Christian Berger

Christian Berger is a cinematographer, director, producer and writer of numerous documentaries, made-for-TV films and features. Berger has worked as the cinematographer for such renowned directors as Michael Haneke, Luc Bondy, Wolfgang Glück, Stephen Gaghan, Amos Gitai, Peter Sehr, Marie Noelle, János Szász and Angelina Jolie Pitt.

In 2012, Berger was awarded the "Golden Camera 300" for Outstanding Contribution to the World Cinema Art at the Manaki Brothers Film Festival in Bitola, Macedonia. Manaki Brothers is the world's oldest film festival that pays tribute to the creative work of the cinematographers and celebrates the visual artistic aspects of film.

For his work on The White Ribbon, Berger was nominated for an Academy Award® and was named cinematographer of the year Los Angeles.

Berger was the director and cinematographer for the films Raffl, Hanna Monster, Liebling and Mautplatz.

Berger developed the new Cine Reflect Lighting System (CRLS) in collaboration with Bartenbach Lichtlabor. In addition to creating new esthetic possibilities for the camera, this system gives actors and directors unprecedented flexibility and freedom.

Berger employed this system for the first time to some degree in The Piano Teacher and exclusively used the Cine Reflect Lighting System to shoot the films Dead Man's Memories, Ne fais pas ça!, Mein Mörder, Hidden, the commercial Mastercard, Disengagement, Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon, Ludwig II, János Szász's The Notebook as well as By the Sea.

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