About Barbet Schroeder
Barbet Schroeder (born 26 August 1941) is an Iranian-born 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 Jean-Luc 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 d'Or. He also gained recognition for directing the documentary Koko: A Talking Gorilla (1978). He directed what he labeled "The Trilogy of Evil": General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait (1974), Terror's 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). Schroeder's production company Les Films du Losange, founded by him at age 23, produced some of the best-known films of the French New Wave. Schroeder directed the 12th episode of the third season of the American dramatic television series Mad Men that first aired on 1 November 2009. His directorial debut, More (1969), about heroin addiction, became a hit in Europe.
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