Films in our database: 1968: Binding Sentiments (Director of photography) 1968: Silence and Cry (Director of photography) 1970: Agnus Dei (Director of photography) 1970: Temperate Zone (Director of photography) 1971: Red Psalm (Director of photography) 1972: Romanticism (Director of photography) 1973: The Orange Watering Truck (Director of photography) 1975: When Joseph Returns... (Director of photography) 1976: Nine Months (Director of photography) 1977: The Two of Them (Director of photography) 1978: Hungarian Rhapsody (Director of photography) 1978: Allegro Barbaro (Director of photography) 1982: Forbidden Relations (Director of photography) 1985: The Absentee (Director of photography) 1987: Cry and Cry Again (Director of photography) 1988: Jesus Christ's Horoscope (Director of photography) 1990: The Last Summer (Director of photography) 1990: Twilight (Director of photography) 1990: God Walks Backwards (Director of photography) 1991: Blue Danube Waltz (Director of photography) 1992: Jonah, Who Lived in the Whale (Director of photography) 1994: Tales from the ZOO (Director of photography) 1995: The Great Brain Death (Director of photography) 1996: Every Sunday (Director of photography) 1996: My Little Sister (Director of photography) 1996: In memoriam Gyöngyössy Imre (Director of photography) 1996: Three Guardsmen in Africa (Director of photography) 1997: The Smallest Foundation of the World (Director of photography) 1998: Professor Albeit (Director of photography)

János Kende Born in Marseille, France in 1941, Janos Kende graduated from the Academy of Drama and Film, Budapest in 1965 where he was a pupil of György Illés, a legend of the Hungarian film and the founder of the national school of cinematography. He started his career in 1967 as assistant camera on Miklos Jancsó`s The Red and the White, and was so good at comprehending the director`s ideas that the following Jancsó`s film Silence and Cry  János Kende made as his cameraman. Since Sirocco (1969) Kende has been working with Jancsó for 30 years on end at home and abroad on such prominent projects as Technique and Ritual, Rome Wants Another Cesar, Private Vices and Public Virtues. Kende is considered as a real co-author of Jancsó`s exquisite style especially in composing long takes - sometimes ten minutes long - which are regarded as the trade mark of both, the director and his cameraman. In Hungary Kende is often called the King of Long Takes. In his interpretation the space in film and its images are especially dynamic and inspired. Kende has worked for other Hungarian directors as well such as Ferenc Kardos, Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács, Márta Mészaros, Tamás Banovich, Imre Gyongyossy, Róbert Bán, Janos Rózsa, Sándor Simó and others. Among his numerous awards are Patrick Pouget Prize for Camera Work (1972); Hungarian Film Week's Best Cinematographer (1973) for Petofi'73; Bela Balazs Prize (1975); Merited Artist (1984); Honorary Artist (1990); Kossuth Prize (1994).