Bruno Mondi

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Bruno Mondi (30 September 1903 – 18 July 1991) was a German cameraman and director of photography. He trained in Berlin and started as an assistant on silent films, including Fritz Lang's Destiny (Der müde Tod, 1921). From 1925 he often worked with Heinrich Gärtner and helped shoot Die tolle Lola, and in 1927 he became executive director of photography. He worked mainly with director Richard Eichberg and joined Veit Harlan's team in 1935. Mondi joined the Nazi Party on 23 March 1933 and shot many films, including the anti-Semitic Jud Süß (1940). After World War II, he was hired by DEFA, the East German studio, as a chief cameraman and shot their first color film, Heart of Stone (1950). In the 1950s he moved to West German and Austrian cinema, notably Ernst Marischka's colorful Sissi trilogy, and he also did television work on Förster Horn. His son Georg Mondi (born 1936) also became a cinematographer.