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Benedict Neuenfels
Bern, Switzerland
Born 1966 in Bern/Switzerland as the son of actress Elisabeth Trissenaar and director Hans . First encounter with film-industry 1982 as production assistant for the feature Penthe…
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Born 1966 in Bern/Switzerland as the son of actress Elisabeth Trissenaar and director Hans . First encounter with film-industry 1982 as production assistant for the feature Penthesiliea. He worked several years as camera assistant and operator for R.W. Fassbinder's former DP Xaver Schwarzenberger and Wim Wenders close collaborator Robby Mueller. In early years he founded his own low-budget orientated production company Giselafilms Berlin. Since his study at the german film and television school (dffb) in Berlin, he is responsible for the cinematography of more than 60 features and documentaries and additional for the lighting design of various stage plays in opera and theater. He is giving master- camera -classes in major film schools in Germany for more than 20 years. Benedict Neuenfels is member of the german, austrian and european film-academy. His work has been awarded numerous times. He received several times both the prestigious Grimme Award and the German Television award, the Bavarian and the German Film Award each, as well as seven times the German Camera Award for outstanding cinematography. The counterfeiters, which he photographed in 2007, won an Academy Award for best foreign feature film the following year. In 2011 he was honored by the German Academy of Arts for outstanding achievement in cinematography. In 2018 he received various awards for the feature STYX. In 2019 he received the Lifetime Honory Award for Cinematography - German Camera Award . So he will join the chain of outstanding former recipients like Michael Ballhaus, Robby Mueller, Renato Berta, Slawomir Idziak, Xaver Schwarzenberger, Judith Kaufmann, Elfie Mikesch, Jürgen Jürges...
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2025
Icefall
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2024
Stella. A Life.
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2022
In a Land That No Longer Exists
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2021
Hinterland
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2021
I'm Your Man
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2020
Narcissus and Goldmund
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2019
8 Days
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2018
Patient Zero
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2018
Styx
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2017
Cold Hell
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2016
Fatal News
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2015
Girl in the Ice
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2014
Radical Evil
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2012
The Weekend
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2012
Riskante Patienten
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2012
Cause I Have the Looks
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2011
Homevideo
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2010
Mahler on the Couch
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2008
A Woman in Berlin
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2007
The Man from the Embassy
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2007
Love Life
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2007
The Counterfeiters
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2006
From Dogma to Dogville: Don't Try This at Home
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2006
The Red Cockatoo
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2004
21 Liebesbriefe
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2003
They've Got Knut
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2002
A Map of the Heart
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2000
Ich bin keiner von uns
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2000
Lost Killers
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1998
Lady Rettich, Czerni and I
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1998
Mein großer Freund
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1997
The Scorpion
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1996
Landgang für Ringo
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1995
Bunte Hunde
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1994
Frauen sind was Wunderbares
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1993
Ins Leere
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1990
Romy Award
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1979
Bavarian Film Awards
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1970
Scene of the Crime
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1964
Grimme Award
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