Pierre Schoendoerffer, an Oscar-winning French filmmaker who was held prisoner in Indochina and chronicled the pain of war onscreen and on the page, died Wednesday, March 14, after an operation at a ...

PARISPARIS — 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 ...

It was hardly surprising that Schoendoerffer’s take on war was so demanding and unvarnished: he had started his career in film as a cameraman with the Service Cinématographique des Armées; dispatched ...

Pierre Schoendoerffer was a war photographer in what was known as Indochina in the early 1950s, and was a prisoner of war at Dien Bien Phu. The experience was, it can be inferred, a defining one for ...

Oscar-winning French filmmaker, novelist and war reporter Pierre Schoendoerffer, a renowned chronicler of conflicts from Vietnam to Algeria, has died aged 83, his family said Wednesday. "Pierre ...

Pierre Schoendoerffer, who has died aged 83, was an Oscar-winning French filmmaker who chronicled the pain of war on screen and on the page. His work influenced a generation of directors and helped ...