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Xavier Koller
Xavier Koller (holding theOscar statuette)
Born	(1944-06-17)17 June 1944 (age 81) Schwyz, Switzerland
Education	Academy of Drama, Zurich, Switzerland
Occupation	Filmmaker
Years active	1972–present

Xavier Koller (born 17 June 1944,Schwyz, Switzerland) is a Swissfilm director andscreenwriter. He is most known for his work on theDisney live action filmSquanto: A Warrior's Tale, an adventure historical fiction film based on the life ofSquanto, and his filmJourney of Hope, which won theAcademy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in1990.^[1]

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 theAcademy of Drama inZurich, Switzerland, graduated as an actor/director. The next several years he spent acting and directing atGerman 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.

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• Hannibal (1972) (director, screenplay)
• Mädchen, die am Wege liegen (1976) (director: additional scenes)
• Trilogie 1848: Der Galgensteiger (1979) (director, writer) (TV film)
• The Frozen Heart (Das gefrorene Herz) (1979) (director, screenplay)
• Tanner (Der schwarze Tanner) (1985) (director, writer)
• Journey of Hope (Reise der Hoffnung) (1990) (director, writer)
• Squanto: A Warrior's Tale (1994) (director)
• Gripsholm (2000) (director)
• Cowboy Up (2001) (director)
• Highway [de] (2002) (director, writer) (short film)
• Havarie [de] (2006) (director) (TV film)
• Someone Like Me [de] (2012) (director, writer)
• Die schwarzen Brüder [it] (2013) (director)
• Little Mountain Boy [de] (2015) (director, writer)

• Xavier Koller atIMDb
• Xavier Koller at theSwiss Film Directory

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