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Barbet Schroeder
Birth at
26 August 1941
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Barbet Schroeder was born on April 26, 1941 in Tehran, where his father, a German geologist, was working at the time. His childhood and adolescence were spent traveling the world with his family. He received his education at the Sorbonne, where he began to engage in film criticism. For a short time Barbet Schroeder was a producer of jazz concerts and a photo chronicler, and then became an assistant director Jean-Luc Godard. In 1964, Schroeder founded his own film company, Les Films du Losange. Among
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Barbet Schroeder was born on April 26, 1941 in Tehran, where his father, a German geologist, was working at the time. His childhood and adolescence were spent traveling the world with his family. He received his education at the Sorbonne, where he began to engage in film criticism. For a short time Barbet Schroeder was a producer of jazz concerts and a photo chronicler, and then became an assistant director Jean-Luc Godard. In 1964, Schroeder founded his own film company, Les Films du Losange. Among the films she released were several films by Eric Romer. Schroeder began his directing career with documentary films, and in 1972 he staged the first feature film “Valley”. In 1987, he shot a dramatic film in the United States, where he played Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway. This work was highly praised by critics and participated in the competition of the Cannes Film Festival. His next picture, “The vicissitudes of fortune” (1990), telling about the case of Klaus von Bülow, was nominated for several professional awards, including the “Oscar”. In 1992, the commercially successful thriller Lonely White Woman was released, starring Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Lee. In the future, the director continued to work with success in the field of the thriller, putting such films as “The Kiss of Death” (1995), “Desperate Measures” (1998), “Our Lady of Murderers” (2000), “The Countdown of Murders” (2002). It is worth noting that almost always the director acted as a producer of his paintings. Also Barbet Schroeder starred in several episodic roles ("Queen Margot", "Mars Attacks!", "Beverly Hills Cop III").