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Peter Reichenbach was born in 1954 in Zurich. After graduating from school, he worked as an assistant director, for directors such as Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Peter Stein, Peter Beauvais, Michael Hampe and Imo Moszkowicz, among others. He gained his first experience in film and television from his uncle François Reichenbach ("Le Japon insolite," "Houston Texas," "Salzburg, Portrait einer Festspielstadt," "Lettres de Paris et d'ailleurs" among others). From 1977 to 1980, he worked as an assistant director and a production manager at the Frankfurt Opera and the Salzburg Festival together with Virginio Puecher, Jürgen Flimm, Hans Neuenfels, August Everding, among others. From 1981 to 1989, Peter Reichenbach resided in West Berlin and worked as a freelance theater and opera director at the Schiller Theater, the Berliner Kammerspiele, Theater der Freien Volksbühne Berlin, Theater des Westens, the Frankfurt Opera, the Zurich Opera, the Bonn Opera, the Lyric Opera Chicago, the Staatstheater Saarbrücken, and Long Beach Opera. As a film director, he realized film portraits on the pianist Géza Anda and Arthur Maria Rabenalt. Peter Reichenbach has resided in Zurich since 1989. Until 1999, he worked as a film producer at Condor Films (he directed and produced the Sitcom "Boxer Shorts" a.o.). In 1998, he was the producer of "Fiddlefest in Central Park" (Time Warner). In 1999, along with Peter-Christian Fueter and Edi Hubschmid, he founded C-Films AG. The produced films have won various prestigeous national and international awards, including two Swiss Film Awards for "Best Picture" ("Azzuro", "Rascals on the Road") and "Best Actor" ("Big Deal", "Füür oder Flamme", "The Fosterboy"), various audience awards and honors at international festivals (e.g. "Golden Leopard", international film festival Locarno 2000 for "Azzurro"), the German Film Award for the coproduction "Das wahre Leben", awards in various categories at the German Television Award ("A Passing Angel", "The Manns - Novel of a Century", "In the Name of God") as well as the International Emmy Award for the coproduction "In the Name of God" and "The Manns - Novel of a Century". The productions "Rascals on the Road", "Grounding - The last Days of the Swissair", "The Foster Boy", "Night Train to Lissabon" and "I am the Keeper" count among the biggest Box-Office Successes in recent Swiss film history.
