Martin Farkas
Martin Farkas (born October 14, 1964 in Tübingen ) is a German cameraman and film director .
Life
Martin Farkas grew up in Kempten (Allgäu) . At the age of 17 he was already working on several documentaries , so that after graduating from high school he traveled through South America , Africa , Asia and all of Europe . He later studied social pedagogy with a focus on sociology , psychology and philosophy . He worked as a gaffer with the cameramen Paolo Carnera , Benedict Neuenfels and Michael Ballhaus, among others . As a cameraman he makes documentaries and feature films. In 2002 Farkas was nominated for a German Camera Prize for the documentary A Woman and a Half: Hildegard Knef . For the Spreewald thriller: The Dead in the Spreewald , it was nominated again for a German Camera Prize in 2010. As co-director for the essay film Let there be a city! Together with Dominik Graf, he was awarded the prize for the best documentary by the German Academy for Television in 2014. From 2014 to 2017 he worked as a writer and director on the documentary Über Leben in Demmin , which was shown in German cinemas in 2018.
Filmography (selection)
- 2000: Munich - Secrets of a City
- 2001: A Woman and a Half: Hildegard Knef
- 2002: Between the stars
- 2003: Marriage Games
- 2003: Stubbe - Case by case: Yesterday
- 2004: Crime scene: Die and become
- 2005: Stubbe - Case by case: Nina
- 2005: Crime scene: Borowski in the underworld
- 2008: Help, my sister is coming!
- 2008: Crime scene: Bunny in the pit
- 2008: Twin kisses taste better
- 2009: German Souls - Life after Colonia Dignidad
- 2009: Spreewald thriller: The dead in the Spreewald
- 2009: A summer with Paul
- 2010: Tomorrow life
- 2011: Police call 110: ... and you're out!
- 2011: Crime scene: Gentlemen's evening
- 2011: Police call 110: Enemy
- 2012: Avalanches of Memory
- 2012: Yesterday we were strangers
- 2012: Tatort: The Wolbeck Miracle
- 2012: Police call 110: One carries the other's burden
- 2013: Commissioner Lucas - Bitter Pills
- 2013: Commissioner Lucas - Lovergirl
- 2014: Bella Block : Forever and Always
- 2015: Police call 110: Storm in the head
- 2015: Schwarzach 23 and the hand of death
- 2015: Tatort: Really die once
- 2016: In the evening of all days
- 2017: Wild Heart
- 2017: About living in Demmin
- 2018: crime scene: time of the frogs
- 2018: submission
- 2019: Police call 110: The lie we call the future
- 2020: Police call 110: Sons of Rostock
Web links
- Martin Farkas in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Martin Farkas at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christian Buß: Grimme documentary by Dominik Graf: City in ruins, TV in ruins . In: Spiegel Online . April 3, 2014 ( spiegel.de [accessed July 18, 2018]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Farkas, Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cameraman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 14, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tubingen , Germany |