Barbet Schroeder

Barbet Schroeder is an Iranianborn film director and producer who started his career in French cinema in the 1960s, working together with directors such as JeanLuc Godard and Jacques Rivette. Since the 1990s he has directed many big budget Hollywood films in which he often combined family drama with thriller and action genre.

Schroeder was born in Tehran, Iran, the son of Ursula, a Germanborn physician, and JeanWilliam Schroeder, a Swiss geologist. Both he and his family left Iran for France, where he studied at the Sorbonne in Paris.

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