RIP Peter Brand

 

DEFA Stiftung is reporting in their June newsletter that cinematographer Peter Brand passed away on April 12, 2023, in Potsdam, Berlin, Germany. He was 85. Born in Gera, Thuringia, Germany on August 1, 1937, Brand worked on 38 films from 1963 to 1999 in both films and television. Among his best remembered films are “Das unsichtbare Visier” (1973), “Der fliegende Holländer” (1964) and “Sabine Wulff” (1978). Brand was the cinematographer on one Euro-western 1985’s “Atkins” starring Oleg Borisov and Peter Zimmermann.