Bert Schmidt attended film school in Paris and has been working since 1986 - after assisting Rosa von Praunheim and the Iranian filmmaker Sohrab S. Saless - as a director, author and cameraman. Together with filmmaker Dieter Reifarth, he is co-owner of the Frankfurt-based production company Strandfilm. Together with Reifarth, Schmidt made the documentaries "Vivace", "Buecher" and "Hugo Meyer - der kleine Prinz vom Oederweg".

Source: German Films Service & Marketing GmbH