Robert Baberske

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.^[1] 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)
• 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 Burning Secret (1933)
• Little Girl, Great Fortune (1933)
• The Higher Command (1935)
• The Girl Irene (1936)
• A Night in May (1938)
• The Girl of Last Night (1938)
• The Rothschilds (1940)
• Attack on Baku (1942)
• Kohlhiesel's Daughters (1943)
• The Buchholz Family (1944)
• Bürgermeister Anna (1950)
• Das tapfere Schneiderlein (1956)

References

Bibliography

• Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

• Robert Baberske at the Internet Movie Database