Known for Camera
Roman Osin, born - in Leipzig at the time of former East Germany, was already a bit of a globe trotter in his early formative years, preparing him well for the international career in Cinematography he was to achieve in his adulthood. Blessed with a natural keen eye for the poetry of light, movement, and framing, he spent his teens hooked on movies and photography, and was a slam dunk for entering film school in London to carve out his future vocation. After the first – the LCP (now London School of Communication) He quickly asserted himself as a director of music videos before returning to the prestigious NFTS - National Film and Television School, to focus on Cinematography. Straight out of the gate, after his successful collaboration as dop on a student film that won the Cannes Student film award, his first feature film had him jump on a plane to India again with fellow film makers and shoot the two times Bafta award winning Debut feature by Asif Kapadia – “The Warrior”, which won a number of cinematography prizes and set his career in forward motion with a string of award winning films to follow, including the much loved “Pride and Prejudice" by Joe Wright, the brutally honest critically acclaimed “NEDs” by Peter Mullen. Asif’s later beautiful but dark psychological thriller “Far North”, and more recently the wonderfully tense Horror “Autopsy of Jane Doe" by Andre Ovredal.
Born
May 1, 1961 (age 65)
Birthplace
Leipzig, Germany
Filmography
24 films


Slava der Hund
2024
country: Germany


Mortal
2020 · 1h 44m
country: United Kingdom
A young boy must discover the origins of his extraordinary powers before he is captured by authorities hell-bent on condemning him for an accidental murder.


Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
2019 · 1h 48m
country: Canada
Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.


The Exception
2017 · 1h 47m
country: United Kingdom
Nothing is as it seems in this riveting World War 2 thriller as a wary soldier goes to investigate a mysterious German monarch at his secluded mansion, leading him into a web of deceit and a dangerous love affair with a local Jewish woman.


Eltern und andere Wahrheiten
2017
country: Germany
Nina (38) loves her little family and is passionate about her job as an architect. When she returns to work after parental leave, she is able to save the office from bankruptcy with an ingenious idea. The only catch: she has to pretend to be single and married to her work. Nina gets no help from her husband Torsten (38) because he sees her dream job as a threat to the family. In desperation, Nina pretends he is her brother and secretly hires granny-for-hire Irmgard (70). Between lies and success, Nina's life picks up so much speed that she soon can no longer find the emergency brake.


The Autopsy of Jane Doe
2016 · 1h 26m
country: United Kingdom
Father and son coroners receive a mysterious unidentified corpse with no apparent cause of death. As they attempt to examine the "Jane Doe," they discover increasingly bizarre clues that hold the key to her terrifying secrets.


The Rezort
2015 · 1h 27m
country: Belgium
The ReZort, a post apocalyptic safari, offers paying guests the opportunity to kill zombies in the wake of an outbreak.


Labyrinth of Lies
2014 · 2h 2m
country: Germany
A young prosecutor in postwar West Germany investigates a massive conspiracy to cover up the Nazi pasts of prominent public figures.


The Games Maker
2014 · 1h 52m
country: Argentina
Young Ivan Drago's newfound love of board games catapults him into the fantastical and competitive world of game invention, and pits him against the inventor Morodian, who has long desired to destroy the city of Zyl, founded by Ivan's grandfather. To save his family and defeat Morodian, Ivan must come to know what it is to be a true games maker.


Won't Back Down
2012 · 2h 1m
country: United States
Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken school and ensure a bright future for their children. The two women refuse to let any obstacles stand in their way as they battle a bureaucracy that's hopelessly mired in traditional thinking, and they seek to re-energize a faculty that has lost its passion for teaching.


Neds
2010 · 2h 4m
country: France
NEDs (Non Educated Delinquents) is the story of a young man’s journey from prize-winning schoolboy to knife-carrying teenager. Struggling against the low expectations of those around him, John McGill changes from victim to avenger, scholar to NED, altar boy to glue sniffer. When he attempts to change back again, his new reality and recent past make conformity near impossible and violent self determination near inevitable.


Far North
2008 · 1h 29m
country: France
In the arctic, as Saiva is being born, a shaman declares that she is evil and will bring harm to all who become involved with her. Saiva is cast out of her tribe of herders and grows up to live a nomadic existence with Anja, a young woman she adopts as an infant. Then Loki, an injured and starving soldier, stumbles into their isolated lives. The women nurse him back to health, but treachery, violence and doom await them all.


Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
2007 · 1h 33m
country: Canada
Molly Mahoney is the awkward and insecure manager of Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium—the strangest, most fantastic and most wonderful toy store in the world. After Mr. Magorium bequeaths the store to her, a dark and ominous change begins to take over the once-remarkable Emporium.


The Return
2006 · 1h 25m
country: United States
Joanna Mills has a successful career but feels her personal life is spinning out of control. She has few friends, an estranged father, and a crazy ex-boyfriend who is stalking her. Joanna begins having terrifying visions of a woman's murder, and it seems that she is the killer's next target. Determined to solve the mystery and escape her apparent fate, Joanna follows her visions to the victim's hometown and finds that some secrets just do not stay buried.


Pride & Prejudice
2005 · 2h 8m
country: France
A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.


Mickybo and Me
2005 · 1h 35m
country: France
The film tells the story of two boys who become friends at the start of the Troubles in 1970. The boys share an obsession with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, with the consequence that they run away to Australia.


I Am David
2003 · 1h 30m
country: United States
A 12-year-old boy manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own, through sheer will and determination. All he has in his possession is a loaf of bread, a letter to deliver to someone in Denmark, and a compass to help get him there.


Big Girls Don't Cry
2002 · 1h 27m
country: Germany
Kati and Steffi have been best friends forever. Now that their love lives are heating up, they're hitting the books less and going out to nightclubs more. But when Steffi sees her father out with another woman, her life begins to spiral out of control.


Under the Stars
2001 · 1h 27m
country: Cyprus
Louka, whose parents were killed in the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, persuades a beautiful smuggler to take him over the border to visit his village, where a magical experience awaits them.


The Warrior
2001 · 1h 26m
country: India
In feudal India, a warrior who renounces his role as the longtime enforcer to a local lord becomes the prey in a murderous hunt through the Himalayan mountains.


Dusty's Story
1999 · 10m
country: United Kingdom
How do we know dead people are really dead? Dusty, a young girl, struggles to come to terms with the loss of her parents in this dark fairy tale. She must find the answer to that question herself, but it's hard when no-one believes you, and the walls keep closing in - or do they?


Cut
1999 · 18m
country: United Kingdom
A difficult night out sparks a traumatic memory for a woman whose way out is to ritualistically harm, then fix herself. Intercutting the two states of the protagonist's psyche, rich golden sweeps from the past begin to bleed into the reds and blues of the film's present.
Wild West
Wild West
1996 · 1m
country: United Kingdom
An epic one-minute western. Who in the group dared to use the Boss's toothpaste?