Xavier Koller

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 fouryear apprenticeship as a precision toolmaker and then after three years of training at the Academy of Drama in Zurich Switzerland graduated as an actordirector The next several years he spent acting and directing at German and Swiss theatres He did a number of TVplays 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia