Writer

1966

… Writer

1960

… Writer

Production

2022

… Producer

2017

… Producer

2010

… Producer

2002

… Producer

1978

… Associate Producer

1974

… Producer

1972

… Producer

1971

… Producer

1970

… Producer

Editing

2010

… Editor

2006

… Editor

1960

… Editor

Crew

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… Thanks