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Robert Baberske

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Occupation
  
Cinematographer

Years active
  
1920 - 1957


Name
  
Robert Baberske

Role
  
Cinematographer

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Born
  
1 May 1900 (
1900-05-01
)
Berlin, Germany

Died
  
March 31, 1958, East Berlin

Movies
  
Berlin: Symphony of a Great, Die Geschichte vom klein, Der Untertan, The Axe of Wandsbek, Das tapfere Schneiderlein

Similar People
  
Karl Freund, Carl Mayer, Wolfgang Staudte, Fritz Arno Wagner, Walter Ruttmann

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)
  • How Do We Tell Our Children? (1940)
  • Between Hamburg and Haiti (1940)
  • The Rothschilds (1940)
  • Attack on Baku (1942)
  • Kohlhiesel's Daughters (1943)
  • The Buchholz Family (1944)
  • Marriage of Affection (1944)
  • King of Hearts (1947)
  • The Cuckoos (1949)
  • How Do We Tell Our Children? (1949)
  • Bürgermeister Anna (1950)
  • Das tapfere Schneiderlein (1956)
  • References

    Robert Baberske Wikipedia