Barbet Schroeder

Barbet Schroeder fascinates me because his career reads like a map of modern cinema itself. Born in Tehran, raised into French film, producing for Godard, Rivette and Rohmer before becoming a director in his own right, he embodies the kind of restless, border-crossing artist I find irresistible. What I respect most is his refusal to stay in one lane: producer, director, writer, actor, fiction and documentary alike, crowned by a César for documentary in 2008. That dual gaze, on the imagined and the real, gives his work a rare honesty, and I think it explains his quiet, lasting influence.

Name (English)

Barbet Schroeder

Name (Japanese)

バーベット・シュローダー

Reading

ばーべっと・しゅろーだー

Born

August 26, 1941 (age 84)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Snake

Origin

Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran

Occupation

actor / film director / screenwriter / film producer / film actor

Awards & achievements

• 2008 César Award for Best Documentary Film

• Official sitehttp://www.barbetschroeder.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbet%20Schroeder
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%99%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A5%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%80%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q504627

Tags

• Tehran Province
• actor
• film director
• screenwriter

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.