Pierre Schoendoerffer

Director

Born: May 5, 1928
Died: March 14, 2012 (age 83)
From: Chamalières, Puy-de-Dôme, France

Pierre Schoendoerffer (5 May 1928 – 14 March 2012) was a French film director, a screenwriter, a writer, a war reporter, a war cameraman, a renowned First Indochina War veteran, a cinema academician. He was president of the Académie des Beaux-Arts for 2001 and for 2007. In 1967, he was the winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for The Anderson Platoon. The film followed a…

Filmography (13)

Pierre Schoendoerffer, the Sentinel of Memory (2011)
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Above the Clouds (2003)
Director
Dien Bien Phu (1992)
Director
A Captain's Honor (1982)
Director
Drummer-Crab (1977)
Director
Sept jours en mer
Sept jours en mer (1972)
Director
The Anderson Platoon (1967)
Director
Objective: 500 Million (1966)
Director
The 317th Platoon (1965)
Director
Attention hélicoptères
Attention hélicoptères (1961)
Director
The Devil's Pass (1959)
Director
Island Fisherman (1959)
Director
Ramuntcho (1958)
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