IGOR LUTHER

Born: 5 August 1942, Sv. Jakub [now part of Banská Bystrica], Czechoslovakia.

Education: Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts [FAMU], Prague [1961-66].

Career: Went to West-Germany in 1969.

Ph music videos dir by Ester Krumbachová.

His son David was his focus puller and is now a doph who studied at the FAMU, Prague, and the NFTS, London. His brother Miloslav [Slavo] [1945-] is a film director.

Appeared in the doc 'Wajda's Danton' [1982, Tomasz Pobóg-Malinowski; ph: Witold Stok].

Awards: Bundesfilmpreis in Gold [1972] for 'Eins'; Bundesfilmpreis in Gold [1977] for 'Die Eroberung der Zitadelle' & 'Der Fangschuß'; Czech 'Lion' Award nom [1998] for 'Postel'.

1966        Predpoved': Nula [Elo Havetta] b&w; short/45m; prod FAMU

1967        Kristove roky/Crucial Years/The Years of Christ [Juraj Jakubisko] b&w

1967        L'homme qui ment/Muz, ktorý luze/The Man Who Lies/Der Lügner [Alain Robbe-Grillet] b&w

1968        Agosto '68/August '68 [William Berg] b&w-c; doc about 'The Living Theatre'/90m

1968        Sommersprossen/Beyond Control/What a Way to Die [Helmut Förnbacher] c; cph: Hans Zweifel

1969        Vtackovia, siroty a blázni/Birds, Orphans and Fools [Juraj Jakubisko] c

1969        L'Éden et après/Eden and After [Alain Robbe-Grillet] c

1969        Köpfchen in das Wasser - Schwänzchen in die Höh' [Helmut Förnbacher] c

1969        o.k. [Michael Verhoeven] b&w; cph: Claus Neumann

1970        Beiß mich Liebling! [Helmut Förnbacher] c

1970        Wer im Glashaus liebt... der Graben [Michael Verhoeven] c

1971        Eins/Opus 5, Symphonie Nr. 1/One [Ulrich Schamoni] c

1973        Chapeau Claque/Top Hat [Ulrich Schamoni] c

1974        Das zweite Leben des Martin Sperr [Stanislav Barabás] c; doc/17m

1974        Orpheus in der Unterwelt [Joachim Hess] 70mm/c; opera film/106m

1975        Das Rückendekolleté [Jan Nemec] c

1975        MitGift/Killing Me Softly [Michael Verhoeven] c

1975        Die Eroberung der Zitadelle [Bernhard Wicki] c

1976        Der Fangschuß/Le coup de grâce [Volker Schlöndorff] b&w

1976        Stille Post [Ivan Steiger] ?; short/?m

1976        Slavers/Die Sklavenjäger [Jürgen Goslar] c; 2uc: Keith Dunkley

1977        Rückkehr [Vojtech Jasny] ?; 2 seg: 'Die Rückkehr des alten Herrn' & 'Mein seliger Onkel'

1978        Zwischengleis/Yesterday's Tomorrow [Wolfgang Staudte] c

1978        Das Traumhaus [- Auf der Suche nach einem besseren Leben] [Ulrich Schamoni] c

1978        Die Blechtrommel/The Tin Drum [Volker Schlöndorff] c

1979        Der Kandidat/The Candidate [Volker Schlöndorff, Stefan Aust, Alexander Kluge & Alexander von Eschwege] b&w-c;

                    doc/129m; cph: Thomas Mauch, Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein, Werner Lüring & Bodo Kessler

1981        Die Fälschung/False Witness/Circle of Deceit [Volker Schlöndorff] c; 2uc: Franz Rath & Marian Sloboda

1981        Fürchte dich nicht, Jakob!/Fear Not, Jacob! [Radu Gabrea] c

1981        Parsifal [Hans Jürgen Syberberg & (artistic superv) Bernard Sobel] c; 255m

1982        Krieg und Frieden/War and Peace [Alexander Kluge, Stefan Aust, Axel Engstfeld & Volker Schlöndorff (VS)] 16mm+

                    35mm+v-to-35mm/c; 11 seg; ph seg #4-8 dir by VS; cph: Franz Rath; other ph: Werner Lüring, Thomas Mauch &

                    Bernd Mosblech

1982        Danton/L'affaire Danton/Sprawa Dantona [Andrzej Wajda] c

1983        Eine Liebe in Deutschland/A Love in Germany [Andrzej Wajda] c

1986        Der Joker/Lethal Obsession [Peter Patzak] c; cph: Dietrich Lohmann

1987        Seobe/Migrations [Aleksandar Petrovic] c; cph: Wit Dabal

1989        The Handmaid's Tale/Die Geschichte der Dienerin [Volker Schlöndorff] c

1989        [Gavre Princip -] Himmel unter Steinen/Death of a Schoolboy [Peter Patzak] c

1991        The Michael Nyman Songbook [Volker Schlöndorff] b&w-c; mus doc/55m

1992        Inge, April und Mai [Wolfgang Kohlhaase & Gabriele Denecke] c

1992        Das Ei ist eine geschissene Gottesgabe [Dagmar Wagner] b&w-c; doc/85m

1993        Night of the Archer/Don't Hurt Me! [Paul Nicholas] c

1994        The Cold Light of Day/Tod im kalten Morgenlicht [Rudolf van den Berg] c; 2uc: Stanislav Dorsik

1995        Gift [Karin Köster] ?; short/?m

1997        Postel/The Bed/Das Bett/Unter Frauen [Oskar Reif] ws/b&w

1997        Balkan Island: The Last Story of the Century [Lordan Zafranovic] L. Zafranovic: 'I am preparing an ambitious movie,

                    'Balkan Island', about the war in Bosnia. That movie is interlaced with opera, music, things outside war, in order to

                    demonstrate that art can fight war. However, we had to start and stop three times, because the movie was expensive

                    for Czech conditions. Most recently, we were in Bitola, in Macedonia. All the sets were complete, but our main financial

                    supporter from Monte Carlo went bankrupt during the Russian financial crisis. But, I shall complete that movie sooner or

                    later.' [2002]

1997        Hure [Florian Gallenberger] c; short/6m

1997        Der Pullover [Roland Willaert] c; short/9m

1997        Requiem für eine romantische Frau/Requiem for a Romantic Woman [Dagmar Knöpfel] c

1998        Praha ocima/Prague Stories [seg #4 'Riziko/The Dive' dir by Artemio Benki] c; 4 seg; other ph: Martin Strba

1998        Sunset in Venice [Spiro Taraviras] c; short/15m

1999        Luppo und der Muezzin [Dagmar Wagner] 16mm/c

1999        Suriyothai/The Legend of Suriyothai [Chatrichalerm Yukoi] c; cph: Stanislav Dorsic & Anupap Boachan; 

                    prod 1998-2001

1999        Nocní hovory s matkou/Late Night Talks with Mother [Jan Nemec] dv-to-35mm/b&w-c; doc/69m; co-2uc; ph:

                    Jan Nemec

1999        Feuer in Berlin [?] in development; status unknown

2000        Tea Tattoo [Robert Schmitz-Gill] c; short/15m

2001        Ostrov na strese/Island on the Roof [Artemio Benki] c; short/12m

2001        Mystic Church [Catharina Roland] c; short/12m

2002        Some People Can [Thorsten Baier] s35/c; short/15m

2002        Die Blutritter/Riders of the Sacred Blood [Douglas Wolfsperger] b&w-c; doc/86m; filmed 2002-03

2002        Intrusion/Aire de repos/Resting Place [Artemio Benki] scope/c; short/25m

2003        Badenheim [Menahem Golan] prod start announced for March, later September, later February 2004; status unknown

2003        Bad Movie [David Burmeister] HD (Panasonic)/c; short/15m; cph: Thorsten Baier; 2uc: David Köhler

2004        War'n Sie schon mal in mich verliebt? [Douglas Wolfsperger] DigiBeta-to-35mm/b&w-c; doc/80m

2005        Serko [Joël Farges] Hawk Scope/c

1969        Der ewige Gatte/Vecný manzel [Stanislav Barabás] tvm/b&w-c

1970        Jonas oder Der Künstler bei der Arbeit [Stanislav Barabás] tvm/b&w

1971        Einfach sterben [Stanislav Barabás] tvm

1971        Sparks in Neu-Grönland [Joachim Hess] tvm

1971        Pilatus und andere - Ein Film für Karfreitag [Andrzej Wajda] tvm; cph: Pfeffer Sam

1972        Die Erbschaft [Stanislav Barabás] tvm

1972        Der Leuchtturm [Vojtech Jasny] tvm

1972        Inferno [Stanislav Barabás] tvm

1972        Immobilien [Otto Jägersberg] tvm; ep series 'Das Fernsehspiel der Gegenwart'

1973        Im Zeichen der Kälte [Uwe Brandner] tvm

1973        Frühlingsfluten [Vojtech Jasny] tvm

1973        Ein unheimlich starker Abgang [Michael Verhoeven] tvm; also theatrical version 'Sonja schafft die Wirklichkeit ab oder

                    ein unheimlich starker Abgang' (1973)

1973        Die zweite Ermordung des Hundes [Peter Schulze-Rohr] tvm

1973        Münchner Geschichten [ep #8 & 9 dir by Helmut Dietl] 9-part series; other ph: Jerzy Lipman (ep #1, 3, 4, 6 & 7) & Ingo

                    Hamer (ep #2 & 5)

1974        Tod eines Mannequins [Jörg Eggers] tvm

1974        Die Ohrfeige [Mischa Gallé] tvm/b&w/40m

1974        [Das Leben des schizophrenen Dichters] Alexander März [Vojtech Jasny] tvm

1976        Der Alte [ep #1 'Die Dienstreise' dir by Johannes Schaaf] series/16mm, 1977-present; 1st season, 1977

1976        Drei Wege zum See/Three Paths to the Lake [Michael Haneke] tvm/16mm

197?        Was Ich mache, macht keiner in Deutschland [Jan Nemec] doc/45m

1977        Das Rentenspiel [Dieter Wedel] tvm/16mm

1977        Die Freiheiten der Langeweile [Vojtech Jasny] tvm

1977        Hollywood, California: A Loser's Opera [William Klein] doc/60m/v

1978        Der Alte [ep #16 'Der Pelikan' dir by Johannes Schaaf] 2nd season, 1978; see 1976

1979        Der Tote bin ich [Alexander von Eschwege] tvm

1980        Berlin Tunnel 21 [Richard Michaels] tvm

1981        Wer den Schaden hat... [Dieter Wedel] 2-part tvm

1982        Schwarz-Rot-Gold [ep #1 'Unser Land' dir by Dieter Wedel] 18-part series, 1982-96

1983        Via Mala [Tom Toelle] 3-part miniseries/16mm

1986        Abschiedsvorstellung [Peter Weck] tvm

1986        Was zu beweisen war [Peter Weck] tvm

1986        Gundas Vater [Michael Verhoeven] tvm/16mm

1988        Bernhard Wicki: Regisseur [Charlotte Kerr] doc/b&w-c/85m/16mm

1992        Die Klage der Ariadne [Hugo Niebeling] tvm

1993        Nacht der Frauen [Theodor Kotulla] 3-part miniseries

1993        Trip nach Tunis [Peter Goedel] tvm/16mm

1994        Tod auf Halde [Theodor Kotulla] tvm

1995        Drei in fremden Betten [Otto W. Retzer] tvm

1995        Drei in fremden Kissen [Otto W. Retzer] tvm; cph: Michael Boxrucker

1996        Klinik unter Palmen/Jungle Hospital [Otto W. Retzer] 3-part miniseries; 2nd series

1997        Porträt eines Richters [Norbert Kückelmann] tvm

1999        Der Kardinal - Der Preis der Liebe [Albert Schmiedhuber (= Berthold Mittermayr)] tvm; cph: Stanislav Dorsic

2001        Stern der Liebe/Stones of Light [Marijan David Vajda] tvm

2001        Ich hab es nicht gewollt - Anatomie eines Mordfalles [Norbert Kückelmann] tvm

2004        The Question of God: Sigmund Freud & C.S. Lewis [Catherine Tatge] 2-part tvm/b&w-c; seminar ph: Joel Shapiro;

                    addph: Tom Hurwitz, Nancy Schreiber, Stanislav Dorsic, a.o.

2008        Résolution 819 [Giacomo Battiato] tvm

2009        Mistika hotela Palace/The Mysticism of Palace Hotel [Janja Glogovac] doc/60m