Michael Ballhaus
Birthday: 1935-08-05
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Biography: Michael Ballhaus, A.S.C. (August 5, 1935 – April 12, 2017) was a German cinematographer who collaborated with directors such as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Martin Scorsese, Mike Nichols, James L. Brooks, and Wolfgang Petersen. He was a member of both the Academy of Arts, Berlin, and the American Society of Cinematographers.
Movies
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the wa...
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Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte
This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journ...
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Boogie Nights
Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic po...
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I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
A documentary about the life and work of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder....
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Side by Side
Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over t...
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Visions of Light
Cameramen and women discuss the craft and art of cinematography and of the "DP" (the director of pho...
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Satan’s Brew
A famous poet who hasn't written a word in two years unconsciously plagiarizes the work of Stefan Ge...
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Fassbinder in Hollywood
Though he never actually worked in Hollywood, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who died in 1982 at the age ...
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Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
Playwright Arthur Miller, director Volker Schlöndorff and actor Dustin Hoffman are seen creating the...
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Little Godard
The production of a film requires recording equipment and financial resources, if nothing else. Hell...
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Who is Helene Schwarz?
Only the chosen few know this woman who started working as a secretary for the German Film and Telev...
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Mister Karl
A documentary about the life of Karlheinz Böhm from his film career to his charity activities in Eth...
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Martha
After the death of her abusive father, lonely librarian Martha finds herself caught up in a strange,...
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Blood Lines: Dracula - The Man. The Myth. The Movies.
Short documentary on the making of Francis Ford Coppola's "Dracula" (1992)....
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Getting Made: The Making of 'GoodFellas'
A documentary that presents a brief yet detailed account on the making of Martin Scorsese's "GoodFel...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder's World on a Wire: Looking Ahead to Today
A retrospective look at the making of "World on a Wire"....
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Starbuck Holger Meins
Twenty-five years after the death of Holger Meins, filmmaker and former student friend of the deceas...
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Michael Ballhaus - Eine Reise durch mein Leben
One of Germany's stars of cinematography, embarks on the journey through his life. The film begins i...
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The Cinema and its Double: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 'Despair' Revisited
This absolutely top-notch documentary by Robert Fischer is a fascinating look back at not just the f...
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Spiel der Verlierer
The 50-year-old haulier Kluth is left by his wife and falls in love with 15-year-old Anita, the daug...
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Martin Scorsese Directs
Providing behind the scenes footage of the director on set with clips from his own films, Martin Sco...
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Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence'
A documentary about the making of director Martin Scorsese's 1993 film adaptation of Edith Wharton's...
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Notes on an American Film Director at Work
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas follows his friend, film director Martin Scorsese, and his cast and crew, thro...
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Cinematographer Style
110 of the world's top cinematographers discuss the art of how and why films look the way they do....
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Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
An account of the life and work of legendary cinematographer and director Carlo Di Palma (1925-2004)...
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Fassbinder's Women
An essay film in which filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim interviews "the willing victims of Rainer Werner...
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