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.

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.

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.

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）
内容简介:
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...

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。

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...

1966 film by Volker Schlöndorff

马克思（斯特兰·斯卡斯加德 Stellan Skarsgård 饰）是一名作家，近日里他即将前往纽约参加新书的签售会。在纽约，居住着两个他生命中非常重要的女人，一个是他的妻子克拉拉（苏珊·伍尔夫 Susanne Wolff 饰），另一个是他17年前的初恋情人瑞贝卡（尼娜·霍斯 Nina Hoss 饰）。
虽然克拉拉和马克思一直过着分居两地的生活，但克拉拉却坚信她和丈夫之间的感情非常坚定。但这段婚姻对于马克思来说俨然是另一番光景了，对于无限崇拜自己的妻子，马克思已经失去了新鲜感，他满心所想的，都是瑞贝卡的身影。马克思想方设法和瑞贝卡取得了联系，但瑞贝卡很显然并不期待这场迟到了17年的约会。

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 the rational Faber doesn't know what fate has in mind for him for past doings.

After a chance encounter with a wanted man, a woman is harassed by the police and press until she takes violent action.

铁皮鼓导演Volker Schloendorff的又一作品，《乱世启示录》，英文片名为 The Ogre，德文为Der Unhold，意为‘食人魔’，故事讲一个法国战俘亚伯（约翰马可维奇饰演）在战争中的所见所闻与所思。

Nine fictitious documentaries and films reflect the mood of late 1970s Germany, particularly the two-month period in 1977 when a businessman was kidnapped by the RAF (Red Army Faction). The kidnap had been made to orchestrate the release of the original leaders of the RAF, aka the Baader-Meinhof.

1979 film directed by Volker Schlöndorff