Camerimage: ‘Das Boot’ Cinematographer Jost Vacano to Be Honored for Lifetime Achievement
Carolyn Giardina
German cinematographer Jost Vacano, who lensed Wolfgang Petersen’s 1981 film
Das Boot, is set to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s EnergaCamerimage cinematography film festival, which is currently slated to be held Nov. 13-20 in Toruń, Poland.
Vacano was Oscar nominated for
Das Boot, for which he developed a gyro-stabilized camera system to capture the claustrophobic space in a submarine. He reteamed with Petersen on 1984’s
Neverending Story.
The DP also enjoyed a two-decade collaboration with Paul Verhoeven, which included creating a futuristic colony on Mars in