Pierre Schoendoerffer Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Pierre Schoendoerffer (French: Pierre Schœndœrffer; 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 Documentary Feature for The Anderson Platoon. The film followed a platoon of American soldiers for six weeks at the height of fighting in Vietnam during 1966.
His father was a doctor who ran a hospital in Annecy.
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In 1946, he spent his summer as a fisherman aboard a small fishing trawler in the Bourgneuf-en-Retz bay, near Pornic, Pays de la Loire (close to Brittany).
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French director and screenwriter, adept at shaping modern audience expectations of what authentic war films should look like. He was a former army reporter and photographer in Indo-China and Cambodia, taken prisoner at the battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954. Following his release, he became a war correspondent for 'Life', 'Time', 'Look' and 'Paris Match'. He also began making documentary films after meeting the writer and adventurer Joseph Kessel in 1955 in an opium den in Hong Kong. Kessel suggested Schoendoerffer direct his film "Passe du Diable", (set in Afghanistan), thus starting Schoendoerffer's career in films.
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