![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Actor Born: April 26, 1941 in Teheran, Iran Biography:"Barbet Schroeder"'s Swiss geologist father was on assignment in Iran when he was born. After a globe-trotting childhood, Schroeder was educated at the Sorbonne; then, like half the under-30 population of France (or so it seemed), he became a movie critic. Brief jobs as a jazz concert producer and news photographer followed before Schroeder went to work as an assistant for one of his role models, French director "Jean-Luc Godard". In 1964, the 22-year-old Schroeder set up his own film production company, Les Films du Losange. Among the many prominent pictures produced by Schroeder include director "Eric Rohmer"'s "Moral Tales" "La Collectioneuse" (1966), "My Night at Maud's" (1969), and "Claire's Knee" (1970). Schroeder himself turned director with 1969's "More", gaining critical attention with several unorthodox documentaries. With the American film "Barfly" (1987), Schroeder established himself as a... Full Biography
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