Renato Berta is a Swiss cinematographer and film director, best known for his collaborations with directors Alain Tanner and Jean-Marie Straub. Trained at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, Berta has worked as cinematographer in more than 100 films since 1969. He won a César Award for Best Cinematography for Au revoir les enfants in 1988 and a David di Donatello for Best Cinematography for Noi credevamo in 2011.
In 2013, he was awarded the Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
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Renato Berta Biography / Wiki
| Name | Renato Berta |
| Also Know | Rénato Berta |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Camera |
| Place of Birth | Bellinzona, Ticino, Switzerland |
| Date of Birth | 1945-03-02 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 77 |
| Deathday |
Renato Berta Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| In Memoriam Daniel Schmid Werner Schroeter | Self | 2012-07-03 | … |
| Renato Berta, face caméra | Lui-même | 2022-05-03 | … |
| Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember | Self | 1997-09-10 | In 1996, Marcello Mastroianni talks about life as an actor. It’s an anecdotal and philosophical memoir, moving from topic to topic, fully conscious of… |
| Revoir Hiroshima… | Interviewee | 2013-12-31 | Davide Pozzi, who oversaw the delicate process of scanning the original camera negative, discusses the restoration of Alain Resnais’ 1959 film HIROSHI… |
| Les avatars de la mort d’Empédocle | 2010-08-11 | In the summer of 1986, Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub were working in the park of an old Sicilian mansion and in a clearing at the foot of Mou… | |
| Daniel Schmid – Le chat qui pense | Self | 2010-09-02 | When director Daniel Schmid grew up, his parents ran a hotel in the Alps, and this singular setting was to influence his film. Rather by coincidence h… |
Renato Berta Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Le film du cinéma suisse | Director | 1991-04-16 | Cannes Festival 1991… |
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| May Fools | Director of Photography | 1990-01-24 | An eccentric family is re-united during the 1968 general strike in France, after the death of the grandmother…. |
| Au Revoir les Enfants | Director of Photography | 1987-10-07 | Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provinci… |
| The Wounded Man | Director of Photography | 1983-05-25 | Henri is a lonely, isolated young man who lets no one get close to him. He meets a street hustler and comes out of his shell, going 180 degrees into g… |
| Nightcap | Director of Photography | 2000-08-01 | Mika is the wife of celebrated pianist Andre Polonski and stepmother to his son, Guillaume, whose mother died in a car wreck on his sixth birthday. Th… |
| The Wonderful Crook | Director of Photography | 1974-01-01 | A manufacturer of furniture sees his business go down and decides to rob banks to pay his staff. Het gets romantically involved with one of his victim… |
| Marie-Jo and Her 2 Lovers | Director of Photography | 2002-06-26 | Marie-Jo and Her Two Lovers (French: Marie-Jo et ses deux amours) is a 2002 French drama film directed by Robert Guédiguian. It was entered into the … |
| Uranus | Director of Photography | 1990-12-12 | After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. The… |
| Workers, Peasants | Director of Photography | 2001-09-30 | A group of men and women have been brought together after World War II, when Italy regained its national and territorial unity. They make up a primiti… |
| Leopardi | Director of Photography | 2014-10-16 | A contemplative biopic of celebrated 19th-century Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi, who created immortal verses while struggling with a debilitating illn… |
| In the Shadow of Women | Director of Photography | 2015-05-27 | Pierre and Manon are poor. They make documentaries with nothing and they live by doing odd jobs. Pierre meets a young intern, Elisabeth, and she beco… |
| L’Homme aux yeux d’argent | Director of Photography | 1985-11-13 | After serving his sentence, a robber returns to his small, quiet hometown to retrieve the loot. But a ruthless Police inspector and his equally nasty … |
| Smoking / No Smoking | Director of Photography | 1993-12-15 | “Smoking” and “No Smoking” are two segments of the film which are based on closely connected plays. The original plays covered eight separate stories,… |
| Buried Secrets | Director of Photography | 2009-09-04 | A teenager unwittingly reveals a terrible family secret to her new neighbors…. |
| Beresina | Director of Photography | 1999-08-20 | A naive girl’s love for Switzerland is put to the test in this satiric comedy. Irina is a woman from Russia who all her life has always been fascinate… |
| The Middle of the World | Director of Photography | 1974-09-11 | Paul is married, a successful engineer, and a conservative candidate in an upcoming local election. He falls in love with Adriana, a café waitress fr… |
| Vanaprastham | Director of Photography | 1999-05-13 | Kunhikuttan, a famous Kathakali dancer, meets Subhadra, a woman from an upper caste family, who falls in love with his character rather than himself…. |
| Wuthering Heights | Director of Photography | 1985-10-09 | In this adaptation of Wuthering Heights set in the south of France in the 1930s, Guillaume wars with his sister Catherine over her affections for thei… |
| The Old Man of Belem | Director of Photography | 2014-12-11 | Don Quixote, LuÃs de Camões, Camilo Castelo Branco and Teixeira de Pascoaes meet in an eternal garden in the middle of a modern city and talk about … |
| Word and Utopia | Director of Photography | 2000-11-17 | The story of Father Antonio Vieira, a 17th-century Portuguese priest who lived in Brazil and worked for better treatment of the Indians and to abolish… |
| Off Season | Director of Photography | 1992-09-23 | The formerly great Swiss hotel which Valentin’s family owned when he was a boy has been emptied and is about to be torn down. He revisits the magical … |
| Hecate | Director of Photography | 1982-10-22 | Set amid the European community in an unspecified North African country, a colony on the verge of nationalism just before the war. And colonized is wh… |
| Every Man for Himself | Director of Photography | 1980-09-08 | A look at the sexual and professional lives of three people—a television director, his ex-girlfriend, and a sex worker…. |
| Location Hunting | Director of Photography | 1977-11-16 | After 10 years separation from his wife, a film director (Jean-Louis Trintignant), imagines he can make up with her by giving her a part in his next f… |
| La Paloma | Director of Photography | 1974-08-28 | Nightclub singer La Paloma succumbs to the persistent courting of a chubby rich admirer and marries him. Before the marriage, she was thought to be dy… |
| Tonight or Never | Director of Photography | 1973-02-01 | Satire on 19th-century class relations and thinly veiled commentary on the failure of the 1968 political revolution…. |
| The Salamander | Director of Photography | 1971-10-27 | Two men, arty though somewhat staid, are drawn to the spirited and quixotic Rosemonde……. |
| Charles, Dead or Alive | Director of Photography | 1970-01-15 | On the 100th anniversary of the founding of a watchmaking company in Geneva, Charles Dé the founder’s 50-year-old grandson has had it: he speaks ecce… |
| History Lessons | Director of Photography | 1972-09-10 | Set in contemporary Rome, the film shows through a series of encounters with “ancient†Romans, how the economic and political manipulation by anci… |
| Return from Africa | Director of Photography | 1973-03-23 | An ode to liberated speech and to the power of words, “those one speaks to others, those one speaks in silence”, Alain Tanner’s third film is inspired… |
| Death of the Flea Circus Director | Director of Photography | 1973-01-01 | With the help of his assistant Anja, Ottocaro Weiss intends to put the plague on stage: circumstances beyond his control and a lack of fresh talent ha… |
| Moses and Aaron | Director of Photography | 1975-03-29 | A familiar Biblical tale transformed into a cinematic opera of seemingly endless possibility. In expressive, melodic tones, the fraternal pair debate … |
| Shadow of Angels | Director of Photography | 1976-09-03 | Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves her idle boyfriend Raoul who gambles away what litt… |
| The Assistant | Director of Photography | 1976-04-10 | At the end of the 19th century, an educated white-collar worker finds himself in the employ of an inventor. As he is neither a “worker” nor an “owner,… |
| Fortini/Cani | Director of Photography | 1977-11-30 | The film is a sort of presentation of Franco Fortini’s book ‘I Cani del Sinai’. Fortini, an Italian Jew, reads excerpts from the book about his aliena… |
| Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 | Director of Photography | 1976-01-01 | A look at the lives of several men and women in their 30s as they confront the slim gains of the “revolutionary” sixties. Max, a dissatisfied copy edi… |
| Sartre by Himself | Director of Photography | 1976-10-26 | Michel Contat is Emeritus Director of Research at the CNRS, ITEM/CNRS/ENS and a specialist of Jean-Paul Sartre whose novels and theater he has edited … |
| San Gottardo | Director of Photography | 1977-04-27 | In this docudrama, the real star is a railroad tunnel. First built, at the instigation of a banker and an engineer, in 1872 under appalling conditions… |
| The Indians Are Still Far Away | Director of Photography | 1977-03-19 | A 17-year-old high school student, Jenny Kern, is found dead from cold and exhaustion in the suburbs of Lausanne, Switzerland…. |
| His Master’s Voice | Director of Photography | 1978-02-22 | Jacques Lemonnier of IBM France, Francois Dalle of L’Oreal and other ultrapowerful French moguls are surprisingly candid — and cold-blooded — as the… |
| Violanta | Director of Photography | 1978-02-22 | Voted for in the 2012 Sight & Sound poll… |
| Messidor | Director of Photography | 1979-03-14 | Two young women from very different backgrounds journey into the countryside seeking respite from unsatisfactory lives and relationships, but ultimate… |
| Kippur | Director of Photography | 2000-09-07 | The film takes place in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights. The story is told fro… |
| Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene | Director of Photography | 1973-04-09 | This is a small, intense film based on Schoenberg’s opus of the same name with the subtitle “danger, fear, catastropheâ€. It deals with emerging … |
| Gebo and the Shadow | Director of Photography | 2012-01-01 | Despite his age and general weariness, Gebo keeps on working as an accountant to provide for his family. He lives with his wife, Doroteia, and his dau… |
| Magic Mirror | Director of Photography | 2006-03-09 | Luciano, fresh out of jail, was taken by his brother, Flórido, to serve in the home of wealthy Alfreda. He was surprised when she told him that her g… |
| The Uncertainty Principle | Director of Photography | 2002-05-17 | Having lost her place among the social elite, a widow remarries and starts a family…. |
| Anxiety | Director of Photography | 1998-05-19 | An anthology film drama featuring a poetic mirror structure based on existential identity. In “The Immortals,” adapted from a Helder Prista Monteiro p… |
| Full Moon in Paris | Director of Photography | 1984-08-29 | Louise is dissatisfied with her mundane life in a bleak Parisian new-town. She rents a pied-Ã -terre in the city so she can experience independence…. |
| Voyage to the Beginning of the World | Director of Photography | 1997-05-05 | Manoel is an aging film director who travels with the film crew through Portugal in search of the origins of Afonso, a famous French actor whose fathe… |
| Stalin’s Couch | Director of Photography | 2016-11-13 | Set in the 1950s Soviet Union, centers on a young artist who is commissioned to create Stalin’s monument and must go through KGB scrutiny…. |
| Nothing But Lies | Director of Photography | 1991-12-11 | Frustrated with her life, a Parisian tells her philandering husband about her lover…. |
| Party | Director of Photography | 1996-06-27 | This French language drama from Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira takes an ironic look at the pretentiousness of international jet-setters while… |
| Strange Birds | Director of Photography | 2017-05-31 | Mavie is 27 years old and has just moved to the French capital from the provinces. She dreams of a future as a writer but is plagued by doubt and unce… |
| Twister | Director of Photography | 1989-06-01 | An oddball family on a Kansas farm are trapped in their farmhouse by an impending storm. The patriarch of the clan is a retired soda pop tycoon. He is… |
| Lover for a Day | Director of Photography | 2017-05-31 | After a bad breakup, the only place 23-year-old Jeanne has to stay in Paris is the flat of her father. But when Jeanne arrives, she finds that his new… |
| Rendez-vous | Director of Photography | 1985-05-15 | Nina, young girl from the provinces discovering the capital, meets people by chance, and carries out apprenticeship of the theatre and love. Paulot fi… |
| Othon | Director of Photography | 1971-01-13 | Straub-Huillet’s first color film, adapts a lesser-known Corneille tragedy from 1664, which in turn was based on an episode of imperial court intrig… |
| Artemide’s Knee | Director of Photography | 2008-06-07 | Jean-Marie Straub’s first film after the death of Danièlle Huillet is a love poem to her. Le Genou d’Artémide is based on Cesare Pavese’s “Dialogues… |
| The Death of Empedocles | Director of Photography | 1987-10-14 | Film adaptation by Straub and Huillet of Hölderlin’s 1798 tragedy on the symbolic death of Empedoclus, the legislator in Ancient Greece…. |
| Chimère | Director of Photography | 1989-05-26 | Lovers Beatrice Dalle and Wadeck Stanczak can’t quite cope with the situation when Dalle becomes pregnant. Stanczak fears that his future as an archit… |
| Unguided Tour | Director of Photography | 1983-01-01 | Also known as “Letter from Venice,†Susan Sontag’s fourth and final film tells of a relationship that is fragmenting as the partners tour the de… |
| Max Frisch, Journal I-III | Director of Photography | 1981-01-20 | A “filmic re-reading†of Max Frisch’s novella Montauk (1974) and of excerpts from his published diaries. It is neither a biographical portrait of … |
| Notre Dame de la Croisette | Director of Photography | 1983-02-23 | A woman goes to Cannes and, lost in its chaos and unable to obtain tickets, ends up watching it on television from her hotel room…. |
| The Salt of Tears | Director of Photography | 2020-10-14 | Luc travels to Paris for the first time to sit the entrance exam for a carpentry school. There he meets Djemila, a young worker with whom he enjoys a … |
| The King of Laughter | Director of Photography | 2021-09-09 | Beloved Neapolitan actor and playwright Eduardo Scarpetta, father of Eduardo De Filippo, devoted his entire life to the theater, achieving success wit… |
| H.P. Lovecraft: Schatten aus der Zeit | Director of Photography | 1975-01-01 | Based on H.P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow Out of Time, this is the story of a professor who suffers a seizure which results in total amnesia. As he recuper… |
| France Against the Robots | Director of Photography | 2020-08-15 | “The word ‘revolution’ to us Frenchmen is not a vague term. We know that Revolution is a rupture, that Revolution is an Absolute. There is no such thi… |
| Imitation of Life | Director of Photography | 1983-01-01 | Portrait of filmmaker Douglas Sirk…. |
| Rosa la Rose, Public Girl | Director of Photography | 1986-03-02 | Rosa la Rose is the most beautiful prostitute of Les Halles. Every client wants her and she accepts everything. Her pimp is a sympathetic and generous… |
| Il Buco | Director of Photography | 2021-09-22 | In August 1961, speleologists from Italy’s booming North arrive on a Calabrian plateau where time stands still. The intruders discover one of the wo… |
| We Believed | Director of Photography | 2010-11-12 | 1828. In the wake of the repression of revolutionary movements in Southern Italy, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini’s republican and unificati… |
| A. Constant | Director of Photography | 1977-10-26 | Two sisters, Camille and Madeleine, make up the story of a woman: Alice Constant, the servant of their grandfather who committed suicide at the age of… |
| Jenatsch | Director of Photography | 1987-06-01 | A journalist is assigned to interview an eccentric anthropologist who has exhumed the skeleton of Jörg Jenatsch, a revered freedom fighter who was my… |
| Things | Director of Photography | 1995-01-01 | Drama – This Israeli drama tells the story of three men living in Tel Aviv. They set off to attend a funeral. Unfortunately, they cannot find the righ… |
| A Visit to the Louvre | Director of Photography | 2004-04-17 | A visit to the Louvre in Paris commentated by an actor reading Cézanne…. |
| These Encounters of Theirs | Director of Photography | 2006-09-07 | These Encounters Of Theirs divides 10 non-professional actors into couples, then has them take turns in declaiming the Dialogues With Leuco, Cesare Pa… |
| Le grand soir | Director of Photography | 1976-10-27 | In Lausanne, Léon is involved by accident with a small Leninist group and gets to know Léa, a dedicated activist and the group leader’s mistress. Th… |
| Asfouri | Director of Photography | 2012-12-19 | The film is about the failure of (Abu Afif) grandfather of the child (Karim) who owns an old-fashioned property, with the end of the civil war and the… |
| Belleville Tokyo | Director of Photography | 2011-06-01 | Un couple se dirige vers un train en partance pour Venise. Sur le quai, Julien annonce à Marie qu’il part en rejoindre une autre et s’en va, la l… |
| The Written Face | Director of Photography | 1995-09-01 | In Japanese theater women’s roles are traditionally played by men. The man playing the woman’s role, the Onnagata, does not imitate the woman, as in t… |
| Same Old Song | Director of Photography | 1997-11-12 | Odile is a business executive looking for a new, bigger apartment. Her younger sister Camille has just completed her doctoral thesis in history and is… |
| Kazuo Ohno | Director of Photography | 1995-01-01 | Kazuo Ohno, Father of the Butoh Dance, first appeared on stage at the age of 43. He left the stage only at the age of one hundred, three years before … |
| La mort de Molière | Director of Photography | 1994-01-17 | A collaboration in which Robert Wilson and Heiner Müller let Molière die, imagine his death in tableaux with text passages recited by Müller himsel… |
| Les Havres | Director of Photography | 1983-07-07 | Document on the city of Le Havre. Luc Moullet sets out to show Le Havre not as a single city centered on its port, but as a multitude of neighborhood… |
| Eden | Director of Photography | 2001-08-29 | In 1939, Kalman, an ambitious young businessman, leaves Europe to join his sister Samantha in Palestine. She lives with Dov, an idealistic architect o… |
| Adultery (A User’s Guide) | Director of Photography | 1995-05-26 | This French farce chronicles one special day in the lives of a married pair of Parisian architects, Fabienne and Bruno, as they anxiously await the re… |
| Kadosh | Director of Photography | 1999-01-01 | The year 2000 approaches in Jerusalem’s Orthodox Mea Shearim quarter, where the women work, keep house, and have children so the men can study the Tor… |
| Not on the Lips | Director of Photography | 2003-12-03 | A musical drawing room farce set in Paris in October, 1925. Gilberte, in middle-age, flirts with men but loves her husband Georges, wishing he were mo… |
| Humiliated | Cinematography | 2003-03-24 | … |
| The Return of the Prodigal Son | Cinematography | 2003-04-23 | In Italy, immediately subsequent to the war, a group of people who lost all they possessed during the conflict, settle in a village in ruins. They int… |
| Inventaire lausannois | Cinematography | Is a classic but biting description of the city Lausanne seen from the inside in its imagination and its history by a native…. | |
| Lullaby to my Father | Cinematography | 2012-10-30 | The film intertwines historical events and intimate memories. I observe how architecture represents the transformations of society and those who give … |
| Tosca’s Kiss | Cinematography | 1984-08-12 | Memoirs of the Italian Opera by the singers and musicians of the Casa Verdi, Milan, the world’s first nursing home for retired opera singers, founde… |
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