Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein (born 1939 in Königs Wusterhausen, Germany) is a German cinematographer. He has collaborated with director Werner Herzog on a number of projects. Among his many collaborations with other directors, Schmidt-Reitwein is notable for his cinematographic achievement in shooting Alan Greenberg's acclaimed 1982 documentary about Jamaica and death of Bob Marley, Land of Look Behind. Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein is the son of the painter Karl Schmidt-Reitwein. The first twelve years of his life he has been in Lübeck. He went to Waldorfschool and afterward he studied Physics for a few semester also in Lübeck. Then he switched on to the Film Industry and went for that in 1959 to Berlin. He did some various practicum in different film management area such as synchron studio, film laboratory, and sound studio. Suddenly his career structure broke up, as he was captured there after building the Berlin wall, on the east communist side, as he tried to help his girlfriend be transported to the west. In such a fast political juristic show-process he was sentenced for 5 years imprisonment as an accused human dealer and a bounty hunter.
Cinematographer
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Woyzeck
Werner Herzog had long been fascinated by Georg Büchner’s 19th-century play (and 1920s opera by Alban Berg) about a soldier pushed to the point of madness and he finally got his chance to film it mere days after wrapping NOSFERATU. With his crew intact and star Klaus Kinski in the lead, everyone...Watch Movie
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Nosferatu the Vampyre
Werner Herzog's English version of F.W. Murnau's original film pays homage to many of the latter's memorable images with stunning recreations while creating a number of his own dreamy moments: the twilight hike of Bruno Ganz's Jonathan Harker through the fog-ringed Carpathian...Watch Movie
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Fata Morgana
Possibly Werner Herzog's most experimental work, FATA MORGANA defies categorization. Is it a narrative feature? A documentary? A metaphysical essay on film? As the director himself has noted, it regards Earth and its creatures as if from the curious, alienated viewpoint of interplanetary...Watch Movie
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Heart of Glass
After the international successes of AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD and EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF AND GOD AGAINST ALL (aka THE ENIGMA OF KASPER HAUSER), Werner Herzog baffled many admirers with this cryptic parable. An 18th century Bavarian mountain village is famous for its production of "ruby glass"...Watch Movie
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Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht
Werner Herzog's German version of his eerie color remake of F.W. Murnau's original vampire classic is at once faithful to Murnau's film and quintessentially Herzogian, right down to the casting of Herzog's demon alter ego Klaus Kinski in the role he was born to play. Kinski is...Watch Movie
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Every Man for Himself and God Against All
Werner Herzog retells the true story of Kaspar Hauser, a young man who, without explanation or the ability to speak coherently, appears in the middle of Nuremberg in 1828. After learning to write and talk, Kaspar's strange musings and wild claims describing his life before...Watch Movie
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Land of Silence and Darkness
Werner Herzog has become as famous for his distinctive non-fiction films as for his dramatic portraits of obsessives, outcasts and madmen. It all began with LAND OF SILENCE AND DARKNESS, a poetic study of Fini Straubinger, a fifty-six year old woman who went deaf and blind as...Watch Movie
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Where the Green Ants Dream
Werner Herzog's films have taken him from the jungles of Peru to the peaks of Himalayas to the sole human outpost in Antarctica in a quest to find landscapes to inspire him and the dreamers who embrace those lands. WHERE THE GREEN ANTS DREAM is the Australian outback,...Watch Movie
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