Richard Dindo

Richard Dindo

Born in Zurich in 1944, he was the grandson of Italian immigrants who had settled in Switzerland. He left school at the age of 15 and began travelling, working in various food trades. He moved to Paris in 1966. Self-taught, he became a film-maker by watching several films a day at the Cinémathèque française and reading hundreds of books. In 1970, he returned to Switzerland to make his first film, Die Wiederholung (The Repetition). Living then in Zurich and Paris, he has made over twenty documentaries and one fiction film, El Suizo. Dindo’s films are shown all over the world, and numerous retrospectives have been devoted to him in Germany, France, the United States, Canada and Argentina.