American Cinematographer - October 1989 - 63

War and Remembrance
Part II
Dietrich Lohmann

Dietrich Lohmann was
nominated for Part II of the ABC
Circle Films miniseries War and
Remembrance. Lohmann, a resi¬
dent of Munich, has had a long
and illustrious career as a direc¬
tor of photography. He began as

cinematographer during the
early days of the New German
a

Cinema and has worked with

such famous German directors as

Fassbinder, Herzog and Schlondorff. His feature credits number
than 100.

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"Throughout the project
trying to make the lighting
as natural as
possible. I was very
aware of my light sources. I don't
I

was

like artificial

or

'artistic'

lighting

very much," Lohmann says.
"Even though this was a
historical piece, we decided not to
use the color of old
photographs.
We didn't choose the sepia tones,
we went for a normal color, but
very

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moment

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the set. "I

was

pleased with the

scenes
submarine. I did all the

very

in the

myself with a hand-held camera.
was very difficult to shoot in
the sub, but very exciting. I was

not used to the American

system
working with an operator. In

Germany, I do the work myself,
so it was a big change for me.
Anyway, I had the chance to do
the submarine work myself be¬
cause the
operator was too big!
There is not much room in a sub
for people, lights and equip¬
ment."
War and Remembrance

the largest,
longest and most challenging
project Lohmann has ever under¬
taken, yet he states emphatically,
was,

not surprisingly,

"We had

a

lot of fun!"

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