Janos KendeFilmography

Ambar Tanar Ur

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Robert Koltai, Kata Dobo, Ferenc Kallai, Gabor Reviczky, Judit Hernadi

Synopsis: Hungarian comedy star Robert Koltai directed, co-wrote, and stars in this story of a shy schoolteacher looking for love. The teacher is very attracted to one of his students, and as fate would have it, her mother would like him to tutor the girl after school. Between his attempts at winning the Read More

Je Suis Vivante Et Je Vous Aime

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jerome Deschamps, Dorian Lambert, Agnes Soral, Yvette Merlin, Alain Cauchi

Franciska Vasarnapjai

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: Though Hungarian politics play a key role in providing the backdrop for this account of a young woman's life, the real focus is on the long-term romance between the woman and her married lover. The tale begins just before the outbreak of WW II. Franciska is a country girl working in a mansion. One Read More

In Memoriam Gyongyossy Imre

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: Writer/director Imre Gynongyossy was well-regarded in Hungary for his complex, metaphysical films that often reflected the three years he spent in prison after being convicted of some obscure "crime" during the Stalinist "show trials" of the early '50s. Three years after his death from heart Read More

A Vilag Legkisebb Alapitvanya

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: In this enigmatic film set in the late communist era, two Hungarian women whose husbands were killed in communist purges are on the French seashore with the son of one of them. The boy is recovering from some sort of ailment, and has permission to sojourn abroad. When the trio return to Hungary Read More

Az En Kis Noverem

Crew: Camera Operator

Synopsis: Set during WW II, two Jewish Hungarian youths are sent deep into the countryside by their mother after their father is taken to a labor camp. Little brother Ocsi goes to the village home of Maria, a good-hearted Catholic while Ilcsi is sent somewhere else. She becomes homeless when the Gestapo Read More

Szeressuk Egymast Gyerekek... A Nagy Agyhalal

Crew: Camera Operator

Synopsis: This Hungarian anthology is comprised of three unconnected short films by different directors that are united in their grim assessment of Hungary in the 1990s. The first, "Fire! Fire! ("Egavaros, Egahazis") is by Pal Sandor and portrays Budapest as a depressing hell on earth filled with Read More

Jardin de Plantes

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Claude Rich, Salomée Stevenin, Samuel Labarthe, Catherine Jacob, Zoltan Gera

Synopsis: In this French drama, set during the last months of the Nazi occupation of Paris, a caring grandfather disguises the truth to protect his granddaughter who worships her absent father. Phillippine is only 8-years old. She lives with her dad and her grandparents. One night her father is executed by Read More

Jona Che Visse Nella Balena

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Juliet Aubrey, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Luke Petterson, Jenner Del Vecchio, Francesca de Sapio, Djoko Rosic

Synopsis: Fuzzy memories of Anne Frank's diary sometimes cause people to forget that at the height of World War II, Nazi-occupied Amsterdam was not a safe haven for Jews. While many people in the Netherlands and elsewhere risked their lives to protect them, a great many more enthusiastically assisted the Read More

Az Utolso Nyaron

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: György Cserhalmi, Eva Igo, Tamas Jordan, Judit Halasz, Virag Csapo

Synopsis: In the 1960s, Imre, along with a huge number of his friends, was what was then called a "radical," which is to say, he was either ardently pro-Western or talked about ending the communist regime in Hungary. It is impossible to say whether or not any of them did anything about it. Now they are all Read More

Kialtas Es Kialtas

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jerzy Trela, Maria Varga, Peter Andorai, Lili Monori

Synopsis: Karoly (Jerzy Trela) is a former POW who works in a slaughterhouse in this somber social drama. His wife left him during the counterrevolution of 1956, and Karoly finds comfort in the arms of fellow worker Anna (Lili Monori), but he takes up with Maria (Maria Varga) after he discovers Anna is Read More

La Sposa Era Bellissima

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Ángela Molina, Marco Leonardi, Massimo Ghini, Stefania Sandrelli, Simona Cavallari

Synopsis: To seek work, Maria's husband was forced to leave their Sicilian village for Germany after the birth of their son. That was years ago, and he has never returned, though Maria knows he is still alive. This is a common situation in the poverty of Sicily, and the women who suffer from it are called Read More

Trein naar Holland

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: In 1956, just as it had after World Wars I and II, the Netherlands accepted refugee Hungarian children into Dutch foster families. This documentary, filmed mainly on trains to and from the Netherlands, features interviews with those children, now grown. Some remained in the Netherlands and Read More

Szornyek Evadja

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: György Cserhalmi, Ferenc Kallai, Jozsef Madaras, Katarzyna Figura

Synopsis: Zoltai (Andras Balint) is a Hungarian professor who returns home after a visit to the United States. Following a television interview, he commits suicide and leaves a note for his longtime friend Dr. Bardocz (Gyorgy Cserhalmi).The doctor and Zoltai's colleague Komindi (Jozsef Madaras) join the Read More

Sortuz Egy Fekete Bivalyert

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean Rochefort, Fanny Cottençon, Miklos B. Szekely, Laszlo Mate

Synopsis: In this comedy-drama about human foibles, the aftermath of war undoubtedly has something to do with the behavior and feelings of the people living in a small Hungarian village. The lives of the villagers are seen through the eyes of David (Laszlo Mate), an orphaned Jewish boy who has come to Read More

A Rejtozkodo

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Lili Monori, Mari Töröcsik, Vera Pap

Synopsis: In a talkative story that starts out as a romance but seems to head nowhere in particular, a young pilot finds himself without his lady love but saddled with a group of women (mother, sister, and ex-wife) who can make his life difficult. Janos (Peter Breznyik Berg) pilots a crop-duster, and when Read More

Lily In Love

Actors: Christopher Plummer, Maggie Smith, Elke Sommer, Adolph Green

Synopsis: In this surprisingly amateurish production for noted Hungarian director Karoly Makk, Fitz (Christopher Plummer) is a well-known Broadway actor longing to get a leading role in a truly successful movie when his wife Lily (Maggie Smith) comes up with a sure-fire script. Too bad for Fitz, the male Read More

Muzsika

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: Various European film directors agreed to make short documentaries of their favorite city in the early 1980s, and this is Miklos Jancso's contribution to this series, an exploration of the sights of Budapest through every kind of music heard on its streets, in its nightclubs, and in concert halls Read More

Boszorkanyszombat

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Dorottya Udvaros, Eniko Eszenyi, Robert Koltai, Antal Pager

Synopsis: Director Janos Rozsa has gathered together a group of fairy-tale characters (and writers) like Snow White, Cinderella, the Brothers Grimm, and Little Red Riding Hood to be there when Sleeping Beauty wakes up after her 100-year nap, but once this setting is established, he moves away from a Read More

Forbidden Relations

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Lili Monori, Miklos B. Szekely, Mari Töröcsik, Jozsef Horvath, Jozsef Toth

Synopsis: The Hungarian Forbidden Relations is a shockingly straightforward treatise on the subject of incest. A woman's (Lili Monori) love for her brother (Miklos B. Szekely) goes far beyond filial devotion. His feelings for her are likewise intense. The problem goes beyond conventional morality: incest is Read More

A Koncert

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: The Illes Group, a popular Hungarian rock ensemble from the '60s, is featured in this musical documentary showing a current concert in its many aspects, as well as footage from the group's successes of yesteryear. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide Read More

Zsarnok Szíve, Avagy Boccaccio Magyarorszagon

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Ninetto Davoli, Laszlo Galffi, Teresa Ann Savoy, Jozsef Madaras, Laszlo Markus

Synopsis: It is the 15th c. in Hungary. And young prince Gaspar (Laszlo Galffy) was sent off to Italy when he was just two years old, and now he has come back to his father's castle as a grown man, with a troupe of actors in tow. Once arrived at the castle, he discovers his mother is in a kind of trance Read More

Magyar Rapszódia

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: György Cserhalmi, Lajos Balazsovits, Gabor Koncz, Bertalan Solti, Jozsef Madaras

Synopsis: Hungarian Rhapsody (Magyar Rapszodia) is the first chapter of director Miklos Jancso's two-part dramatized history of Hungary, from the turn of the century, to World War II. The story is told from the vantage point of Gyorgy Cserhalmi, the son of a wealthy landowner. During World War I, Cserhalmi Read More

Allegro Barbaro

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: György Cserhalmi, Lajos Balazsovits, Gabor Koncz, Bertalan Solti, Jozsef Madaras

Synopsis: The story of Istvan (Gyorgy Cserhalmi) which began in the first film of a projected trilogy by director Miklos Jancso, Magyar Rapszodia, is continued here in Allegro Barbaro. The trilogy was intended to tell the story of Hungary from 1900 to shortly after World War II. The first film ended shortly Read More

Ök ketten

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Marina Vlady, Lili Monori, Jan Nowicki

Synopsis: Mari (Marina Vlady) runs a boardinghouse for girls who are in trouble, and Juli (Lili Monori) is a young married woman who is fleeing her passionate marriage with an uncontrollable alcoholic. She has brought her young daughter along with her. Though this is not allowed under the house rules, Mari Read More

Kilenc hónap

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Lili Monori, Jan Nowicki

Synopsis: Janos (Jan Nowicki) is a factory foreman, who is smitten by the beauty of Juli (Lili Monori) and begins a romance with her. Incredibly jealous from the outset, he becomes quite abusive when he discovers she has a child, whom her parents are raising. Nonetheless, he presses her to marry him, and Read More

Roma Rivuole Cesare

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Gino Lavagetto

Synopsis: In this costume epic, the last days of Julius Caesar are chronicled. The film was shot in the Tunisian desert and the cinematography is especially notable. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Szarvassa Valt Fiuk

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Mari Töröcsik, Andras Kozak

Synopsis: In this poetic and highly stylized film, as order collapsed in Hungary towards the end of the Second World War, a group of communists and resistance fighters are able to escape from the prison they have been held in. In one symbolic scene, as the escapees continue to avoid the Germans and their Read More

Ha megjön József

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Lili Monori, Eva Ruttkai, Gabor Koncz, Maria Ronyecz

Synopsis: Two women, a mother-in-law and her son's wife, discover that their common experiences bind them together in a deep complicity, so that when their husbands return from merchant marine assignments, they will not speak of what went on (and a lot did) during their absence. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Read More

Electra, My Love

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Mari Töröcsik, Jozsef Madaras, György Cserhalmi, Lajos Balazsovits

Synopsis: Most movies are composed of many small snippets of film which are spliced together, connected by "wipes," and "dissolves" and any number of other clever techniques which move the eye (and the story) from one piece of film to the next without being too obtrusive. Renowned Hungarian director Miklos Jancso Read More

Hajduk

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Istvan Avar, Lujza Orosz

Synopsis: In 17th-century Hungary, portions were still in the hands of the Ottoman Turks, and other areas, largely free, were actively resisting takeover by the Austrian Empire. The Hajduks were a bandit group which fought alongside their local dukes to retain their independence. In the story, a group of Read More

Petofi '73

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: Using high-school students, Hungarian director Ferenc Kardos re-created the 1848 revolutionary period in that country's history which was dominated by the poet/soldier Sandor Petofi (1822-1849). Petofi wrote many epic poems which inspired Hungarian nationalism, the most well-known of which is Up Magyar! Read More

Meztelen Vagy

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: The director of Meztelen Vagy was imprisoned for many years during the latter part of the Stalin era and is known for his highly imagistic and symbolic storytelling techniques. This film tells its story in the same way, and at no point is the story made explicit. Images of love, death, suicide Read More

Még kér a nép

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: Red Psalm, or Még kér a nép (literally: "The People Still Ask") is one of the great Hungarian film director Miklos Jancso's best-known films. It recounts quite poetically the story of a peasant uprising on an estate in Hungary in the 1890s. It examines the nature of revolt, and the issues of Read More

Jelbeszed

Crew: Cinematographer

Utazás jakabbal

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: This bleak Hungarian comedy follows the adventures of two young men whose job of filling old fire extinguishers and inspecting fire equipment takes them all over the country. They try to liven things up for themselves, but are not able to do much. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

Romantika

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: This Hungarian film explores the interplay between the romantic, liberal ideals of a sickly young nobleman and the brutal world in which he finds himself. Having studied abroad, and absorbed ideas about human rights and dignity, the young man is unprepared for the brutality of his father's regime Read More

Egi Barany

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: This is one of the more inscrutable works by famed Hungarian director Miklos Jancso, better known for his film epic on the Russian Revolution, The Red and the White. His films still upset authorities in Eastern Europe, and he is considered to be both a political maverick and an extraordinary film Read More

Egy Oeruelt Ejszaka

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Adam Szirtes, Mari Töröcsik, Ferenc Kallai, Laszlo Mensaros, Beata Tyszkiewicz

Synopsis: Just before closing time, a food store is entered by two official-looking men. They convince the owners they are controllers and must check on the goods for a government report. The owners leave and the men spend the night engaged in grotesque situation-comedy before leaving with the money in the Read More

Mersekelt Egov

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Rudolf Somogyvari, Mari Töröcsik, Andras Kozak

Synopsis: A young doctor and his friend visit the friend's cousin in a rural area in this foreboding tragedy. Their host is a doctor who had been involved in the Stalin trials of the early 1950s. They arrive to find the doctor has shot a poacher, supposedly the victim of a long running feud between the two. Read More

Sirocco D'Hiver

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jacques Charrier, Marina Vlady, Eva Swann, Jozsef Madaras, Istvan Bujtor

Synopsis: A group of anarchistic Croatians cross borders to carry out their assassination plots in order to create political chaos. There are no heroes, only a collection of despicable humans. A lesbian couple rapes and terrorizes a roomful of women who are ordered to disrobe and perform unwanted sex acts Read More

Holdudvar

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Mari Töröcsik, Lajos Balaszovits

Synopsis: A woman attends the funeral of her husband after he dies in an airplane crash. She returns home and begins to have feelings of ambivalent emptiness and decides she never really loved him. She contemplates refusing a government insurance policy taken out on her late spouse, a respected scientist. Read More

Silence and Cry

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Mari Töröcsik, Andrea Drahota, Andras Kozak, Zoltan Latinovits

Synopsis: The story begins amidst political instability after an abortive attempt by the communists to seize power in 1919. The police and the army are rounding up the insurgents, and a young communist is tracked down to a rural area. The army officer knows the wanted man, having been a childhood friend of Read More