Reimar Kuntze

Nacimiento : 1900-01-27, Berlin, Germany

Muerte : 1949-08-18

Películas

Eyes of Love
Cinematography
Träum’ nicht, Annette!
Cinematography
The Brothers Noltenius
Director of Photography
Wolf Noltenius is a real globetrotter. Early on, this talented young man travelled far and wide, where he earned fame as a construction planner. He moved to Brazil; but one day, homesickness got the best of him. He spontaneously travelled back to his hometown to visit his brother Werner and his family. Wolf and Werner, who both went into the same profession, couldn't be any more different: the one is worldly and an experienced man-about-town; the other a small bourgeois.
Hab’ mich lieb!
Cinematography
Viel Lärm um Nixi
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Tanz mit dem Kaiser
Cinematography
The young emperor Joseph II of Austria and Hungary is not interested in romance and marriage, and every time his mother makes arrangements for him to meet eligible young ladies, he escapes under some pretense. This time he is off on a 'tour of inspection' with his trusted friend von Kleber. Things become complicated when von Kleber, pretending to be the emperor so as to protect the real Joseph from discovery, falls in love with Christine, the landlady of their lodgings. And when Christine later writes to the emperor, her letter is read by the mother of the real emperor, as keen as ever to see him getting married, and so the lady is invited to the imperial court.
Der Gasmann
Cinematography
A man comes into money unexpectatly. That's when the trouble starts.
Der liebe Augustin
Cinematography
Vienna, sometime around 1680: Augustin makes fun of Leopold I mistress and in doing so, stirs up the passions of the people against the luxury-enjoying rulers, who neglect their people. He is arrested and sent to prison. When the plague breaks out, he manages to get out of prison, but accidentally ends up in a mass grave for victims of the plague
Herz – modern möbliert
Director of Photography
Wie konntest Du, Veronika!
Cinematography
Das Wort aus Stein
Cinematography
This Nazi propaganda film describes the "glories" of German architecture under the regime of Adolf Hitler.
The Four Companions
Cinematography
Four graduates of an industrial design school team up and form a small business. The protagonist is so excited by the venture that she turns down the proposal of her dashing instructor. Time passes and her three partners lose interest in the business for different reasons. This leaves the heroine who has a change of heart and decides to forgo the business and marry the instructor after all.
Carmen la de Triana
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La acción se desarrolla en Andalucía durante los años de la ocupación francesa. Carmen, la cantante más famosa del país, es una mujer inconstante que reparte su amor entre tres hombres. Uno de ellos se llama Antonio, antiguo capitán del ejército regular que ahora es jefe de una partida de guerrilleros que asalta a las patrullas francesas. El segundo hombre que comparte el amor de Carmen es José, un sargento de las tropas francesas. Su tercer amor es un famoso torero de Ronda.
Noches en Andalucía
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La acción se desarrolla en Andalucía, en los años de la ocupación francesa. Carmen, que es la cantante más famosa de todo el país, es una mujer inconstante que reparte sus sentimientos entre tres hombres. Uno de ellos se llama Antonio, y se trata de un antiguo capitán del Ejército regular, que ahora es el jefe de una partida de guerrilleros, con la que da golpes de mano contra las patrullas francesas. El segundo hombre que comparte los afectos de Carmen es José, un sargento de las tropas francesas, cuyos intereses están contrapuestos con los de Antonio, rival en dos frentes. El tercer hombre de la vida de Carmen es un famoso torero de Ronda. Carmen lleva dentro de sí un sino trágico que afecta, fundamentalmente, a todos los hombres que tienen relación con ella.
Der Maulkorb
Cinematography
Zweimal zwei im Himmelbett
Cinematography
Gabriele eins, zwei, drei
Cinematography
Gabriele Bordersen, a woman from a good home, wants to see what real life is like among the common folk. With her stewardess Fanny Flint and the tour guide Simikry, she goes off to visit a sailors' bar. Fanny and Gabriele change clothes, which allows the stewardess to introduce herself as a fine lady. When Gabriele asks Fanny to leave with her, Fanny begs her to give her an hour more out of fear of embarrassment. Gabriele, however, is thrown out of the bar by the owner without money and papers; is picked up by the cops; and suffers a nervous breakdown, leading to her being sent to a hospital. No one believes in the slightest that she's really Gabriele Brodersen.
Togger
Cinematography
If We All Were Angels
Cinematography
Liselotte von der Pfalz
Camera Operator
My Song Goes Round the World
Director of Photography
Set in Venice, the touching and sometimes comic story of a diminutive tenor who falls in love whilst striving for success. Also filmed in German as Ein Lied geht um die Welt.
The Prodigal Son
Director of Photography
Story of the trials and tribulations of a German who emigrates to the US during the Great Depression.
Krach um Jolanthe
Cinematography
A Song Goes Round the World
Cinematography
A Song Goes Round the World is a 1933 German drama film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Joseph Schmidt, Viktor de Kowa and Charlotte Ander.
The Flower of Hawaii
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An adaptation of the operetta The Flower of Hawaii by Paul Abraham. It is based on the life of the last Queen of Hawaii Liliuokalani.
Moral und Liebe
Director of Photography
Film by Georg Jacoby.
The Rebel
Director of Photography
A young medical student returns to his Tyrolean home to find out that Napoleon's troops have taken over the area and that his mother and sister have been murdered.
Spione im Savoy-Hotel
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The Bartered Bride
Director of Photography
Bohemia in the 19th century, stage-coach driver Hans, loves the mayor's daughter Marie, but she is promised Wenzel, the son of another wealthy farmer. Marie refuses to marry Wenzel because of Hans, but the marriage arranger tries to "buy" Marie from Hans. But when Wenzel tells Hans, that he doesn't want to marry Marie, either, because he loves circus director Brummel's daughter, Hans decides to accept the offer of money for not interferring in the relations of Hans and Marie. But when Marie hears about this, she doesn't want to see Hans again.
Five from the Jazzband
Director of Photography
By pure chance, Jessie and his four jazz musicians are hired to play at the cabaret theatre “Trocadero”. Unfortunately, she knows nothing about music and it doesn’t help that all four musicians are in love with her. Jessie doesn’t reciprocate their feelings, because she has a thing for Martin. Unfortunately, Martin believes that Jessie stole his car … and so, right before the premiere at the cabaret, she ends up in jail.
Here's Berlin
Director of Photography
Story of a rendezvous in Paris which is prepared through telephone calls between a Berlin telephonist and his female colleague in Paris.
Las maletas del señor O. F.
Director of Photography
Trece maletas caras, marcadas sólo con las iniciales O.F., y un telegrama con una reserva llegan al hotel del aburrido pueblucho de Ostend. Todos los habitantes especulan sobre el misterioso visitante. El editor del periódico local aprovecha la ocasión y asegura que las maletas pertenecen a un millonario que está de vuelta a su hogar, y enseguida el pueblo rebosa de actividad. Se ensaya una fiesta y comienzan a construir un cine, una ópera, un ayuntamiento. En medio de una época en crisis Ostend vive el auge de la ciudad y se convierte en un símbolo para la economía mundial.
Muchachas de Uniforme
Director of Photography
Manuela es una adolescente que es enviada a un rígido internado después de la muerte de su madre. La directora del establecimiento es una convencida de que el hambre y la disciplina afirman el carácter de las niñas, pero Manuela tiene problemas ajustándose a la rígida disciplina de la directora. Así la niña es cuidada por la maestra Elizabeth Von Bernburg, que es la profesora más joven del internado y por la que todas las niñas (incluida Manuela) suspiran enamoradas... Basada en una obra de Christa Winsloe, fue la primera película que claramente trataba el tema del lesbianismo, y obtuvo un considerable éxito tanto en Europa como en Estados Unidos.
The Soaring Maiden
Cinematography
In this theatrical adaptation, a well meaning eccentric ( a good role for the popular actor later known as S Z Sakall) tries to patch up a rift between his niece and her fiance.
In the Night
Cinematography
This live-action short subject commissioned for the 75th birthday of German romantic composer Robert Schumann juxtaposes flowing water imagery with the piano playing of artist Nina Hanson.
Fire in the Opera House
Director of Photography
It begins with a Tannhäuser performance and ends with the premiere of The Tales of Hoffmann. In between a young ingénue cast in her first big role, the Hoffmann rehearsals, the theatre director and his stage director exchanging cynicisms, a budding love affair. Gründgens at his most repulsive, trying to woo both lovers. And a hair-raising finale. Add to this some snappy dialogue and "pre-code" scenes that make you sit up and stare.
The Land of Smiles
Director of Photography
A western woman falls in love with a chinese prince. When she accompanies him to his homeland, strange things await her. Based on the operetta of the same name with music by Franz Lehár and libretto by Ludwig Herzer and Fritz Löhner-Beda.
The White Devil
Director of Photography
Ivan Mozzhukhin is a "...hot-headed Caucasian mountaineer leader whose irrational behavior comes to the attention of the Czar . Hoping to use Hajji Murad as a go-between in his plans to conquer the Caucasus mountaineers, the Russian ruler finds that the hero is not so easily manipulated. Rescuing the beautiful Saira from the Czar's clutches, Hajji Murad leads the mountain people's revolt against the despotic regent." Needless to say, the film ends in tragedy.
Morgenröte
Cinematography
Film by Wolfgang Neff.
Everything Turns, Everything Revolves
Cinematography
A day at the carnival — sensational tent shows where miracles can be seen for the price of admission, boisterous noise of crowds and barkers, shrill and gaudy circus music, the violence of the street ten-fold. This is the substance of Everything Turns, Richter’s first sound film. At its premier at Baden-Baden Richter got into a fight with two Nazi officials who disliked the film's ‘modernism.’ Yet in 1936 it was awarded first prize for artistic merit by the Nazis, with Richter’s name suppressed from the credits. He had long since left Germany.
Melody of the World
Cinematography
An impression of the state of the world in 1929, contrasting similarities and differences in religion, customs, art and entertainment from all over the world. The film is constructed like a symphony.
Ghosts Before Breakfast
Director of Photography
Hans Richter, noted for his abstract shorts, has everyday objects rebelling against their daily routine.
Berlín: Sinfonia de una gran ciudad
Director of Photography
Inspirado en el documental soviético "Kino-Nedelia" (1918) de Dziga Vertov, Ruttmann realizó en 1927, contando con los mejores fotógrafos alemanes de la época, un documental basado en la vida, durante un día, de la ciudad de Berlín.
Liebe geht seltsame Wege
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Der Hauptmann von Köpenick
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Marriage Announcement
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Frauen und Banknoten
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Ein Sommernachtstraum
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Husbands or Lovers
Director of Photography
A wife, bored by her overweight slob of a husband, gives in to the temptation of a slickly seductive poet.
I.N.R.I. – A Film of Humanity
Camera Operator
From the director of Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, this is the Passion embedded in a contemporary story. An anarchist jailed for an attempted assassination is told the Passion story by the prison chaplain.