Pierre Schoendoerffer was a French film director, a screenwriter, a writer, a war reporter, a war cameraman, a renowned First Indochina War veteran, a cinema academician.
21 Facts About Pierre Schoendoerffer
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Pierre Schoendoerffer was president of the Academie des Beaux-Arts for 2001 and for 2007.
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Pierre Schoendoerffer was born in Chamalieres of a French Alsatian Protestant family.
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Pierre Schoendoerffer's maternal grandfather, who was an 1870 veteran, volunteered in the French Army in 1914 at the age of 66 and the rank of captain.
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Pierre Schoendoerffer was killed during the Second Battle of the Aisne at Chemin des Dames.
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Pierre Schoendoerffer's father was the director of the Annecy hospital and died shortly after the end of the battle of France, where he was injured.
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Pierre Schoendoerffer met his wife Patricia in Morocco, she was a journalist for France-Soir.
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Pierre Schoendoerffer died, aged 83, on 14 March 2012 in France.
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Young Pierre Schoendoerffer had realized he was not born to be a mariner, but he did not want to be a soldier either, thinking he would be wasting his time.
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Pierre Schoendoerffer's first SCA production was a 9-minute short documentary First Indochina War Rushes that would surface thirty years later on screen in The Honor of a Captain.
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Pierre Schoendoerffer filmed the entire battle for the SCA but after the French ceasefire and the defeat, just as the other soldiers destroyed their equipment so that it would not be captured by the Viet Minh, Schoendoerffer destroyed his films and camera.
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Pierre Schoendoerffer was released by the Viet Minh four months later, on 1 September 1954.
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Over dinner and a long "Kesselian" night with a lot of alcohol and even a little bit of opium, Pierre Schoendoerffer narrated his three-year adventure in Indochina to Kessel who was impressed.
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In Hollywood Pierre Schoendoerffer became an apprentice on a movie for ten days, thanks to his connections with Life magazine, but without a Green Card he was eventually forced to leave.
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Pierre Schoendoerffer became a war correspondent, filming the riots for the French audience - Morocco was then a French protectorate.
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At this point Pierre Schoendoerffer was confused with his young career, the major Pathe bringing him back to the situation he experienced in 1951.
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Pierre Schoendoerffer received acclaim in international short and feature film festivals.
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Pierre Schoendoerffer is president of the Academie des Beaux-Arts since 2001.
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Pierre Schoendoerffer was primarily influenced by epic adventure novels, notably Joseph Kessel's Fortune Carree.
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Young Pierre Schoendoerffer was inspired by Hollywood movies he watched instead of going to high school class.
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Pierre Schoendoerffer's own experience as a mariner, a Vietnam veteran and a globetrotter is a strong inspiration in most of his works.