Xavier Koller

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.

Filmography

• Havarie (2006) (director) (TV)
• Highway (2002) (director, writer)
• Gripsholm (2000) (director)
• Ring of Fire (2000) (director)
• Squanto: A Warrior's Tale (1994) (director)
• Journey of Hope (Reise der Hoffnung) (1990) (director, writer)
• Tanner - The Rebellion (Der schwarze Tanner) (1985) (director, writer)
• The Frozen Heart (Das gefrorene Herz) (1979) (director, screenplay)
• Der Galgensteiger (1979) (director)
• Trilogie 1848 - Der Galgensteiger (1978) (director, writer) (TV)
• Mädchen, die am Wege liegen (1976) (director: additional scenes)
• Hannibal (1972) (director, screenplay)

External links

• Xavier Koller at the Internet Movie Database
• Xavier Koller at the Swiss Film Directory