Werner Brandes

Werner Brandes
Born	10 July 1889 Brunswick German Empire
Died	30 September 1968 (aged 79) Los Angeles, California United States
Occupation	cinematographer
Years active	1913 – 1957

Werner Brandes (10 July 1889 in Braunschweig – 30 September 1968) was a German cinematographer. Brandes moved to Britain in the late 1920s to work on several prestige films for British International Pictures.^[1]

Selected filmography

• Der Hund von Baskerville (1914)
• The Guilt of Lavinia Morland (1920)
• The Legend of Holy Simplicity (1920)
• The Golden Bullet (1921)
• Sins of Yesterday (1922)
• The Green Manuela (1923)
• The Island of Tears (1923)
• A Woman, an Animal, a Diamond (1923)
• Man Against Man (1924)
• The Humble Man and the Chanteuse (1925)
• Flight Around the World (1925)
• A Waltz Dream (1925)
• The Man in the Fire (1926)
• His Toughest Case (1926)
• The Woman in the Cupboard (1927)
• His Late Excellency (1927)
• Moulin Rouge (1928)
• Tesha (1928)
• Piccadilly (1929)
• The League of Three (1929)
• The Informer (1929)
• The W Plan (1930)
• Waltz of Love (1930)
• The Blonde Nightingale (1930)
• Love's Carnival (1930)
• La maison jaune de Rio (1931)
• The Yellow House of Rio (1931)
• The Little Escapade (1931)
• Express 13 (1931)
• When Love Sets the Fashion (1932)
• Spoiling the Game (1932)
• Frederica (1933)
• The Country Schoolmaster (1933)
• The Star of Valencia (1933)
• A Door Opens (1933)
• Tales from the Vienna Woods (1934)
• Just Once a Great Lady (1934)
• A Day Will Come (1934)
• Song of Farewell (1934)
• Farewell Waltz (1934)
• The World's in Love (1935)
• Stradivarius (1935)
• Stradivari (1935)
• Regine (1935)
• Winter Night's Dream (1935)
• The Emperor's Candlesticks (1936)
• The Castle in Flanders (1936)
• Where the Lark Sings (1936)
• Lumpaci the Vagabond (1936)
• The Irresistible Man (1937)
• The Ruler (1937)
• Mirror of Life (1938)
• Der singende Tor (1939)
• Between River and Steppe (1939)
• Flower of the Tisza (1939)
• Dreams That Money Can Buy (1947)

References

1. Bergfelder & Cargnell p.64-65

Bibliography

• Bergfelder, Tim & Cargnelli, Christian. Destination London: German-speaking emigrés and British cinema, 1925–1950. Berghahn Books, 2008.

External links

• Werner Brandes at IMDb