---
name: "Renato Berta"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/renato-berta"
fi1m_id: "renato-berta"
imdb_id: "nm0005655"
tmdb_id: 19054
wikidata_id: "Q116308"
roles: ["Cinematographer"]
born: "2 March 1945"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 85
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-26T03:08:08.581985+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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# Renato Berta

## Identity

Renato Berta

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/renato-berta
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** renato-berta
- **IMDb ID:** nm0005655
- **TMDB ID:** 19054
- **Wikidata ID:** Q116308
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renato_Berta, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116308, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005655/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/19054

Cinematographer. Born 2 March 1945 in Bellinzona, Ticino, Switzerland.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Born:** 2 March 1945, Bellinzona, Ticino, Switzerland
- **Active:** 1987–2000
- **Also known as:** Rénato Berta
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 90 (1), 2000s 80 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renato_Berta, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116308, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005655/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/19054

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Au Revoir les Enfants*](https://film.one/film/au-revoir-les-enfants.md) (90)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Kippur*](https://film.one/film/kippur.md) (80)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Renato Berta is a Swiss cinematographer and film director. Born on 2 March 1945 in Bellinzona, Switzerland, he trained at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. He began working as a cinematographer in 1969 and has contributed to more than 100 films.

Berta is known for his collaborations with directors including Alain Tanner and Jean-Marie Straub. His credits include *Au Revoir les Enfants* (1987), *Full Moon in Paris* (1984), *May Fools* (1990), *Same Old Song* (1997), *Nightcap* (2000), *Leopardi* (2014), *The King of Laughter* (2021), *Il Buco* (2021) and *The Tasters* (2025). He received a César Award for Best Cinematography for *Au Revoir les Enfants* in 1988 and a David di Donatello for Best Cinematography for *We Believed* in 2011. In 2013 he was appointed Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Kippur* (2000), Fi1m 80, Cinematography, Director of Photography — [page](https://film.one/film/kippur.md)
- *Au Revoir les Enfants* (1987), Fi1m 90, Director of Photography, Cinematography — [page](https://film.one/film/au-revoir-les-enfants.md)

## Complete filmography (121)

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

- *The Tasters* (2025), Director of Photography
- *The Plough* (2023), Director of Photography
- *Il Buco* (2021), Director of Photography
- *The King of Laughter* (2021), Director of Photography
- *The Salt of Tears* (2020), Director of Photography
- *France Against the Robots* (2020), Director of Photography
- *People of the Lake* (2018), Director of Photography
- *Lover for a Day* (2017), Director of Photography
- *Strange Birds* (2017), Director of Photography
- *Stalin's Couch* (2016), Director of Photography
- *In the Shadow of Women* (2015), Director of Photography
- *The Old Man of Belem* (2014), Director of Photography
- *Leopardi* (2014), Director of Photography
- *Dialogue of Shadows* (2013), Director of Photography
- *You, Me and Us* (2012), Director of Photography
- *Asfouri* (2012), Director of Photography
- *Lullaby to my Father* (2012), Cinematography
- *Gebo and the Shadow* (2012), Director of Photography
- *Un héritier* (2012), Director of Photography
- *L’Inconsolable* (2011), Director of Photography
- *Belleville Tokyo* (2011), Director of Photography
- *O somma luce* (2011), Director of Photography
- *We Believed* (2010), Director of Photography
- *Les avatars de la mort d’Empédocle* (2010), Actor
- *Joachim Gatti, variation de lumière* (2009), Director of Photography
- *Buried Secrets* (2009), Director of Photography
- *The Witches, Women Among Themselves* (2009), Director of Photography
- *Artemide’s Knee* (2008), Director of Photography
- *Max & Co* (2007), Director of Photography
- *Defense of the Time* (2007), Actor
- *These Encounters of Theirs* (2006), Director of Photography
- *Magic Mirror* (2006), Director of Photography
- *Roger Diamantis or Real Life* (2005), Cinematography
- *The Last Mitterrand* (2005), Director of Photography
- *A Visit to the Louvre* (2004), Director of Photography
- *Not on the Lips* (2003), Director of Photography
- *Three-Step Dance* (2003), Director of Photography
- *Alila* (2003), Director of Photography
- *The Return of the Prodigal Son* (2003), Cinematography
- *Humiliated* (2003), Cinematography
- *Incantati* (2003), Director of Photography
- *Marie-Jo and Her 2 Loves* (2002), Director of Photography
- *The Uncertainty Principle* (2002), Director of Photography
- *Dolando* (2002), Director of Photography
- *Workers, Peasants* (2001), Director of Photography
- *Eden* (2001), Director of Photography
- *Word and Utopia* (2000), Director of Photography
- *Nightcap* (2000), Director of Photography
- *Kippur* (2000), Director of Photography — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/kippur.md)
- *Vive nous!* (2000), Director of Photography
- *Beresina* (1999), Director of Photography
- *Kadosh* (1999), Director of Photography
- *Vanaprastham* (1999), Director of Photography
- *Day After Day* (1998), Director of Photography
- *Inquietude* (1998), Director of Photography
- *Same Old Song* (1997), Director of Photography
- *The Silence of Rak* (1997), Cinematography
- *Voyage to the Beginning of the World* (1997), Director of Photography
- *Party* (1996), Director of Photography
- *The Written Face* (1995), Director of Photography
- *Adultery (A User's Guide)* (1995), Director of Photography
- *Things* (1995), Director of Photography
- *Kazuo Ohno* (1995), Director of Photography
- *La mort de Molière* (1994), Director of Photography
- *Smoking / No Smoking* (1993), Director of Photography
- *Off Season* (1992), Director of Photography
- *Nothing But Lies* (1991), Director of Photography
- *Le film du cinéma suisse* (1991), Director
- *Uranus* (1990), Director of Photography
- *May Fools* (1990), Director of Photography
- *Twister* (1989), Director of Photography
- *Chimère* (1989), Director of Photography
- *The Innocents* (1987), Director of Photography
- *The Death of Empedocles* (1987), Director of Photography
- *Au Revoir les Enfants* (1987), Director of Photography — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/film/au-revoir-les-enfants.md)
- *Jenatsch* (1987), Director of Photography
- *Taxi Boy* (1986), Director of Photography
- *Rosa la rose, fille publique* (1986), Director of Photography
- *L'Homme aux yeux d'argent* (1985), Director of Photography
- *Wuthering Heights* (1985), Director of Photography
- *Rendez-vous* (1985), Director of Photography
- *Year of the Jellyfish* (1984), Director of Photography
- *Full Moon in Paris* (1984), Director of Photography
- *Tosca's Kiss* (1984), Director of Photography
- *Les Havres* (1983), Director of Photography
- *The Wounded Man* (1983), Director of Photography
- *Notre Dame de la Croisette* (1983), Director of Photography
- *Imitation of Life* (1983), Director of Photography
- *Unguided Tour* (1983), Director of Photography
- *Hecate* (1982), Director of Photography
- *Inventaire lausannois* (1982), Director of Photography
- *Max Frisch, Journal I-III* (1981), Director of Photography
- *Father Goupil* (1980), Director of Photography
- *Every Man for Himself* (1980), Director of Photography
- *Messidor* (1979), Director of Photography
- *His Master's Voice* (1978), Director of Photography
- *Violanta* (1978), Director of Photography
- *Fortini/Cani* (1977), Director of Photography
- *Faces of Love* (1977), Director of Photography
- *A. Constant* (1977), Director of Photography
- *San Gottardo* (1977), Director of Photography
- *The Indians Are Still Far Away* (1977), Director of Photography
- *Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000* (1976), Director of Photography
- *Sartre by Himself* (1976), Director of Photography
- *The Big Night* (1976), Director of Photography
- *Shadow of Angels* (1976), Director of Photography
- *Der Gehülfe* (1976), Director of Photography
- *Moses and Aaron* (1975), Director of Photography
- *Death of the Flea Circus Director* (1975), Director of Photography
- *The Wonderful Crook* (1975), Director of Photography
- *H.P. Lovecraft: The Shadow Out of Time* (1975), Director of Photography
- *The Middle of the World* (1974), Director of Photography
- *La Paloma* (1974), Director of Photography
- *The Awful Manners* (1974), Director of Photography
- *Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene* (1973), Director of Photography
- *Return from Africa* (1973), Director of Photography
- *Tonight or Never* (1973), Director of Photography
- *History Lessons* (1972), Director of Photography
- *The Salamander* (1971), Director of Photography
- *Othon* (1971), Director of Photography
- *Charles, Dead or Alive* (1970), Director of Photography

## Gallery

- ![Renato Berta, Lambert Wilson, Agnès Jaoui, Bruno Fontaine et Bernard Benoliel discutant du film "On connaît la chanson" (Alain Resnais, 1997), à la Cinémathèque (2021)](https://film.one/media/person/119074/gallery-a703cb8ac79e.jpg) Renato Berta, Lambert Wilson, Agnès Jaoui, Bruno Fontaine et Bernard Benoliel discutant du film "On connaît la chanson" (Alain Resnais, 1997), à la Cinémathèque (2021) — ManoSolo13241324, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Renato_Berta%2C_Lambert_Wilson%2C_Agn%C3%A8s_Jaoui%2C_Bruno_Fontaine_et_Bernard_Benoliel.jpg/1280px-Renato_Berta%2C_Lambert_Wilson%2C_Agn%C3%A8s_Jaoui%2C_Bruno_Fontaine_et_Bernard_Benoliel.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Renato Berta, Lambert Wilson, Agnès Jaoui et Bruno Fontaine discutant du film "On connaît la chanson" (Alain Resnais, 1997), à la Cinémathèque française en nove (2021)](https://film.one/media/person/119074/gallery-cfaa05435cbd.jpg) Renato Berta, Lambert Wilson, Agnès Jaoui et Bruno Fontaine discutant du film "On connaît la chanson" (Alain Resnais, 1997), à la Cinémathèque française en nove (2021) — ManoSolo13241324, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Renato_Berta%2C_Lambert_Wilson%2C_Agn%C3%A8s_Jaoui_et_Bruno_Fontaine_2021.jpg/1280px-Renato_Berta%2C_Lambert_Wilson%2C_Agn%C3%A8s_Jaoui_et_Bruno_Fontaine_2021.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Renato Berta, Lambert Wilson et Agnès Jaoui discutant du film "On connaît la chanson" (Alain Resnais, 1997), à la Cinémathèque française en novembre 2021, dans ](https://film.one/media/person/119074/gallery-408ee6c0d38e.jpg) Renato Berta, Lambert Wilson et Agnès Jaoui discutant du film "On connaît la chanson" (Alain Resnais, 1997), à la Cinémathèque française en novembre 2021, dans  — ManoSolo13241324, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Renato_Berta%2C_Lambert_Wilson_et_Agn%C3%A8s_Jaoui_2021_1.jpg/1280px-Renato_Berta%2C_Lambert_Wilson_et_Agn%C3%A8s_Jaoui_2021_1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Renato Berta, Lambert Wilson et Agnès Jaoui, discutant du film "On connaît la chanson" (Alain Resnais, 1997), à la Cinémathèque française en novembre 2021, dans](https://film.one/media/person/119074/gallery-8d5062598b29.jpg) Renato Berta, Lambert Wilson et Agnès Jaoui, discutant du film "On connaît la chanson" (Alain Resnais, 1997), à la Cinémathèque française en novembre 2021, dans — ManoSolo13241324, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Renato_Berta%2C_Lambert_Wilson_et_Agn%C3%A8s_Jaoui_2021_2.jpg/1280px-Renato_Berta%2C_Lambert_Wilson_et_Agn%C3%A8s_Jaoui_2021_2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![cinematographer Renato Berta interviewed by TECHNÈS (2019)](https://film.one/media/person/119074/gallery-d132ebde9068.png) cinematographer Renato Berta interviewed by TECHNÈS (2019) — labiennaletv, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Renato_Berta_TECHN%C3%88S_02.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

## Awards

### Other awards — 4 won, 2 nominated

- German Cinematographer Award 2014: German Cinematographer Award (won)
- David di Donatello for Best Cinematography 2011: David di Donatello for Best Cinematography (won), for *We Believed*
- Marburg Camera Award 2008: Marburg Camera Award (won)
- César Award for Best Cinematography 1994: César Award for Best Cinematography (nominated), for *Smoking/No Smoking*
- César Award for Best Cinematography 1988: César Award for Best Cinematography (won), for *Au revoir les enfants*
- César Award for Best Cinematography 1986: César Award for Best Cinematography (nominated), for *Rendez-vous*

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

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