Biography
Henning Bendtsen was a Danish cinematographer. He was born in Copenhagen on 6 March 1925 and died on 8 February 2011. After studying advertising photography, he began working at Minerva Film in 1946, shooting shorts and documentaries, before moving to Palladium in 1951 and later working as a freelancer.
Bendtsen served as director of photography on Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Ordet (1955) and Gertrud (1964). He later worked with Lars von Trier on Epidemic (1987) and Europa (1991). He photographed around 100 Danish shorts, documentaries and features, and received a Bodil award for Paw (1959) and a Robert award for Europa.
