Michael Ballhaus Filmography

Born:: August 5, 1935 in Berlin, Germany
Occupation:: Cinematographer
Biography:: Cinematographer Michael Ballhaus has worked with some of the world's finest directors, including Ranier Werner Fassbinder, Mike Nichols, and Martin Scorsese. He broke into films after renowned director and family relation Max Ophuls allowed him to observe the filming of Lola Montes (1955)....Read More

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The Departed

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen

Synopsis: Legendary director Martin Scorsese takes the helm for this tale of questionable loyalties and blurring identities set in the South Boston organized crime scene and inspired by the wildly popular 2002 Hong Kong crime film Infernal Affairs. As the police force attempts to reign in the increasingly Read More

10/6/06
Cinematographer Style

Actors: Remi Adefarasin, Russ T. Alsobrook, Howard A. Anderson III, Peter Anderson

Synopsis: Over a hundred leading cameramen (and women) discuss the fine art of motion picture photography in this documentary. Cinematographer Style is compiled from interviews with a broad cross section of respected cinematographers, ranging from award-winning veterans such as Gordon Willis (The Read More

2006
Something's Gotta Give

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton, Keanu Reeves, Frances McDormand, Amanda Peet, Jon Favreau

Synopsis: In keeping with the light and slick tones of her earlier film What Women Want, Nancy Meyers writes and directs the romantic comedy Something's Gotta Give. Jack Nicholson plays Harry Langer, a swinging sixtysomething entertainment executive surrounded by plenty of young girlfriends. His latest Read More

12/12/03
Uptown Girls

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Brittany Murphy, Dakota Fanning, Marley Shelton, Donald Faison, Jesse Spencer

Synopsis: In this comedy from director Boaz Yakin (Remember the Titans), Brittany Murphy stars as Molly Gunn, the daughter of a dead rock star, who lives off her inheritance and has never worked a day in her life. When her father's estate is swindled away from her, Molly suddenly finds her life of luxury Read More

8/15/03
Gangs of New York

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz, Jim Broadbent, John C. Reilly

Synopsis: The violent rise of gangland power in New York City at a time of massive political corruption and the city's evolution into a cultural melting pot set the stage for this lavish historical epic, which director Martin Scorsese finally brought to the screen almost 30 years after he first began to Read More

2002
Fur Mich Gab Es Nur Noch Fassbinder - Die Glucklichen Opfer Des Rainer Werner F

Actors: Irm Hermann, Peer Raben, Hanna Schygulla

Synopsis: A made-on-HD video documentary about fascinating European filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder, directed by the equally notable Rosa von Prauheim, this feature attempts to shed light on his rocky life in a tell-all fashion. The film interviews several artists who worked with Fassbinder, dating back Read More

2001
The Legend of Bagger Vance

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Will Smith, Matt Damon, Charlize Theron, Bruce McGill, Joel Gretsch

Synopsis: Robert Redford directed this adaptation of a novel by Steven Pressfield that uses golf as a metaphor for one man's spiritual and philosophical journeys. Rannulph Junuh (Matt Damon) was a gifted amateur golfer from Savannah, GA, until traumatic experiences during World War I shattered his Read More

11/3/00
What Planet Are You From?

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Garry Shandling, Annette Bening, Greg Kinnear, Ben Kingsley, Linda Fiorentino, John Goodman, Richard Jenkins, Caroline Aaron, Judy Greer

Synopsis: Garry Shandling makes his big-screen debut as a leading man in this sci-fi romantic comedy. Harold (Shandling) is an alien from another galaxy sent to Earth on a vital mission: in order to ensure that his civilization will prevail, Harold must impregnate an Earth woman. But he discovers that this Read More

3/3/00
Wild Wild West

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Salma Hayek, Kenneth Branagh, Ted Levine

Synopsis: Yet another TV series is revived for the big screen, as Will Smith and Kevin Kline join forces as James T. West and Artemus Gordon, the most sophisticated government agents of the 1860's, in the film adaptation of The Wild Wild West. West and Gordon represent two opposite ends of the personality Read More

6/30/99
The Thirteenth Floor

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Craig Bierko, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gretchen Mol, Vincent D'Onofrio, Dennis Haysbert

Synopsis: The increasingly blurry lines between what is real and what is an artificial construct - both physically and philosophically - are the point of focus in the science fiction drama The Thirteenth Floor. In 1937, a man named Fuller (Armin Mueller-Stahl) gives a note to Ashton (Vincent D'Onofrio), the Read More

5/28/99
Primary Colors

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Billy Bob Thornton, Kathy Bates, Adrian Lester

Synopsis: Mike Nichols directed this Elaine May screenplay adapted from the 1996 bestseller by "Anonymous" (Joe Klein), who fictionalized Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign. In the New Hampshire primary, Governor Jack Stanton (John Travolta) convinces Henry Burton (Adrian Lester), grandson of a Read More

1998
Air Force One

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close, Wendy Crewson, Paul Guilfoyle, William H. Macy, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: In this action drama, Harrison Ford plays James Marshall, a onetime combat hero in the Vietnam War who is now President of the United States. While visiting the former Soviet Union, Marshall gives a speech in which he supports a get-tough attitude against both terrorists and a right-wing general Read More

1997
Sleepers

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Kevin Bacon, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Billy Crudup, Bruno Kirby, Jason Patric, Brad Pitt, Vittorio Gassman

Synopsis: Barry Levinson directed this crime drama based on a controversial bestseller. Jason Patrick stars as Lorenzo, a New York reporter more commonly called "Shakes," a nickname courtesy of his three childhood pals from Hell's Kitchen -- Michael (Brad Pitt), John (Ron Eldard), and Tommy (Billy Crudup). Read More

1996
Die Nacht der Regisseure

Actors: Leni Riefenstahl, Wim Wenders, Margarethe von Trotta, Detlev Buck

Synopsis: Utilizing computer-generated effects and creative splicing to place Germany's most famous living directors in a fantasy movie house, filmmaker Edgar Reitz takes an innovative approach toward exploring the history of German cinema. In this magical theater, directors such as Leni Riefenstahl, Detlev Buck Read More

1995
Outbreak

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, Cuba Gooding, Jr.

Synopsis: A handful of scientists struggle to prevent the destruction of a small town -- and possibly the entire country -- in this suspense drama. In the mid-1960s, a deadly virus is discovered in Zaire that wipes out an entire village in 24 hours. Government researchers are brought in to investigate, but Read More

1995
I'll Do Anything

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Nick Nolte, Whittni Wright, Albert Brooks, Julie Kavner, Joely Richardson, Tracey Ullman

Synopsis: James L. Brooks' showbiz comedy I'll Do Anything is "The Musical That Almost Was" (after test screenings Brooks removed all the musical numbers in the film, turning the film into a songless romantic comedy). Matt Hobbs (Nick Nolte) is a hardly working actor who finds himself raising his 6-year-old Read More

1994
Quiz Show

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: John Turturro, Rob Morrow, Ralph Fiennes, Paul Scofield, David Paymer

Synopsis: It's 1958, and the producers of the quiz show 21 have a problem. Their current champ, Herbert Stempel (John Turturro), has a phenomenal memory and a broad range of knowledge. He's also a pudgy loudmouth with a grating personality, so Herbert is encouraged to "take a dive" and allow Charles Read More

1994
Ich Will Nicht Nur, Dass Ihr Mich Liebt

Actors: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Hanna Schygulla, Karl Heinz Böhm, Ingrid Caven, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: The title of this documentary on Rainer Maria Fassbinder is just slightly changed from the title of a film that director made in 1976, entitled Ich Will Doch Nur, Dass Ihr Mich Liebt (I Only Want You to Love Me). The wunderkind of postwar German filmmaking died at age 36 in 1982 after making over Read More

1993
The Age of Innocence

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, Miriam Margolyes, Richard E. Grant, Alec McCowen

Synopsis: In Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Edith Wharton's 1920 novel, romance between an upper-class gentleman and an ostracized lady is doomed by 19th century New York society. Shortly after his engagement to blandly genteel May Welland (Winona Ryder), Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis) is reacquainted Read More

1993
Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography

Actors: Néstor Almendros, John A. Alonzo, Michael Ballhaus, Stephen H. Burum, Sven Nykvist, Vittorio Storaro, Haskell Wexler, Gordon Willis

Synopsis: The film equivalent of a stroll through the Louvre, the documentary Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography collects interviews with many of modern-day Hollywood's finest directors of photography and is illustrated by examples of their best work as well as scenes from the pictures which most Read More

1993
Bram Stoker's Dracula

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves, Richard E. Grant, Sadie Frost

Synopsis: Based on Bram Stoker's classic 1897 novel, this film from Francis Ford Coppola and screenwriter James Victor Hart offers a full-blooded portrait of the immortal Transylvanian vampire. The major departure from Stoker is one of motivation as Count Dracula (Gary Oldman) is motivated more by romance Read More

11/13/92
The Mambo Kings

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Armand Assante, Antonio Banderas, Cathy Moriarty, Maruschka Detmers, Desi Arnaz, Jr.

Synopsis: New York art dealer Arne Glimcher took his first crack at film directing with this florid, high-energy romance about two brothers who flee Cuba in the early 1950s to make it as musicians in the United States. Cynthia Cidre wrote the literate screenplay adapted from Oscar Hijuelos's Pulitzer Read More

2/28/92
What About Bob?

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Bill Murray, Richard Dreyfuss, Julie Hagerty, Charlie Korsmo, Kathryn Erbe

Synopsis: In this comedy about a doctor-patient relationship pushed way beyond the office, Bill Murray plays Bob Wiley, a neurotic New Yorker struggling with a whirlwind of paralyzing phobias. When an exasperated colleague pawns the handful off on Dr. Leo Marvin (Richard Dreyfuss), the psychologist has no Read More

5/17/91
Guilty by Suspicion

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Robert De Niro, Annette Bening, George Wendt, Patricia Wettig, Sam Wanamaker

Synopsis: The directorial debut of producer Irwin Winkler, Guilty by Suspicion is a sobering account of one movie executive's woes in dealing with the political fallout from the McCarthy Era Hollywood blacklist. Robert De Niro stars as David Merrill, a film director in the 1950s whose obsession with his Read More

3/15/91
GoodFellas

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino

Synopsis: Martin Scorsese explores the life of organized crime with his gritty, kinetic adaptation of Nicolas Pileggi's best-selling Wiseguy, the true-life account of mobster and FBI informant Henry Hill. Set to a true-to-period rock soundtrack, the story details the rise and fall of Hill, a half-Irish Read More

9/19/90
Postcards from the Edge

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, Richard Dreyfuss, Rob Reiner

Synopsis: Mike Nichols lends some comic structure to Carrie Fisher's best-selling confessional novel concerning a woman's struggles with drug addiction and mother-daughter rivalry (subjects Fisher admits to understanding all too well). Meryl Streep, in her most full-blown comic performance up to that point Read More

9/12/90
The Fabulous Baker Boys

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Michelle Pfeiffer, Beau Bridges, Ellie Raab, Jennifer Tilly

Synopsis: Real-life siblings Beau and Jeff Bridges star as the eponymous Fabulous Baker Boys. Musical prodigies both, the Bakers have long been teamed as a twin-piano act, with the less talented Frank (Beau Bridges) coasting on the skills of his brilliant younger brother Jack (Jeff Bridges). Their career Read More

10/13/89
The Uprising

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Carlos Catania, Oscar Castillo

Synopsis: Filmed in Nicaragua, The Uprising is set during the Sandinista rebellion of 1979. The main character is a young guard in the Somoza ranks. Politics don't enter in the argument: the youth is in the battle purely for the money. Meanwhile, the guard's ageing father becomes devoted to the rebel cause. Read More

1989
Working Girl

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, Joan Cusack, Alec Baldwin

Synopsis: Unhappy with her job and her loser boyfriend, Melanie Griffith takes a secretarial post at a major Wall Street firm. Her boss is Sigourney Weaver, an outwardly affable yuppie whose grinning visage hides a wicked and larcenous propensity for exploiting the ideas of her employees. While Weaver is Read More

12/21/88
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Steve Martin, Michael Caine, Glenne Headly, Anton Rodgers, Barbara Harris

Synopsis: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a remake of the 1964 film farce Bedtime Story. Steve Martin and Michael Caine take over the roles originally played by Marlon Brando and David Niven: two international con artists, plying their trade on gullible wealthy women up and down the Riviera. Martin and Caine vie Read More

12/14/88
The Last Temptation of Christ

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey, Harry Dean Stanton, David Bowie, Verna Bloom, Andre Gregory

Synopsis: Willem Dafoe plays Jesus Christ in this extraordinarily controversial adaptation of Nikos Kazantzaki's novel. The film depicts a sometimes reluctant, self-doubting Jesus, gradually coming to accept His divinity and the inexorability of His ultimate fate. The much-maligned sex scene with Mary Read More

8/12/88
The House on Carroll Street

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Kelly McGillis, Jeff Daniels, Mandy Patinkin, Christopher Rhode, Jessica Tandy

Synopsis: Yes, there are commies under the bed. But are there Nazis there too? Emily Crane (Kelly McGillis) is a modestly successful Life photo editor living in 1950s New York, until she is called before the Senate Un-American Activities Committee to testify about her "communist" associations. When she Read More

3/4/88
Broadcast News

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter, Robert Prosky, Lois Chiles, Joan Cusack, Jack Nicholson

Synopsis: Writer/director/producer James L. Brooks scores on all counts with this clear-eyed look at the television news business and the dysfunctional types who work in it. Brooks' intelligent script introduces us to Jane Craig (Holly Hunter), an ambitious producer at the network news division's Washington Read More

12/16/87
The Glass Menagerie

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Joanne Woodward, John Malkovich, Karen Allen, James Naughton

Synopsis: Paul Newman directed this moving adaptation of Tennessee Williams' classic play The Glass Menagerie. Joanne Woodward stars as aging Southern belle Amanda Wingfield, whose domineering parenting has driven her shy, timid daughter Laura (Karen Allen) inward and has made her adventure-hungry son Tom Read More

10/23/87
Baja Oklahoma

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Lesley Ann Warren, Peter Coyote, Swoosie Kurtz, Billy Vera, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: Based on a 1983 novel by Dan Jenkins, Baja Oklahoma is set sometime in the 1950s. Texas barmaid Lesley Ann Warren wants more than anything to be a rich and famous country-western songwriter. Unfortunately, she spends most of her time sorting out her many dead-end romances. Just when she thinks Read More

1987
The Color of Money

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Helen Shaver, John Turturro

Synopsis: Oscar-nominated in 1961 for his performance as pool hustler Fast Eddie Felson in The Hustler, Paul Newman won that award a quarter century later when he reprised the role in The Color of Money. At the end of The Hustler, Felson was banned for life from playing the game professionally. In the Read More

10/17/86
Under the Cherry Moon

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Prince, Steven Berkoff, Francesca Annis, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jerome Benton

Synopsis: Diminutive pop star Prince plays another variation on the suave gigolo in this vanity piece. Set on the French Riviera, the story follows Christopher Tracy as he plays piano in a bistro and woos rich Continental ladies for dollars. Tracy and his accomplice Tricky (Jerome Benton of The Time) Read More

7/2/86
After Hours

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom, Tommy Chong, Linda Fiorentino, Teri Garr

Synopsis: Martin Scorsese's After Hours is a dark, tragi-comic tale of a fish out of water, centering on an uptight, white-bread computer consultant from uptown Manhattan who finds himself in the nightmarish and incomprehensible (to him) world of Soho after dark. The ordeal begins when Paul Hackett (Griffin Read More

1985
Private Conversations

Actors: Arthur Miller, Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich, Volker Schlöndorff, Stephen Lang

Synopsis: Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 1986 Sundance Film Festival, Christian Blackwood's Private Conversations is a behind-the-scenes look at the process of turning Arthur Miller's Pulitzer-prize winning stage-play Death of a Salesman into an Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning made-for-television Read More

1985
Death of a Salesman

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich, Kate Reid, Stephen Lang, Charles Durning

Synopsis: In 1984, actor Dustin Hoffman starred in a critically-acclaimed Broadway revival of playwright Arthur Miller's classic Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Death of a Salesman. A year later, Hoffman and most of his fellow cast members starred in this made-for-TV production, the first English-language film Read More

1985
Reckless

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Aidan Quinn, Daryl Hannah, Kenneth McMillan, Cliff De Young, Lois Smith

Synopsis: Reckless is the word for rebellious teenaged Johnny Rourke (Aidan Quinn). With a drunken dad and a police-blotter rap sheet as long as his arm, Quinn pursues an "impossible" romance with Tracey Prescott (Daryl Hannah), a girl from a wealthy, highly respected family. Tracey is thrilled at the Read More

1984
Das Autogramm

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Hanns Zischler

Synopsis: In an overly-simplified parable about right and wrong, a folk singer and a boxer arrive in a small town together on the train, invited by the town to participate in a festival. When they get there, first the brutish military police search both of them for evidence of insurrection or rebellion Read More

1984
Heartbreakers

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Peter Coyote, Nick Mancuso, Carole Laure, Max Gail, James Laurenson

Synopsis: Los Angeles is the playing field for producer/ writer/ director Bobby Roth's Heartbreakers. Peter Coyote and Nick Mancusco play a couple of thirty-something holdovers from the 1960s. Coyote is an artist specializing in S&M poses, while Mancusco is heir apparent to a large garment-manufacturing Read More

1984
Old Enough

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Sarah Boyd, Rainbow Harvest, Neil Barry, Danny Aiello, Susan Kingsley

Synopsis: Director and writer Marissa Silver debuted with this captivating film on the friendship of two young girls from opposite sides of the economic tracks but same side of town. Twelve-year-old Lonnie Sloan (Sarah Boyd) is a well-to-do New York rich kid and Karen Bruckner (Rainbow Harvest) is the more Read More

1984
Ediths Tagebuch

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Angela Winkler, Vadim Glowna

Synopsis: Edith runs a left-wing journal and when her marriage starts to fall apart (her husband is unfaithful), she can find no solace in her son who is more of a problem than an asset. On top of heading toward a divorce and being unable to handle her son's asocial tendencies, her neurotic uncle moves in Read More

1983
Heller Wahn

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Hanna Schygulla, Angela Winkler, Peter Striebeck, Christine Fersen, Franz Buchrieser

Synopsis: Hanna Schygulla and Angela Winkler are the stars of the German psychological drama Friends and Husbands. Having both been burned by unhappy relationships with men, Schygulla and Winkler become more and more reliant upon each other. The men in their lives can't come to grips with their strong Read More

1983
Baby It's You

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Rosanna Arquette, Vincent Spano, Joanna Merlin, Jack Davidson, Nick Ferrari

Synopsis: In the early 1960s, two very different New Jersey high schoolers share their first love in this bittersweet romantic drama, an early feature by writer/director John Sayles. Jill Rosen (Rosanna Arquette) is a sweet, overachieving Jewish girl heading for college to become an actor; "Sheik" Read More

1983
Der Zauberberg

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Rod Steiger, Marie-France Pisier, Flavio Bucci, Christoph Eichhorn, Hans-Christian Blech

Synopsis: Hans Castrop (Christoph Eichhorn) goes to visit a cousin in a Swiss tuberculosis sanatorium, intending to stay for about three weeks, but instead ends up staying for seven years observing the fascinating inhabitants at this supposed haven from the society that has slid downhill to the brink of Read More

1982
Ruby's Dream

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Joe Pesci, Karen Ludwig, Evan Handler, Ivy Ray Browning, Frank Vincent

Synopsis: This off-kilter German film attempts to tell a purely American story as filtered through European sensibilities. Joe Pesci plays Ruby Dennis, a Jewish bowling alley/nightclub manager in New Jersey. Despite his tacky surroundings, Ruby convinces himself that he's just about to hit the big time in Read More

1982
Lili Marleen

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Hanna Schygulla, Giancarlo Giannini, Mel Ferrer, Karl-Heinz von Hassel, Christine Kaufmann

Synopsis: German cabaret star Lili Marleen inspired a song that was extremely popular with the German soldiers during WW II. This war drama offers a fictionalized account of her story that begins in 1938 while she performs in a Zurich cabaret. It is her boyfriend, a Swiss Jew who also turns out to be a Read More

1981
Wo Geht's Denn Hier Zum Film?

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Peter Kern, Kurt Raab, Dolly Dollar, Benno Hoffmann

Synopsis: Two bit players in the movies share a home together, spend their days getting as much work as they can, and keep scrapbooks of their minor triumphs - literally in the background of the cinematic world. Costumed in character as an executive, one of the players is riding the bus to work when a woman Read More

1981
Looping

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Shelley Winters, Hans-Christian Blech, Ingrid Caven, Sydne Rome, Adrian Hoven

Synopsis: Looping is an obscure German melodrama bearing traces of the silent classic Variety. Shelley Winters and Hans-Christian Blech star as Carmen and Johnny, two carnival performers. Business is bad, and their act is going nowhere. To lure in new audiences, Johnny hires a stripteaser named Tanja (Sydne Read More

1981
Malou

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Ingrid Caven, Grischa Huber, Helmut Griem, Ivan Desny

Synopsis: In this drama, a young wife leaves her German home to discover the identity of her mysterious late mother who married a Jewish German during WW II. Her mother was French, and soon after she married her aristocratic husband, Hitler came to power, causing the couple to flee to Argentina. Later he Read More

1981
Deutscher Fruehling

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Elisabeth Stepanek, Bernd Spitzer

Synopsis: Set in a small Austrian village just as the Germans invade in the spring of 1938, this wartime drama by Dieter Berner is the fifth and last film in a series on Austria in the first half of the 20th Century. The series was produced for Austrian television. In this story a young woman, her brother Read More

1980
Gross und Klein

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Edith Clever, Gerhard Bienert, Tina Engel, Johanna Hofer

Synopsis: Gross und Klein is a respectable four-hour drama based on a play by Botho Strauss about a woman, Lotte (Edith Clever), and her relationships with a wide range of characters in Saarbruecken. Lotte interacts with liberal artists and a conservative elite, and along the way, the sorrows and joys of Read More

1980
Kaleidoskop: Valeska Gert, Nur zum Spass-nur zum Spiel