Leonard Buczkowski

Leonard Buczkowski

Birth : 1900-08-05, Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]

Death : 1967-02-19

History

Leonard Buczkowski was a Polish film director and screenwriter. He directed 23 films between 1928 and 1966. His 1959 film The Eagle was entered into the 1st Moscow International Film Festival.

Profile

Leonard Buczkowski

Movies

Maria and Napoleon
Scenario Writer
In 1807, Napoleon meets and falls in love with 22-year-old Polish countess Marie Walewska, who is unhappily married to a much older man. Enchanted by the blonde, blue-eyed countess, the emperor enters into an affair with Marie, who uses the relationship to induce Napoleon to treat Poland fairly.
Maria and Napoleon
Director
In 1807, Napoleon meets and falls in love with 22-year-old Polish countess Marie Walewska, who is unhappily married to a much older man. Enchanted by the blonde, blue-eyed countess, the emperor enters into an affair with Marie, who uses the relationship to induce Napoleon to treat Poland fairly.
Interrupted Flight
Director
The reminiscences of a Russian pilot, shot down over Poland during the war, of his first great love there.
Teenager
Writer
A young teenager from the provinces comes to Warsaw to find her relations. But she has many adventures instead.
Teenager
Director
A young teenager from the provinces comes to Warsaw to find her relations. But she has many adventures instead.
Time Past
Screenplay
Fram is in a German POW camp where brutal, cold-hearted Gestapo officers like Weber or Von Steinhagen terrorize and execute their Polish prisoners. One day Fram sees a way to escape the camp and he takes it, heading out to find his fellow resistance fighters.
Time Past
Director
Fram is in a German POW camp where brutal, cold-hearted Gestapo officers like Weber or Von Steinhagen terrorize and execute their Polish prisoners. One day Fram sees a way to escape the camp and he takes it, heading out to find his fellow resistance fighters.
Orzel
Writer
Based on a true story of Polish submarine "Orzel" (The Eagle): September 1939, "Orzel" is coming to Estonian neutral harbor in Tallin. Under pressure from Germany Estonians have intern the ship. Commander Grabinski decides to escape to England through the Baltic Sea, without any maps that has been confiscated and with only small amount of fuel on board.
Orzel
Director
Based on a true story of Polish submarine "Orzel" (The Eagle): September 1939, "Orzel" is coming to Estonian neutral harbor in Tallin. Under pressure from Germany Estonians have intern the ship. Commander Grabinski decides to escape to England through the Baltic Sea, without any maps that has been confiscated and with only small amount of fuel on board.
Deszczowy lipiec
Writer
Deszczowy lipiec
Director
Szkice węglem
Writer
The dark drama of a peasant family from the second half of the 19th century: Seduced by a municipal clerk (in exchange for a promise to release her husband from military service), the woman dies at the hands of her jealous husband.
Sprawa pilota Maresza
Writer
Sprawa pilota Maresza
Director
Adventure in Marienstadt
Director
While visiting Warsaw, Hanka falls for a record-breaking bricklayer. Soon she returns to the city to work at construction sites and prove that women's work is not worse than that of men's.
First Start
Director
Treasure
Director
The first Polish post-war comedy. Witek and Krysia, a married couple, move to Warsaw and have nowhere to stay. They rent a room in a house with many other lodgers. Witek dreams of their own house and draws a sketch of their future home, marking the place where his wife will sleep with the word "treasure". The other lodgers find the draft and a frantic search for the treasure begins.
Forbidden Songs
Director
Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house.
Biały Murzyn
Director
After the tragic death of her fiancé, the countess of Leipzig finds out that she is with hope. The threat of a moral scandal forces her to marry the son of her father's servant - a very promising future doctor.
Florian
Director
Straszny dwór
Director
The brothers, Zbigniew and Stefan, return from a war expedition to their patrimony.
Wierna rzeka
Director
1936 movie starring Barbara Orwid and Mieczyslaw Cybulski.
Rhapsody of the Baltic Sea
Director
The story of two friends Adam and Zygmunt, serving in the floatplanes escadrille of the Polish Navy.
The Starry Squadron
Director
Polish war film.
Daredevils
Director
Leonard Buczkowski's feature debut in 1928 is the first Polish film super-production - made with the participation of many military formations, with innovative battle scenes, epoch-making weapons and the latest technical achievements.