Ralph Kaechele
Languages
German, English
Location
Berlin
Agent
Ulrike Weis-Wulfes
Tel.: +49 (0)89 599 08 4-0
mail@abovetheline.de

Sexy Beast
Berlin Station
Tatort - Spur des Blutes
© ©Ralph Kaechele
© privat
2024
HUNDERTDREIZEHN
WDR, ORF
Production: Windlight Pictures, Satel Film
Director: Rick Ostermann
DoP: Ralph Kaechele
6 x 45 min
2023
2 FREUNDE
HR
Production: Schiwago Film
Director: Rick Ostermann
DoP: Ralph Kaechele
Festival des deutschen Films Ludwigshafen - Nominated for Audience Award (2023)
SEXY BEAST - SEASON 1
Paramount+
Production: Chapter One Films, VIS - Viacom International Studios
Director: Stephen Moyer, David Caffrey
Episodes 7 & 8 and Season 1 re-shoot DP Episodes 1 - 4
2022
DER GEJAGTE - IM NETZ DER CAMORRA
Servus TV, ZDF
Production: Satel Film, Good Friends Filmproduktion, Albolina Film
Director: Rick Ostermann
DoP: Ralph Kaechele
LIFT
Netflix
Production: Netflix, Genre Pictures, 6th & Idaho, Hartbeat Productions
Director: F. Gary Gray
2nd Unit + Action Unit DP
THE OFFER
Paramount+
Production: Paramount Television Studios
Director: Adam Arkin
Sicily Unit DP
Mini series
Critics' Choice Award - Best Limited Series (2023)
2021
TÁR
Cinema (Distributor: Universal Pictures International Germany)
Production: Emjag Productions, Standard Film Company, X Filme Creative Pool
Director: Todd Field
2nd Unit DP + Main Unit B-Cam Operator
Academy Awards - Nominated for Best Picture, Best Director & Best Cinematography (2023)
BAFTA Film Awards - Nominated for Best Picture & Best Director (2023)
British Society of Cinematographers - Nominated for Best Cinematography in a Feature Film (2023)
Independent Spirit Awards - Best Camera (2023)
AFI American Film Institute Awards - Movie Of The Year (2022)
Camerimage Festival - Golden Frog for Best Cinematography (2022)
... and various other Awards
TATORT - SPUR DES BLUTES
WDR
Production: Bavaria Fiction
Director: Tini Tüllmann
DoP: Ralph Kaechele
Jupiter Award - Nominated for Best Movie TV + Streaming National (2022)
2020
ARMY OF THIEVES
Netflix
Production: Pantaleon Films, The Stone Quarry
Director: Matthias Schweighöfer
2nd Unit + Action Unit
NEBEN DER SPUR - SCHLIESSE DEINE AUGEN
ZDF
Production: Network Movie Film- und Fernsehproduktion
Director: Josef Rusnak
DoP: Ralph Kaechele
2019
BERLIN STATION - SEASON 3
EPIX
Production: Paramount Television Studios, Studio Babelsberg
Director: Christoph Schrewe, Hagen Bogdanski, Tanya Hamilton, Bronwen Hughes, Marc Jobst
Episode 6 and 2nd Unit + Action Unit at 9 Episodes
HELEN DORN - KLEINE FREIHEIT
ZDF
Production: Network Movie Film- und Fernsehproduktion
Director: Marcus O. Rosenmüller
DoP: Ralph Kaechele
HELEN DORN - WER GEWALT SÄT
ZDF
Production: Network Movie Film- und Fernsehproduktion
Director: Marcus O. Rosenmüller
DoP: Ralph Kaechele
SOKO HAMBURG - SEASON 2
ZDF
Production: Network Movie Film- und Fernsehproduktion
Director: Tini Tüllmann
DoP: Ralph Kaechele
Episodes 4 - 6
2018
BERLIN STATION - SEASON 2
EPIX
Production: Paramount Television Studios, Studio Babelsberg
Director: Christoph Schrewe, Sarah Pia Anderson, Guiseppe Capatondi, John D. Coles, Bronwen Hughes
2nd Unit + Action Unit, 10 Episodes
2017
BERLIN STATION - SEASON 1
EPIX
Production: Paramount Television Studios, Studio Babelsberg
Director: Christoph Schrewe, Guiseppe Capatondi, John D. Coles, Joshua Marston, Michaël R. Roskam
Re-Shoot Unit, 2nd Unit, Action Unit, 10 Episodes
MOM
Netflix
Production: Zee Studios
Director: Ravi Udyawar
DoP: Ralph Kaechele
SHOOTER - SEASON 2
USA Network
Production: Paramount Television Studios
Director: Yuval Adler
Germany Unit DP
2016
FALLEN IDOLS
Production: Dot And Cross Productions
Director: Santino Stoner
DoP: Ralph Kaechele
Series pilot
2014
ME AND KAMINSKI
Cinema (Distributor: X Verleih)
Production: X Filme Creative Pool
Director: Wolfgang Becker
2nd Unit + NYC Unit DP
Deutscher Filmpreis - Nominated for Best Cinematography (2016)
2008
HURT
Production: High Treason Productions
Director: Barbara Stepansky
DoP: Ralph Kaechele
2003
GOOD BYE LENIN!
Cinema (Distributor: X Verleih)
Production: X Filme Creative Pool, Arte, WDR
Director: Wolfgang Becker
2nd Unit DP
Golden Globe Award - Best Foreign Language Film (2004)
BAFTA Film Awards - Nominated for Best Film not in English Language (2004)
Deutscher Kamerapreis - Nominated for Best Cinematography (2004)
Deutscher Filmpreis - Best Feature Film & Best Director (2003)
European Film Awards - Best European Film & People's Choice Award Best European Director (2003)
European Film Awards - Nominated for Best European Director (2003)
... and various other Awards

Biography

2003 - 2004
Studied cinematography at AFI Conservatory, Los Angeles
1996 - 2001
Studied cinematography at FH Design, Dortmund
Since 2000
Freelance cinematographer, DoP, as well as 2nd unit director
1998
Prep Tech, CSC Camera Service Center, New York City
USA Greencard
Munich +49 (0)89 599 08 4-0