Christian Berger (cameraman)

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Christian Berger (2011)

Christian Berger (born January 13, 1945 in Langenwang , Styria) is a screenwriter , film producer , cameraman and director in addition to his work as a university professor at the Vienna Film Academy .

Together with Christian Bartenbach, Berger is considered to be the inventor of an innovative lighting system called the Cine Reflect Lighting System . The whole set is illuminated by a single, specially developed light source and various reflectors.

A film prize created by him has been awarded at the Innsbruck International Film Festival since 2005 : the Christian Berger Prize and the ray Filmmagazin Documentary Film Prize .

Berger is the uncle of actress Eva Green .

Career

Christian Berger was born as the son of the painter Fritz Berger and his wife Emmy, a dancer, in Styria when his parents were on the run from the Russians to Tyrol at the end of the Second World War . He then grew up in Lans near Innsbruck.

Berger began his career in 1968 as a permanent freelancer at the ORF regional studio for Tyrol and Vorarlberg . In the 1970s he founded his own production company and worked intensively on documentaries and photo reports, but also worked as a director, producer or co-author on television productions.

After shooting several dozen hours of documentary material, he devoted himself to his own feature film projects for the cinema in the 1980s, for which he received numerous awards (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs in Cannes , Max Ophüls Prize Saarbrücken). In the 1990s he continued this work and also took on teaching activities at important film schools such as B. in France, Italy, Cuba or Austria.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Film awards

Christian Berger ( Romy 2010 )

Happy end:

  • 2018 - Romy - Award in the category Best Image Creation Cinema Film

The White band:

Caché:

  • 2005 - Audience Award at the Manaki Brothers Film Festival
  • 2005 - nomination for best camera European film award
  • 2006 - Golden squad, best feature film camera

Country Life:

  • 1996 - Viennale Prize for New Cinema

Benny's video:

  • 1993 - "Best Light" festival de l'image Chalon s Saone

Toll station:

  • 1995 - Festival du Film de Strasbourg “Passages” prize of the jury

Raffl:

  • 1985 - Ophül Prize
  • 1985 - Moscow Camera Award
  • 1985 - Cadiz Special Jury Prize
  • 1986 - Golden squad
  • 1986 - Austrian Award for Filmmaking
  • 1997 - Austrian Film Weeks in Paris
  • 1998 - "The Blue Light: The Mountain Film" New York
  • 1999 - Austrian Film Days in Montreal

The fall of the alpine country:

  • 1974 - 1st Prize International Short Film Festival Linz

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Silvana Resch: The film painter . In: Tiroler Tageszeitung, Österreichischer Rundfunk, Landesstudio Tirol, Casinos Austria AG (ed.): Tirol seen from the inside: Conversation with contemporary witnesses . Haymon, Innsbruck 2016, ISBN 978-3-7099-7279-3 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  2. ↑ Cinema goes to school : teaching materials for "The White Ribbon" (PDF; 293 kB), p. 22f.
  3. ^ Kurier: The winners of the Akademie-Romy 2018 . Article dated April 5, 2018, accessed April 6, 2018.
  4. ↑ cf. Official Twitter profile of the German Film Award (accessed April 23, 2010)
personal data
SURNAME Berger, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian screenwriter, film producer, cameraman and director
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Lans near Innsbruck