Joanna Szczerbic

Joanna Szczerbic

Birth : 1941-06-13, Staszków, Opolskie, Polska

Death : 2014-03-08

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Joanna Szczerbic

Movies

Success Is the Best Revenge
Alicia Rodak
Alex Rodak (Michael York) is a Polish director in exile in London with his family, which includes an older teenage son Adam (Michael Lyndon) who is struggling with an identity crisis, his wife (Joanna Szerzerbic), and another son. Rodak is in the throes of putting together a major show about Poland and the politics of exile at a West End theater. His single-minded determination to succeed causes him to take advantage of others, and because of his need for backing, he turns to a low-life businessman (John Hurt) to bail him out. His wife is anything but happy about his behavior and dislikes this last decision even more. This is an interesting study of how a father and son become alienated in a conflict between cultural identity and its exploitation.
Hands Up!
Alfa
The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.
The Shout
Cricket Umpire (uncredited)
A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.
Dialogue 20-40-60
Magda (segment "The Twenty-Year-Olds")
"Using the same, three times repeating dialogue – dramatic conversation between man and woman – Jerzy Skolimowski from Poland, Slovak director Peter Solan and Czech director Zbynìk Brynych shot three different stories. The result was an extraordinary experiment in the world cinema, which we can call an insight in the relationships of men and women of different age groups, an analysis of love and marriage of those who are at the beginning, in the middle or going towards the end of their life."
Matthew's Days
A man who is socially inept and out of touch with the world lives with his sister in a small farmhouse. The overly sensitive man lives off his hard-working sibling, taking odd jobs as he gets them to secure his meager earnings. When he brings home a woodcutter from the forest, the sister and the newcomer fall in love. Terrified over a life without his sister, the man can't cope and decides to kill himself. This depressing tale of alienation, doubt and uncertainty was the Polish entry at the Cannes Film Festival in 1968.
Stajnia na Salvatorze
Teresa, dziewczyna Michała
WWII. Zyga, one of the Resistance soldiers in Kraków (Poland), is arrested by Gestapo. Soon later with new arrestings comes out that Germans must have received some new informations. Zyga is suspected to become an informator.
Barrier
tramwajarka
A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.
Tomorrow Mexico
Majka Plater
A disqualified trainer of water jumpers starts work in the province, where he discovers Majka's talent.
Agnes 1946
Agnieszka Żwaniec