Kolja Brandt

Birth : 1969-01-01, Berlin, Germany

Movies

The Secrets We Keep
Director of Photography
In post-World War II America, a woman, rebuilding her life in the suburbs with her husband, kidnaps her neighbor and seeks vengeance for the heinous war crimes she believes he committed against her.
The Operative
Cinematography
A young Western woman is recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler and her subject.
The Young Karl Marx
Director of Photography
26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 in Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist’s son, who has been investigating the sordid birth of the British working class. Engels, the dandy, provides the last piece of the puzzle to the young Karl Marx’s new vision of the world. Together, between censorship and the police’s repression, riots and political upheavals, they will lead the labor movement during its development into a modern era.
Colonia
Director of Photography
A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody ever escaped from.
Naked Among Wolves
Director of Photography
Taking place at the Concentration camp Buchenwald at the end of March 1945, prisoner Hans Pippig discovers in a carrying case of an incoming prisoner a Jewish child. If reported the three-year-old is sure to die. On the other hand, a violation of the rules of the camp would threaten the long prepared uprising of the concentration camp prisoners against the SS.
300 Worte Deutsch
Director of Photography
Culture-Clash-Comedy about Turkish brides importet into Germany.
Hector and the Search for Happiness
Director of Photography
Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and yet he’s offering advice to patients who are just not getting any happier. So Hector decides to break out of his deluded and routine driven life. Armed with buckets of courage and child-like curiosity, he embarks on a global quest in hopes of uncovering the elusive secret formula for true happiness. And so begins a larger than life adventure with riotously funny results.
Erased
Director of Photography
A former agent of the CIA and his estranged daughter go on the run after his employers target them for assassination.
Roraima - Climbers of the Lost World
Director of Photography
When friends and longtime climbing partners Kurt Albert, Holger Heuber and competitive climbing’s first superstar Stefan Glowacz embark on an expedition to Mount Roraima, a table mountain shrouded in legend, this group of experienced climbers have no idea what they got themselves into. A tragic accident back home adds to the drama which unfolds set against the backdrop of Guyana’s tropical rain forest and the steep walls of this breathtaking mountain.
Young Goethe in Love
Cinematography
After aspiring poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe fails his law exams, he's sent to a sleepy provincial court to reform. Instead, he falls for Lotte, a young woman who is promised to another man.
North Face
Director of Photography
North Face tells the story of two German climbers Toni Kurz and Andreas Hinterstoisser and their attempt to scale the deadly North Face of the Eiger.
Tough Enough
Director of Photography
From the youth directed novel of the same name by Greogor Tressnow comes a film by Detlev Buck that is a realistic portrait of life in the section of Berlin called Neukölln. It’s about power and weakness, delinquents and victims, and the difficulties a 15-year-old faces in a poor and criminal environment.
Three Wishes
Cinematography
Martin dies, asking Jan to carry out three wishes. Will he be up to making them happen? But, sometimes, one can also be faced with other, unforeseen wishes.
Piglets
Director of Photography
Two men are on the verge of making love, but an old neighbor does everything she can to ruin their adventure.
LoveLoveLiebe
Cinematography
Hans loves Fatima and he will do anything to make her feel at home in Germany. Fatima loves Hans and she will do anything to feel at home with him. This short student film was shot on 35mm.