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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.
Pierre Schoendoerffer est un romancier, réalisateur, scénariste et documentariste français, né le 5 mai 1928 à Chamalières et mort le 14 mars 2012 à Clamart . Lauréat de l' Académie française, récompensé par un Oscar, il était membre de l' Académie des beaux-arts depuis 1988.
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.
- Director, Writer, Actor
- May 5, 1928
- Pierre Schoendoerffer
- March 14, 2012
Mar 15, 2012 · Pierre Schoendoerffer, who has died aged 83, was one of the few directors of war films who had actually lived out the adventures of his soldier heroes.
- Ronald Bergan
Mar 15, 2012 · Pierre Schoendoerffer, a celebrated French film director and novelist whose experience as a prisoner during the Indochina War fueled his cinematic quests for meaning, and even beauty, in the...
Mar 14, 2012 · Oscar-winning French documentary-maker and journalist Pierre Schoendoerffer has died at the age of 83, the French military health service has confirmed. Following military service, he...
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Mar 15, 2012 · Pierre Schoendoerffer, a French journalist, novelist and Oscar-winning filmmaker whose unsparing eye illuminated the brutality and moral ambiguity of combat in Vietnam and Algeria, died...
