Walther van den EndeFilmography

Merry Christmas

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Diane Kruger, Benno Fürmann, Guillaume Canet, Gary Lewis, Dany Boon, Daniel Brühl

Synopsis: The year is 1914, and as World War I continues to rage across the European countryside, four individuals stuck on the front lines find themselves faced with the unthinkable in director Christian Carion's Academy Award-nominated account of the true-life wartime event that would offer hope for peace Read More

Sounds of Sand

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Issaka Sawadogo, Carole Karemara, Asma Nouman Aden, Said Abdallah Mohamed, Ahmed Ibrahim Mohamed

Synopsis: Belgian director Marion Hänsel's feature Si le vent soulève les sables unfolds in a desert village that is being crushed under the weight of drought (which has dried the local well out completely) and decaying livestock. Though the majority of the populace migrates to the south in an essential Read More

Verder Dan de Maan

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Johanna ter Steege, Huub Stapel, Neeltje de Vree, Nyk Runia, Yannic Pieters

25 Degrees en Hiver

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Carmen Maura, Jacques Gamblin, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Raphaëlle Molinier, Pedro Romero

Synopsis: One man finds himself pulled in three directions at once by his family and a chance acquaintance in this breakneck comedy. Miguel (Jacques Gamblin) is a single parent and Spanish expatriate living in Belgium who has to deal with a young daughter, Laura (Raphaelle Molinier), his busybody mother Read More

La Maison du canal

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Isild Le Besco, Corentin Lobet, Nicolas Buysse, Gert Portael, Circe Lethem

No Man's Land

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Branco Djuric, Rene Bitorajac, Filip Sovagovic, Katrin Cartlidge

Synopsis: The grim futility of the war between Bosnia and Serbia is reduced to its essence as two enemy soldiers are forced to share a wary trust for one another in this drama. A group of Bosnian soldiers are advancing upon Serbian territory during a misty night when the fog lifts at daybreak, making them Read More

A Dog of Flanders

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jack Warden, Jeremy James Kissner, Jesse James, Jon Voight, Cheryl Ladd

Synopsis: The fifth film version of the classic 19th century children's tale by Ouida (aka Marie-Louise de la Ramée), A Dog of Flanders tells the story of young Nello (Jesse James), a boy growing up with his grandfather Jehan (Jack Warden) after the death of his parents. Although Jehan has little in the way Read More

The Crossing

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Behrouz Vossughi, Johan Leysen, Viviane de Muynck, Mil Seegers, Juan Carlos Tajes

Synopsis: German-based American filmmaker Nora Hoppe directs this grim drama about death, memory, and redemption. Middle-aged Afghan refugee Babak (Behrouz Vossoughi) works menial jobs and lives in a broken-down rooming house in Brussels. One day, he happens upon Sarban (Johan Leysen), an enigmatic stranger Read More

Le Radeau De La Meduse

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jean Yanne, Daniel Mesguich, Laurent Terzieff, Rufus, Jean Desailly

Synopsis: Iranian Iradj Azimi directed this French historical drama re-creating events depicted in the famous 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa by Jean Louis Andre Theodore Gericault (1791-1824). The ill-fated voyage of the frigate Medusa begins when it departs Rochefort for Senegal in 1816. After Read More

Left Luggage

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Laura Fraser, Isabella Rossellini, Maximilian Schell, Jeroen Krabbé, Marianne Sägebrecht

Synopsis: Actor Jeroen Krabbe made his directorial debut with this Dutch-Belgian-U.S. drama examining anti-Semitic attitudes in 1972 Antwerp. Free-spirited 20-year-old student Chaja (Laura Fraser) has a long-haired revolutionary lover and sometimes visits her parents (Maximilian Schell, Marianne Read More

Felice...Felice

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Johan Leysen, Toshie Ogura, Rina Yasima, Noriko Sasaki, Kumi Nakamura

Synopsis: Explorer-photographer Felice Beato (Johan Leysen) narrates this romantic drama of lost love in the form of a letter to his brother in Holland. Beato has returned to Japan in search of O-Kiku (Kumi Nakamura), the mail-order bride he abandoned six years previous. Their former home is deserted, so Read More

The Eighth Day

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Pascal Duquenne, Miou-Miou, Isabelle Sadoyan, Henri Garcin

Synopsis: Two men with seemingly nothing in common become unlikely friends in this drama from France. Harry (Daniel Auteuil) is a salesman working for a large but faceless corporation, where he's become a success at the expense of his personal life. His wife Julie (Miou-Miou), frustrated by his lack of Read More

Sale Gosse

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Anouk Grinberg, Axel Lingee, Alberto Gimignani

Synopsis: A 10-year-old boy's fantasies about his absent father provide the basis for this thoughtful French drama that uses comedy, drama, and tenderness to present a realistic, not overly sentimental portrait of a dysfunctional family. Martin lives in Lyon with his mother Nina. Martin is an energetic Read More

Taxandria

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Katja Studt

Synopsis: This European produced animation/live-action fairy tale will appeal to both children and adults. The frequently surrealistic work took 15 years to make and cost $15 million. It is the tale of young Prince Jan, who has been sent to a quiet coastal resort to study for his final exams, but instead Read More

Le Joueur de Violon

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Richard Berry, François Berléand, Inês de Medeiros, Geno Lechner, John Dobrynine

Synopsis: This European drama, set in Paris, follows a brilliant musician as he suddenly forsakes his career, to live and love amongst the common populace. Armand is the violinist who yearns to experience that life and to share his music with everyone, not just the wealthy and the elite. He leaves the Read More

Farinelli

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Stefano Dionisi, Enrico Lo Verso, Elsa Zylberstein, Caroline Cellier, Jeroen Krabbé

Synopsis: The performer known as Farinelli, born Carlo Broschi (and played in this film by Stefano Dionisi), was famous in the 18th century as the world's greatest castrato, a male singer whose testicles were removed in childhood so that he would retain the high, clear voice of a child while gaining Read More

Oeroeg

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Rik Launspach, Martin Schwab, Jeroen Krabbé

Synopsis: In 1948, novelist Hella Haasse published a novel based on her experiences in growing up in Dutch Indonesia. Oeroeg captures the dilemma of those caught between the pretensions and culture of their Dutch homeland and their respect and affection for the native people of the colonies, and it has Read More

Daens

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jan Decleir, Gerard Desarthe, Antje De Boeck, Michaël Pas, Johan Leysen

Synopsis: This Academy Award-nominated Belgian drama follows a late 19th-century priest's courageous battle to end the exploitation of child workers in Aalst, Belgium. Father Daens' crusade begins shortly after he is transferred to the impoverished Belgian region. Aghast at the working conditions he sees in Read More

Toto the Hero

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Michel Bouquet, Jo de Backer, Thomas Godet, Mireille Perrier, Gisela Uhlen, Sandrine Blancke

Synopsis: Former circus performer Jaco Van Dormael made his feature-film directing bow with the Belgian/French/German coproduction Toto Le Héros. The title character is an fictional supersecret agent, idolized by a young boy named Thomas. The lad aspires to become Toto when he grows up; but thanks to a Read More

Jean Galmot, Aventurier

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Christophe Malavoy, Roger Hanin, Belinda Becker, Jean-Michel Martial

Synopsis: The 1926 commercial and social structure of French Guiana, the French former penal colony in South America, differed little from that of Haiti a century before. White settlers owned or exploited everything and everyone. No one else was permitted to benefit greatly, and even the modest success of Read More

The Music Teacher

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jose van Dam, Anne Roussel, Philippe Volter, Sylvie Fennec, Johan Leysen

Synopsis: The title character in the Belgian-French The Music Teacher is a retired opera star, played by Jose Van Dam. The teacher's most gifted pupil is singer/musician Anne Roussel. Her love for her teacher is one of the motivating factors of the story, as is Roussel and Van Dam's relationship with Read More

L'Oeuvre Au Noir

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Sami Frey, Jacques Lippe, Anna Karina, Johan Leysen

Synopsis: Andre Delvaux directed this stylish, yet ultimately empty adaptation of a historical novel by Marguerite Yourcenar. Gian Maria Volonte leads the cast as Zenon, a Belgian doctor and alchemist in the 1500s. Zenon travels across Europe for many years hiding from the Inquisition, which eventually Read More

Boran - Zeit Zum Zielen

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Renée Soutendijk, Julien Schoenaerts, Jean-Pierre Léaud

Falsch

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Bruno Cremer, Christian Crahay

Synopsis: In an apparently empty airport, a Jewish family has gathered to greet one of its members who has come there to be with them. However, the airport is actually the ante-room of Death, and the family member is a recently deceased American survivor of the Holocaust. Although the party begins by Read More

Wedding in Galilee

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Nazih Akleh, Bushra Karaman, Makram Khouri, Youssef Abou Warda, Anna Achdian, Sonia Amar

Synopsis: Filmed in the Arabic and Hebrew languages, Wedding in Galilee takes place in the occupied West Bank of Palestine. The story is set in motion by a village elder, who intends to give his son a traditional wedding. This may prove impossible if the elder cannot enlist the encouragement of the local Read More

Les Noces Barbares

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Marianne Basler, Thierry Frémont, André Penvern

Synopsis: Nicole (Marianne Basler) gives birth to a mentally challenged boy after she is gang-raped by American soldiers at the close of World War II in this grim dramatic tragedy. Young Ludo is hidden in the attic of the family home and continues to yearn for his mother's affection. Nicole enters into a Read More

Dust

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jane Birkin, Trevor Howard, John Matshikiza, Nadine Uwampa, Lourdes Christina Sayo

Synopsis: This French-Belgian co-production is set in a remote, squalid South African farm. Jane Birkin stars as Magda, the "proper" farmer's daughter who murders her father (Trevor Howard) when she learns of an affair between him and a local woman (Nadine Uwampa). By rights, Magda should leave for parts Read More

Wildschut

Actors: Hidde Maas, Jack Monkau, Annick Christiaens, Josse de Pauw, Chris Lomme

Synopsis: Director Bobby Eerhart and second-unit director Hans Scheepmaker) have fashioned a convoluted but standard shock-and-schlock story beginning with Deleye (Josse de Pauw), a poacher and his wife Sybil (Chris Lomme) and ending with almost everyone dead except the cameraman. Deleye and Sybil live in Read More

Babel Opera, Ou La Repetition De Don Juan

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: François Beukelaers, Ben Van Ostade, Jacques Sojcher

Synopsis: This is an atmospheric tale of a rehearsal of the opera Don Juan paralleled by real-life dramas that mirror the opera. The director in charge is Francois (Francois Beukelaers), who has become infatuated with Stephane (Stephane Escoffier) and is rapidly alienating his wife Sandra (Alexandra Vandernoot Read More

De Leeuw Van Vlaanderen

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Theu Boermans, Jan Decleir, Julien Schoenaerts, Josine van Dalsum

Synopsis: Set at the beginning of the 14th century, this story about the revolution against French rule by a group of Flemish cities, based on a novel by Hendrik Conscience, was meant to portray the panorama of an epic moment in Flemish history. Philip the Fair (1268-1314), king of France and Navarre, was Read More

Le Voyage D'Hiver

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Patrick Bauchau, Mieczyslaw Voit, Christian Barbier, Jean Franval

Synopsis: In this complex muddle of a spy story, Salomon (Miescyslaw Voit) is a Russian agent who was sent to West Berlin to complete an assassination and steal a notebook -- but ends up looking for his former lover and her son in Brussels while secret agents from all colors of the political spectrum are Read More

Zaman

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Herbert Flack

Synopsis: In this humanistic story about a few policemen trying to do an honest job, personalities and real-life politics forge obstacles that may be impossible to surmount. Zaman (Marc Janssen) has worked on the force for 30 years. His dedication ruined his first marriage, and although his son seems to Read More

Brugge Die Stille

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Idwig Stephane, Herbert Flack

Synopsis: Hugues (Idwig Stephane) is so overcome by the death of his wife Blanche (Eve Lyne) that he creates a shrine to her memory made up of photographs, some jewelry, and odds and ends that she possessed, as well as a braid of her hair. When Hugues sees Jeanne (Eve Lyne again), a ballet dancer, he is Read More

To Woody Allen, From Europe With Love

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Woody Allen

Synopsis: Director Andre Delvaux interviews Woody Allen both at work and at rest in this straightforward documentary about the filmmaker. Allen talks about his work and is shown on the set of Stardust Memories, ironically or not, a drama about a director and writer just like Allen who is beseiged and Read More

Hellegat

Crew: Cinematographer

De Witte Van Sichem

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: This insightful, excellent drama is based on a popular novel from the 1930s and is the second cinematic version of the story of young Whitey (Eric Clerckx). Whitey and his family live in poverty in Flanders, working for a wealthy farmer. Whitey's main passion is reading, although he has no Read More

Rue Haute

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Annie Cordy, Mort Shuman, Bert Struys, Guy Verda, Elliot Tiber

Synopsis: Three unhappy people meet by chance and become embroiled in one another's lives. Set in the most picturesque portion of Brussels, the story centers on a woman who has been deranged by her grief at events which took place during the Second World War. She has a roommate, a German suffering from an Read More

Du Bout des Levres

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Marie Dubois, Francine Blistin

Synopsis: Barely into his puberty, a young man is initiated into sexual maturity by an older woman while his main concerns are still his grades in school. The movie is adapted by Jean-Marie Desgesves from his prize-winning stage play. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More