Barbet Schroeder

Barbet Schroeder born 26 August 1941 is an Iranianborn Swiss film director and producer who started his career in French cinema in the 1960s working with directors of the French New Wave such as JeanLuc Godard Jacques Rivette and Eric Rohmer Schroeder started his career producing such films as The Bakery Girl of Monceau 1962 Six in Paris 1965 and Celine and Julie Go Boating 1974 He then transitioned into directing films such as More 1969 La Vallée 1972 and Barfly 1987 the last of which was nominated for the Palme dOr He also gained recognition for directing the documentary Koko A Talking Gorilla 1978 He directed what he labeled The Trilogy of Evil which includes the films General Idi Amin Dada A Self Portrait 1974 Terrors Advocate 2007 and The Venerable W 2016 He directed the drama Reversal of Fortune 1990 and earned a nomination for Academy Award for Best Director He then directed many big budget Hollywood films often mixing melodrama with the thriller genre in films like Single White Female 1992 Kiss of Death 1995 Desperate Measures 1998 and Murder by Numbers 2002 He also acted in Beverly Hills Cop III 1994 Mars Attacks 1996 and The Darjeeling Limited 2007 Description above from the Wikipedia article Barbet Schroeder licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia