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name: "Gernot Roll"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/gernot-roll"
fi1m_id: "gernot-roll"
imdb_id: "nm0005846"
tmdb_id: 1870
wikidata_id: "Q112819"
roles: ["Cinematographer"]
born: "9 April 1939"
died: "12 November 2020"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T11:09:47.239506+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Gernot Roll

## Identity

Gernot Roll

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/gernot-roll
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** gernot-roll
- **IMDb ID:** nm0005846
- **TMDB ID:** 1870
- **Wikidata ID:** Q112819
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gernot_Roll, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112819, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005846/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1870

Cinematographer. Born 9 April 1939 in Dresden, Germany. Died 12 November 2020.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Born:** 9 April 1939, Dresden, Germany
- **Died:** 12 November 2020
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gernot_Roll, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112819, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005846/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1870

## Biography

Gernot Roll was a German cinematographer and occasional director. Born in Dresden on 9 April 1939, he trained as a cameraman at the DEFA studios in Babelsberg and worked as a camera assistant before moving to West Germany in 1960. He joined Bavaria Film in Munich and later worked freelance from 1976.

Roll's breakthrough came as cinematographer on Edgar Reitz's 16-hour television series *Heimat* (1984). He collaborated repeatedly with Reitz on later *Heimat* projects and worked with directors including Caroline Link on *Beyond Silence* (1996) and the Oscar-winning *Nowhere in Africa* (2001), and Sönke Wortmann on *Maybe... Maybe Not* (1994). He also directed several films from the mid-1990s, including *Ballermann 6* (1997).

Roll received multiple awards, among them three Deutscher Filmpreise for cinematography and several Adolf-Grimme-Preise. He died in Munich on 12 November 2020.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, filmportal.de, spiegel.de.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Heimat* (1984), Fi1m 91, Cinematography, Director of Photography — [page](https://film.one/tv/heimat.md)

## Complete filmography (57)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Brecht* (2019), series, Director of Photography
- *Gift* (2017), Director of Photography
- *Meister des Todes* (2015), Director of Photography
- *Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision* (2013), Director of Photography
- *Little Lady* (2012), Director
- *Werner - Eiskalt!* (2011), Director, Director of Photography
- *Die Superbullen* (2011), Director, Director of Photography
- *Henri 4* (2010), Director of Photography
- *Männersache* (2009), Director, Director of Photography
- *Buddenbrooks* (2008), Director of Photography
- *Military Academy* (2007), Director of Photography
- *The Robber Hotzenplotz* (2006), Director
- *Speer & Hitler: The Devil's Architect* (2005), series, Director of Photography
- *Pura Vida Ibiza* (2004), Director, Director of Photography
- *Trenck - Zwei Herzen gegen die Krone* (2003), Director
- *Letter from an Unknown Woman* (2002), Camera Operator
- *Ants in the Pants 2* (2002), Director of Photography
- *Everyman's Feast* (2002), Director of Photography
- *Nowhere in Africa* (2001), Director of Photography
- *Die Manns - Ein Jahrhundertroman* (2001), series, Director of Photography
- *A Good Opportunity* (1999), Director
- *Tach, Herr Dokter! – Der Heinz-Becker-Film* (1999), Director
- *Late Show* (1999), Director of Photography
- *Ballermann 6* (1997), Director, Director of Photography
- *Seitensprung in den Tod* (1997), Director of Photography
- *Rossini* (1997), Director of Photography
- *Beyond Silence* (1996), Director of Photography
- *A Girl Called Rosemarie* (1996), Director of Photography
- *Honeymoon* (1996), Director of Photography
- *Radetzky March* (1995), series, Director, Director of Photography, Creator
- *Maybe... Maybe Not* (1994), Director of Photography
- *Kaspar Hauser* (1993), Director
- *Krücke* (1993), Director of Photography
- *Little Sharks* (1992), Director of Photography
- *Terror Stalks the Class Reunion* (1992), Director of Photography
- *My Daughter Belongs to Me* (1992), Director of Photography
- *Keep on Running* (1991), Director of Photography
- *The King's Whore* (1990), Director of Photography
- *Der zerbrochene Krug* (1990), Director
- *The Rose Garden* (1989), Director of Photography
- *Santa Fe* (1987), Director of Photography
- *Welcome in Vienna* (1986), Director of Photography
- *Heimat* (1984), series, Director of Photography, Cinematography — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/tv/heimat.md)
- *Carnapping - Ordered, Stolen and Sold* (1980), Director of Photography
- *1+1=3* (1979), Director of Photography
- *Wallenstein* (1978), series, Director of Photography
- *Zero Hour* (1977), Director of Photography
- *Wir pfeifen auf den Gurkenkönig* (1976), Director of Photography
- *Sie und er im Rausch der Wollust* (1973), Director of Photography
- *Libero* (1973), Director of Photography
- *Love Times Three* (1973), Director of Photography
- *Oh Jonathan – oh Jonathan!* (1973), Director of Photography
- *Tod auf der Themse* (1973), Director of Photography
- *Scene of the Crime* (1970), series, Director of Photography
- *The Last Escape* (1970), Director of Photography
- *Wie eine Träne im Ozean* (1970), series, Director of Photography
- *Bahnübergang* (1969), Director of Photography

## Gallery

- ![Gernot Roll](https://film.one/media/person/6774771/gallery-bd124df9c194.jpg) Gernot Roll — Harald Bischoff, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Gernot_Roll_6350.jpg/1280px-Gernot_Roll_6350.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Gernot Roll at Kultureller Ehrenpreis 2015 for Werner Herzog in Munich](https://film.one/media/person/6774771/gallery-e85757266fd1.jpg) Gernot Roll at Kultureller Ehrenpreis 2015 for Werner Herzog in Munich — Harald Bischoff, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/Gernot_Roll_6313.jpg/1280px-Gernot_Roll_6313.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Bavarian TV Awards 1997: Bavarian TV Awards (won), for *The Girl Rosemarie*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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