The French Hamburg-based cinematographer Hervé Dieu has worked with Fatih Akin as early as 2004 on the documentary film Crossing the Bridge - The Sound of Istanbul and on his contribution “The Evil Old Songs” for the compilation film Visions of Europe. Prior to that, Dieu worked as a camera operator on In July and as first camera assistant on Head-On. His film credits as a cinematographer include the TV movie “Babuschka” and episodes of the series “Drei mit Herz” and “4 gegen Z”.