Gernot Roll
Gernot Roll was a German cinematographer. He also worked as a director on several occasions from the mid-1990s onwards.
Works
Grimme Award
Annual awarding of the Grimme Awards.
Release Date1964-01-16
Charactersd Self
Episode Count5
Romy Award
Release Date1990-01-01
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
German Film Award
Release Date1951-06-06
Charactersd Self
Episode Count4
Vote Count1
Blauer Panther
Release Date1989-01-01
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
Bavarian Film Awards
Release Date1979-12-01
Charactersd Self
Episode Count2
Scene of the Crime
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
Release Date1970-11-29
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Episode Count1
Vote Count120
Military Academy
The movie deals with a guy who gets to join the German Bundeswehr involuntarily because a colleague loses his denial papers in order to get the chance to get down on his girlfriend. When entering the Bundeswehr he acts like a giant idiot and of course gets in one room with some of the biggest losers around. The loser turns out to be a hero and leads his loser-colleagues to win a contest with the local US army squad.
Release Date2007-08-30
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count54
Tach, Herr Dokter! – Der Heinz-Becker-Film
Next to the home of Heinz and Hilde Becker is the villa of the company boss Dr. Bernhard Schenkberg and his wife, who he called "Püppchen". While Schenkberg always politely strives for a good neighborly relationship, his elegant, arrogant wife looks down contemptuously on the grumpy, constantly do-it-yourself Heinz and the conservative, naive housewife Hilde.
Release Date1999-10-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count13
The King's Whore
Set in the 17th-century, an Italian nobleman weds an impoverished countess, who is wooed by the King of Piedmont and faces pressure from his entire court to succumb to his wishes.
Release Date1990-11-14
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count25
Wir pfeifen auf den Gurkenkönig
Release Date1976-01-01
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count1
The Last Escape
During World War II, American officer Capt. Lee Mitchell (Stuart Whitman) and a British military unit boldly infiltrate German-occupied enemy territory and attempt to kidnap brilliant Nazi scientist Dr. Von Heinken (Pinkas Braun) and bring him back in one piece. While shuttling their prized captive to safety, the Allied forces courageously assist desperate refugees and tussle with overpowering German and Russian forces.
Release Date1970-05-06
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count4
Ants in the Pants 2
In the sequel of "Ants in the Pants" we again meet Flo and his friends.
Release Date2002-03-13
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count118
Late Show
Hannes Engel is a successful radio presenter in the countryside. By chance, he is heard by program director Conrad Scheffer one night, who immediately recognizes the potential of the cheeky presenter and wants to sign him up as the new figurehead for his late show, which is in a ratings slump. But this proves to be more difficult than planned. First of all, they have to get rid of the old show host, then Engel's wife has just been thrown out of one of the station's productions, and Engel is also being pursued by a sensationalist tabloid journalist who never misses a chance to drag Engel through the mud....
Release Date1999-02-25
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count18
Heimat
Spanning 1919 to 1982, in the fictional village of Schabbach, live Maria Simon and her family, whose lives and community are changed by historical events around them.
Release Date1984-09-16
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Episode Count11
Vote Count39
Die Superbullen
Tommie and Mario are on the prowl again. But this time not through the alcohol haze of Cologne Kalk or the Ballermann Club on Mallorca but through the German underworld. For a while, at least, because the police want to get rid of their two most stupid employees by far as soon as possible. When the billy goat "Hennes", the mascot of the 1st FC Cologne, is kidnapped, they see their chance for rehabilitation and rush to save their favorite club. Their investigation leads them across Germany, then they get it: "Hennes" must be in Munich - with the arch-rival of FC Bayern, who is targeting the morale of the troops of Cologne soccer with his outrageous kidnapping...
Release Date2011-01-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count26
Henri 4
A wide-ranging, energetic period piece tracing the rise of the Protestant Henry of Navarre as he goes from battlefield warrior to France's beloved King Henri IV. Director Jo Baier's epic is a classically entertaining adventure, albeit one with more than a little bloodshed and frequent bawdy sexual interludes. In late 16th-century France, Catholics and Protestant Huguenots were at war. Seemingly seeking peace, the French dowager queen, Catherine de Medici summons Henry to her court to have him marry her daughter, uniting the two warring factions. However, the Catholics slaughter the Protestant wedding guests in what became known as the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre and Henry-now married-must use all his guile to both stay alive and maneuver for the throne. [Written by Palm Springs International Film Festival]
Release Date2010-03-04
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count36
Gift
After some faked medicine is found, an Interpol agent searches for evidence against high rank chairmen of medical companies.
Release Date2017-05-01
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count4
Werner - Eiskalt!
Werner and Holgi are friends, but also lifelong rivals. Now Werner finally has enough of being the eternal second and is planning his revenge. With his special motorcycle, the 'Red Porsche Killer', he challenges Holgi and his car.
Release Date2011-06-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count49
Männersache
During the day Paul works in a Berlin pet shop and in the evening he works on his career as a comedian. Things are going really badly until he cracks jokes about his best buddy Hotte and his girlfriend Susi. The audience goes wild with excitement! But Hotte and Susi are p* off. Paul has to decide: friendship or career?
Release Date2009-03-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count25
Beyond Silence
Beyond Silence is about a family and a young girl’s coming of age story. This German film looks into the lives of the deaf and at a story about the love for music. A girl who has always had to translate speech into sign language for her deaf parents yet when her love for playing music grows strong she must decide to continue doing something she cannot share with her parents.
Release Date1996-12-18
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count77
Everyman's Feast
Austrian television director Fritz Lehner makes his feature debut with the big-budget drama Jedermann's Fest, based on the 1911 play by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, which in turn was based on a medieval tale. Originated in parts of England, the myth of Jan Jedermann ("John Everyman") deals with a rich man on his deathbed coming to terms with his life's failures. Not following much of a plot, the modernized version involves famous fashion designer Jedermann (Klaus Maria Brandauer) imagining his last big gala event while rendered unconscious as a result of a car accident in his Ferrari. He is a success in Vienna but not in fashionable Paris, so he wishes to impress French elder stateswoman Yvonne Becker (Juliette Greco).
Release Date2002-01-25
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count2
Speer & Hitler: The Devil's Architect
A reassessment of the role Albert Speer played in the Third Reich. Speer, who was ultimately convicted at the Nuremburg trials and served a 20-year prison sentence, was known for designing many of the Third Reich's buildings and for being Hitler's minister for war production.
Release Date2005-09-05
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Episode Count4
Vote Count5
Libero
This semi-fictional movie portrays the german soccer player Franz Beckenbauer. It shows the ups and downs of being a superstar.
Release Date1973-06-06
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count7
Brecht
East Berlin, 1956. Bertolt Brecht, revolutionary of the theater and poet of the state, looks back: his exploits as a teenager during the World War I; his romantic adventures during the twenties; the escape of the Nazi regime; the return from exile. The life of a timeless classic, a class fighter, an indefatigable free spirit, a committed artist.
Release Date2019-03-22
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Episode Count2
Vote Count7
Krücke
The turmoil of the last days of the war. 13-year-old Tom loses his mother while on the run. In Vienna he meets the one-legged black marketeer 'Krücke' - a sly, cunning survivalist and at the same time an adorable, kind friend. The two find shelter with Bronka, a Jewish woman who serves alcohol to Allied soldiers and black marketeers. Tom and Krücke settle into this insecure world. Krücke plays the saxophone, Tom waits tables, until one day a return to Germany becomes possible. But the train that the one-legged man and the boy board is stranded in no man's land...
Release Date1993-01-22
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count1
Kaspar Hauser
In May 1828, a feral boy aged around 16 was found in Nuremberg. Kaspar Hauser, as he is called, can only speak a few indistinct words and knows nothing about his origins or family. The film depicts the - presumed - circumstances under which Hauser was held captive in complete isolation in a hiding place from infancy onwards. From this emerges the picture of an intrigue involving high circles of aristocratic society. Five years after his liberation, in December 1833, Kaspar Hauser died as a result of a stab wound inflicted by an unknown perpetrator.
Release Date1993-09-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count15
Carnapping - Ordered, Stolen and Sold
When designer Robert Meering returns from vacation, he discovers the company he worked for unexpectedly went bankrupt so he decides to visit his old boss. His former employer Banninger liquidated the company and claims that all designs of Robert are his. When Robert's Porsche gets stolen by two thieves, he manages to track them down. When they tell him about 40 Porsche's in a dealer shop garage owned by Banninger things change and suddenly get very interesting.
Release Date1980-04-17
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count7
Maybe... Maybe Not
The heterosexual man Axel is thrown out of his girlfriends home for cheating and ends up moving in with a gay man. Axel learns the advantages of living with gay men even though they are attracted to him and when his girlfriend wants him back he must make a tough decision.
Release Date1994-10-05
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count116
Radetzky March
At the battle of Solferino Joseph von Trotta, a lieutenant in the Slovenian infantry, is wounded while saving the life of the young Austrian Emperor Franz-Joseph I. The Emperor rewards him by elevating him in society to a position quite out of keeping with his social rank, and which entirely alienates him from his farming background: Joseph gets promoted to the rank of captain, and is made a member of the nobility. Years later Joseph von Trotta accidentally finds a description of the battle that changed his life in a text-book belonging to his son Franz. Enraged at the over-emotional, patriotic and sentimental way in which the Emperor's rescue at the hands of "the Hero of Solferino" is depicted, he lodges a complaint at the Imperial Court.
Release Date1995-12-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count5
Zero Hour
In July 1945, US troops are leaving Saxony and Thuringia while the Red Army takes control of the territories. In a small village near Leipzig, the inhabitants try to adjust to the new authority.
Release Date1977-02-06
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count5
Honeymoon
Christine and her friend Linda live together and get on very well - except when it comes to men. While Christine is still mourning her ex-boyfriend, Linda takes things like sex and relationships rather casually. Barbara, the third in the group, is completely different: she has been in steady hands for seven years and still believes in the one great love.
Release Date1996-04-11
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count1
The Rose Garden
In Germany, an old man attacks another old man and is arrested. The attacker refuses to speak. A female lawyer is appointed to him. She discovers that the attacker has numbers tattooed on his arm and the attacked man was a German officer.
Release Date1989-12-22
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count10
Bahnübergang
TV-Movie from Reiner Erler
Release Date1969-03-12
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Nowhere in Africa
A Jewish woman named Jettel Redlich flees Nazi Germany with her daughter Regina, to join her husband, Walter, on a farm in Kenya. At first, Jettel refuses to adjust to her new circumstances, bringing with her a set of china dishes and an evening gown. While Regina adapts readily to this new world, forming a strong bond with her father's cook, an African named Owuor.
Release Date2001-12-11
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count174
Buddenbrooks
Mid-19th-century, Baltic Sea port city of Lubeck, Germany. Follows the fourth generation of the Buddenbrook mercantile family as Tony and Thomas reach the age of marriage. Fatefully impeded every step of the way, the Buddenbrooks struggle as economic hardship and personal defeats weigh down family relations.
Release Date2008-12-25
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count34
Ballermann 6
Tommie and Mario travel to Mallorca in search of a vacation fueled by alcohol and the desire for women and parties.
Release Date1997-10-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count70
Wallenstein
The rise of Albrecht von Wallenstein from minor Moravian nobleman to imperialist generalissimo in the Thirty Years-War, and his fall once the emperor begins to doubt his loyalty.
Release Date1978-11-19
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Episode Count4
Vote Count1
Die Manns - Ein Jahrhundertroman
Much has been said and written about the Mann family. However, there has never been a film that brings this remarkable family to life in such a playful way. Through the docudrama format developed by Heinrich Breloer, we become direct witnesses to moving stories that no one has heard before. Stories of passion, love, and hate, of war and emigration, of tragic intertwining of personal and world historical events. The Mann family shows itself as it has never been seen before. They all appear: the brothers Thomas and Heinrich with their lifelong sibling rivalry, the extroverted siblings Erika and Klaus, the quiet Golo, and also the only child of Thomas Mann still alive today: Elisabeth.
Release Date2001-12-05
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Episode Count3
Vote Count1
Rossini
Zigeuner is on the hunt for the woman of his dreams, a woman who should also play the main role in the film. Meanwhile, ruthless producer Oskar Reiter wants to buy the film rights at all costs - and he is struggling for the love of the beautiful Valerie.
Release Date1997-01-23
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count43
A Girl Called Rosemarie
Katja Flint, Hannelore Elsner and Heiner Lauterbach star in this German film about a woman who climbs the social ladder by sleeping with those she encounters on her way to the top. When she's discovered dead in her apartment in 1957, the police try to piece together the clues to find out who murdered her … but to no avail.
Release Date1996-10-25
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count15
Love Times Three
Nadine finally wants to be deflowered, but she has no success in Germany. Consequently, she visits her mother in Tunisia.
Release Date1973-05-23
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count3
Terror Stalks the Class Reunion
A beautiful young detective goes to the rescue of a teacher kidnapped by a former student.
Release Date1992-06-12
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count4
Pura Vida Ibiza
School's over – and for brand-new high-school graduates Ben, Felix and Nick, it's time to party! But when Ben embarrasses himself in public trying to declare his love for the gorgeous Carola, he and his pals make a quick exit by taking jobs as hosts in a vacation club on Ibiza, the Mediterranean hot spot for oversexed boys and underdressed girls! Instead of sun, sea and sex, however, it's work, work and more work, as the three are kept busy around the clock by their sadistic boss Anna. And when Ben bumps into Carola and her super-cool DJ boyfriend, Ibiza starts feeling more like Alcatraz by the minute. Yet even as the mishaps pile up and the boys have to cope with stinging jellyfish, English hooligans and tequila hangovers, they refuse to give up their plan to throw the ultimate Ibiza party for the club, and especially for Carola. Summer is short, but these guys are going to make sure everyone remembers this one for a long time!
Release Date2004-02-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count13
The Robber Hotzenplotz
Somewhere in the Bavarian province the robber Hotzenplotz is up to mischief. One day he robs Kasperl's grandmother's coffee grinder. Since the goofy sergeant Dimpfelmoser sees little hope of finding the robber, Kasperl and his best friend Seppel decide to track down the robber themselves. With a ruse, they manage to find the robber's cave, but are then caught by Hotzenplotz, who sells Kasperl to the magician Zwackelmann.
Release Date2006-03-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count29
Little Lady
Nine-year-old streetwalker Emily lives with her widowed mother in 19th century New York. Her life changes abruptly when she learns that she has been appointed sole heiress by an aging, wealthy Austrian countess. It is not only an heiress who causes turbulence, but also the countess's attempt to raise Emily as a member of the aristocracy.
Release Date2012-12-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count15
Trenck - Zwei Herzen gegen die Krone
Prussian general's son Friedrich, Freiherr (German baron) von der Trenck, is an unruly student whose countless affairs make him enemies, but he wins every duel. Frederic II the Great recruits him for his personal bodyguard. During his cadet training under the cruel stickler Graf (count) von Jaschinsky Friedrich falls in love with the king's headstrong oldest sister Amalia. She, however, refuses to be married off the the Swedish king's heir. When Prussia makes war on Austria over Silesia, Trenck's loyalty is dubious on account of an Austrian family branch. Janischky eagerly convinces the king there is more.
Release Date2003-02-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count7
Santa Fe
After arriving in 1940 New York, Freddy struggles to find work. His world of refugee acquaintances includes the depressed daughter of a poet/delicatessen owner, an aging surgeon who cannot find work, and a lovable charlatan photographer.
Release Date1987-01-01
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count6
Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision
Follow-up to the TV trilogy “Heimat”, this time for cinemas, set again in the fictional village Schabbach in the Hunsrück region of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Release Date2013-10-03
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count54
My Daughter Belongs to Me
A Greek father, estranged from his German wife, kidnaps his daughter from her busy career mother in Berlin, and brings her home to live with his family. An international custody battle follows.
Release Date1992-05-28
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Letter from an Unknown Woman
Vienna, in the 1930s. The attractive and famous writer Albert Rank receives the letter from a stranger. He discovers that she devoted her entire life to her boundless love. In her letter, Rose looks back on a variety of meetings with Albert: Since childhood, she is slavishly in love with him and she never got away from her throughout her life. In many encounters Rank could not recognize them, even if the shared moments had been wonderful. As an adult woman, Rose's love is too painful to go on, and she has dire consequences.
Release Date2002-12-31
DepartmentCamera
JobCamera Operator
Vote Count8
Oh Jonathan – oh Jonathan!
Release Date1973-05-09
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count2
Keep on Running
Release Date1991-02-14
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count1
1+1=3
An unmarried actress in Munich becomes pregnant but decides against marrying the child's father, and eventually moves in with a more agreeable man she meets on a winter sports holiday.
Release Date1979-10-31
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count2
Little Sharks
When dishwasher Ingo, whose girl-friend has just left him, returns a borrowed bar stool to the Folkwang Acting School in Essen, he stumbles into the audition for next year's new students. He lets Johannes, the broke and unsuccessful applicant, stay with him. Ingo decides to go to Munich with Johannes, where he wants to try his luck once again. Hitchhiking, they get rides with very different drivers on the autobahn. They meet up with the smooth-talking Ali in the wayside dinner "Raststätte Spessart". Arriving in Munich, the trio tries to find cheap sleeping accommodation. They enter Ingo into the audition at Munich acting school. Moreover, Johannes falls in love with street artist Herta from Berlin. Written by emkarpf
Release Date1992-09-03
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count29
Tod auf der Themse
The rich and respected London doctor Roger Mills has invited six of his best friends onto his boat on the Thames - he won't survive the trip.
Release Date1973-01-05
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Welcome in Vienna
Freddy, a Viennese Jew who emigrated to New York after Hitler's invasion, and Adler, a left-wing intellectual originally from Berlin, return to Austria in 1944 as soldiers in the U.S. Army. Freddy falls in love with the daughter of a Nazi, and Adler attempts to go over to the Communist Zone. But with the advent of the Cold War and continuing anti-semitism, the idealism of both characters is shattered as they find themselves surrounded by cynicism, opportunism, and universal self-deception.
Release Date1986-01-01
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count6
A Good Opportunity
Gosbert Klee and Thilo "Abo" Abogast are anything but down on their luck. Nothing in their pockets, nothing on their minds and nothing but trouble to boot! But just as Gosbert's caravan has been blown up in an accident and Abo is being pursued by a bailiff, fate seems to give them another chance: by chance, the kidnapped multimillionaire Lorenz Kellermann falls into their hands. A really good opportunity to collect the ransom themselves - but there are a few other bad guys involved....
Release Date1999-11-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Der zerbrochene Krug
Release Date1990-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Sie und er im Rausch der Wollust
Composed of short films within the framework of a bedroom story, which, among other things, pleads for partner swapping as therapy against "contact difficulties in industrial society. Communards of the 1970s and the chairman of the then existing Sex Party, the former theology student Joachim Driessen, appear as key witnesses of the "new society.
Release Date1973-06-29
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count2
Meister des Todes
Based on explosive investigations, the thriller "Meister des Todes" ("Master of Death") tells of a German arms manufacturer and their questionable weapon exports to Mexiko.
Release Date2015-06-30
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count13
Seitensprung in den Tod
During a business trip to Berlin, family man Martin flirts with the smart Corinna and, despite initial pangs of conscience, ends up in bed with her. The next morning, it turns out that Corinna has AIDS...
Release Date1997-03-25
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography