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Sven Kirsten

Born August 27, 1955 · Hamburg, Germany (age 71)

Sven Kirsten was born in 1955 in the port town of Hamburg, Germany. He was supposedly conceived on a freighter of his grandfather's Hamburg-Chicago line between America and Germany (those were long trips). The sailor's bars of the Reeperbahn red light district and the curiosities of the Hamburg Anthropology Museum formed the fertile soil to inspire Sven to follow the call to other distant shores i…

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Hardbodies

Hardbodies · 1984

Three middle-aged daddies visit California to have a marvelous time at the beach. When they learn that a nice apartment and an expensive cabriolet isn't enough for them to score with the chicks, they employ a student to help them. At first he's as disgusted of them and his job as his girlfriend, but soon they find out how to use the situation to everyone's benefit.

Mistress

Mistress · 1992

MovieComedyDrama

A comedy about a screenwriter (Wuhl) whose old movie script is read by a producer (Landau) and the search for financial backers begins. But it seems that each money source (Aiello, DeNiro, Wallach) has his own mistress that he wants put into the film. Gradually, the screenwriter is forced to make changes to his script to accommodate these backers until he finally sees no semblance of his original ideas in the writing.

Bad Painter

Bad Painter · 2025

Albert Oehlen steps behind the camera to present a portrait of himself, in life and at work, albeit substituted by actor and similarly brazen iconoclast Udo Kier, with musician Kim Gordon as his inner self, interviewer and judge.

Doppelganger

Doppelganger · 1993

MovieHorrorMystery

After being implicated in a murder, a young woman flees New York City and moves to Los Angeles, where she rents a room from a writer. They begin an affair, but it seems she's been followed by a homicidal duplicate of herself.

Der Venusmörder

Der Venusmörder · 1996

Der Venusmörder

MovieCrimeThriller

A serial killer kills redheaded women and drapes them like Venus from Sandro Botticellis artwork.

Slam Dance

Slam Dance · 1987

MovieMysteryThriller

When framed for the murder of a sultry blonde, an underground cartoonist is drawn into a web of corruption, blackmail and deceit.

7 Tage bis zum Glück

7 Tage bis zum Glück · 1999

7 Tage bis zum Glück

MovieComedyRomance

Angela works at an advertising agency and is engaged to her boss, Stefan. Their wedding is just around the corner. Unexpectedly, she meets the artist Peter, who introduces her to a whole new world. His life as an artist is full of adventure, romance, and fascinating stories. Angela begins an affair with him, but without calling off the wedding. Her double life soon leads to trouble.

Heart of Stone

Heart of Stone · 2001

A psychological thriller about a married women who has an affair with a charming young man and gets involved in a series of murders not knowing if the killer is her lover or her husband or someone else.

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Hardbodies

Hardbodies · 1984

Three middle-aged daddies visit California to have a marvelous time at the beach. When they learn that a nice apartment and an expensive cabriolet isn't enough for them to score with the chicks, they employ a student to help them. At first he's as disgusted of them and his job as his girlfriend, but soon they find out how to use the situation to everyone's benefit.

Electrician

Mistress

Mistress · 1992

MovieComedyDrama

A comedy about a screenwriter (Wuhl) whose old movie script is read by a producer (Landau) and the search for financial backers begins. But it seems that each money source (Aiello, DeNiro, Wallach) has his own mistress that he wants put into the film. Gradually, the screenwriter is forced to make changes to his script to accommodate these backers until he finally sees no semblance of his original ideas in the writing.

Director of Photography

Bad Painter

Bad Painter · 2025

Albert Oehlen steps behind the camera to present a portrait of himself, in life and at work, albeit substituted by actor and similarly brazen iconoclast Udo Kier, with musician Kim Gordon as his inner self, interviewer and judge.

Director of Photography

Doppelganger

Doppelganger · 1993

MovieHorrorMystery

After being implicated in a murder, a young woman flees New York City and moves to Los Angeles, where she rents a room from a writer. They begin an affair, but it seems she's been followed by a homicidal duplicate of herself.

Director of Photography

Der Venusmörder

Der Venusmörder · 1996

Der Venusmörder

MovieCrimeThriller

A serial killer kills redheaded women and drapes them like Venus from Sandro Botticellis artwork.

Director of Photography

Slam Dance

Slam Dance · 1987

MovieMysteryThriller

When framed for the murder of a sultry blonde, an underground cartoonist is drawn into a web of corruption, blackmail and deceit.

Gaffer

7 Tage bis zum Glück

7 Tage bis zum Glück · 1999

7 Tage bis zum Glück

MovieComedyRomance

Angela works at an advertising agency and is engaged to her boss, Stefan. Their wedding is just around the corner. Unexpectedly, she meets the artist Peter, who introduces her to a whole new world. His life as an artist is full of adventure, romance, and fascinating stories. Angela begins an affair with him, but without calling off the wedding. Her double life soon leads to trouble.

Director of Photography

Heart of Stone

Heart of Stone · 2001

A psychological thriller about a married women who has an affair with a charming young man and gets involved in a series of murders not knowing if the killer is her lover or her husband or someone else.

Director of Photography

Play Time

Play Time · 1995

MovieDramaRomance

Lindsey and Geena spend some time together by the pool while their husbands play golf. After talking about their fantasies they begin to enact a few of them for each other. Soon they incorporate Lindsey's husband Joe into their intimate games. When straight-laced Brad finds out what his wife and friends have been doing he blows up, threatening their marriages and friendships.

Director of Photography

Teresa's Tattoo

Teresa's Tattoo · 1994

Teresa's Tattoo

MovieComedyCrime

Mathematician Teresa just wanted to study during the College spring break. But her friends, who want her to live a little, drag her out to parties. The next thing she knows, she has been drugged, kidnapped, made a redhead, tattooed, and wearing leather?!? Her captors seem to be the most inept crooks ever. They seem to have a plan, if only she could figure out why it involves her.

Director of Photography

Tom Waits: Big Time

Tom Waits: Big Time · 1988

Tom Waits: Big Time

MovieDocumentaryMusic

Bringing his unique sense of humor to this bizarre and original piece of moviemaking, Tom Waits takes the audience through a musical journey with his jazzy, quirky, bluesy tunes presented as you would never, ever, ever expect.

Camera Operator

Punk in London

Punk in London · 1977

MovieDocumentaryMusic

A visual record of London punk life in the late '70s, filled with never-before-seen live concert footage and commentary from the Clash, the Jam, X-Ray Spex and the Electric Chairs.

Director of Photography

The Cowboy and the Frenchman

The Cowboy and the Frenchman · 1988

The Cowboy and the Frenchman

MovieComedyWestern

A grizzled, hard-of-hearing cowboy, Slim, and his two friends, Dusty and Pete, capture a mysterious, well-dressed Frenchman.

Electrician

Beyond Desire

Beyond Desire · 1995

MovieActionThriller

Rita is a sexy call girl in a red Corvette convertible who just met Ray. Ray is an ex-con just released after serving 14 years for a killing he claims he was framed for. When these two get together, sparks fly and temperatures rise. But Ray has a reason not to trust Rita - $1 million has been stashed somewhere in Las Vegas and Ray knows everyone wants it almost as much as they want him dead. When everyone has a hidden agenda, who do you trust?

Director of Photography

Liquid Dreams

Liquid Dreams · 1991

MovieThrillerMystery

In a slightly future America, a woman goes to the big city to visit with her sister, who is dead in her apartment. In order to find out what happened to her sister, she gets a job working at a dance club, a lower notch in the strip joint circuit. Some of her colleagues begin showing up dead as she uncovers a sinister hierarchy in the strip club management that is harnessing the sexual activity for their own twisted ends.

Director of Photography

Kubanisch für Fortgeschrittene

Kubanisch für Fortgeschrittene · 2015

Kubanisch für Fortgeschrittene

MovieComedyFamily

Five "60-somethings" with different motives travel to Cuba, which vehemently changes their view of life. In a lively clash of cultures, German determination meets Cuban casual joie de vivre. The five Germans' visions of the last third of their lives are transformed by the vibrant charm of the Caribbean island and its lively inhabitants.

Camera Operator

Roommate Wanted

Roommate Wanted · 2002

Roommate Wanted

MovieComedyRomance

From the affluent sidewalks of Rodeo Drive and the skies high above Beverly Hills. Can she really get her room mates to do what she wants? When they finally give in to temptation, they start to see a side of Cindy they never imagined.

Director of Photography

No Strings Attached

No Strings Attached · 1997

No Strings Attached

MovieDramaThriller

A renowned journalist becomes a suspect in a series of murders after he becomes intimately involved with a mysterious woman. In an attempt to clear his name, he tries to find a connection between his lover and the increasing number of dead bodies.

Additional Photography

Biss zur großen Pause - Das Highschool Vampir Grusical

Biss zur großen Pause - Das Highschool Vampir Grusical · 2011

Biss zur großen Pause - Das Highschool Vampir Grusical

MovieComedyMystery

The last three vampires in the world - Edwin Wolkenstein, his father Vladimor and his brother Günni - are driven out of Transylvania by the vampire hunter Ignaz van Hellbring. Edwin, of all people, knows where they can find shelter: with Edwin's pen pal Fella. Once there, Edwin realizes that Fella has lied to him. She is not the blonde musical beauty, but a nerd girl. But Edwin doesn't go down particularly well with his new classmates either...

Director of Photography

Dead Island: School's Out 2

Dead Island: School's Out 2 · 2001

Dead Island: School's Out 2

MovieHorrorThriller

Nina and friends are stalked by a masked killer while vacationing on an island.

Director of Photography

Women in Rock

Women in Rock · 1980

MovieDocumentary

A documentary about women in the punk rock scene in Europe.

Director of Photography

Die Traumprinzen

Die Traumprinzen · 2000

Die Traumprinzen

Lawyer Sarah Werner represents the attractive David, who earns his living as a member of the male striptease group "Die Traumprinzen". When one of the show's visitors is murdered, David comes under suspicion of murder.

Director of Photography

I Know What You Did Last Winter

I Know What You Did Last Winter · 2004

I Know What You Did Last Winter

MovieHorrorAction

Five teenagers on a trip get caught up in a murder triangle and must survive to escape the snow filled mountains.

Director of Photography

School's Out

School's Out · 1999

MovieHorrorMystery

A group of seniors decide to have a party in their school on graduation night. Unfortunately an uninvited guest with a pair of scissors crashes the party and it isn’t long before the bodies begin to pile up.

Director of Photography