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Rainer Klausmann is a Director of Photography and Cinematography Suisse born on 9 april 1949

Rainer Klausmann

Rainer Klausmann
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Nationality Suisse
Birth 9 april 1949 (75 years)

Rainer Klausmann, né le 9 avril 1949 à Wettingen, est un directeur de la photographie suisse.

Biography

Il est d'abord l'assistant de Hans Liechti et de Thomas Mauch avant de devenir chef opérateur en 1981. Il participe alors à une soixantaine de réalisations cinématographiques et télévisuelles en Europe et aux États-Unis.

Best films

Downfall (2004)
(Director of Photography)
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
(Director of Photography)

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Filmography of Rainer Klausmann (21 films)

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Cameraman

The Golden Glove, 1h50
Directed by Fatih Akın
Origin German
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Jonas Dassler, Margarete Tiesel, Hark Bohm, Marc Hosemann, Adam Bousdoukos, Tristan Göbel
Roles Director of Photography
Rating67% 3.352683.352683.352683.352683.35268
L'histoire se passe dans les années 1970 à Hambourg en Allemagne. Un bar, le « Golden Glove » (« Gant d'or »), accueille un habitué Fritz Honka qui malgré son air inoffensif est un véritable monstre traînant la nuit à la recherche de femmes seules…
In the Fade, 1h46
Directed by Fatih Akın
Origin German
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Diane Kruger, Denis Moschitto, Ulrich Tukur, Numan Acar, Adam Bousdoukos, Edgar Selge
Roles Director of Photography
Rating70% 3.547573.547573.547573.547573.54757
La vie de Katja est bouleversée lorsque son fils et son mari trouvent la mort dans un attentat.
The Cut
The Cut (2014)
, 2h18
Directed by Fatih Akın
Origin German
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Tahar Rahim, Simon Abkarian, Arsinée Khanjian, Kevork Malikyan, Hindi Zahra, Trine Dyrholm
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61% 3.09933.09933.09933.09933.0993
Pendant le génocide arménien, Nazareth Manoogian est déporté de son village natal de Mardin, en Turquie. Après les déportations, il apprend que ses filles pourraient être encore vivantes et parcourt le monde pour les retrouver. Allant d'Alep au Liban dans un orphelinat, puis traversant l'atlantique comme mousse pour Cuba et finalement aux États-Unis dans le Minnesota puis à Ruso, Dakota du Nord.
Mary, Queen of Scots, 2h
Origin Suisse
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Politique, Political films, Films about royalty
Actors Sean Biggerstaff, Aneurin Barnard, Edward Hogg, Mehdi Dehbi, Tony Curran, Roxane Duran
Roles Director of Photography
Rating54% 2.700782.700782.700782.700782.70078
Mary, Queen of Scots, awaits her execution by order of Queen Elizabeth I of England. Mary composes a letter to Elizabeth, to whom she feels a close kinship as her cousin and a fellow female monarch. Through flashback, Mary narrates to Elizabeth the events of her life, starting from her birth in Scotland to the French Mary of Guise, who sends her to France as a child for her protection.
Diana
Diana (2013)
, 1h48
Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Romance
Themes Political films, Films about royalty
Actors Naomi Watts, Naveen Andrews, Juliet Stevenson, Charles Edwards, Douglas Hodge, Laurence Belcher
Roles Director of Photography
Rating56% 2.8002052.8002052.8002052.8002052.800205
The film narrates the last two years of the princess' life, beginning with events when Diana (Naomi Watts) divorces Charles, Prince of Wales. She falls in love with Pakistani Heart Surgeon, Dr. Hasnat Khan (Naveen Andrews). The film depicts her historic tours of Angola, in her campaign against the use of land mines. Trips to causes in Australia, Pakistan, New York, Bosnia, Italy and ultimately Paris, France are also shown, with recreations of the fashions she wore in real life. Her desire for a life with Khan ends due to his wish for a private life and objections to her celebrity. The film depicts her dating of Egyptian Dodi Fayed as an attempt to make Khan jealous, but it ends with the car crash that killed Diana, Fayed and Fayed's driver at Pont Alma Tunnel, in Paris, France - however there is no reconstruction of the crash scene.
Playoff
Playoff (2011)
, 1h47
Directed by Eran Riklis
Origin Israel
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Sports films, Basketball films
Actors Danny Huston, Hanns Zischler, Amira Casar, Max Riemelt, Mark Waschke, Smadi Wolfman
Roles Director of Photography
Rating54% 2.711212.711212.711212.711212.71121
The movie tells the story of legendary Israeli basketball coach Max Stoller. He became a national hero, when he made Maccabi Tel Aviv into European Champions in the late Seventies, one of Israel's first great international sporting successes. But Max became a national traitor equally fast, when he then accepted the against-all-odds job of turning the totally hopeless West-German basketball team into European winners.
Times Change You, 1h42
Directed by Uli Edel
Origin German
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Hip hop films
Actors Elyas M'Barek, Moritz Bleibtreu, Hannelore Elsner, Katja Flint, Mina Tander, Uwe Ochsenknecht
Roles Director of Photography
Rating31% 1.5603251.5603251.5603251.5603251.560325
During a performance tour in Germany, Anis Ferchichi (Bushido) celebrates his birthday with his crew on the tour bus. Ferchichi gets a letter from his father. This brings back memories of his difficult childhood in Berlin which are then shown through flashbacks.
Soul Kitchen, 1h39
Directed by Fatih Akın
Origin German
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Cooking films
Actors Birol Ünel, Adam Bousdoukos, Moritz Bleibtreu, Udo Kier, Pheline Roggan, Wotan Wilke Möhring
Roles Director of Photography
Rating71% 3.597883.597883.597883.597883.59788
Zinos, a German of Greek descent, owns Soul Kitchen, a shabby, run-down restaurant providing working-class food in the Hamburg area, in an old warehouse space. The business is struggling financially, and tax inspectors ask Zinos for payments. Occasionally a punk rock band uses the restaurant as practice space, but never pays rental fees. An old sailor, Sokrates, continuously works on his boat at the warehouse, but is never able to pay the rent.
The Baader Meinhof Complex, 2h25
Directed by Uli Edel
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Historical, Crime
Themes Films about terrorism, Political films
Actors Moritz Bleibtreu, Martina Gedeck, Johanna Wokalek, Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara Claudia Paolina, Nadja Uhl
Roles Director of Photography
Rating72% 3.647293.647293.647293.647293.64729
In 1967, the Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, visits West Berlin to attend a performance at the Deutsche Oper. Angered at the Shah's repressive policies in governing Iran, a number of young Germans show up to protest his appearance. The German police and the Shah's forces attack the German protesters and one of them, Benno Ohnesorg, is shot and killed without provocation by Karl-Heinz Kurras.
Lemon Tree
Lemon Tree (2008)
, 1h46
Directed by Eran Riklis
Origin Israel
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Hiam Abbass, Ali Suliman, Amos Lavi, Makram J. Khoury, Yaïr Lapid
Roles Director of Photography
Rating72% 3.6456953.6456953.6456953.6456953.645695
The Israeli Defense Minister Israel Navon (Doron Tavory) moves to a house on the border between Israel and the West Bank, with the building sitting on the Israeli side just next to the dividing line. The Israeli Secret Service views the neighboring lemon grove of Salma Zidane (Hiam Abbass), a Palestinian widow whose family has cared for the area for generations, as a threat to the Minister and his wife. The security forces soon set up a guard post and a barbed wire fence around the grove. They then obtain an order to uproot the lemon trees.
The Edge of Heaven, 2h2
Directed by Fatih Akın
Origin German
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Nurgül Yeşilçay, Baki Davrak, Tuncel Kurtiz, Hanna Schygulla, Yelda Reynaud, Erkan Can
Roles Director of Photography
Rating76% 3.847433.847433.847433.847433.84743
Yeter's Death Retired widower Ali Aksu (Tuncel Kurtiz), a Turkish immigrant living in the German city of Bremen, believes he has found a solution to his loneliness when he meets Yeter Öztürk (Nursel Köse). He offers her a monthly payment to stop working as a prostitute and move in with him. After receiving threats from two Turkish Muslims, she decides to accept his offer. Ali's son, Alisan Nejat (Baki Davrak), a professor of German literature, does not have time to respond to the prospect of living with a woman of "easy virtue" before Ali is stricken with a heart attack. He softens to her: he learns that she sends shoes to Turkey for her 27-year-old daughter and wishes that her daughter could receive an education like his.
The Invasion, 1h38
Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, James McTeigue
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Films about viral outbreaks, Political films, Dystopian films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Alien invasions in films, Disaster films
Actors Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeremy Northam, Jackson Bond, Veronica Cartwright, Roger Rees
Roles Director of Photography
Rating59% 2.9512.9512.9512.9512.951
After the space shuttle Patriot crashes on Earth, a fungus-like alien lifeform is discovered on the remaining parts scattered over US territory. Once people come into contact with the organism, they are controlled by it when they enter REM sleep. One of the first people infected is Tucker Kaufman, a CDC director investigating the crash.
Downfall
Downfall (2004)
, 2h28
Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel
Origin German
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Historical
Themes Films about suicide, Hitler, Political films
Actors Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara Claudia Paolina, Corinna Harfouch, Ulrich Matthes, Juliane Köhler, Thomas Kretschmann
Roles Director of Photography
Rating81% 4.0984554.0984554.0984554.0984554.098455
Downfall begins with footage of the real Traudl Junge expressing guilt and shame for admiring Hitler in her youth. The film continues showing Hitler (Bruno Ganz) hiring Junge (Alexandra Maria Lara) as his secretary at the Wolf's Lair in East Prussia in November 1942.
Head-On
Head-On (2004)
, 2h
Directed by Fatih Akın
Origin German
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about families
Actors Birol Ünel, Sibel Kekilli, Meltem Cumbul, Hermann Lause, Demir Gökgöl, Mehmet Kurtuluş
Roles Director of Photography
Rating78% 3.947853.947853.947853.947853.94785
Cahit Tomruk is a Turkish German in his 40s. He has given up on life after the death of his wife and seeks solace in cocaine and alcohol. One night, he intentionally drives his car head-on into a wall and barely survives. At the psychiatric clinic he is taken to, Sibel Güner, another Turkish German who has tried to commit suicide, approaches him. She asks Cahit to carry out a formal marriage with her so that she can break out of the strict rules of her conservative family. Cahit is initially turned off by the idea, but then he agrees to take part in the plan.
Solino
Solino (2002)
, 2h4
Directed by Fatih Akın
Origin German
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about families
Actors Barnaby Metschurat, Moritz Bleibtreu, Gigi Savoia, Antonella Attili, Tiziana Lodata, Antonella Attili
Roles Director of Photography
Rating72% 3.6466953.6466953.6466953.6466953.646695
The movie portrays the story of an Italian family emigrated in Germany in the 1970s. Romano (Gigi Savoia), the father, decides to open a pizzeria which, by mutual decision with the wife Rosa (Antonella Attili), will call Solino, leaving his sons Gigi and Giancarlo to work there. A hostile relationship comes to life between the father and his sons, which will end up in the escape of the boys from family.