An interview between Volker Schlöndorff and Billy Wilder.

In medieval times, a horse merchant is forced by a noble to leave part of his stock as payment for crossing his land. Upon returning, he finds his horses near death, and when the noble refuses to compensate him, the merchant fights unsuccessfully against the injustice.

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.

After accidentally killing her ex-lover, a young woman hides the body with the help of two men she's romantically involved with, leading to a spiraling web of murder and deception.

Tony Rinaudo has found a way to grow trees in the most inhospitable areas by activating the still living stumps and roots, thereby securing the livelihoods of thousands of farmers in Africa. The “Chief of all Farmers”, as he is affectionately known in many villages today, had to fight hard to get his ideas accepted. In the 30 years he has worked in the Sahel, he has seen desperation and famine, but also resilience, determination and development. In The Forest MakerVolker Schlöndorff follows Tony Rinaudo to various African countries to see for himself the effectiveness of the FMNR in combating desertification and encounters issues that also concern us in Europe: migration, climate change, gender equality.

At the Paris Theater, an uncommonly engrossing and wise new German movie, "A Free Woman," records the losing battle a divorced woman in her thirties fights in Munich to attain belated self-fulfillment. The die is cast in a briskly impersonal society geared to male dominance and early training for career women. This attractive, capable young woman, needing love and encouragement, determinedly sidesteps her former slot of housewife, studies voice and dance, takes on subordinate jobs and painfully maneuvers with her former husband (a cold fish who shrewdly remarries) for child custody.
All this is quietly and beautifully projected by an unobtrusive camera and stunningly personified by the feeling, low-key performance of Margarethe von Trotta in the central role. The blond star also happens to be the wife of the gifted director, Volker Schlondorff, as well as his co-screen writer.
They and the other performers and contributors have forged a fine, thoughtful and stimulating film that observantly mirrors a human condition, the traditional subordination of women with truthful, biting irony. It would be hard to find a more persuasive and appealing proponent of feminism than Mrs. Schlondorff.

Im rassistischen Louisiana hetzt der brutale weiße Farmer Boutan den verängstigten Schwarzen Charlie durch die Felder. Charlie flüchtet in die Hütte des alten Mathu, der auf Boutan schießt und ihn tödlich trifft. Doch als Sheriff Mapes am Tatort eintrifft, um Mathu festzunehmen, haben sich achtzehn alte schwarze Männer mit abgefeuerten Gewehren vor der Hütte versammelt. Jeder einzelne von ihnen behauptet, Boutan erschossen zu haben …
Volker Schlöndorffs spannende Adaption von Ernest J. Gaines’ Roman überzeugt durch die bis hin zur kleinsten Nebenrolle exzellente Besetzung.

In 2010 L'IMEC which runs Alain Robbe-Grillet's fund, asked Volker Schlondorff (together with Bernard-Henry Lévy who coproduced the film) to comment some previously unreleased footage made by Françoise SPIRA during the shooting of Last Year in Marienbad.
Françoise Spira was in the cast and filmed the shooting in super 8 between the takes.
After she passed away, her husband exhumed these rolls and entrusted them to Alain Robbe-Grillet.
The choice of Schlondorff was obvious for he was Resnais'assistant on the film and mostly because his recollection seems to resurface with the discovery of those pictures just as Delphine Seyrig's memory seems to wake up with Giorgio Albertazzi's voice in Marienbad itself.
Though the film itself is rather poor (no sound except Schlondorff's voice over and some extracts from Resnais'film), there's a must to see moment of strange collision between Marienbad and "Night and Fog" when Spira, Schlondorff, Sacha Pitoef and his wife take advantage of a break to visit a village which celebrates the "october feast" a few yards from Dachau.
Once again, Resnais' masterpiece generates mystery and fascination.

An early work from the filmmaker behind THE TIN DRUM with an intriguing Hans Christian Anderson-style fairy tale aesthetic and voice over narration. SUDDEN WEALTH is a despairing chronicle of a group of starving peasants who finally seize governmental wealth like a dysfunctional group of Robin Hood's Merry Men, only to be betrayed by their inescapable selves and systematically dehumanized (think bucolic Orwell) and reprogrammed by what we'll put under the rubric of God and Country. Extremely striking compositions at times. Only one man (who bears a passing resemblance to a young John Cleese, incidentally) refuses to go gentle into that good night. The last scene is reminiscent of the endings in both Kubrick's PATHS OF GLORY and THE CRUCIBLE with Day-Lewis, yet all even more chilling with its alienating suddenly reappearing voice-over. SUDDEN WEALTH benefits from an especially strong second half with fuller characterization that makes it come alive as a whole for Schlondorff, whose film's evinces extremely striking compositions at times with stationary camera. Especially recommended for those interested in the New German Cinema.

After being released from prison on a bum charge, Harry Barber is out for payback to regain his lost two years. He's hired by Mrs. Malroux to fake the kidnapping of her stepdaughter (the daughter of a dying millionaire). He discovers that he is being set up on multiple levels and will soon face a longer sentence if he doesn't prove the truth.

法国恺撒奖最佳外语片奖提名
德国电影奖金奖最佳男演员奖
主演：布鲁诺·冈茨（《帝国毁灭》）
杰西·史柯林摩斯基（波兰电影大师）
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1975年,黎巴嫩各派之间就分权问题产生巨大分歧,于是,内战爆发.西德记者莱斯奇前往战地收集信息.他亲眼目睹了内战给无辜的人民带来的伤害,内战只不过是在冠冕堂皇的借口掩饰下的权利争夺.当莱斯奇决心继续留下来进行报导的时候,又发现情人阿里亚娜还有另外的男朋友.事业与爱情的困扰使莱斯奇饱受煎熬…
IMDB评分：7.3/10

Volker Schlöndorff transposes Bertolt Brecht’s late-expressionist work to latter-day 1969. Poet and anarchist Baal lives in an attic and reads his poems to cab drivers. At first feted and later rejected by bourgeois society, Baal roams through forests and along motorways, greedy for schnapps, cigarettes, women and men: ‘You have to let out the beast, let him out into the sunlight.’ After impregnating a young actress he soon comes to regard her as a millstone round his neck. He stabs a friend to death and dies alone. ‘You are useless, mangy and wild, you beast, you crawl through the lowest boughs of the tree.’
The film takes youthful impetuousness and hatred of oppression as its subject and also ponders the cult of genius and sexual morals. Rainer Werner Fassbinder simultaneously plays both Baal and himself and is surrounded by many actors who were later to perform in his own films. After the film was broadcast on West German television, Brecht’s widow Helene Weigel prohibited any further screenings, arguing that the social circumstances engendering Baal’s rebelliousness had not been adequately explained.

In 1988, Oscar-winning German filmmaker Volker Schlondorff ("The Tin Drum") sat down with legendary director Billy Wilder at his office in Beverly Hills, California and turned on his camera for a series of filmed interviews. The conversation went on for two weeks. The results were aired on German TV in 1992 and debuted on U.S. television when it was shown on Turner Classic Movies in 2006. We are presented with a generous smattering of film clips, rare photographs and artwork, but mostly Wilder just sits in his office and talks with the off screen Schlondorff, moving easily between English and German. Clips shown include: "Double Indemnity," "The Lost Weekend," "A Foreign Affair," "Sunset Blvd.," "Ace in the Hole." "Stalag 17," "Sabrina," "Witness for the Prosecution," "Some Like It Hot," and "The Apartment." Wilder discusses all these films, and the actors in them as well. Mostly, Wilder offers his philosophy of movie making from one of its undisputed masters...

第二次世界大战，达豪集中营，人间地狱。受尽非人虐待的天主教神父亨利·克莱默（乌里奇·马特斯 Ulrich Matthes 饰）身形枯槁，与同囚室的人一起秘密举行着弥撒祷告。在无尽的折磨与摧残下，度日如年。一日，克莱默母亲去世，而纳粹发现了他的用处，便趁机借克莱默母亲去世之名，“仁慈宽容”的允许克莱默回卢森堡奔丧九天。回到家中，克莱默很快便发现了纳粹的阴谋。一方面，盖世太保中尉格布哈特（奥古斯特·迪赫 August Diehl 饰）试图利用克莱默神父说服当地教会，进而使当地武装力量放弃抵抗；另一方面，格布哈特也给克莱默开出了非常诱人的条件：释放克莱默及其被关押的狱友。一面是放弃信仰和良心出卖国家民族的负罪感，一面是在巨大诱惑前的本我驱使，在如此艰难痛苦的抉择面前，克莱默神父最终会如何选择，九日将尽，他的命运到底会何去何从。
本片根据天主教神父克莱默被羁押在纳粹集中营期间所撰写的日记改编而成。

故事从1941年在舒瓦泽集中营的一场囚营赛跑开始，17岁的莫凯在比赛中轻松胜出，赢得一块肥皂。莫凯喜欢住在邻营的女孩奥黛特，常常借故亲近，就连赛跑时都要停下来跟她聊上两句，而奥黛特虽然嘴上说莫凯孩子气，心里对他也很中意。尽管活在囚营中，但生活还是处处充满希望，直到有一天，一名德国军官被地下党枪杀，希特勒决定报复，下令至少处决150名法国囚犯，德军军官们对此不以为然，因为在他们看来，这种愚蠢、过激又盲目的报复只会导致法国百姓的严重抵触，甚至出现哗变。然而希特勒的命令是不容有半点违抗的，无奈之下，军官们只好着手罗列处决名单。

二次大战之后，目不识丁的波兰女性阿格尼丝卡·考斯卡（卡特琳娜·塔巴赫 Katharina Thalbach 饰）进入一家大型船厂工作，她勤勤恳恳，干着和男人一样的体力活，安全和健康无法得到保障，为此她多次为工人出头与党代表据理力争。下班后，她必须赶回嘈杂喧闹的公寓照顾年幼的儿子克里斯丁（Raphael Remstedt 饰）。公寓新搬来的小号手卡茨米尔兹·瓦扎克（多米尼克·霍卫兹 Dominique Horwitz 饰）使阿格尼丝卡的人生出现短暂的光彩，然而幸福很快便被残酷的命运夺去。数年后，船厂无视工人健康，强令他们连续数周加班，结果酿成无法挽回的惨剧，事后更将责任推在死难工人身上。怪诞无情的时代，阿格尼丝卡被推动着走向更远……
本片荣获2007年巴伐利亚电影奖最佳女主角奖（Katharina Thalbach）和最佳摄影奖。

Die BRD in den 70er Jahren. Über die heitere Anarchie kommt Rita Vogt zum Terrorismus, verführt durch ihren Gerechtigkeitssinn und durch die Liebe zu Andi. Als sie das Scheitern der Bewegung erkennt, taucht sie in der DDR unter. Mit Hilfe der Staatsicherheit, personifiziert in Erwin Hull, beginnt für sie dort unter anderem Namen eine neue Existenz.
Rita führt sozusagen das normale Leben der Arbeiterklasse. Sie will ankommen, während ihre junge Kollegin Tatjana weg will, in den Westen. Zwischen beiden beginnt eine Freundschaft, der eine Fahndungsmeldung im Westfernsehen ein abruptes Ende setzt. Wieder muss Rita untertauchen. Mit einem neuen Namen in einer neuen Stadt scheint sie mehr Glück zu haben.
Rita lernt im Urlaub den Studenten Jochen kennen. Er will sie mit nach Moskau nehmen. Doch dann wird Rita von ihrer Vergangenheit eingeholt, es ist das Jahr 1989 - die Mauer fällt, die DDR hört auf zu bestehen...

In Belle Époque Paris, a 19th-century Parisian aristocrat falls in love with a lower-class prostitute who seduces him but never loves him.

法国人查理•西蒙（Philippe Torreton 饰）独自一人驱车来到中亚边境，车子故障后，他弃车而行。在一家夜总会他与一群年轻人度过狂乱之夜，护照和欧元都在酒醉时分赠与他人。次日，独自上路孑然一身的查理被警察当作间谍拘捕，一番波折后得到释放，他却拒绝补办护照，仍继续无尽的旅程。
在路上，查理遇见了专门收集和贩卖词语的萨满人，也邂逅了美丽善良的女教师乌尔詹（Ayanat Ksenbai 饰），他们和查理结伴而行，一同完成这荡涤灵魂的朝圣之旅……