Manuel Sanchez

Manuel Sanchez was born on Jan 09, 1958 in France. Manuel Sanchez's big-screen debut came with Les arcandiers directed by Manuel Sanchez in 1991.

Manuel Sanchez was born in Garchizy, France. He studied literature and psychology at the University of Clermont-Ferrand where he discovered auteur cinema thanks to the Ciné-Club Universitaire in the Faculty of Letters which introduced him to the films of Glauber Rocha, Bernardo Bertolucci and Luigi Comencini, Wim Wenders, Fassbinder, and others. After leaving university he spent a year and a half in Latin America living in Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Colombia. Upon returning to France he studied cinema at the Free Conservatory of French Cinema in Paris, and law at the Faculty of Law and Politics at the University of Reims.