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Gernot Roll

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Gernot Roll (9 April 193912 November 2020) was a German cinematographer, film director and script writer. He collaborated on several films with directors Edgar Reitz and Sönke Wortmann. He was regarded as an expert on literary adaptations and film biographies, such as The Buddenbrooks, filming Buddenbrooks in eleven television episodes directed by Franz Peter Wirth, and the same work again in 2008 in the film directed by Heinrich Breloer.

Life

Roll was born in Dresden and grew up in Pirna. At the age of 14 he began training as a cameraman and then worked at the DEFA Studios in Berlin-Babelsberg. His first film as a camera assistant was the fairy tale film The Singing Ringing Tree. In 1960 he went to West Germany to work at Bavaria Film in Munich. He filmed literary works such as , and television series such as Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre and Tatort. From 1976, he worked as a freelance cinematographer. He was considered an expert in literary adaptations and film biographies. In 1979, he was the cinematographer for The Buddenbrooks, eleven episodes for television of Buddenbrooks, directed by Franz Peter Wirth.

Roll's breakthrough came with the celebrated 16-hour TV series Heimat – Eine deutsche Chronik by Edgar Reitz in 1984. Among his films were Caroline Link's Jenseits der Stille and Helmut Dietl's . He worked with Sönke Wortmann for Der bewegte Mann, with for , and with Link again for Academy Awards-winning Nirgendwo in Afrika ( Nowhere in Africa). He also worked with directors including Jo Baier, Axel Corti and Peter Keglevic.

Roll's debut as a director was in the film . Roll was the director for films including the children's classic in 2006. In 2008, he was the cinematographer for Heinrich Breloer's film Die Buddenbrooks.

Roll was one of the founding members of the Deutsche Filmakademie in 2003.

He was married to the producer Rita Serra-Roll; their son is the actor Michael Roll (born 1961). They lived in the Hunsrück.

Roll died on 12 November 2020 in Munich after a severe illness, at the age of 81.

Filmography

Films for which Roll was the cinematographer include:

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1970	The Last Escape	Walter Grauman
	Salto Mortale		TV series
1977	Zero Hour	Edgar Reitz
1979	The Buddenbrooks	Franz Peter Wirth	TV series
1980	Car-napping
1980	Ein Stück Himmel	Wirth
1984	Heimat – eine deutsche Chronik	Reitz	TV series
1985	Morenga	Egon Günther
1985	Mit meinen heißen Tränen	Fritz Lehner
1989	The Rose Garden	Fons Rademakers
1982	Little Sharks	Sönke Wortmann
1994	Der bewegte Mann	Wortmann
1996	Das Mädchen Rosemarie	Bernd Eichinger	TV film
1996	Beyond Silence	Caroline Link
2001	Nowhere in Africa	Link
2001	Die Manns – Ein Jahrhundertroman	Heinrich Breloer	miniseries
2002	Jedermanns Fest	Lehner
2005	Speer und Er	Breloer
2008	Buddenbrooks	Breloer
2010	Henri 4	Jo Baier
2013	Home from Home	Reitz
2019	Brecht	Breloer