Benedict Neuenfels Trailers
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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...
Most Popular Benedict Neuenfels Trailers
Total trailers found: 34
16 October 2025
A young Indigenous game warden arrests an infamous poacher only to discover that the poacher knows the location of a plane carrying millions of dollars that has crashed in a frozen lake.
22 August 2012
Rudger, ex-boyfriend of Jan's girlfriend Milene and biological father of their son, turns up at the practice of alternative practitioner Jan.
25 July 2002
Katrin and Jürgen spend their holidays in Corsica. Katrin is in her mid-thirties, working as a tracer at Jürgen’s company who suddenly remembers he’s married – but not with Kathrin.
14 September 2018
After an unprecedented global pandemic has turned the majority of humankind into violent infected beings, Morgan, a man gifted with the ability to speak the infected's new language, leads the last survivors on a hunt for patient zero and a cure.
16 February 2006
A coming-of-age story set in Germany in the 1960s. Siggi becomes involved in a love triangle when he falls for Luise, but the tightening political climate forces him to make a fateful decision.
23 October 2008
A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II.
18 August 2011
Shy, sensitive high school outsider Jakob Moormann is miserably lacking immaterial support at home, where his strict father, uniformed cop Claas, and selfish mother are too busy breaking up to be there for him.
17 May 2003
Set in the early '80s, a time when a new wave of leftist political consciousness and activism had swept German youth (and was just about to disappear as quickly as it arrived), this satiric comedy follows a young couple, Ingo (Hans-Jochen Wagner) and Nadja (Valerie Koch), as they travel to Austria for a weekend of skiing near her parent's luxurious chalet.
22 March 2007
The story of Jewish counterfeiter Salomon Sorowitsch, who was coerced into assisting the Nazi operation of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II.
07 October 2021
Vienna, 1920. The Austro-Hungarian Empire has collapsed. Peter Perg returns home from the Great War, after years of captivity.
24 March 2000
In contemporary Mannheim, Branko and Merab, two hapless hitmen, are assigned to kill a businessman for unknown reasons.
01 July 2021
Alma is a scientist coerced into participating in an extraordinary study in order to obtain research funds for her work.
17 January 2024
Stella, grows up in Berlin during the rule of the Nazi regime. She dreams of a career as a jazz singer, despite all the repressive measures she is forced to go into hiding with her parents in 1944, her life turns into a culpable tragedy.
20 April 2012
Charo seems like a typical Berlin teenager. She's a student surrounded by good friends and has her eye on the coolest guy in school.
19 January 2017
A young Vienna-based taxi driver of Turkish origin witnesses an extremely brutal murder. The perpetrator, a serial killer, makes eye contact with her; a deadly game of cat-and-mouse ensues.
11 October 2004
Franziska received 21 letters after her contact ad from a certain Fabian Stiller. The Munich waitress only finds out that his real name was Florian Haugk when her admirer is found dead.
13 September 2018
Rike is forty, a successful doctor whose job demands everything of her. She intends to use her much-needed annual holiday to fulfill her long-cherished dream of sailing alone from Gibraltar to Ascension, a small tropical island in the middle of the Atlantic.
12 March 2020
In the dark middle ages, young unruly Goldmund is sent to a monastery by his father to atone for the sins of his mother, who abandoned them.
08 November 2007
A married young academic falls under the sexual thrall of a much older man whose air of jaded ennui conceals a secret desire for vengeance.
21 May 2015
A young German woman is searching for the man she loves in northern Russia.
26 August 2012
Based on a novel by Bernard Schlink (The Reader), The Weekend follows Jens as he leaves prison 18 years after being arrested as an RAF terrorist in Germany.
01 January 1993
The film "Into the Emptiness" describes an example of the ritual game of "serfdom" in a "studio for bizarre eroticism".
02 October 2022
It's 1989 in East Berlin: Suzie is kicked out of school shortly before she graduates from high school and has to defend herself as a worker in the cable factory.
24 June 2010
Alma Mahler's affair with the young architect Walter Gropius sets in motion a marital drama that forces her husband Gustav Mahler to seek advice from Sigmund Freud.
02 October 1996
Marine Ringo deserts in Hamburg when he finds his girlfriend with rival Eggers. Squatting with friend Yusuf, he uncovers Eggers’s shady land deals.
30 June 1997
Josef Bertholt is head of operations of the Munich Police's drug squad. When his wife Lily is the victim of a hit by drug dealers, he becomes even more obsessed with his work.
29 November 2007
The unusual friendship between a German embassy employee and a twelve-year-old refugee girl helps both of them rediscover their joy in life, but also brings with it suspicion, corruption and violence.
17 August 1995
A brazen gang of car thieves is arrested. Their leader manages to free himself from prison with the help of a friend, is arrested again and sees his last chance in a spectacular hostage situation.
17 January 2014
Das radikal Böse is a German-Austrian documentary that attempted to explore psychological processes and individual decision latitude "normal young men" in the German Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police and SD, which in 1941 during the Second World War as part of the Holocaust two million Jewish civilians shot dead in Eastern Europe.
14 May 1998
When Marie embarks on a road trip to a small seaside town, she’s joined by her quirky best friend Czerni and the eccentric, free-spirited schoolteacher Frau Rettich.
14 April 1994
An attractive teacher is faced with a big problem: she can't decide which of her two “men of the heart” she should choose.
01 December 2006
A documentary with the three cinematographers known for breaking away cinema away from celluloid with the introduction of digital video.
31 December 2000
Film about writer Hans Magnus Enzensberger.
