- Born
- Died
- Gerhard Huttula was born on June 6, 1902 in Berlin, Germany. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Compañeros (1936), La fuga (1937) and Fern vom Land der Ahnen (1937). He died on January 15, 1996 in Düren, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
- He worked for a while in Argentina where he was credited as Gerardo Huttula.
- To his most impressive works belong the railway disaster in "Damals" (1943), the motor launch cruise of Hans Albers in "Grosse Freiheit Nr. 7" (1944) and especially Hans Albers' ride on the cannon bullet in the star casted movie "Münchhausen" (1943).
- He made first cinematographical experiences in 1922 when his former art teacher produced an animated cartoon and engaged him for the trick camera.
- During the Nazi era he shot a number of ethnographic documentaries and travelogues.
- Gerhard Huttula took over the job of a cinematographer after the war and shot a whole string of fairy tale movies.
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