Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Birthdate
1941-08-26 (Age: 85)
Place of Birth
Tehran, Iran
Barbet Schroeder
Biography
Barbet Schroeder (born 26 August 1941) is an Iranian-born Swiss film director and producer who started his career in French cinema in the 1960s, working with directors of the French New Wave such as Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette and Eric Rohmer. Schroeder started his career producing such films as The Bakery Girl of Monceau (1962), Six in Paris (1965), and Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974). He then transitioned into directing films such as More (1969), La Vallée (1972) and Barfly (1987), the last of which was nominated for the Palme d'Or. He also gained recognition for directing the documentary Koko: A Talking Gorilla (1978). He directed what he labeled, "The Trilogy of Evil", which includes the films, General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait (1974), Terror's Advocate (2007) and The Venerable W. (2016). He directed the drama Reversal of Fortune (1990) and earned a nomination for Academy Award for Best Director. He then directed many big budget Hollywood films, often mixing melodrama with the thriller genre in films like Single White Female (1992), Kiss of Death (1995), Desperate Measures (1998) and Murder by Numbers (2002). He also acted in Beverly Hills Cop III (1994), Mars Attacks! (1996) and The Darjeeling Limited (2007). Description above from the Wikipedia article Barbet Schroeder, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (39)
The Family
2023
The Venerable W.
2017
Jean Douchet, Restless Child
2017
What Are You Up To, Barbet Schroeder?
2017
Rouge
2015
Portrait of the Artist
2015
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
2014
Electra, for Instance
2013
Jean Douchet ou l’art d’aimer
2011
Making More
2011
Comme un chien
2010
The Darjeeling Limited
2007
Terror's Advocate
2007
The Duchess of Langeais
2007
