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)
• 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)
• Things Are Getting Better Already (1932)
• The Burning Secret (1933)
• Spies at Work (1933)
• Little Girl, Great Fortune (1933)
• The Sun Rises (1934)
• The Higher Command (1935)
• One Too Many on Board (1935)
• Make Me Happy (1935)
• The Girl Irene (1936)
• Carousel (1937)
• A Night in May (1938)
• The Girl of Last Night (1938)
• Her First Experience (1939)
• How Do We Tell Our Children? (1940)
• Between Hamburg and Haiti (1940)
• The Rothschilds (1940)
• Attack on Baku (1942)
• Between Heaven and Earth (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)
• The Axe of Wandsbek (1951)
• 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 IMDb

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