Emil Berna

Emil Berna
Born	2 April 1907 Zürich, Switzerland
Died	16 October 2000(2000-10-16) (aged 93) Zürich, Switzerland
Occupation	Cinematographer
Years active	1930–1964

Emil Berna (left) and Walter Mittelholzer (1934)

Emil Berna (left) and Charlie Chaplin (1955)

Emil Berna (2 April 1907 – 16 October 2000)^[1]^[2] was a Swiss cinematographer. He also co-directed one film, the 1952 drama Palace Hotel. For several decades Berna was employed on almost all the major Swiss film productions. He worked on the 1948 MGM film The Search which was shot on location in Europe.^[3]

Selected filmography

Feind im Blut (1931)
Fusilier Wipf (1938)
Constable Studer (1939)
The Last Chance (1945)
Madness Rules (1947)
The Search (1948)
Swiss Tour (1949)
Four in a Jeep (1951)
Heidi (1952)
Palace Hotel (1952)
The Village (1953)
Heidi and Peter (1955)
Uli the Tenant (1955)
The Mountains Between Us (1956)
Der Teufel hat gut lachen [de] (1960)

References

^ Emil Berna. British Film Institute (BFI). Retrieved 7 December 2018.
^ Emil Berna - Biografie. WHO'S WHO. Retrieved 7 December 2018.
^ Nolletti p.41

Bibliography

Arthur Nolletti. The Films of Fred Zinnemann: Critical Perspectives. SUNY Press, 1999.

External links

Emil Berna at IMDb

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