# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gernot-roll
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:25:41.510Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gernot-roll"
name: "Gernot Roll"
slug: "gernot-roll"
description: "Gernot Roll was a German cinematographer, film director and script writer. He collaborated on several films with directors Edgar Reitz and Sönke Wortmann. He was regarded as an expert on literary adaptations and film biographies, such as The Buddenbrooks, filming Thomas Mann's novel in eleven television episodes directed by Franz Peter Wirth, and the same work again in 2008 in the film directed by Heinrich Breloer."
tagline: "German cinematographer (1939–2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gernot_Roll_6350.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1939-04-09"
deathDate: "2020-11-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.19
  momentum:             4.6875
  historical:           12.28830266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005846/"
    handle:    "nm0005846"
sources:
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    title: "Gernot Roll"
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    title: "Gernot Roll"
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    title: "Gernot Roll"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gernot Roll"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%AF%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%88%D8%AA_%D8%B1%D9%84"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gernot Roll"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gernot Roll"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gernot Roll"
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    title: "Gernot Roll"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gernot_Roll"
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    title: "Gernot Roll"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump