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

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

5.4

100 votes

5.4

100 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

3.8

57 votes

Wir pfeifen auf den Gurkenkönig

1976 · Movie · 90 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)

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Ballermann 6

1997 · Movie · 95 min. · Germany

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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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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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