Michel Kelber


Michel Kelber was a French cinematographer. Beginning in the late 1920s, he worked on more than a hundred film productions during a lengthy career. Born in Kyiv, then part of the Russian Empire, he studied art and architecture in Paris. He started worked as an assistant cameraman in 1928, before progressing to cinematographer four years later. He worked with leading directors such as Jean Renoir, René Clair, Julien Duvivier and Claude Autant-Lara. He also worked for periods in Spain, including during the wartime German occupation of France.

Selected filmography

The Concierge's Daughters Gold in the Street Zouzou School for Coquettes Baccara The Scandalous Couple Beautiful Days La Vie parisienne Adventure in Paris Forty Little Mothers Under Western Eyes Life Dances On The Courier of Lyon I Was an Adventuress Rasputin Hercule The Gutter White Nights in Saint Petersburg Final Accord Girls in Distress Personal Column Savage Brigade The White Slave Thunder Over Paris Goyescas Intrigue The Scandal House of Cards Lola Montes The Phantom and Dona Juanita Bamboo White Mission Pétrus Ruy Blas Confidences Les Parents terribles The Nude Woman Saturday Night The Straw Lover The Great Galeoto Love and Desire Our Lady of Fatima From Madrid to Heaven Feather in the Wind Lovers of Toledo The Lovers of Midnight Nobody Will Know The Beautiful Otero The Red and the Black French Cancan Sophie and the Crime The Hunchback of Notre Dame Calle Mayor The Ambassador's Daughter Lovers of Paris Magnificent Sinner College Boarding House John Paul Jones Litri and His Shadow Jack of Spades Bombs on Monte Carlo The Nina B. Affair Rogelia A View from the Bridge In the French Style Mata Hari, Agent H21 Nights of Farewell A Woman in White Johnny Banco The Story of a Three-Day Pass Blood in the Bullring