Xavier Koller

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1944-06-17 (80 years old)

Place of Birth Ibach, Switzerland

Xavier Koller

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Xavier Koller (born 1944, Schwyz, Switzerland) is a Swiss film director and screenwriter. His film Journey of Hope won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1990. After graduating from High School, Koller first went through a four-year apprenticeship as a precision toolmaker and then, after three years of training at the Academy of Drama in Zurich, Switzerland, graduated as an actor/director. The next several years he spent acting and directing at German and Swiss theatres. He did a number of TV-plays as an actor, directed commercials, acted in movies, and then started to write and direct feature films. He is currently working on 2011 project Hit TV. Description above from the Wikipedia article Xavier Koller, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Director

2015
2014
The Black Brothers

as Director

2006
Havarie

as Director

2002
Cowboy Up

as Director

2000
Gripsholm

as Director

1990
Journey of Hope

as Director

1986
Tanner

as Director

1979
The Frozen Heart

as Director

1979
Der Galgensteiger

as Director

1972
Hannibal

as Director

Actor

2011
Schawinski

as Self

2004
Kulturplatz

as Self

2001
Aeschbacher

as Self

1985
Der Club

as Self