Emil Berna

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2024}} {{Infobox person | name = Emil Berna | image = Emil Berna + Walter Mittelholzer ETH-Bibliothek LBS MH02-22-1136.tif | caption = Emil Berna (left) and Walter Mittelholzer (1934) | birth_date = 2 April 1907 | birth_place = Zürich, Switzerland | death_date = {{death date and age|2000|10|16|1907|4|2|df=y}} | death_place = Zürich, Switzerland | other_names = | occupation = Cinematographer | years_active = 1930–1964 }} [[File:Uli der Pächter (01).jpg|thumb|Emil Berna (left) and Charlie Chaplin (1955)]] '''Emil Berna''' (2 April 1907 – 16 October 2000)<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20181207145950/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f44bc63 Emil Berna]. ''British Film Institute'' (''BFI''). Retrieved 7 December 2018.</ref><ref>[https://www.whoswho.de/bio/emil-berna.html Emil Berna - Biografie]. ''WHO'S WHO''. Retrieved 7 December 2018.</ref> 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.<ref>Nolletti p.41</ref>

==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) * ''{{ill|Der Teufel hat gut lachen|de}}'' (1960)

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Arthur Nolletti. ''The Films of Fred Zinnemann: Critical Perspectives''. SUNY Press, 1999.

==External links== *{{IMDb name|0005654}}

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