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[Left] with dir Paul McGuigan "Lucky Number Slevin" [2005] - photo by Attila Dory |
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PETER SOVA ASC |
Born: ?, Prague, Czechoslovakia.
Career: Left Czechoslovakia with his brother in 1966 and moved to Vienna, Austria, then Munich, West-Germany. Moved to the USA in the 1970s. Started as technician at General Camera Corporation in New York. Later served as a cameraman on PBS-tv documentaries and dramas.
Ph commercials dir by Errol Morris, Lesli Linka Glatter, Ted Demme, a.o.
Member of the ASC since 1999.
Awards: AFI Fest 'Kodak Vision Award' [2000] for 'Gangster No. 1'.
FILMS |
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1977 |
Short Eyes/Slammer [Robert M. Young] c; addph: Bob Kaylor & Eddie Marritz |
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1978 |
Rockers [Theodoros Bafaloukos] c |
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1978 |
Samba da criação do mundo/Samba of the Creation of the World [Vera de Figueiredo] c; doc/83m; cph: Dib Lufti |
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1981 |
Diner [Barry Levinson] c |
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1986 |
Tin Men [Barry Levinson] c |
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1987 |
Good Morning, Vietnam [Barry Levinson] c; aph: Peter Allwork |
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1987 |
The Thin Blue Line [Errol Morris] c; doc/103m; co-addph; ph: Stefan Czapsky & Robert Chappell |
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1988 |
Sing [Richard Baskin] c; addph: Reginald H. Morris & Jan Kiesser |
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1989 |
Bed & Breakfast [Robert Ellis Miller] c; replaced ph William Wages |
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1990 |
Late for Dinner [W.D. Richter] c |
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1991 |
Straight Talk [Barnet Kellman] c; 2uc: Alan Thatcher; + small part |
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1992 |
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control [Errol Morris] c; doc/82m; cph: Robert Richardson; addph: Ted Bafaloukos; filmed June-September; released 1997 |
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1993 |
Jimmy Hollywood [Barry Levinson] c; 2uc: Eric D. Anderson |
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1994 |
Feast of July [Christopher Menaul] s35/c; 2uc: Paul Englefield |
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1995 |
Sgt. Bilko [Jonathan Lynn] s35/c; vfx ph: Erik Nash |
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1996 |
Donnie Brasco [Mike Newell] s35/c; addph: Peter Norman; 2uc: Jeff Tufano, a.o. |
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1996 |
The Proposition [Lesli Linka Glatter] c; addph: Ralf Bode |
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1997 |
Black Dog [Kevin Hooks] replaced by doph Buzz Feitshans IV |
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1998 |
Ravenous [Antonia Bird (replaced Milcho Manchevski)] replaced by doph Anthony Richmond |
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1998 |
Mr. Death [: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.] [Errol Morris] c; doc/91m; ph Leuchter interview; ph: Peter Donahue |
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1999 |
Gangster No. 1 [Paul McGuigan] c; addph: Adrian Biddle & Alistair Walker; 2uc: Mike Frift & Nic Milner |
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2000 |
The Reckoning/Morality Play [Paul McGuigan] s35/c; optical ph: Andrew Jeffery |
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2001 |
Close Your Eyes/Doctor Sleep/Hypnotic [Nick Willing] s35/c; 2uc: Yang Shu; uwph: Michael Valentine |
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2002 |
Wicker Park [Paul McGuigan] s35/c |
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2005 |
Lucky Number Slevin [Paul McGuigan] s35/c; 2uc: Bert Tougas & Michael Carmine |
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2006 |
The Strangers [Bryan Bertino] s35/c |
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2007 |
The Other Side [David Michaels] announced as ph (with April start), but film will be ph by Stefan Czapsky |
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2007 |
Push [Paul McGuigan] s35+s16+16mm-to-35mm scope (+ D-Cinema)/c; 2uc: Ronald Hersey & Brian Sullivan |
TELEVISION |
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1976 |
The Jolly Corner [Arthur Barron] tvm/43m; ep PBS-tv series 'American Short Story' |
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1976 |
Soldier's Home [Robert Young] tvm/42m; ep PBS-tv series 'American Short Story' |
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1978 |
Summer of My German Soldier [Michael Tuchner] tvm |
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1978 |
The Tap Dance Kid [Barra Grant] tvm/33m & 49m/16mm; ep series 'NBC Special Treat' |
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1979 |
Barn Burning [Peter Werner] tvm/41m; ep PBS-tv series 'American Short Story' |
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1979 |
The Halloween That Almost Wasn't/The Night Dracula Saved the World [Bruce Bilson] tvm/30m |
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1979 |
Nurse [David Lowell Rich] pilot |
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1981 |
Baker's Dozen [various] 4-part series, 1982; other ph: Sol Negrin |
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1983 |
A Doctor's Story [Peter Levin] pilot |
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1985 |
The Equalizer [various] 88-part series, 1985-89; other ph: Geoffrey Erb, Richard Kratina, a.o. |
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1986 |
Adam's Apple [James Frawley] pilot/60m |
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1986 |
Story of a Marriage [Howard Cummings & Ken Harrison] 5-part series aired as 3 'American Playhouse' presentations; other ph: George Tirl; ep: 'After the Elopement', 'Courtship', 'Reconciliation', 'Renewal' & 'Shadows of War' |
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1992 |
Double Jeopardy [Lawrence Schiller] tvm |
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1994 |
Fatherland [Christopher Menaul] tvm; 2uc: Martin Grosup |
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1999 |
Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder [Lawrence Schiller] 2-part tvm |
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2004 |
Thief [pilot dir by Paul McGuigan] 6-part series, 2006; other ph: Uta Briesewitz |
MISCELLANEOUS |
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1974 |
Two/Captive [Charles Trieschmann] c.op; ph: Vilis Lapenieks |
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1981 |
Women of Russia [dir; co-d: Michael Carr; 3-part doc tv-series] ph: Russ Alsobrook |