Renato Berta

CinematographerActorCrewDirector Mar 2 (age 81) Bellinzona, Ticino, Switzerland 1970–2025 (55 year career)

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Biography

Renato Berta is a Swiss cinematographer and film director, best known for his collaborations with directors Alain Tanner and Jean-Marie Straub. Trained at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, Berta has worked as cinematographer in more than 100 films since 1969. He won a César Award for Best Cinematography for Au revoir les enfants in 1988 and a David di Donatello for Best Cinematography for Noi credevamo in 2011. In 2013, he was awarded the Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des …

Known For

Film

Au Revoir les Enfants

Director of Photography

Film

Leopardi

Director of Photography

Film

The King of Laughter

Director of Photography

Film

Same Old Song

Director of Photography

Film

The Tasters

Director of Photography

Film

Full Moon in Paris

Director of Photography

Film

Nightcap

Director of Photography

Film

May Fools

Director of Photography

Filmography

Acting (8)

Movies (7)

Renato Berta, face caméra

2022

as Self

Revoir Hiroshima...

2013

as Self

In Memoriam Daniel Schmid Werner Schroeter

2012

as Self

Daniel Schmid: Le Chat Qui Pense

2010

as Self

5.8

Les avatars de la mort d’Empédocle

2010

Verteidigung der Zeit

2007

Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember

1997

as Self

7.7

Television (1)

Kulturplatz

2004

as Self

6.0

Crew (119)

Movies (119)

The Tasters

2025

Director of Photography

6.6

The Plough

2023

Director of Photography

5.5

The King of Laughter

2021

Director of Photography

7.5

Il Buco

2021

Director of Photography

6.3

France Against the Robots

2020

Director of Photography

5.3

The Salt of Tears

2020

Director of Photography

5.4

People of the Lake

2018

Director of Photography

6.3

Strange Birds

2017

Director of Photography

5.5

Lover for a Day

2017

Director of Photography

6.2

Stalin's Couch

2016

Director of Photography

4.0

In the Shadow of Women

2015

Director of Photography

5.5

Leopardi

2014

Director of Photography

6.8

The Old Man of Belem

2014

Director of Photography

4.5

Dialogue of Shadows

2013

Director of Photography

5.6

You, Me and Us

2012

Director of Photography

Lullaby to my Father

Cinematography

Un héritier

Director of Photography

5.0

Asfouri

2012

Director of Photography

7.6

Gebo and the Shadow

2012

Director of Photography

6.7

Belleville Tokyo

2011

Director of Photography

4.8

O somma luce

2011

Director of Photography

5.8

L’inconsolable

2011

Director of Photography

5.0

We Believed

2010

Director of Photography

6.6

Buried Secrets

2009

Director of Photography

5.7

Joachim Gatti, variation de lumière

2009

Director of Photography

The Witches, Women Among Themselves

2009

Director of Photography

5.7

Artemide’s Knee

2008

Director of Photography

6.0

Max & Co

2007

Director of Photography

6.3

These Encounters of Theirs

2006

Director of Photography

6.4

Magic Mirror

2006

Director of Photography

6.4

Roger Diamantis or Real Life

2005

Cinematography

The Last Mitterrand

2005

Director of Photography

6.5

A Visit to the Louvre

2004

Director of Photography

6.2

Three-Step Dance

2003

Director of Photography

5.5

The Return of the Prodigal Son

2003

Cinematography

5.3

Alila

2003

Director of Photography

5.2

Humiliated

2003

Cinematography

Incantati

2003

Director of Photography

Not on the Lips

2003

Director of Photography

5.6

Dolando

2002

Director of Photography

The Uncertainty Principle

2002

Director of Photography

5.2

Marie-Jo and Her 2 Loves

2002

Director of Photography

6.0

Eden

2001

Director of Photography

2.5

Workers, Peasants

2001

Director of Photography

4.1

Nightcap

2000

Director of Photography

6.3

Kippur

2000

Director of Photography

5.4

Vive nous!

2000

Director of Photography

Word and Utopia

2000

Director of Photography

5.5

Kadosh

1999

Director of Photography

5.8

Vanaprastham

1999

Director of Photography

7.9

Beresina

1999

Director of Photography

4.9

Day After Day

1998

Director of Photography

5.2

Inquietude

1998

Director of Photography

6.4

Same Old Song

1997

Director of Photography

7.0

Voyage to the Beginning of the World

1997

Director of Photography

The Silence of Rak

Cinematography

Party

Director of Photography

6.3

Adultery (A User's Guide)

1995

Director of Photography

3.9

The Written Face

1995

Director of Photography

Kazuo Ohno

1995

Director of Photography

Things

1995

Director of Photography

6.7

La mort de Molière

1994

Director of Photography

Smoking / No Smoking

1993

Director of Photography

6.5

Off Season

1992

Director of Photography

4.0

Le film du cinéma suisse

1991

Director

Nothing But Lies

1991

Director of Photography

6.0

May Fools

1990

Director of Photography

6.8

Uranus

1990

Director of Photography

6.6

Twister

1989

Director of Photography

5.4

Chimère

1989

Director of Photography

Au Revoir les Enfants

1987

Director of Photography

7.5

The Innocents

1987

Director of Photography

5.0

Jenatsch

1987

Director of Photography

5.1

The Death of Empedocles

1987

Director of Photography

5.3

Taxi Boy

1986

Cinematography

3.0

Rosa la rose, fille publique

1986

Director of Photography

4.9

Wuthering Heights

1985

Director of Photography

6.9

Rendez-vous

1985

Director of Photography

5.6

L'Homme aux yeux d'argent

1985

Director of Photography

3.8

Full Moon in Paris

1984

Director of Photography

6.8

Year of the Jellyfish

1984

Director of Photography

5.7

Tosca's Kiss

1984

Director of Photography

7.2

The Wounded Man

1983

Director of Photography

5.6

Unguided Tour

1983

Director of Photography

Notre Dame de la Croisette

1983

Director of Photography

6.0

Les Havres

1983

Director of Photography

Imitation of Life

1983

Director of Photography

Hecate

1982

Director of Photography

5.2

Inventaire lausannois

1982

Director of Photography

Max Frisch, Journal I-III

1981

Director of Photography

Every Man for Himself

1980

Director of Photography

6.1

Father Goupil

1980

Director of Photography

Messidor

1979

Director of Photography

6.2

His Master's Voice

1978

Director of Photography

6.5

Violanta

1978

Director of Photography

8.0

The Indians Are Still Far Away

1977

Director of Photography

6.5

Faces of Love

1977

Director of Photography

5.8

San Gottardo

1977

Director of Photography

10.0

A. Constant

1977

Director of Photography

Fortini/Cani

1977

Director of Photography

5.3

The Big Night

1976

Director of Photography

5.2

Shadow of Angels

1976

Director of Photography

3.8

Sartre by Himself

1976

Director of Photography

7.0

Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000

1976

Director of Photography

6.7

Der Gehülfe

1976

Director of Photography

6.3

Death of the Flea Circus Director

1975

Director of Photography

6.5

The Wonderful Crook

1975

Director of Photography

5.5

H.P. Lovecraft: The Shadow Out of Time

1975

Director of Photography

4.0

Moses and Aaron

1975

Director of Photography

5.5

The Middle of the World

1974

Director of Photography

6.0

The Awful Manners

1974

Director of Photography

La Paloma

1974

Director of Photography

5.4

Return from Africa

1973

Director of Photography

6.1

Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg’s Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene

1973

Director of Photography

5.5

Tonight or Never

1973

Director of Photography

2.6

History Lessons

1972

Director of Photography

5.6

The Salamander

1971

Director of Photography

6.7

Othon

1971

Director of Photography

5.5

Charles, Dead or Alive

1970

Director of Photography

6.5