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.
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.
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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.
Director
The reminiscences of a Russian pilot, shot down over Poland during the war, of his first great love there.
Writer
A young teenager from the provinces comes to Warsaw to find her relations. But she has many adventures instead.
Director
A young teenager from the provinces comes to Warsaw to find her relations. But she has many adventures instead.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house.
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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.
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Director
The brothers, Zbigniew and Stefan, return from a war expedition to their patrimony.
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1936 movie starring Barbara Orwid and Mieczyslaw Cybulski.
Director
The story of two friends Adam and Zygmunt, serving in the floatplanes escadrille of the Polish Navy.
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Polish war film.
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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.