Hanania Baer

Nacimiento : 1943-09-24, Palestine [now Israel]

Películas

Ovation
Director of Photography
Maggie Chase, now a passionate theater actress, must follow her mind or heart when she falls for a slick television star.
Just 45 Minutes from Broadway
Director of Photography
Stinging from the latest of several romantic break-ups, Pandora Isaacs (Tanna Frederick) retreats to the safety of her parents’ ramshackle upstate country house — just 45 minutes from Broadway— where her non-theatrical sister (Julie Davis) and her sister's fiance, a real- estate executive, (Judd Nelson) are also arriving for the weekend and the family's yearly Passover Seder. Family secrets, sibling rivalries, theatrical hysterics and the possibility of true love as rare as a blue bullfrog all emerge.
Queen of the Lot
Cinematography
An electronic ankle bracelet and being under house arrest aren't about to stop up-and-coming actress Maggie Chase (Tanna Frederick) from the two things she craves the most: real fame and true love. With more "Google points" than her Iowa hometown, but far less than Angelina Jolie, Maggie is desperate to claw her way off the B-list of action/adventure pictures and into major movie stardom.
Going Shopping
Cinematography
A clothing designer tries to save her struggling boutique store by having a tumultuous weekend sale of her shop's inventory by playing on the addictions of shopping for the women of Beverly Hills.
A Christmas Carol
Director of Photography
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
Festival in Cannes
Cinematography
Cannes, 1999. Alice, an actress, wants to direct an indie picture. Kaz, a talkative (and maybe bogus) deal maker, promises $3 million if she'll use Millie, an aging French star. But, Rick, a big producer, needs Millie for a small part in a fall movie or he loses his star, Tom Hanks. Is Kaz for real? Can Rick sweet-talk Alice and sabotage Kaz to keep Millie from taking that deal? Millie consults with Victor, her ex, about which picture to make, Rick needs money, an ingenue named Blue is discovered, Kaz hits on Victor's new love, and Rick's factotum connects with Blue. Knives go in various backs. Wheels spin. Which deals - and pairings - will be consummated?
Secretos de familia
Director of Photography
René Chadaway sospecha que su marido, Clay, le es infiel. Una noche, René desaparece y, aunque todo parece indicar que se trata de un secuestro, la policía sospecha que Clay la haya matado. Jo Anne, la hija del matrimonio, empieza a investigar por su cuenta y acaba descubriendo los motivos de la extraña relación de sus padres.
Storybook
Director of Photography
Al morir su marido, la madre de un niño de ocho años regresa al hogar de sus padres. El pequeño Brandon se adapta perfectamente a su nuevo hogar, fascinado con su tío Monthy, quien le cuenta que la casa que habitan está encantada. En el ático existe una maravillosa puerta hacia un lugar fantástico llamado "Storyland", un magnífico mundo donde todo es posible.
Last Summer in the Hamptons
Cinematography
Helena Mora, the head of an eccentric theatrical family, has decided to sell her large estate in the Hamptons because of her recent money troubles. Before she completes the sale, she wants to have one last gathering of family and friends, with dramatic performances. Bringing everyone together, though, creates rivalries and tension, especially for Oona, a temperamental but successful movie actress who seeks the approval of her creative peers.
Inner Sanctum II
Director of Photography
After a traumatized woman kills her rich husband in self defense, his family and friends show up to secure a piece of the inheritance for themselves even if it means driving the poor woman insane - or worse.
Babyfever
Director of Photography
Gena is an average woman who is torn between her current boyfriend's desire to marry her and start a family, and the unexpected arrival of an old boyfriend wanting to pick up where they left off. To further complicate matters, she might be pregnant herself. In the mist of this unsettled personal life, Gena leaves her two men to attend a baby shower party for a girl friend and talks with the various female attendees all of whom are facing their own ticking biological clocks.
Dark Tide
Director of Photography
Andi joins her husband Tim on a tropical island to help him with the capturing of poisonous sea snakes for their venom. Her flagrant sensuality attracts the attention of hired hand Dak, and when Tim becomes bitterly obsessed with his faltering job, Andi shares an intimate afternoon with the obsessed crewman, but then refuses to continue the affair, which leads the jilted lover to begin a series of escalating violent events.
Misión rescate
Cinematography
Stephen Dorff interpreta a Fraser, un chico de 17 años locamente enamorado de la chica más guapa del instituto, Ginny Grafton. Pero ella está fuera del alcance de Fraser, por lo que el chico se limita a seguirla a todas partes y hacerle fotografías a escondidas. Un día que pretendía espiarla con su novio en el río, presencia como unos mafiosos la secuestran. Fraser, que tiene fotos del secuestro, ve la oportunidad de salvar a Ginny y que ella se enamore de él.
Body Language
Director of Photography
The ambitious Betsy is happy: she gets promoted to a leading management position. Her happiness is spoiled only a little by problems with a boyfriend who feels neglected and an harassing boss. She realizes much too late that her secretary Norma is after her job and step by step tries to ruin her career and private life.
Venice/Venice
Director of Photography
Dean is a maverick American film director surprised that his most recent film has been chosen as the Official U.S. Entry at the Venice Film Festival. A beautiful French journalist arrives at the festival with the apparent intention of interviewing the unique and eccentric filmmaker. In the midst of all the festival madness, she is forced to confront the wide divergence between things as they really are and things as they seem to be - both on screen and off. And so, finally, are we. Shot half in Venice, Italy and half in Venice, California, "Venice/Venice" looks at the profound effect movies have had - and continue to have - on our lives, our loves and on our dreams of romance.
Ernest contra los trolls
Cinematography
En el siglo pasado el párroco del pueblo de Briarville, el reverendo Phineas Warren, logró capturar al troll Trantor, una monstruosa criatura que atrapa niños y los convierte en muñecos enterrándolos bajo un roble. Antes de ser sepultado, Trantor lanza sobre él una maldición: sus descendientes serán cada vez más tontos.
The Kid Who Loved Christmas
Director of Photography
In this sentimental holiday tale, a young boy is taken away from his loving, adoptive household when his new mom is killed in an auto accident and his traveling musician dad is deemed unfit to care for him, being on the road too much. Now, the only thing that can help is if a cold, bureaucratic adoption agency caseworker sees the error of her ways and allows them to be together.
Eating
Cinematography
At a spacious house in Los Angeles, Helene is turning 40-years old and her friends whom include French filmmaker Martine, house guest Sophie, and Lydia throw her a party. But also there is Kate a friend turning 30, and Sadie a Hollywood film agent turning 50. So, all of Helene's, Kate's, and Sadie's friends arrive for the party where Martine films the events with her movie camera and the shocking secrets revealed by Helene's mother Whitney, and her younger sister Nancy whom confide in their interviews about their obsession with food, and their roles in life.
New Year's Day
Additional Photography
A man returns to his sublet apartment to find the previous tenants, three offbeat young women, still in residence, under the mistaken belief that they have the apartment until the end of New Year's Day.
Elvira, la reina de las tinieblas
Director of Photography
Elvira, una presentadora de televisión de un programa de terror, viaja a Massachussets para recibir la herencia de su fallecida tía Morgana: una casa ruinosa, un perro y un libro de recetas. Poco después, encuentra una misteriosa carta...
A Friendship in Vienna
Director of Photography
Inge Dournenvald and Lise Mueller are best friends in pre-WW2 Austria, despite the fact that Inge is Jewish and Lise is the daughter of a Nazi sympathizer. When they are forbidden to see each other, they meet secretly. After the Germans invade Austria in 1938, Inge and her family escape to America with the help of Lise
Strange Voices
Director of Photography
A family begins to fall apart when their eldest daughter is diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Masters del universo
Director of Photography
Basada en la famosa serie animada. He-man y sus amigos deben viajar a la Tierra del siglo XX para rescatar una llave cósmica que les permita derrotar a Skeletor, que se ha apoderado del castillo de Grayskull y que mantiene prisionera a Sorceress. Los inconvenientes son que Skeletor posee otra llave y que la original está en manos de unos jóvenes terrícolas, que creen que es un instrumento musical.
El guardaespaldas de la primera dama
Director of Photography
Jay Killion, el guardaespaldas del recientemente elegido presidente de los Estados Unidos, debe proteger también la vida de la primera dama, una mujer problemática que es objeto de varios intentos de asesinato. La última película estrenada en cines del director Peter R. Hunt fue esta cinta de acción con toques de comedia, protagonizada por Charles Bronson. El actor, quien ya había coincidido con el realizador en "Caza salvaje", volvió a encontrarse en la pantalla, por 16ª vez, con su esposa, Jill Ireland, en la que se convertiría en su última aparición conjunta. Y es que la actriz, que ya padecía cáncer de mama en el momento del rodaje, no superaría la enfermedad y moriría tres años más tarde. Les acompaña en un pequeño papel Chris Alcaide ("El sheriff de Oracle"), un actor de wésterns ya retirado que volvió al séptimo arte solo para participar en la que nos ocupa.
Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story
Director of Photography
La hermandad de la justicia
Director of Photography
Historia basada en los hechos reales que ocurrieron en 1985 en el R.L. Paschel High School (Forth Worth, Texas) y que conmocionaron al mundo. Tras una serie de ataques de bandas juveniles al instituto de Santa Lucia el director del mismo, Bob Grootemat (Joe Spano), anima a los estudiantes a que luche para acabar con el clima de la violencia y drogas en el que vive. Inspirados por el discurso un grupo de alumnos, liderados por el joven Derek (Keanu Reeves) deciden formar una fraternidad secreta llamada “La Hermandad de la Justicia” dedicada a acabar con camellos, ladrones y todos aquellos que alteren la paz de las aulas. Todo marcha bien entre ellos hasta que cada uno decide utilizar la hermandad para cobrarse deudas pendientes...
Prince of Bel Air
Director of Photography
A free-spirited, womanizing L.A. pool cleaner (Mark Harmon) finds his lifestyle challenged by a new love interest (Kirstie Alley). Robert Vaughn also appears as Alley's uncle.
Always
Cinematography
A middle-aged couple, on the verge of proceeding with a divorce, find themselves questioning their decision to separate when fellow friends and neighbors, oblivious to their marital troubles, assemble at their house for a 4th of July Weekend party.
El guerrero americano
Director of Photography
En Filipinas, Joe Armstrong (Michael Dudikoff), un soldado americano de la Armada, cae en una emboscada tendida por unos rebeldes. Pero con su supremo dominio de las artes marciales consigue defenderse y, de paso, descubrir una horrible conspiración en el seno del ejército americano...
Roman Behemshechim
Director of Photography
A highly successful lawyer realises, after a cardiac warning, that he may have squandered his life when he left his first wife and all the ideals of youth she stood for, to marry a neurotic poet and join the rat race for money & success.
Breakdance 2: Electric Boogaloo
Director of Photography
Kelly (Lucinda Dickey), Ozone (Adolfo Quiñones), y Turbo (Michael Chambers) intentarán detener la demolición de un centro de recreación de la comunidad.
El ladrón y la estrella
Director of Photography
Para saldar una deuda, un hombre se ve empujado a robar unas joyas, pero todo se complica cuando se enamora de la dueña de éstas.
Ninja III: La dominación
Cinematography
Una mujer es poseída por el espíritu de un malvado guerrero ninja y comienza a asesinar a sus enemigos, demostrando habilidades sobrenaturales. Sólo un ninja heroico podrá sacar el mal de su cuerpo. Tercera entrega de una trilogía que completan "La justicia del ninja" y "La venganza del ninja". La tres cintas que solo tienen en común haber sido producidas por la mítica factoría de acción ochentera Cannon Films, y tener en su reparto al actor japonés Shô Kosugi, un especialista en artes marciales cuya figura sirvió, entre otras cosas, como modelo para el personaje de Rikimaru en las tres entregas del exitoso videojuego, "Tenchu".
Breakdance
Director of Photography
Película que gira en torno al fenómeno del Breakdance durante los años 80. Kelly es una bailarina que a través de un compañero conoce a dos bailarines callejeros, para los cuales el baile es una forma de vida que nada tiene que ver con lo que enseñan en las academias. Poco a poco Kelly se interesará por el baile callejero, y bailando con ellos triunfará en las fiestas de Hip Hop, pero aún queda conquistar a los jueces de traje y corbata.
Un asesino en la familia
Director of Photography
Un hombre acusado de asesinato convence a sus tres hijos no sólo de que es inocente, sino también de que en la cárcel recibe amenazas que ponen en peligro su vida. Por todo ello, les pide ayuda para escapar de prisión. Siguiendo un plan, se fuga con otro preso amigo suyo e involucra a sus hijos en la huida. Perseguidos por la policía, se ocultan en una zona montañosa. Sin embargo, los hijos, observando el comportamiento de su padre, empiezan a dudar de su inocencia y a sospechar que se trata de un verdadero psicópata.
Stoney el frio
Camera Operator
Stoney Cooper ha dejado de ser un duro policía de Los Angeles para convertirse en un detective privado que tiene entre manos un caso que conmociona la ciudad: persigue a un asesino en serie que ha grabado una X en la frente de cada una de sus diecisiete víctimas, que son siempre mujeres. Sus métodos nunca fueron demasiado bien vistos, pero a los que fueron antes sus colegas del lado de la ley no les gusta que Stoney avance más en sus investigaciones que ellos, por lo que le presionan en demasía, sobre todo el que fuera su antiguo compañero, Otto Hoxley.
The Wave
Director of Photography
A teacher conducts an experiment in an American high school where students learn how easy it is to be seduced by the same social forces which led to the horrors of Nazi Germany. Based on a true story.
Choices
Director of Photography
A popular high school student seems to have it all; a spot on the football team, the love of playing music in the school orchestra and a girlfriend. His world seems to come apart when the school doctor discovers he is partially deaf, causing him to be cut from the football team on the advice of the doctor. The student's friends fight to keep him on the team; while he struggles with his problem by withdrawing from everything he loves and starts falling in with the wrong crowd.
What Are Friends For?
Director of Photography
Two 12-year-old girls going through a divorce make a pact never to divorce their friendship.
UFO's Are Real
Director of Photography
One of several 1970s documentaries on the subject of unidentified flying objects (UFO), supporting the view that Earth is visited regularly by extra-terrestrial engines and aliens.
Dracula chupa
Director of Photography
El conde se establece en una residencia cercana a un sombrío y repulsivo castillo que es en la actualidad utilizado como un manicomio cuyo director es el doctor Seward. Los acontecimientos (siniestros, pero también sensuales) van a sucederse en el lugar mientras el sonido de los gritos rompen el silencio de la noche. Sin duda, un lugar ideal para las actividades de Drácula.