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Cinematographer
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Birth:
1 May 1900(Berlin, Germany)
Death:
31 March 1958(East Berlin, East Germany)
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Biography
Introduction
Robert Baberske (1 May 1900 – 27 March 1958) was a German cinematographer. Although he worked briefly in Britain, Baberske spent most of his career in the German film industry. Baberske began as an assistant to Karl Freund. He became a prominent film technician during the silent era, and later during the Nazi years. Following the Second World War, he lived and worked in East Germany on a number of propaganda films for the state-controlled DEFA studio.
Selected filmography
- Madame Wants No Children (1926)
- Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis (1927)
- Doña Juana (1927)
- Out of the Mist (1927)
- A Knight in London (1929)
- Napoleon at St. Helena (1929)
- Bookkeeper Kremke (1930)
- Dolly Gets Ahead (1930)
- Calais-Dover (1931)
- Ronny (1931)
- No More Love (1931)
- The Street Song (1931)
- Thea Roland (1932)
- The Beautiful Adventure (1932)
- You Don't Forget Such a Girl (1932)
- The Song of Night (1932)
- The Burning Secret (1933)
- Little Girl, Great Fortune (1933)
- The Higher Command (1935)
- One Too Many on Board (1935)
- The Girl Irene (1936)
- A Night in May (1938)
- The Girl of Last Night (1938)
- Between Hamburg and Haiti (1940)
- The Rothschilds (1940)
- Attack on Baku (1942)
- Kohlhiesel's Daughters (1943)
- The Buchholz Family (1944)
- Marriage of Affection (1944)
- Bürgermeister Anna (1950)
- Das tapfere Schneiderlein (1956)