Barbet Schroeder

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birthdate = August 26, 1941
birthplace = Tehran, Iran

Barbet Schroeder (born August 26, 1941) is a French movie director and producer who started his career in French cinema in the 1960s, working together with directors such as Jean-Luc Godard and Jacques Rivette.

Schroeder was born in Tehran, Iran, the son of Ursula, a German-born physician, and Jean-William Schroeder, a Swiss geologist. [ [http://www.filmreference.com/film/12/Barbet-Schroeder.html Barbet Schroeder Biography (1941-) ] ] [ [http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800024458/bio Barbet Schroeder Biography - Yahoo! Movies ] ]

Schroeder's production company "Les Films du Losange", founded by him at age 23, produced some of the best-known films of the French New Wave. His directorial debut, "More" (1969), about heroin addiction, became a hit in Europe. Pink Floyd wrote music for this movie and released the album, "Soundtrack from the Film More". They also wrote the soundtrack for his 1972 film "La Vallée", released as the album "Obscured by Clouds".

He later went on to direct more mainstream Hollywood fare, such as "Barfly" (1987) starring Mickey Rourke, "Single White Female" (1992), and "Reversal of Fortune" (1990), for which Jeremy Irons as Claus von Bülow received an Academy Award. Despite his many commercially successful films, Schroeder continues to be interested in making smaller films with a more limited audience, such as the adaptation of Colombian writer Fernando Vallejo's controversial novel "La virgen de los sicarios" (2000) or the 1974 documentary "General Idi Amin Dada", about the titular Ugandan dictator and "Terror's advocate" (2007) about terrorism in the last 50 years seen through the eyes of a lawyer, Jacques Vergès, and his clients.

Schroeder has also made some acting appearances, such as his cameo as the President of France in "Mars Attacks!" (1996), a hair products salesman in "Paris, je t'aime" (2006) and the mechanic in "Darjeeling Limited" (2007).

Filmography

Director

* 1969 : "More"
* 1972 : "La Vallée"
* 1974 : "" ("General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait") (documentary)
* 1976 : "Maîtresse"
* 1978 : "" ("Koko: A Talking Gorilla") (documentary)
* 1984 : "Tricheurs"
* 1987 : "Barfly"
* 1987 : "The Charles Bukowski Tapes"
* 1990 : "Reversal of Fortune"
* 1992 : "Single White Female"
* 1995 : "Kiss of Death"
* 1996 : "Before and After"
* 1998 : "Desperate Measures"
* 2000 : "La virgen de los sicarios"
* 2002 : "Murder by Numbers"
* 2007 : "Terror's Advocate"
* 2008 : ""

Actor

* 1974 : "Celine and Julie go boating"
* 1994 : "La Reine Margot" (Patrice Chéreau)
* 1996 : "Mars Attacks!" (Tim Burton)
* 2006 : "Paris, je t'aime"
* 2007 : "Darjeeling Limited" [ [http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN0335488320070904?pageNumber=3 Torturous ride] ; Retrieved on 2007-09-04]
* 2007 : "Ne touchez pas la hache"

References

External links

* [http://www.filmsdulosange.fr/ Les Films du Losange]
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