Pierre Schoendoerffer

Born May 5, 1928· Chamalières, Puy-de-Dôme, France

† Died March 14, 2012

1Roles★ 6.7Average rating

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 of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for The Anderson Platoon. The film followed a plato… Read more

Known for

The Anderson Platoon1967

Filmography

YearRating

★ 6.7

The Anderson Platoon1967

narrator

Also behind the camera

The films and series they directed.

★ 6.5

Dien Bien Phu1992

★ 6.5

Drummer-Crab1977

★ 6.7

The Anderson Platoon1967

★ 5.9

Objective: 500 Million1966

★ 7.3

The 317th Platoon1965