Barbet Schroeder
Barbet Schroeder (born 1941) is a Swiss filmmaker, producer, and actor whose career has moved freely between European art cinema and Hollywood. Born in Tehran to a German doctor and a Swiss geologist, he grew up partly in Colombia before studying at the Sorbonne. At twenty-three he founded the production company Les Films du Losange, which produced some of the most influential films of the French New Wave, including Éric Rohmer's The Bakery Girl of Monceau and Six in Paris and Jacques Rivette's Céline and Julie Go Boating. As a director he made the heroin drama More (1969) and the Pink Floyd-scored La Vallée (1972); his Hollywood years include the Bukowski adaptation Barfly (1987, a Palme d'Or nominee) and Reversal of Fortune (1990), which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Director. His documentary "Trilogy of Evil" — General Idi Amin Dada, Terror's Advocate, and The Venerable W. — runs in parallel through his career.