Kolja Brandt

Kolja Brandt at the award ceremony of the German Academy for Television 2015

Kolja Brandt (* 1969 in Berlin ) is a German cameraman .

Life

Kolja Brandt grew up in Berlin-Kreuzberg . He started his camera career in 1993 with Italian television. After returning to Germany in 1995, he began working for student films. His first feature film as a cameraman was Letting Go , published in 1998 . Since then he has worked as a cameraman for films such as Knallhart , Goethe! and north face responsible. For the latter, he was awarded the German Film Critics' Prize and the German Film Prize for Best Camera .

He lives in Berlin and has two sons.

Filmography (selection)

• 1997: Dances of the Night
• 1998: Letting Go
• 2004: In the dark
• 2006: tough
• 2008: north face
• 2010: Goethe!
• 2011: The Story of Auma Obama
• 2011: Joschka and Mr. Fischer
• 2012: The Logan Conspiracy (The Expatriate)
• 2012: Hunter of the Moment - An Adventure on Mount Roraima (Roraima: Climbing the Lost World)
• 2014: Hector's trip or the pursuit of happiness (Hector and the Search for Happiness)
• 2014: Naked among wolves
• 2014: Colonia Dignidad - There is no turning back (Colonia)
• 2017: The young Karl Marx (Le Jeune Karl Marx)
• 2019: Die Agentin (The Operative)
• 2019: Berlin, I Love You

Awards

• 2015: Award of the German Academy for Television in the category Best Image Design for Naked Among Wolves

Web links

• Kolja Brandt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Official website