Robby Müller

Robby Müller ( born April 4, 1940 in Willemstad, Curaçao) is a Dutch cameraman. He has become known with Wim Wenders' early work.

Life

His father worked in the oil business and undertook long journeys with the family. The son learned early on with the secondary camera of his father who was an avid amateur filmmakers. Müller studied at the Dutch Film Academy in Amsterdam from 1962 to 1964 camera and editing. He was oriented but soon after Germany by becoming an assistant to Gerard Vandenberg, who worked as a cameraman at that time the New German Cinema.

Hans W. Geissendörfer took it over in 1968 as a cameraman in his first television film The Fall Lena Christ, after he cooperated mainly with Wim Wenders. In the eighties he worked almost exclusively in the United States.

He won three times the German Film Award in Gold and once the Bavarian Film Prize. For Paris, Texas, he was in 1984 awarded the Golden Camera.

In 1988 he was a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival.

Awards (selection)

Filmography

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