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PARIS — Pierre Schoendoerffer, an Oscar-winning French filmmaker who was held prisoner in Indochina and chronicled the pain of war on screen and on the page, has died. He was 83.
The French military health service confirmed that he died Wednesday. France’s Le Figaro newspaper said Schoendoerffer died in a hospital outside Paris after an operation.
“France will miss him,” President Nicolas Sarkozy said in a statement that praised the “legendary filmmaker and novelist” for risking his life for France and “helping us better understand our collective history.”
Born in central Franceo on May 5, 1928, Schoendoerffer served as a cameraman in the French army in the 1950s and volunteered to be parachuted into the besieged fortress of Dien Bien Phu, where the decisive battle of the French war in Indochina was fought.
When the stronghold fell to the Vietnamese guerrilla army in May 1954, Schoendoerffer was captured and spent four months in a POW camp before being repatriated.
After the war, Schoendoerffer became a war correspondent in Algeria, and also worked in Malaysia, Morocco, Yemen and Laos.
He first gained fame as a film director for the gritty realism of his 1965 film “The 317th Platoon,” which traced of a doomed group of French and Laotian soldiers retreating through the jungles ahead of the final rebel offensive in 1954. Critics have described the black-and-white film as a masterpiece among war movies in general, and among the best Vietnam War films ever made.
Schoendoerffer also made his mark as a screenwriter for his 1975 film “Drummer Crab” — based on a book he wrote by the same name — and the 1982 film “A Captain’s Honor.”
In 1991, he returned to Vietnam to film “Dien Bien Phu,” a big-budget docudrama about the 55-day battle that ended France’s colonial rule in Indochina and marked the start of the U.S. involvement there.
Schoendoerffer won an Academy Award in 1968 for his documentary “The Anderson Platoon,” filmed in Vietnam.
In honoring Schoendoerffer, Sarkozy’s office referred to this year’s Oscar success of the French-directed film “The Artist.”
“At a moment when our cinema is triumphing in the world, the chief of state salutes, in Pierre Schoendoerffer, one of the very rare French directors who, thanks to the universality of his message, won an Oscar.”
法国著名导演兼小说家皮埃尔·肖恩多夫前天凌晨在巴黎去世，享年83岁。
肖恩多夫是法国电影凯撒奖创始人之一。上世纪50年代，肖恩多夫作为法国军队摄影师参加了法国在印度支那的战争，1954年5月在越南奠边府被俘，4个月后获释。此后，他曾在阿尔及利亚、马来西亚、摩洛哥等地作为战地记者工作。
肖恩多夫创作了小说《317分队》和《蟹鼓》，并拍摄了两部同名电影。其中，被誉为最好越战片之一的《317分队》使他作为电影导演声名鹊起。《蟹鼓》一片于1977年获得3项法国电影凯撒奖。他的其他电影作品有《队长的荣誉》《奠边府》等。
法国总统萨科齐当天发表书面声明说：“法兰西将怀念此人，他拥有约瑟夫·康拉德和杰克·伦敦作品中英雄人物一般的高尚品质和伟大灵魂。” |
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发表于 2016-8-8 08:50:50