Jürgen Jürges

German cinematographer, one of Deutsche Filmakademie's founding members (b. 12 December 1940, Hanover). Jürgen Jürges is primarily associated with the "Neuer Deutscher Film" movement in the late 1960s to early 80s and worked with Germany's most distinguished filmmakers, including Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wim Wenders and Roland Klick. He also collaborated with an Austrian director Michael Haneke on several movies, including the notorious Funny Games in 1997. (A decade later, Haneke directed an exact "shot-for-shot" remake of the film in the United States, employing legendary Darius Khondji to replicate Jürgen's unique camerawork.) Between 2006 and 2019, Jürges worked with controversial Russian director Ilya Khrzhanovskiy on his monumental DAU multi-film project, centered around the life of Soviet physicist and Nobel Prize winner Lev Landau (1908—1968) and spanning over 12 feature-length movies.