Born in Switzerland. After graduating from High School, Xavier Koller
first went through a four-year apprenticeship as a precision toolmaker
and then, after three years of training at the Academy of Drama in
Zurich, Switzerland, graduated as an actor/director.
The next several years he spent acting and directing at German and
Swiss theatres. He did a number of TV-plays as an actor, directed
commercials, acted in movies, and then started to write and direct
feature films.
