Pierre Schoendoerffer

Directing

Born: 1928-05-05 · Chamalières, Puy-de-Dôme, France

Pierre Schoendoerffer (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 o…