Personal Info
Gernot Roll was born in Dresden in 1939 and trained at the DEFA studios in Babelsberg. In 1960, he became an operator at the Bavaria Film studios and worked there as a director of photography from 1964-1976. His credits as one of Germany's leading cameramen include Edgar Reitz's Stunde Null (1976) and Heimat (1982), Axel Corti's Welcome to Vienna (1985), Soenke Wortmann's Der bewegte Mann (1994) and Helmut Dietl's Rossini (1996). He made his (co-) directorial debut on Corti's Radetzkymarsch (1994) and followed this with Ballermann 6 (1997), A Favorable Opportunity (Ne guenstige Gelegenheit, 1999), Tach, Herr Dokter (1999), and Pura Vida Ibiza (2003). Roll has received numerous prizes and distinctions for his work, including Adolf Grimme Awards in Gold (for Heimat and Radetzkymarsch), German Film Awards (for Wildfeuer and Meine Tochter gehoert mir) and Bavarian Film & Television Awards (for Wildfeuer and Das Maedchen Rosemarie).
Filmography
- (Kaspar Hauser)
- (Kein Bund fuers Leben)
- (Maennersache)
- Beyond Silence (Jenseits der Stille)
- BRECHT
- Buddenbrooks - The Decline of a Family (Buddenbrooks)
- Christmas Fever (Weihnachtsfieber)
- Devil\'s Architect, The (Speer und er)
- Favorable Opportunity, A ('ne guenstige Gelegenheit)
- Girl Called Rosemarie, A (Maedchen Rosemarie, Das (1996))
- Great Bagarozy, The (grosse Bagarozy, Der)
- Heimat
- Heimat II (Zweite Heimat, Die)
- HENRY OF NAVARRE (HENRI 4)
- HOME FROM HOME - CHRONICLE OF A VISION (ANDERE HEIMAT, DIE - CHRONIK EINER SEHNSUCHT)
- Honey Moon (Honigmond)
- Late Show
- MAKING OF HEIMAT
- Maybe, Maybe Not (bewegte Mann, Der)
- More Ants In The Pants (Knallharte Jungs)
- NOWHERE IN AFRICA (NIRGENDWO IN AFRIKA)
- Pura Vida Ibiza
- Refuge (Unter die Haut)
- Robber Hotzenplotz, The (Raeuber Hotzenplotz, Der)
- Rosenzweig´s Freedom (Rosenzweigs Freiheit)
- Rossini (Rossini oder die moerderische Frage wer mit wem schlief)
- Store, The (Laden, Der)
- Trenck - Zwei Herzen gegen die Krone
