Cinematography: Gernot Roll
The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Gernot Roll. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.
2nd Heimat (TV Miniseries)
1992 · Series · 1532 min. · Germany
Direction Edgar Reitz
Cast Henry Arnold · Salome Kammer · Frank Röth · Noemi Steuer
Plot The movie consist of 13 separate episodes each handling a period between 1960 and 1970. The length of these periods varies from one day to some years. It tells the...
8.2
30 votes
8.2
30 votes
Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany (TV Miniseries)
1984 · Series · 924 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Edgar Reitz
Cast Marita Breuer · Dieter Schaad · Michael Lesch · Eva Maria Bayerswaltes
Plot It follows Maria Simon (Marita Breuer), a woman living in the fictional village of Schabbach. The film covers the years 1919 to 1982, depicting how the events of German history...
8.0
324 votes
8.0
324 votes
Home From Home - Chronicle of a Vision
2013 · Movie · 225 min. · Germany
Direction Edgar Reitz
Cast Jan Dieter Schneider · Antonia Bill · Maximilian Scheidt · Marita Breuer
Plot 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. Set in the mid-19th century, this latest...
7.7
496 votes
7.7
496 votes
The Manns (TV Miniseries)
2001 · Series · 312 min. · Germany
Direction Heinrich Breloer
Cast Armin Mueller-Stahl · Monica Bleibtreu · Jürgen Hentsch · Veronica Ferres
Plot Chronicle about Germany's most extraodinary literary family.
7.2
72 votes
7.2
72 votes
Nowhere in Africa
2001 · Movie · 140 min. · Germany
Direction Caroline Link
Cast Juliane Köhler · Merab Ninidze · Lea Kurka · Matthias Habich
Plot A love story spanning two continents, NOWHERE IN AFRICA is the extraordinary true tale of a Jewish family who flees the Nazi regime in 1938 for a remote farm in...
6.7
4K votes
6.7
4K votes
Beyond Silence
1996 · Movie · 109 min. · Germany
Direction Caroline Link
Cast Sylvie Testud · Tatjana Trieb · Howie Seago · Emmanuelle Laborit
Plot Since the earliest days in her childhood Lara has had a difficult but important task. Both her parents are deaf-mute and Lara has to translate from sign-language to the spoken...
6.7
242 votes
6.7
242 votes
Speer und er (TV)
2005 · Movie · 270 min. · Germany
Direction Heinrich Breloer
Cast Sebastian Koch · Tobias Moretti · Dagmar Manzel · Andre Hennicke
Plot A reassessment of the role german architect Albert Speer (1905-1981) played in the Third Reich. Speer, who was ultimately convicted at the Nuremburg trials and served a 20-year prison sentence,...
6.6
88 votes
6.6
88 votes
Brecht
2019 · Documentary · 187 min. · Germany
Direction Heinrich Breloer
Cast Burghart Klaußner · Tom Schilling · Adele Neuhauser · Trine Dyrholm
Plot Heinrich Breloer turns his attentions to the biography of the writer Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956). In a mixture of fiction and documentary, his film sketches a self-confident man who was nonetheless...
6.1
54 votes
6.1
54 votes
The Rose Garden
1989 · Movie · 112 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Fons Rademakers
Cast Liv Ullmann · Maximilian Schell · Peter Fonda · Jan Niklas
Plot 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...
6.0
36 votes
6.0
36 votes
Henry of Navarre (TV Miniseries)
2010 · Series · 155 min. · Germany
Direction Jo Baier
Cast Julien Boisselier · Joachim Król · Andreas Schmidt · Roger Casamajor
Plot 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...
5.8
74 votes
5.8
74 votes
Maybe, Maybe Not
1994 · Movie · 93 min. · Germany
Direction Sönke Wortmann
Cast Til Schweiger · Katja Riemann · Joachim Król · Rufus Beck
5.6
623 votes
5.6
623 votes
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
2008 · Movie · 151 min. · Germany
Direction Heinrich Breloer
Cast Nina Proll · Maja Schöne · Lea Bosco · Raban Bieling
Plot 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...
5.5
347 votes
5.5
347 votes
Rossini
1997 · Movie · 114 min. · Germany
Direction Helmut Dietl
Cast Mario Adorf · Götz · Heiner Lauterbach · Gudrun Landgrebe
5.4
100 votes
5.4
100 votes
The King's Whore
1992 · Movie · 89 min. · France
Direction Axel Corti
Cast Timothy Dalton · Valeria Golino · Stéphane Freiss · Margaret Tyzack
5.4
681 votes
5.4
681 votes
The Last Escape
1970 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Walter Grauman
Cast Stuart Whitman · John Collins · Martin Jarvis · Pinkas Braun
Plot The end of WW2. Allied forces enter a well-guarded German rocket base and kidnap among others the rocket scientist Dr. Von Heinken. When they try to get away they are...
4.4
29 votes
4.4
29 votes
Die kleine Lady (TV)
2012 · Movie · 99 min. · Germany
Direction Gernot Roll
Cast Christiane Hörbiger · Veronica Ferres · Philippa Schoene · Stefania Rocca
3.8
57 votes
3.8
57 votes
Wir pfeifen auf den Gurkenkönig
1976 · Movie · 90 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Hark Bohm
Cast Sonja Sutter · Karl Michael Vogler · Thomas Blass · Bettina Bernhard
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Ballermann 6
1997 · Movie · 95 min. · Germany
Direction Tom Gerhardt · Gernot Roll
Cast Tom Gerhardt · Hilmi Sözer · Diana Frank · Christoph M. Ohrt
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Morenga
1985 · Movie · 112 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
Direction Egon Günther
Cast Jacques Breuer · Edwin Noel · Jürgen Holtz · Manfred Seipold
Plot Set in 1904, this is an uneven tale of war and intrigue between native South Africans, German colonialists, and British colonialists, a war no one really wins.
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Mary Higgins Clark: Terror Stalks the Class Reunion (TV)
1992 · Movie · 95 min. · Canada
Direction Clive Donner
Cast Kate Nelligan · Jennifer Beals · Geraint Wyn Davies · Werner Stocker
Plot A beautiful young detective goes to the rescue of a teacher kidnapped by a former student.
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