Benedict Neuenfels

Benedict Neuenfels

Nacimiento : 1966-03-11, Bern, Switzerland

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Benedict Neuenfels

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In a Land That No Longer Exists
Director of Photography
It's 1989 in East Berlin: Suzie is kicked out of school shortly before she graduates from high school and has to defend herself as a worker in the cable factory. However, a randomly taken photo leads them to the fashion world of the GDR. The editor-in-chief Elsa Wilbrodt put them on the cover of Sibylle, the fashion magazine of the GDR. In the Berlin underground scene she made the acquaintance of the gay fashion designer Rudi and the photographer Coyote. Suzie must decide if she's brave enough to leave the old strands behind forever.
Hinterland
Director of Photography
Cuando un exprisionero de la Primera Guerra Mundial vuelve a casa y se encuentra con que sus camaradas han sido brutalmente asesinados, está decidido a conseguir que se haga justicia con el asesino en serie.
El hombre perfecto
Director of Photography
Alma es científica en el famoso Museo de Pérgamo de Berlín. Con el fin de obtener fondos de investigación para sus estudios, acepta una oferta para participar en un experimento extraordinario. Durante tres semanas, debe vivir con un robot humanoide con inteligencia artificial diseñado para permitirle transformarse en el de su compañero de vida ideal. Entra Tom, una máquina en forma humana, creada para hacerla feliz.
Narciso y Goldmundo
Director of Photography
En plena Edad Media, el rebelde Goldmundo es enviado a un monasterio por orden de su padre. Allí el joven conocerá a Narciso, un novicio inteligente, erudito y distante, dedicado por completo a la vida ascética. A partir de su encuentro, nacerá entre ambos una amistad única, eterna, puesta a prueba por el destino cuando éste tienda a separar sus caminos por formas de vidas opuestas.
Paciente cero
Director of Photography
Tras una pandemia sin precedentes, la Humanidad ha resultado prácticamente arrasada por un virus que ha convertido a la mayor parte de la población en violentos infectados. Un hombre está capacitado para comunicarse con los infectados, una habilidad que le convierte en el punto de partida para hallar el origen de la infección y su cura.
Styx
Director of Photography
Rike is forty, a successful doctor whose job demands everything of her. She intends to use her much-needed annual holiday to fulfill her long-cherished dream of sailing alone from Gibraltar to Ascension, a small tropical island in the middle of the Atlantic. Her desire for a carefree holiday seems to be coming to pass but then, after a storm, her beautiful adventure suddenly turns into an unprecedented challenge when she spots a badly damaged, hopelessly overloaded refugee boat nearby.
Cold Hell
Director of Photography
A young Vienna-based taxi driver of Turkish origin witnesses an extremely brutal murder. The perpetrator, a serial killer, makes eye contact with her; a deadly game of cat-and-mouse ensues.
Girl in the Ice
Director of Photography
A young German woman is searching for the man she loves in northern Russia.
The Weekend
Cinematography
Based on a novel by Bernard Schlink (The Reader), The Weekend follows Jens as he leaves prison 18 years after being arrested as an RAF terrorist in Germany. Back with his family, friends, and ex-comrades, including his former lover Inga, Jens’ unexpected arrival disrupts their lives, forcing them to re-examine the violent idealism of their youth, especially as he insists on learning who had betrayed him to the police years before in this intense, gripping drama
Riskante Patienten
Camera Operator
Cause I Have the Looks
Director of Photography
Charo seems like a typical Berlin teenager. She's a student surrounded by good friends and has her eye on the coolest guy in school. But no one knows that Charo has been living in Germany illegally for years, not even her best friend Laura. Problems start to arise when Charo's mother is caught by the police and wants to take Charo back to Columbia. Charo now needs to trust Laura with her secret because it's the only way she'll be able to fight for her future in Germany.
Homevideo
Director of Photography
Shy, sensitive high school outsider Jakob Moormann is miserably lacking immaterial support at home, where his strict father, uniformed cop Claas, and selfish mother are too busy breaking up to be there for him. Jakob focuses on class dream-girl Hannah, without much luck. His secret recording of himself masturbating gets into class bullies Henry and Erik's hands through the mother's thoughtlessness. The rascals blackmail Jakob and post the video on the Internet. After a raging lecture phase, dad stands up for Jakob, but his life is already wrecked more than anyone realizes.
Anonyma - Una mujer en Berlín
Director of Photography
Adaptación al cine de un diario escrito por una mujer alemana. En Berlín, en los últimos meses de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), una mujer vive escondida en el sótano de un edificio en ruinas. Su encierro coincide con la llegada de las tropas del Ejército Rojo, que tomaron la ciudad, la saquearon y violaron impune e indiscriminadamente a las mujeres.
The Man from the Embassy
Director of Photography
Love Life
Director of Photography
A married young academic falls under the sexual thrall of a much older man whose air of jaded ennui conceals a secret desire for vengeance.
Los falsificadores
Director of Photography
Berlín, 1936. Sorowitsch (Karl Markovics), el rey de los falsificadores de moneda, es un judío sin escrúpulos que cree que "la manera más rápida de ganar dinero es fabricar dinero". Nada le importa lo que está sucediendo a su alrededor, ni siquiera la situación de los judíos. Sin embargo, cuando estalla la guerra, es arrestado y llevado a un campo de concentración nazi, donde se ve obligado a trabajar con otros falsificadores. Su misión: fabricar libras esterlinas y dólares americanos. A cambio, sus condiciones de vida son mejores que las de los demás prisioneros. Sin embargo, esta situación les plantea a algunos un dilema moral: cooperar con sus verdugos equivale prolongar la guerra y facilitar la victoria de la Alemania nazi.
From Dogma to Dogville: Don't Try This at Home
Himself
A documentary with the three cinematographers known for breaking away cinema away from celluloid with the introduction of digital video.
The Red Cockatoo
Director of Photography
A coming-of-age story set in Germany in the 1960s. Siggi becomes involved in a love triangle when he falls for Luise, but the tightening political climate forces him to make a fateful decision.
They've Got Knut
Director of Photography
Set in the early '80s, a time when a new wave of leftist political consciousness and activism had swept German youth (and was just about to disappear as quickly as it arrived), this satiric comedy follows a young couple, Ingo (Hans-Jochen Wagner) and Nadja (Valerie Koch), as they travel to Austria for a weekend of skiing near her parent's luxurious chalet. While Ingo and Nadja have an open relationship, he thinks its time that they commit to one another exclusively, and is hoping this weekend will convince her this is a good idea. However, their privacy is interrupted when several guests arrive -- friends of Nadja's brother Knut (Ingo Haeb), a noted political activist, who, unbeknownst to her, has also planned a ski weekend. As the guests await Knut's arrival, they get the unpleasant news that he's been arrested during a demonstration; several propose that they should come to his aid, while the majority decide instead to go skiing as a way to pay tribute to his commitment to the cause.
Ich bin keiner von uns
Cinematography
Film about writer Hans Magnus Enzensberger.
Lost Killers
Camera Operator
Noted Georgian filmmaker Dito Tsintsadze directs this darkly-humorous urban drama about the desperate lives of illegal immigrants in Mannheim, Germany. Lan (Nicole Seelig) is a Vietnamese prostitute whose rotting teeth and odd affliction, which causes her to turn comatose after an orgasm, is impeding her marketability. She soon finds herself in an unlikely romance with Haitian Carlos (Elie James Blezes), who schemes to sell his kidney for enough money to immigrate to Australia. Meanwhile, tyro hitmen Branko (Misel Maticevic) and Merab (Lasha Bakradze) dilly-dally with their assignment to kill a businessman. Merab bores his Croatian counterpart by regaling him with stories about his native Georgia -- in between vomiting out of anxiety.
Frau Rettich, die Czerni und ich
Director of Photography
Mein großer Freund
Director of Photography
Der Skorpion
Cinematography
Josef Bertholt is head of operations of the Munich Police's drug squad. When his wife Lily is the victim of a hit by drug dealers, he becomes even more obsessed with his work.
Bunte Hunde
Cinematography
Ins Leere
Director of Photography
The film "Into the Emptiness" describes an example of the ritual game of "serfdom" in a "studio for bizarre eroticism". This game comprises a masochistic phantasy in which theguest assumes the role of an obedient slave and servant while the woman employed by the "studio" plays a domina who rules and punishes without mercy.