- Mondi was hired in 1946 by the DEFA as one of its chief cameramen. In this capacity he made in 1950 the first DEFA color film Heart of Stone.
- The fifties he moved to the West German and Austrian film industry. Here he worked especially for several colorful productions by the director Ernst Marischka, especially the popular Sissi trilogy.
- Bruno Mondi was able to continue his career successfully after the war and he experienced again a late heyday in the 50's.
- He finished an apprenticeship at the educational establishment for cinema engineering and at the photo school in Berlin.
- His son Georg Mondi (born 1936) also became a cinematographer.
- Most of his movies were adventure and entertainment movies who reached a huge audience but for Harlan he also took part in some propaganda productions, the most famous one is "Jud Süss" (1940), which is still today under the restriction only to be performed under dictated conditions.
- He also worked for television in the series Förster Horn.
- He was participated in nearly all early movies of actress Romy Schneider and they had a very cooperative relation to each other.
- In 1924 he became a camera assistant for Richard Eichberg and three years later he worked for the first time as an independent cinematographer for "Die tolle Lola" (1927). In the next years he also worked often together with the director Veit Harlan besides Richard Eichberg.
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