Arkadiusz Tomiak

Arkadiusz Tomiak

Birth : 1969-02-20, Koszalin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland

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Arkadiusz Tomiak

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Pilecki's Report
Director of Photography
The story of a great hero of the Second World War - Captain Witold Pilecki, who, after carrying out military operations, opposed Poland's Soviet domination. His biography shows the heroic, sometimes hopeless, fight with two ruthless totalitarianisms of the 20th century: German and Soviet.
Wrobiony
Director of Photography
Dominik (Piotr Adamczyk), a PhD student at the University of Wrocław, specializing in the history of art, is sent to Porto Ercole by order of a professor (Torsten Voges) to collect material about the most mysterious period of Caravaggio's life. When he meets Silvia (Alessandra Mastronardi) and the local priest Paolo (Luca Calvani), he unexpectedly becomes part of a criminal intrigue, step by step discovering the carefully hidden secret of an inconspicuous town. It turns out that the world of art that Dominik has known so far is not what it might seem...
Negatyw
Director of Photography
Solid Gold
Director of Photography
Kaja Miller is a police officer that is abducted and abused on one of her missions. Eight years later she meets her former boss Nowicki, who takes her to Gdynia with the task of exposing a large criminal circuit.
Black Mercedes
Director of Photography
The story of the investigation to unravel the mysterious death of a beautiful young woman in Nazi-occupied Warsaw. She is not Krystyna Holzer, as stated in her kennkarte (German-issued identity document), but a Jewess kept hidden by a Pole - a polonized Saxon - attorney Karol Karlzer. Before the outbreak of war, the woman was his student as well as the object of his unrequited love. The case is assigned to Detective Chief Inspector Rafal Król, an officer of the so- -called Blue Police under the control of the German occupiers, but also a soldier of the Polish underground, sworn to execute his orders. It is a suspenseful story set in the faithfully-recreated reality of occupied Warsaw and Zakopane.
Fighter
Director of Photography
MMA fighter loses everything due to some bad life choices. Now local gangster make him back to the sports. But this time he will fight in the boxing ring.
I Am Lying Now
Director of Photography
Metaphysical thriller, which takes place in a retro-futuristic world. His characters get caught up in an intricate, dark intrigue in which nothing is as it seems, and a series of dramatic events leads to a completely surprising final.
The Man with the Magic Box
Director of Photography
A man stricken with amnesia, discovers a mysterious radio whose music brings back troubling memories from his forgotten past.
Volta
Director of Photography
A woman stumbles upon a valuable artifact, the crown that belonged to Casimir the Great.
Titanium White
Director of Photography
Dominik, a PhD student of the History of Art, goes to Porto Ercole, to survey the last works of great Michelangelo Caravaggio. Unexpectedly, Dominik deepens into mysterious series of criminal events.
Zacma: Blindness
Director of Photography
A little known episode from the life of Stalinist security police office Julia Brystiger. Her nickname Bloody Luna was a reference to her incredibly brutal methods of interrogation. In the early 1960s, she appears in a centre for the blind on the outskirts of Warsaw, a place often visited by Cardinal Wyszyński, whose imprisonment in 1953-1956 Brystiger supervised personally. During a difficult and heated discussion with the cardinal, Brystiger denounces the communist ideology and begs for forgiveness for her crimes and for guidance in her search for God.
Karbala
Director of Photography
On 3 April 2004, during the holiday of Ashura, Iraqi rebels loyal to Shiite leader Muktada As-Sadr, launched an insurgency in the Polish zone. The Poles, together with Bulgarian soldiers and Iraqi police, were given the task of defending City Hall, led by Lieutenant colonel Grzegorz Kaliciak. The clash developed into the biggest Polish engagement since World War II. Not a single allied soldier died, although about 80 insurgents were killed in a counter-attack.
The Girl from the Wardrobe
Director of Photography
This is the story of three characters (brothers Tomek and Jacek and their neighbor Magda), each of them is in their own way lonely and alienated. The title character makes herself secluded. Tomek's alienation results from his neurological disease, and Jacek contacts the world mainly via the Internet. This is also a film about love. Love of one brother to the other and of one alienated human being to the other. All together it creates a very universal picture with a Polish entourage.
Manhunt
Director of Photography
Marcin Krysztalowicz's film is both a partisan ballad, showing the real face of German occupation of Poland during WW2 and a startling war thriller. It tells a story of corporal "Wydra", struggling not only with Germans and Polish traitors but also with his own past...
DAAS
Director of Photography
Jest rok 1776. Radca wiedeńskiej Kancelarii Nadwornej Henryk Klein (Mariusz Bonaszewski) otrzymuje skargę na hrabiego Jakuba Franka (Olgierd Łukaszewicz), który kilkanaście lat wcześniej został skazany za głoszenie herezji i zbiegł do Wiednia. Donos napisany został przez jego byłego wyznawcę, Jakuba Golińskiego (Andrzej Chyra). Klein dowiaduje się, że za zdradę Goliński został ukarany i obrabowany, a teraz czeka go śmierć ku przestrodze innych. Radca przeprowadza dochodzenie. Udaje mu się ustalić, że pseudomesjasz ogłosił się Bogiem, tworzy ze swoich wyznawców armię i szuka kontaktów z dworem cesarzowej Marii Teresy. Klein podejrzewa spisek, którego celem jest zamach stanu
Mystification
Cinematography
Lazowski, an expelled university student, investigates the supposed suicide of the famous artist Witkacy and tries to prove that the artist is in fact still alive.
Within the Whirlwind
Director of Photography
During Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years hard labor in a gulag in Siberia. Having lost everything, and no longer wishing to live, she meets the camp doctor and begins to come back to life.
Zero
Director of Photography
A story about love and hatred, about those who cheat and who are cheated, about violence and sex and surprising secrets which we learn within these strange twenty four hours.
Case Unknown
Director of Photography
An arrogant medical man discovers there's more to his new patient than he imagined in this drama from Polish filmmaker Feliks Falk. Dr. Konstanty Grot (Borys Szyc) is an ambitious young doctor who is determined to make a name for himself, to the point that his wife often accuses him of being more interested in his career than in her. Grot believes that he can earn the respect of his peers by successfully treating a supposedly incurable patient, and he believes he may have found a likely candidate in Pawel Plocki (Grzegorz Wolf), a mental patient who can barely function. Grot signs Plocki out of the mental hospital where he's been treated for years and moves him into his own home; in time, Plocki shows genuine improvement, and Grot thinks he?s beaten the state medical establishment at their own game. But that?s before Grot learns some secrets about his patient that cast his condition in a new and disturbing light.
Hiena
Director of Photography
In the wilderness amongst industrial debris lives a boy Kid. All round Kids house there is a vast, ruined plant covered with wild growth. Boys father was killed in a mine accident so Kid lives alone with his mother. There are rumors that a hyena settled in the bushes close to boys house. The beast is carnivorous and attacks people. Each time Kid goes to school he must overcome terrible fear. Whats more people started to disappear in the neighborhood. Kid suspects that mysterious, hiding man has something to do with it.
Jasne błękitne okna
Director of Photography
Film o przyjaźni dwóch dziewcząt, które poznają się w dzieciństwie. Mają swoje marzenia i plany, które w przyszłośFilm o przyjaźni dwóch dziewcząt, które poznają się w dzieciństwie. Mają swoje marzenia i plany, które w przyszłości się spełniają. Jedna z nich, Becia zostaje znaną aktorką. Druga z bohaterek, Sygita, zostaje krawcową, ma męża, dom i tak jak chciała pozostaje na prowincji, bo ten kawałek nieba kocha najbardziej.ci się spełniają. Jedna z nich, Becia zostaje znaną aktorką. Druga z bohaterek, Sygita, zostaje krawcową, ma męża, dom i tak jak chciała pozostaje na prowincji, bo ten kawałek nieba kocha najbardziej.
Palimpsest
Director of Photography
Marek, the main character of "Palimpsest," is a police inspector, a man on the verge of psychological disintegration trying to solve an intricate case. The story is told on two planes. The first one is a crime story, which constitutes the framework of the film. In the course of events, another theme appears - psychological experiences of the main character. Vivid blend of picture with sound and music will draw the audience into the deepest recesses of Marek's mind, making the viewers face questions: What is reality and what is only an illusion? Where is the borderline between the real world and our perception of it? What makes suffering meaningful and what is really important in one's life"?
Your Name is Justine
Director of Photography
While living with her grandmother in Poland, a young woman falls in love. Her boyfriend is charming and suggests they travel around Europe and work here and there to pay for their trip. Unfortunately, the boyfriend isn't as he seems and the young woman is sold as a prostitute when they cross over to Germany. We follow her ordeal as she tries to free herself and stay sane as time goes by and her captors try to break and condition her to a new life of servitude.
Symmetry
Director of Photography
Dwudziestosześcioletni Łukasz, niesłusznie posądzony o napad na starszą kobietę, trafia do aresztu śledczego. Adwokat wynajęty przez matkę bezskutecznie próbuje go stamtąd wydostać. Pod wpływem dramatycznych wydarzeń w celi przejściowej Łukasz za wszelką cenę chce znaleźć się wśród grypsującej części więźniów. Świat gitów wymaga jednak przestrzegania panujących tu twardych zasad. Reżyser uzyskał zgodę Ministra Spraw Wewnętrznych na realizację zdjęć w więzieniu na Białołęce.
The Career of Nikos Dyzma
Director of Photography
Nikos is a master of funeral ceremonies (that's undertaker to you and me) who doesn't expect much from life. After drunkenly insulting a diplomat at a party, weird things begin to happen for Nikos. The news that a mysterious stranger offended the hated Deputy Prime Minister galvanizes the political elite assembled at the banquet, and a rumor that Nikos can take care of anything spreads like wildfire, making him an idol of the masses.
Keep Away from the Window
Director of Photography
In a small village a couple fails to conceive. One day the man brings home to hide a Jewish woman whose family was murdered.