- Begin his carrer in Berlin, first as a camera operator, then as director of photography and as a war photographer in the First World War. His career in Germany went up and worked specially with Richard Eichberg and William Karfiol. But with the arrival of the nazis and with his jewish origin, he went in Spain in 1933. That's where he worked for the rest of his life (occasionnaly in Portugal) and even took the spanish nationality. He became there a very influential cinematographer and trained many of the spanish cinematographers who worked with him as assistant cameramen like José F. Aguayo and Cecilio Paniagua.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Jean-Marie Berthiaume <jiembe@videotron.ca>
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