Rolf Sohre
Rolf Sohre (born June 11, 1928 in Dresden ; † March 9, 2019 in Potsdam ) was a German cameraman .
Life
Sohre worked as a cameraman for the studio for feature films and the studio for newsreels and documentaries at the GDR film company DEFA since the mid-1950s .
In 1962, cameraman Rolf Sohre got to know director Joachim Kunert and production designer Gerhard Helwig artistically while filming The Second Track . To reflect the oppressive content in the picture, Sohre used expressive motifs, unusual perspectives and hard contrasts that are reminiscent of the expressionist film of the Weimar Republic . The Filmmuseum Potsdam now describes the film as "one of the best that DEFA produced."
Sohre shot Werner Holt's adventures in 1964 at the side of director Joachim Kunert . The anti-war film is one of the most successful DEFA filmswith four million viewers. The film adaptation of Dieter Noll's bestselling novel wasconvincing thanks to the main actors Klaus-Peter Thiele and Manfred Karge and the camera work by Rolf Sohre. In 1965, the creative collective (Kunert, Sohre and screenwriter Claus Küchenmeister ) wasawarded the national prize of the GDR 2nd classfor The Adventures of Werner Holt . The film also received the Grand Prize of the Soviet Peace Committee at the IV Moscow International Film Festival .
The BZ in the evening praised Sohre the day after the premiere of the film, on February 4, 1965 in the Kosmos cinema in Berlin , the premiere cinema of the GDR, with the following words:
"Werner Holt lives on the screen - a complete success for cameraman Rolf Sohre."
The film was released in the Federal Republic of Germany on September 6, 1966.
Sohre was involved in 46 productions up until the reunification .
Filmography (selection)
- 1962: The second track
- 1965: The adventures of Werner Holt
- 1965: Parole
- 1966: Escape into silence
- 1967: Malik
- 1967: My friend Sybille
- 1972: I'll show you
- 1973: The light of the black candle
- 1974: Police call 110: miscalculation (TV series)
- 1974: Police call 110: night taxi
- 1977: Police call 110: Tired of being alone
- 1980: The Director (TV movie)
- 1980: The Homecoming of Joachim Ott (TV movie)
- 1982: Benno makes stories
- 1983: Meadow Pipit
- 1984: Police call 110: In the suction
- 1984: The Doll's House in Pinnow (TV movie)
- 1986: Starting fever
- 1987: Police call 110: The old woman in the armchair
- 1989: Johanna (TV series, 7 episodes)
- 1990: Police call 110: death by electric current
- 1991: Police call 110: Destroyed hope
Awards
- 1965: National Prize of the GDR, 2nd class, for the adventures of Werner Holt with Joachim Kunert and Claus Küchenmeister
Web links
- Rolf Sohre in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Rolf Sohre at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rolf Sohre at filmportal.de
- ^ Obituary notice , Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung , March 23, 2019.
- ^ Ralf Schenk (Red.), Filmmuseum Potsdam (Hrsg.): The second life of the film city Babelsberg. DEFA feature films 1946–1992. Henschel, Berlin 1994, p. 173.
- ↑ The second track. In: Filmmuseum Potsdam. Archived from the original on February 11, 2013 ; accessed on March 13, 2019 .
- ↑ BZ am Abend, February 5th, 1965 - 17th year No. 30
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sohre, Rolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cameraman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 9, 2019 |
| Place of death | Potsdam |