- Nationality:
French / Swiss
- Date
of birth: 8 October 1962
- Married,
two children
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- Born
in Neuilly sur Seine (France), a French and Swiss
national, film director Georges Gachot has been
directing classical music documentaries since 1990. He
left Paris at the age of 18 to go to Switzerland where
he simultaneously studied electrical engineer at the
Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology
Zurich
(Diploma in 1988 with specializing: Acoustics,
Automatic Control Technology and Applied Digital
Information Processing) and devoted himself to his
passion for piano and musicology.
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- In
1985, he appeared in adverts and institutional films
before working for the music Naxos label at the time
when video clips presenting the greatest classical
works were launched. He was then commissioned by
various TV channels to direct films such as portraits
of composers and interpreters. He began to produce his
own films in 1996 some of which will be distributed to
cinemas. He received the prestigious "Prix Italia" for
his portrait of Argentinean pianist Martha Argerich in
2002. Georges Gachot has been interested in Cambodia
since 1996 and has directed 4 documentary feature
films about the country as well as the humanitarian
works of the paediatrician and cellist Beat Richner.
He tackles for the first time a subject other than
classical music in his film on Brazilian singer Maria
Bethânia.
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- Have
a look to his filmography.
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