Robert Baberske
Cinematographer

Robert Baberske

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1 May 1900(Berlin, Germany)
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31 March 1958(East Berlin, East Germany)
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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.

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  • 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)