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#1: From doc [2013]
#3: [Right] with dir Douglas Wolfsperger [2003]
Born: 5 August 1942, Sv. Jakub [now part of Banská Bystrica, Slovakia], Czechoslovakia.
Education: Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts [FAMU], Prague [1961-66].
Career: Went to West-Germany in 1969.
Ph music videos dir by Ester Krumbachová.
His son David was his focus puller and is now a doph who studied at the FAMU, Prague, and the NFTS, London. His brother Miloslav 'Slavo' [1945-] is a film director.
Appeared in the doc 'Wajda's Danton' [1982, Tomasz Pobóg-Malinowski; ph: Witold Stok].
Awards: Bundesfilmpreis in Gold [1972] for 'Eins'; Bundesfilmpreis in Gold [1977] for 'Die Eroberung der Zitadelle' & 'Der Fangschuß'; Czech 'Lion' Award nom [1998] for 'Postel'.
FILMS | |
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1966 |
Predpoved': Nula [Elo Havetta] b&w; short/45m; prod FAMU |
1967 |
Kristove roky/Crucial Years/The Years of Christ [Juraj Jakubisko] b&w |
1967 |
L'homme qui ment/Muz, ktorý luze/The Man Who Lies/Der Lügner [Alain Robbe-Grillet] b&w |
1968 |
Agosto '68/August '68 [William Berg] b&w-c; doc about 'The Living Theatre'/90m |
1968 |
Sommersprossen/Beyond Control/What a Way to Die [Helmut Förnbacher] c; cph: Hans Zweifel |
1969 |
Vtackovia, siroty a blázni/Birds, Orphans and Fools [Juraj Jakubisko] c |
1969 |
L'Éden et après/Eden and After [Alain Robbe-Grillet] c |
1969 |
Köpfchen in das Wasser - Schwänzchen in die Höh' [Helmut Förnbacher] c |
1969 |
o.k. [Michael Verhoeven] b&w; cph: Claus Neumann |
1970 |
Beiß mich Liebling! [Helmut Förnbacher] c |
1970 |
Wer im Glashaus liebt... der Graben [Michael Verhoeven] c |
1971 |
Eins/Opus 5, Symphonie Nr. 1/One [Ulrich Schamoni] c |
1973 |
Chapeau Claque/Top Hat [Ulrich Schamoni] c |
1974 |
Das zweite Leben des Martin Sperr [Stanislav Barabás] c; doc/17m |
1974 |
Orpheus in der Unterwelt [Joachim Hess] 70mm/c; opera film/106m |
1975 |
Das Rückendekolleté [Jan Nemec] c |
1975 |
MitGift/Killing Me Softly [Michael Verhoeven] c |
1975 |
Die Eroberung der Zitadelle [Bernhard Wicki] c |
1976 |
Der Fangschuß/Le coup de grâce [Volker Schlöndorff] b&w |
1976 |
Stille Post [Ivan Steiger] ?; short/?m |
1976 |
Slavers/Die Sklavenjäger [Jürgen Goslar] c; 2uc: Keith Dunkley |
1977 |
Rückkehr [Vojtech Jasný] ?; 2 seg: 'Die Rückkehr des alten Herrn' & 'Mein seliger Onkel' |
1978 |
Zwischengleis/Yesterday's Tomorrow [Wolfgang Staudte] c |
1978 |
Das Traumhaus [- Auf der Suche nach einem besseren Leben] [Ulrich Schamoni] c |
1978 |
Die Blechtrommel/The Tin Drum [Volker Schlöndorff] c |
1979 |
Der Kandidat/The Candidate [Volker Schlöndorff, Stefan Aust, Alexander Kluge & Alexander von Eschwege] b&w-c; doc/129m; cph: Thomas Mauch, Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein, Werner Lüring & Bodo Kessler |
1981 |
Die Fälschung/False Witness/Circle of Deceit [Volker Schlöndorff] c; 2uc: Franz Rath & Marian Sloboda |
1981 |
Fürchte dich nicht, Jakob!/Fear Not, Jacob! [Radu Gabrea] c |
1981 |
Parsifal [Hans Jürgen Syberberg & (artistic superv) Bernard Sobel] c; 255m |
1982 |
Krieg und Frieden/War and Peace [Alexander Kluge, Stefan Aust, Axel Engstfeld & Volker Schlöndorff] 16mm+35mm+v-to-35mm/c; 11 seg; ph seg #4-8 dir by V. Schlöndorff; cph: Franz Rath; other ph: Werner Lüring, Thomas Mauch & Bernd Mosblech |
1982 |
Danton/L'affaire Danton/Sprawa Dantona [Andrzej Wajda] c |
1983 |
Eine Liebe in Deutschland/A Love in Germany [Andrzej Wajda] c |
1986 |
Der Joker/Lethal Obsession [Peter Patzak] c; cph: Dietrich Lohmann |
1987 |
Seobe/Migrations [Aleksandar Petrovic] c; cph: Wit Dabal |
1989 |
The Handmaid's Tale/Die Geschichte der Dienerin [Volker Schlöndorff] c |
1989 |
[Gavre Princip -] Himmel unter Steinen/Death of a Schoolboy [Peter Patzak] c |
1991 |
The Michael Nyman Songbook [Volker Schlöndorff] b&w-c; mus doc/55m |
1992 |
Inge, April und Mai [Wolfgang Kohlhaase & Gabriele Denecke] c |
1992 |
Das Ei ist eine geschissene Gottesgabe [Dagmar Wagner] b&w-c; doc/85m |
1993 |
Night of the Archer/Don't Hurt Me! [Paul Nicholas] c |
1994 |
The Cold Light of Day/Tod im kalten Morgenlicht [Rudolf van den Berg] c; 2uc: Stanislav Dorsik |
1995 |
Gift [Karin Köster] ?; short/?m |
1997 |
Postel/The Bed/Das Bett/Unter Frauen [Oskar Reif] Hawk Scope/b&w |
1997 |
Balkan Island: The Last Story of the Century [Lordan Zafranovic] L. Zafranovic: 'I am preparing an ambitious movie, 'Balkan Island', about the war in Bosnia. That movie is interlaced with opera, music, things outside war, in order to demonstrate that art can fight war. However, we had to start and stop three times, because the movie was expensive for Czech conditions. Most recently, we were in Bitola, in Macedonia. All the sets were complete, but our main financial supporter from Monte Carlo went bankrupt during the Russian financial crisis. But, I shall complete that movie sooner or later.' [2002] |
1997 |
Hure [Florian Gallenberger] c; short/6m |
1997 |
Der Pullover [Roland Willaert] c; short/9m |
1997 |
Requiem für eine romantische Frau/Requiem for a Romantic Woman [Dagmar Knöpfel] c |
1998 |
Praha ocima/Prague Stories [seg #4 'Riziko/The Dive' dir by Artemio Benki] c; 4 seg; other ph: Martin Strba |
1998 |
Sunset in Venice [Spiro Taraviras] c; short/15m |
1999 |
Luppo und der Muezzin [Dagmar Wagner] 16mm/c |
1999 |
Suriyothai/The Legend of Suriyothai [Chatrichalerm Yukoi] c; cph: Stanislav Dorsic & Anupap Boachan; prod 1998-2001 |
1999 |
Nocní hovory s matkou/Late Night Talks with Mother [Jan Nemec] dv-to-35mm/b&w-c; doc/69m; co-2uc; ph: Jan Nemec |
1999 |
Feuer in Berlin [?] in development; status unknown |
2000 |
Tea Tattoo [Robert Schmitz-Gill] c; short/15m |
2001 |
Ostrov na strese/Island on the Roof [Artemio Benki] c; short/12m |
2001 |
Mystic Church [Catharina Roland] c; short/12m |
2002 |
Some People Can [Thorsten Baier] s35/c; short/15m |
2002 |
Die Blutritter/Riders of the Sacred Blood [Douglas Wolfsperger] b&w-c; doc/86m; filmed 2002-03 |
2002 |
Intrusion/Aire de repos/Resting Place [Artemio Benki] scope/c; short/25m |
2003 |
Badenheim [Menahem Golan] prod start announced for March, later September, later February 2004; status unknown |
2003 |
The Bad Movie [David Burmeister] HD (Panasonic)/b&w; short/15m; cph: Thorsten Baier; 2uc: David Köhler |
2004 |
War'n Sie schon mal in mich verliebt? [Douglas Wolfsperger] DigiBeta-to-35mm/b&w-c; doc/80m |
2005 |
Serko [Joël Farges] Hawk Scope/c |
[Right] with dir Douglas Wolfsperger
"Der lange Weg ans Licht"
2006 |
Der lange Weg ans Licht [Douglas Wolfsperger] scope/c; doc/102m; cph: Ute Freund |
2006 |
L... kot ljubezen/L... Like Love [Janja Glogovac] c |
2007 |
Frei: Gespielt - Mehmet Scholl. Über das Spiel hinaus [Eduard Augustin & Ferdinand Neumayr] dv/c; doc/84m; cph: Thorsten Baier; 2uc (Sony F750): Martin Noweck |
[Left] with dir Miloslav Luther - "Tango s komármi"
2008 |
Tango s komármi/Tango s komáry/Mosquitoes' Tango [Miloslav Luther] c |
2012 |
Wiedersehen mit Brundibar/Brundibar Revisited [Douglas Wolfsperger] HD/b&w-c; doc/88m; cph: Frank Amann |
2012 |
Krok do tmy/A Step Into the Dark [Miloslav Luther] 16mm/c |
2015 |
Teslafy.Me [Janja Glogovac] b&w-c; doc/90m; cph: J. Glogovac, Milan Maric, Matjaz Kenda & Miha Sitar |
TELEVISION | |
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1969 |
Der ewige Gatte/Vecný manzel [Stanislav Barabás] tvm/b&w-c |
1970 |
Jonas oder Der Künstler bei der Arbeit [Stanislav Barabás] tvm/b&w |
1971 |
Einfach sterben [Stanislav Barabás] tvm |
1971 |
Sparks in Neu-Grönland [Joachim Hess] tvm |
1971 |
Pilatus und andere - Ein Film für Karfreitag [Andrzej Wajda] tvm; cph: Pfeffer Sam |
1972 |
Die Erbschaft [Stanislav Barabás] tvm |
1972 |
Der Leuchtturm [Vojtech Jasný] tvm |
1972 |
Inferno [Stanislav Barabás] tvm |
1972 |
Immobilien [Otto Jägersberg] tvm; ep series 'Das Fernsehspiel der Gegenwart' |
1973 |
Im Zeichen der Kälte [Uwe Brandner] tvm |
1973 |
Frühlingsfluten [Vojtech Jasný] tvm |
1973 |
Ein unheimlich starker Abgang [Michael Verhoeven] tvm; also theatrical version 'Sonja schafft die Wirklichkeit ab oder ein unheimlich starker Abgang' (1973) |
1973 |
Ein Fall für Goron [Oswald Dópke] tvm |
1973 |
Die zweite Ermordung des Hundes [Peter Schulze-Rohr] tvm |
1973 |
Münchner Geschichten [ep #8 'Geschäft ist Geschäft' & #9 'Ois anders' dir by Helmut Dietl] 9-part series; other ph: Jerzy Lipman (ep #1, #3-4 & #6-7) & Ingo Hamer (ep #2 & 5) |
1974 |
Tod eines Mannequins [Jörg Eggers] tvm |
1974 |
Die Ohrfeige [Mischa Gallé] tvm/b&w/40m |
1974 |
[Das Leben des schizophrenen Dichters] Alexander März [Vojtech Jasný] tvm |
1976 |
Was ich mache, macht keiner in Deutschland [Jan Nemec] perf/45m |
1976 |
Der Alte [ep #1 'Die Dienstreise' dir by Johannes Schaaf] series/16mm, 1977-present; 1st season, 1977 |
1976 |
Drei Wege zum See/Three Paths to the Lake [Michael Haneke] tvm/16mm |
1977 |
Das Rentenspiel [Dieter Wedel] tvm/16mm |
1977 |
Die Freiheiten der Langeweile [Vojtech Jasný] tvm |
1977 |
Hollywood, California: A Loser's Opera [William Klein] doc/60m/v |
1978 |
Der Alte [ep #16 'Der Pelikan' dir by Johannes Schaaf] 2nd season, 1978; see 1976 |
1979 |
Der Tote bin ich [Alexander von Eschwege] tvm |
1980 |
Berlin Tunnel 21 [Richard Michaels] tvm |
1981 |
Wer den Schaden hat... [Dieter Wedel] 2-part tvm |
1982 |
Schwarz-Rot-Gold [ep #1 'Unser Land' dir by Dieter Wedel] 18-part series, 1982-96 |
1983 |
Via Mala [Tom Toelle] 3-part miniseries/16mm |
1986 |
Abschiedsvorstellung [Peter Weck] tvm |
1986 |
Was zu beweisen war [Peter Weck] tvm |
1986 |
Gundas Vater [Michael Verhoeven] tvm/16mm |
1988 |
Bernhard Wicki: Regisseur [Charlotte Kerr] doc/b&w-c/85m/16mm |
1992 |
Die Klage der Ariadne [Hugo Niebeling] tvm |
1993 |
Nacht der Frauen [Theodor Kotulla] 3-part miniseries |
1993 |
Trip nach Tunis [Peter Goedel] tvm/16mm |
1994 |
Tod auf Halde [Theodor Kotulla] tvm |
1995 |
Drei in fremden Betten [Otto W. Retzer] tvm |
1995 |
Drei in fremden Kissen [Otto W. Retzer] tvm; cph: Michael Boxrucker |
1996 |
Klinik unter Palmen/Jungle Hospital [Otto W. Retzer] 3-part miniseries; 2nd series |
1997 |
Porträt eines Richters [Norbert Kückelmann] tvm |
1999 |
Der Kardinal - Der Preis der Liebe [Albert Schmiedhuber (= Berthold Mittermayr)] tvm; cph: Stanislav Dorsic |
2001 |
Stern der Liebe/Stones of Light [Marijan David Vajda] tvm |
2001 |
Ich hab es nicht gewollt - Anatomie eines Mordfalles [Norbert Kückelmann] tvm |
2004 |
The Question of God: Sigmund Freud & C.S. Lewis [Catherine Tatge] 2-part tvm/b&w-c; seminar ph: Joel Shapiro; addph: Tom Hurwitz, Nancy Schreiber, Stanislav Dorsic, a.o. |
2008 |
Résolution 819 [Giacomo Battiato] tvm |
2009 |
Mistika hotela Palace/The Mysticism of Palace Hotel [Janja Glogovac] doc/60m |
2010 |
L'infiltré [Giacomo Battiato] tvm |
MISCELLANEOUS | |
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2000 |
Georgia O'Keefe - 'Till the End of Time' [dir] announced for June start; status unknown |