Mikael Salomon

Mikael Salomon

1945-02-24 Copenhagen, Denmark 47 Credits

Biography

Mikael Salomon is a Danish filmmaker and cinematographer. After a long career in Denmark, he moved to Hollywood in the late 1980s. He has been nominated for an Oscar twice.

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King on Screen

King on Screen

2023

as Self

6.9
Acting

1976, Brian de Palma directs Carrie, the first novel by Stephen King. Since, more than 50 directors adapted the master of horror's books, in more than...

Big Driver

Big Driver

2014

Director

5.7
Directing

Tess Thorne, a famous writer, is determined to seek revenge on the man who brutally assaulted and raped her on a desolate New England road.

Drew Peterson: Untouchable

Drew Peterson: Untouchable

2014

Director

5.4
Directing

The story of Drew Peterson, who is charged with the death of his third wife after the mysterious disappearance of his fourth wife.

Freezer

Freezer

2014

Director

5.2
Directing

New York city mechanic Robert Saunders is knocked unconscious at his birthday dinner by Russian thugs and wakes up to find himself locked inside the r...

Blue Lagoon: The Awakening

Blue Lagoon: The Awakening

2012

Director

6.4
Directing

Two high school students become stranded on a tropical island and must rely on each other for survival. They learn more about themselves and each othe...

Who Is Clark Rockefeller?

Who Is Clark Rockefeller?

2010

Director, Co-Executive Producer

5.1
Directing Producing

Called "the longest running con in FBI history," Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, the man that people knew as "Clark Rockefeller" had brilliantly impers...

The Lost Future

The Lost Future

2010

Director

4.9
Directing

A group of post-apocalyptic survivors, struggle to survive in a world where jungles and forests and primeval wetlands and deserts have obliterated civ...

Doctor Zhivago: A Celebration

Doctor Zhivago: A Celebration

2010

as Self

Acting

Interviews analyzing and looking back at the making of, and the impact made by, of one of the greatest epic films ever produced.

Natalee Holloway

Natalee Holloway

2009

Director, Co-Executive Producer

5.2
Directing Producing

On May 30, 2005, on a high school graduation trip to Aruba, she disappeared without a trace.

Flirting with Forty

Flirting with Forty

2008

Director

5.2
Directing

A divorcee has a passionate affair with a much younger surfing instructor in Hawaii.

Terra Incognita: Making the Andromeda Strain

Terra Incognita: Making the Andromeda Strain

2008

Director

2.5
Directing

A behind the scenes look at the background and making of the 2008 TV mini-series

Fallen

Fallen

2006

Director, Executive Producer

6.9
Directing Producing

For high schooler Aaron Corbett, turning 18 means becoming not just a man but a nephilim, too -- half human, half angel, with supernatural abilities.

Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor

Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor

2003

Director

4.0
Directing

On the glorious battlefields of the American Revolution, two great generals distinguished themselves; George Washington and Benedict Arnold. Washingto...

Young Arthur

Young Arthur

2002

Director

Directing

Unaired TV movie pilot for a TV series on the childhood of King Arthur.

A Glimpse of Hell

A Glimpse of Hell

2001

Director

5.2
Directing

A Navy officer tries to set the record straight after the Navy blames a 1989 explosion aboard the USS Iowa on a homosexual affair between two sailors.

Sole Survivor

Sole Survivor

2000

Director

6.6
Directing

A reporter loses his wife and daughter to a plane crash, but when the sole survivor appears, the reporter realizes that it wasn't a mere accident, but...

Hard Rain

Hard Rain

1998

Director

5.8
Directing

An armored car driver tries to elude a gang of thieves while a flood ravages the countryside.

Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss'

Under Pressure: Making 'The Abyss'

1993

as Self

7.9
Acting

Documentary about the challenging making of the sci-fi film "The Abyss" , with commentary by various actors and crew, outtakes and behind-the-scenes f...

A Far Off Place

A Far Off Place

1993

Director

6.1
Directing

Thrown together under incredible circumstances, two strangers must discover courage and strength when they begin a journey across the treacherous Afri...

Far and Away

Far and Away

1992

Director of Photography

6.8
Directing

A young couple escapes Ireland, dreaming of a new life during the land giveaway in Oklahoma. As they struggle to survive against betrayal and harsh wi...

Backdraft

Backdraft

1991

Director of Photography

6.7
Directing

Firemen brothers Brian and Stephen McCaffrey battle each other over past slights while trying to stop an arsonist with a diabolical agenda from torchi...

Arachnophobia

Arachnophobia

1990

Director of Photography

6.4
Directing

A large spider from the jungles of South America is accidentally transported in a crate with a dead body to America where it mates with a local spider...

Always

Always

1989

Director of Photography

6.3
Directing

The spirit of a recently deceased expert pilot mentors a newer pilot while watching him fall in love with the girlfriend that he left behind.

The Abyss

The Abyss

1989

Director of Photography

7.4
Directing

A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself o...

Torch Song Trilogy

Torch Song Trilogy

1988

Director of Photography

7.4
Directing

Arnold is a gay man working as a drag queen in 1971 NYC. He meets a handsome bisexual man.

Zelly & Me

Zelly & Me

1988

Director of Photography

5.4
Directing

A young orphan who lives with her grandmother in a large Virginian home infatuates herself with the voices of Joan d'Arc. Her French nanny seeks out t...

The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains

The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains

1987

Director of Photography

6.6
Directing

The true story of Robert Elliot Burns, the prisoner who, after being sentenced to a Georgia chain gang, attempted two daring escapes.

The Wolf at the Door

The Wolf at the Door

1986

Director of Photography

5.2
Directing

Chronicling a period of time in Paul Gauguin's life, this film follows him through his struggles in love and the financial problems caused by the inab...

Det begyndte med Mathilde

1978

Cinematography

A dramatized account of Denmark's first women's rights activist, Mathilde Fibiger. Based on letters and diaries, it depicts her life and views from th...

Elvis! Elvis!

Elvis! Elvis!

1976

Director of Photography

5.2
Directing

The adventures of a small boy (Elvis), his mother and a male friend.

Copper

Copper

1976

Director of Photography

7.2
Directing

After a stay in a sanatorium due to violent behavior during an arrest, Detective Karl Jørgensen is transferred to the fraud department. Here, Karl dis...

På flykt undan mina landsmän

På flykt undan mina landsmän

1976

Director of Photography

Directing

"On the Run from my Fellow Countrymen" - About Bertolt Brecht as a refugee in Sweden. When war seemed imminent in April 1939, Brecht moved to Stockhol...

Only the Truth

Only the Truth

1975

Director of Photography

6.0
Directing

A woman, Ilse Brehmer, finds the body of a dead man, a journalist. He has been murdered, and later when the body turns up in the harbor, the woman den...

Around the World with Fanny Hill

Around the World with Fanny Hill

1974

Director of Photography

3.6
Directing

In Stockholm, Fanny Hill is tired of being a housewife, and she suspects that her husband Roger, a TV-commercial director who's surrounded by starlets...

Bedside Highway

Bedside Highway

1972

Director of Photography

4.7
Directing

In this Danish sex comedy, precisely opposite goals lead a young official of the Department of Roads and Traffic and all the women of the local villag...

Z.P.G.

Z.P.G.

1972

Additional Photography

6.0

In the not too distant future, an overpopulated Earth government makes it illegal to have children for a generation. One couple, unsatisfied with thei...

Chinese Ping-Pong

Chinese Ping-Pong

1972

Director of Photography

5.7
Directing

An experimental sports film made partly during the Scandinavian Open Championships in Halmstad in 1970, partly during the Chinese players' exhibition ...

Why Do They Do It?

Why Do They Do It?

1971

Director of Photography

5.7
Directing

"Why Do They Do It ?" preached that it was decent to be a sexual creature. A panel discussion in the Student Association as a kind of frame, you watch...

Tintomara

Tintomara

1970

Director of Photography

Directing

In March 1792 the Swedish King Gustav III is murdered at a masked ball. Five young people are involved in the murder story, including Tintomara, a 17 ...

Daddy, Darling

Daddy, Darling

1970

Director of Photography

5.1
Directing

A young Danish girl seduces everything in sight after daddy refuses her naughty come-ons. She'll have a lesbian affair with her teacher, pretend that ...

Famous Five Get in Trouble

Famous Five Get in Trouble

1970

Director of Photography

4.8
Directing

The four kids, Julian, Dick, Georgina and Anne plus the dog Tim go on a bike-trip without any grownups around, but they are soon followed by a another...

Five and the Spies

Five and the Spies

1969

Cinematography

6.2

The children Julian, Dick and Anne spends a summer holiday at the Kirrin Farm, where there cousin Georgina lives with her dog Tim, and her parents. Th...

Capriccio

Capriccio

1968

Director of Photography

Directing

Copenhagen traffic policeman Aage Dahl directs traffic to the accompaniment of Tchaikovsky's 'Capriccio Italien'.

De forsvundne breve

1967

Cinematography

Om ti minutter

1966

Cinematography

Søskende

Søskende

1966

Director of Photography

7.5
Directing

Three siblings see each other again after many years at their father's deathbed. The eldest, Arthur, a lawyer, has everything under control – or so it...

Grænseland

1965

Camera Operator