Raoul Peck

Raoul Peck was born on 9 September 1953 in Port-au-Prince. As a child, he joined his father, an agronomist, in the Congo, where he had gone to replace the Belgian managers. He studied engineering and economics at Humboldt University in Berlin, was a taxi driver in New York for a year, then a journalist and photographer from 1980 to 1985, before attending the German Film and Television Academy. He was Haiti's Minister of Culture in the mid-1990s, and was nominated for the Oscar in 2017.

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• CinemaThe Man by the ShoreL'Homme sur les quaisRaoul Peck · 1993Cinema