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János Kende

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Queen: Budapest · 2012

★ 8.22012

On July 27, 1986, Queen performed the largest-ever stadium concert at the Népstadion in Budapest in front of 80,000 ecstatic fans. The concert was part of the famed Magic Tour, which was the last time the band toured with lead singer Freddie Mercury.

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! The students were encouraged to improvise without costumes or scenery, and did so with gusto.

Temperate Zone · 1970

Temperate Zone

★ 9.01970

MovieDrama

Kalán Imre, the district doctor lives in a small village surrounded by mountains. One day he is visited by two young relatives of his and their friend, a doctor at the beginning of his career. The name of the doctor is Király András, and he happens to be the great love of Kalán's young wife from her unmarried years. The orthodox Stalinist Kalán's entire life is filled with his great passion, hunting. The suffocating, narrow lives of the prominent people in the area are slowly revealed to András.

Journey with Jacob · 1972

Journey with Jacob

★ 9.01972

MovieDrama

István and Jakab are fire-extinguisher experts. They travel the country to check fire-extinguishers at country factories. During their tours of inspection they chase women, drink in dirty pubs and live in clover.

When Joseph Returns · 1976

When Joseph Returns

★ 8.01976

MovieDrama

An unsentimental Hungarian film about the edgy relationship between a middle-aged woman and her young, restless daughter-in-law when the son-husband goes to sea for six months.

Two old men enter an abandoned synagogue, look at the decay around them, and pray.

This film, set at the end of the 18th century, in a provincial and noble environment raises the question of humans forced to lead a meaningless life. The rich Transylvanian noble youth, Kálmán, absorbed the spirit of freedom and enlightened culture in Paris. Returning to his father's estate, he encounters a superstitious backwardness and an orgiastic storming of violence and instincts.

A koncert · 1981

A koncert

★ 7.51981

MovieDocumentaryMusic

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Queen: Budapest · 2012

Camera Operator

Director of Photography

Temperate Zone · 1970

Temperate Zone

★ 9.01970

MovieDrama

Director of Photography

Journey with Jacob · 1972

Journey with Jacob

★ 9.01972

MovieDrama

Director of Photography

When Joseph Returns · 1976

When Joseph Returns

★ 8.01976

MovieDrama

An unsentimental Hungarian film about the edgy relationship between a middle-aged woman and her young, restless daughter-in-law when the son-husband goes to sea for six months.

Director of Photography

Two old men enter an abandoned synagogue, look at the decay around them, and pray.

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

A koncert · 1981

A koncert

★ 7.51981

MovieDocumentaryMusic

Director of Photography

Forbidden Relations · 1983

Forbidden Relations

★ 4.91983

MovieDramaRomance

Based on a true story, a love affair develops between a half brother and half-sister. When pregnancy results and word gets out the public is outraged.

Cinematography

Short film about young poet József Attila.

Insulted when his screenwriter wife writes a leading role for a younger man, aging Broadway idol Fitz Wynn disguises himself as a handsome young Italian.

Gabor

The film director starts shooting his film about the manager of a large corporation who committed suicide for mysterious reasons. As the cumbersome process of making a film goes along, everybody involved in it starts having differing opinions of the tragedy, its causes and its victim.

Director of Photography

A man who grew up an orphan finally gets to meet his father: The psychopath Dr. Josef Mengele, the Auschwitz surgeon who performed genetic experiments on concentration camp refugees during WWII.

Director of Photography

The Two of Them · 1978

The Two of Them

★ 6.11978

MovieDrama

Looking for a safe place to live after being harassed by her husband, a depressive and violent man, Juli stays at a women's shelter run by Mária.

Director of Photography

Allegro Barbaro · 1979

Allegro Barbaro

★ 6.91979

MovieDramaHistory

Zsadányi flees from the authorities with his goddaughter, Bankós Mari, and they escape into the forest. The film then skips ahead thirty-fold years: Zsadány and Mari are now lovers, with the sound of war in the background halting their romance. The old friends of Zsadányi have joined with the Nazis, and the landowner living with his peasants in a socialist community grows distant from them. Zsadányi is held responsible for political problems in the country, and will pay with his life.

Director of Photography

Message of Stones: Máramaros · 1994

Message of Stones: Máramaros

★ 7.51994

MovieDocumentary

The second film in Miklós Jancsó's documentary series Message of Stones.

Director of Photography

Witches' Sabbath · 1984

Witches' Sabbath

★ 7.01984

MovieFamilyAdventure

To celebrate Sleeping Beauty's awakening, the cruel stepmother organises a dress-ball in the Wonder Castle and invites the characters of all tales and their two fathers, the Grimm-brothers. The stepmother announces total peace, but in fact she is preparing for a coup d'état with a phoney prince, a phoney Sleeping Beauty, through intrigue and violence in order to change the tales.

Director of Photography

The grotesque comedy with crime elements takes place in a grocery store.

Director of Photography

Set in the 1890s on the Hungarian plains, a group of farm workers go on strike in which they face harsh reprisals and the reality of revolt, oppression, morality and violence.

Director of Photography

Jesus Christ's Horoscope · 1989

Jesus Christ's Horoscope

★ 6.51989

MovieDrama

A focus on the tormented lives of intellectuals who failed to protest recent troubles in their homeland. Jancsó emphasizes highly evocative and ambiguous imagery over dialog or exposition as he – through visually fascinating imagery – depicts the painful, stunted lives of Hungary's intellectuals who have remained silent and ineffectual during various political crises.

Director of Photography

Look to the Sky · 1993

Look to the Sky

★ 6.51993

MovieDramaHistory

A Jewish boy living in Amsterdam at the onset of World War II is taken to a concentration camp with his parents. Based on the memoir of Holocaust survivor Jona Oberski.

Director of Photography

The Presence III · 1986

The Presence III

★ 7.51986

MovieDocumentary

Two rabbis show the ruins of an abandoned synagogue to a group of primary school-age Jewish children, and stand by as the children dip bread in honey, drink wine, pray, and sing.

Director of Photography

Volley for a Black Buffalo · 1985

Volley for a Black Buffalo

★ 6.31985

MovieDrama

During the years following World War II, a new boy arrives to class 7/c, and the audience learns to know the lives of the drunkard teacher, his husband-cheating wife, the lonely music teacher hiding behind her paper flowers, the wise count deprived of all his properties, the jovial parish priest and especially the buffalo owner of tragic fate who lost his four daughters, alongside with the young protagonist.

Director of Photography

When young Tako's father dies in Hungary in 1945, Tako is left with scant memories of him. Nurtured by his mother, the boy fantasizes about the man his father was, imagining him a hero. Grown into a man himself, Tako falls for a Jewish refugee, Anni. Burdened by her own heritage as a Jew, Anni sparks in Tako a desire to find out what his father was really like, and he delves into the role his father played in World War II.

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Count Mátyás Sándor is the protagonist of this exciting series based on the popular novel by Jules Verne. In 1859, after the defeat of the Habsburgs in Italy, the wealthy Transylvanian lord sees the time has come to launch another armed struggle for Hungary's independence. The Viennese Chamberlain, however, learns of his activities and decides to 'liquidate' him. Two adventurous criminals are commissioned to carry out the assassination.

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