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Josef Rusnak is a Director, Scriptwriter and Second Unit Cinematographer Allemand born on 25 november 1958

Josef Rusnak

Josef Rusnak
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Nationality German
Birth 25 november 1958 (65 years)

Josef Rusnak est un réalisateur et scénariste allemand né le 25 novembre 1958 au Tadjikistan, surtout connu pour ses films Passé virtuel, The Contractor et Hollywood People.

Biography

Il a travaillé en compagnie des célébrités Roland Emmerich, Hilary Swank et Wesley Snipes.

Best films

Godzilla (1998)
(Second Unit Cinematographer)

Usually with

Harald Kloser
Harald Kloser
(2 films)
Ute Emmerich
Ute Emmerich
(2 films)
Lee Weaver
Lee Weaver
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Josef Rusnak (8 films)

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Director

Berlin, I Love You, 2h
Directed by Til Schweiger, Dianna Agron, Josef Rusnak, Massy Tadjedin, Peter Chelsom, Dennis Gansel, Dani Levy, Fernando Eimbcke
Origin German
Genres Drama, Anthology film, Romance
Actors Helen Mirren, Keira Knightley, Patrick Dempsey, Mickey Rourke, Diego Luna, Jim Sturgess
Rating47% 2.3523952.3523952.3523952.3523952.352395
Après les films à sketches Paris, je t'aime et New York, I Love You, c'est au tour de la capitale berlinoise d'être passée au crible par divers grands réalisateurs. 10 segments sont attendus.
Beyond
Beyond (2012)
, 1h30
Directed by Josef Rusnak
Origin USA
Genres Thriller
Themes Psychologie
Actors Jon Voight, Theresa Polo, Julian Morris, Dermot Mulroney, Sandra Luesse, Skyler Shaye
Rating48% 2.407222.407222.407222.407222.40722
A detective teams with a tabloid psychic to track down a missing child.
The Art of War II: Betrayal, 1h43
Directed by Josef Rusnak
Origin Canada
Genres Thriller, Martial arts, Action, Martial arts
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films
Actors Wesley Snipes, Lee Sung-hi, Athena Karkanis, Lochlyn Munro, Treach, Pascale Hutton
Rating43% 2.160292.160292.160292.160292.16029
When Agent Neil Shaw comes out of hiding to vindicate his former mentor's murder, he winds up on the trail of betrayal and lethal corruption. Under the charge of his friend and a senatorial candidate, his mission is to set things straight. But when more people turn up dead, Shaw realizes that he's been set up as bait.
It's Alive
It's Alive (2008)

Directed by Josef Rusnak
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors Bijou Phillips, Raphaël Coleman, James Murray (acteur anglais), Owen Teale, Skye Bennett, Jack Ellis
Rating35% 1.7627651.7627651.7627651.7627651.762765
Lenore Harker (Bijou Phillips) leaves college to have a baby with her architect boyfriend, Frank (James Murray). After discovering the baby has doubled in size in just a month, doctors decide to extract the baby by Caesarian section. After the doctor cuts the umbilical cord, the newborn goes on a rampage and kills the surgical team in the operating room. It afterwards crawls onto its mother's belly and falls asleep. Lenore and the baby are found on the operating table, the room covered in blood. Lenore has no memory of what happened.
The Contractor, 1h38
Directed by Josef Rusnak
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Films about terrorism
Actors Wesley Snipes, Eliza Hope Bennett, Lena Headey, Ralph Brown, Charles Dance, Gemma Jones
Rating55% 2.7516052.7516052.7516052.7516052.751605
A retired CIA Black-Ops hitman James Jackson Dial (Wesley Snipes) is living his life in seclusion on his ranch in Montana when he is offered the chance to redeem himself by his former employer, Jeremy Collins (Ralph Brown). Some years earlier, Dial had been seconds away from taking down notorious terrorist cell leader Ali Mahmoud Jahar (Nikolay Sotirov) but his carelessness allowed Jahar to escape, marking his assignment as a failure.
The Thirteenth Floor, 1h37
Directed by Josef Rusnak
Origin German
Genres Science fiction, Thriller
Themes Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Serial killer films, Dystopian films
Actors Craig Bierko, Gretchen Mol, Vincent D'Onofrio, Dennis Haysbert, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Shiri Appleby
Rating69% 3.499883.499883.499883.499883.49988
In late 1990s Los Angeles, Hannon Fuller (Armin Mueller-Stahl) owns a multibillion-dollar computer enterprise and is the inventor of a newly completed virtual reality (VR) simulation of 1937 Los Angeles, filled with simulated humans unaware they are computer programs. When Fuller is murdered just as he begins premature testing of the VR system, his friend and protégé, Douglas Hall (Craig Bierko), who is also the heir to the company, becomes the primary suspect. The evidence against him is so strong that Hall begins to doubt his own innocence.
Quiet Days in Hollywood, 1h35
Directed by Josef Rusnak
Genres Drama
Actors Hilary Swank, Chad Lowe, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Daryl Mitchell, Peter Dobson, Meta Golding
Rating44% 2.2237752.2237752.2237752.2237752.223775
The plot features a series of interlocking stories. Each vignette is introduced with a character that had sex with someone in the previous segment. The movie opens with a seventeen-year-old prostitute, Lolita (Hilary Swank) who hangs around outside movie premiere with another teen prostitute in the hopes of getting a picture of her idol, movie star Peter Blaine (Peter Dobson). After her friend is forcibly dragged off by a jealous boyfriend, Lolita wanders around by herself in the streets of Los Angeles. Then she ends up performing a sexual favor for a man who ends up knocking her unconscious.

Scriptwriter

The Thirteenth Floor, 1h37
Directed by Josef Rusnak
Origin German
Genres Science fiction, Thriller
Themes Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Serial killer films, Dystopian films
Actors Craig Bierko, Gretchen Mol, Vincent D'Onofrio, Dennis Haysbert, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Shiri Appleby
Rating69% 3.499883.499883.499883.499883.49988
In late 1990s Los Angeles, Hannon Fuller (Armin Mueller-Stahl) owns a multibillion-dollar computer enterprise and is the inventor of a newly completed virtual reality (VR) simulation of 1937 Los Angeles, filled with simulated humans unaware they are computer programs. When Fuller is murdered just as he begins premature testing of the VR system, his friend and protégé, Douglas Hall (Craig Bierko), who is also the heir to the company, becomes the primary suspect. The evidence against him is so strong that Hall begins to doubt his own innocence.
Quiet Days in Hollywood, 1h35
Directed by Josef Rusnak
Genres Drama
Actors Hilary Swank, Chad Lowe, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Daryl Mitchell, Peter Dobson, Meta Golding
Roles Writer
Rating44% 2.2237752.2237752.2237752.2237752.223775
The plot features a series of interlocking stories. Each vignette is introduced with a character that had sex with someone in the previous segment. The movie opens with a seventeen-year-old prostitute, Lolita (Hilary Swank) who hangs around outside movie premiere with another teen prostitute in the hopes of getting a picture of her idol, movie star Peter Blaine (Peter Dobson). After her friend is forcibly dragged off by a jealous boyfriend, Lolita wanders around by herself in the streets of Los Angeles. Then she ends up performing a sexual favor for a man who ends up knocking her unconscious.

Team

Godzilla
Godzilla (1998)
, 2h20
Directed by Roland Emmerich
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, La fin du monde, Kaiju films, Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, La préhistoire, Films about religion, Transport films, Animaux préhistoriques, Giant monster films, Political films, Dystopian films, Godzilla films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Arme nucléaire, Disaster films
Actors Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno, Maria Pitillo, Hank Azaria, Kevin Dunn, Michael Lerner
Roles Second Unit Cinematographer
Rating54% 2.7018252.7018252.7018252.7018252.701825
Following a nuclear test in French Polynesia, the fallout irradiates a lizard's nest. Decades later, an enormous sea creature suddenly attacks a Japanese fishing vessel in the South Pacific, leaving only one fisherman alive. Dr. Niko "Nick" Tatopoulos, an NRC biologist, is sent to Tahiti and to Jamaica, where a wrecked village, footprints, and ship are found. Nick collects skin samples that lead him to believe the creature is an enormous mutant created by nuclear testing. It travels to New York City during the rainiest week of the season, leaving a path of destruction in its wake.