Gernot Roll
Gernot Roll | |
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Born | Dresden, Germany | 9 April 1939
Died | 12 November 2020 Munich, Germany | (aged 81)
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Gernot Roll (9 April 1939 – 12 November 2020) was a German cinematographer, film director and script writer. He collaborated on several films with directors Edgar Reitz and Sönke Wortmann. He was regarded as an expert on literary adaptations and film biographies, such as The Buddenbrooks, filming Thomas Mann's novel in eleven television episodes directed by Franz Peter Wirth, and the same work again in 2008 in the film directed by Heinrich Breloer.
Life
Roll was born in
Roll's breakthrough came with the celebrated 16-hour TV series
Roll's debut as a director was in the film Radetzkymarsch .[7] Roll was the director for films including the children's classic The Robber Hotzenplotz in 2006.[2] In 2008, he was the cinematographer for Heinrich Breloer's film Die Buddenbrooks.[5]
Roll was one of the founding members of the Deutsche Filmakademie in 2003.[8]
He was married to the producer Rita Serra-Roll;[1] their son is the actor Michael Roll (born 1961).[1] They lived in the Hunsrück.
Roll died on 12 November 2020 in Munich after a severe illness, at the age of 81.[2][9]
Filmography
Films for which Roll was the cinematographer include:[9][10]
Year | Title | Director | Notes |
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1970 | The Last Escape | Walter Grauman | |
1971–72 | Salto Mortale | Michael Braun | TV series |
1977 | Zero Hour | Edgar Reitz | |
1979 | The Buddenbrooks | Franz Peter Wirth[11] | TV series |
1980 | Car-napping | Wigbert Wicker | |
1980 | Ein Stück Himmel | Wirth | |
1984 | Heimat – eine deutsche Chronik | Reitz | TV series |
1985 | Morenga | Egon Günther | |
1985 | Mit meinen heißen Tränen | Fritz Lehner | |
1989 | The Rose Garden | Fons Rademakers | |
1982 | Kleine Haie | Sönke Wortmann | |
1994 | Der bewegte Mann | Wortmann | |
1996 | Das Mädchen Rosemarie | Bernd Eichinger | TV film |
1996 | Beyond Silence | Caroline Link | |
2001 | Nowhere in Africa | Link | |
2001 | Die Manns – Ein Jahrhundertroman | Heinrich Breloer | miniseries |
2002 | Jedermanns Fest | Lehner | |
2005 | Speer und Er | Breloer | |
2008 | Buddenbrooks | Breloer[5] | |
2010 | Henri 4 | Jo Baier | |
2013 | Home from Home | Reitz | |
2019 | Brecht
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Breloer |
Awards
- 1982, 1985, 1993, 2000 Grimme-Preis[2]
- 1992, 1993, 2002 Deutscher Filmpreis – Best Cinematography[2]
- 1998 Deutscher Kamerapreis[4]
- 2013 Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany[12]
- 2014 Bavarian Film Awards Honorary award[2][7]
References
- ^ a b c d e Grübl, Josef (12 November 2020). "Meister des Lichts". Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 13 November 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Dieckmann, Cordula; Etscheit, Georg (12 November 2020). "Kameramann Gernot Roll ist tot". Sächsische Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 12 November 2020.
- ^ a b "Kameramann Gernot Roll ist tot". Der Spiegel. Hamburg. 13 November 2020. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
- ^ a b c d "Gernot Roll / Ehrenpreis 1998". Deutscher Kamerapreis (in German). 28 March 2018. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
- ^ a b c Pommerenke, Silvy. "Buddenbrooks / Eine Filmkritik". kino-zeit.de (in German). Retrieved 3 December 2020.
- ^ Yue, Tao (4 April 2003). "FILM REVIEW HHH: From a Distance – 'Nowhere in Africa': Quiet and Compelling". The Tech. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
- ^ a b Grübl, Josef (16 January 2015). "Stilles Genie hinter der Kamera". Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). Munich. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
- ^ Jungblut, Peter (12 November 2020). "Kameramann der "Heimat"-Chroniken: Gernot Roll gestorben". BR24 (in German). Retrieved 15 November 2020.
- ^ a b "Gernot Roll". filmportal.de (in German). 12 November 2020. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
- ^ "Gernot Roll". IEC – HOME (in German). Retrieved 23 November 2020.
- ^ "Buddenbrooks / 1979". deutsches-filmhaus.de (in German). Retrieved 3 December 2020.
- ^ "In Dresden geborener Kameramann Gernot Roll gestorben" (in German). MDR. 12 November 2020. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
External links
- Literature by and about Gernot Roll in the German National Library catalogue
- Gernot Roll at IMDb