Pierre Schoendoerffer
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Pierre Schoendoerffer at the Cinémathèque Française
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Pierre Schœndœrffer 5 May 1928 Chamalières, Puy-de-Dôme, France |
| Died | 14 March 2012 (aged 83) Clamart, Hauts-de-Seine |
| Spouse(s) | Patricia Schoendoerffer (1958–2012) |
| Awards |
Best Documentary Feature Won: 1968 The Anderson Platoon IATAS Outstanding Made for Television Documentary 1967 The Anderson Platoon |
Pierre Schoendoerffer (French: Pierre Schœndœrffer; 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 Documentary Feature for The Anderson Platoon. The film followed a platoon of American soldiers for six weeks at the height of fighting in Vietnam during 1966.
Pierre Schoendoerffer was born in Chamalières of a French Alsatian Protestant family. As Alsace was a territory contested and annexed in the 17th, 19th and 20th centuries by both France and Germany leading to the Franco-Prussian War (1870) next World War I (1914–18), his forefathers chose to remain French, even though they lost all their belongings.
His maternal grandfather, who was an 1870 veteran, volunteered in the French Army in 1914 at the age of 66 and the rank of Captain. He was killed during the Second Battle of the Aisne at Chemin des Dames. His father was the director of the Annecy hospital and died shortly after the end of the battle of France (1940) where he was injured.
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