Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski
Birth : 1928-03-16, Grudziądz, Poland
Death : 1983-04-03
History
Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski was a Polish novelist, playwright, screenwriter and director.
During the war, Aleksander Ścibor-Rylski belonged to the Gray Ranks and the AK, participated in the Warsaw Uprising and was seriously wounded. He made his debut as a poet and writer in 1946. Between 1946-51 he studied Polish literature at the University of Warsaw. In the years 1948-54 he was a member of the editorial staff of the weekly "Polish Soldier" and functioned as head of cultural department.
In 1950 he published, written in the spirit of socialist realism, the novel "Coal". In the years 1955-57 he was part of the editorial board of "Nowa Kultury". Between 1951 and 1981 he was involved in filmmaking as a screenwriter and director and wrote more than 25 films.
Novel
A Polish Resistance fighter who survived the Nazi years cannot accept the new Communist power.
Writer
In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends Winkel, a weak, alcoholic TV hack, to Gdansk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers, particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an articulate worker whose father was killed in the December 1970 protests. Posing as sympathetic, Winkel interviews the people surrounding Tomczyk, including his detained wife, Agnieszka.
Author
Man of Marble is a Polish film about a student making a film about a bricklayer who was once idolized. She interviews people who knew him and finds old footage that lead to an unfolding mystery that causes her producer to cancel the project.
Writer
Dagny Juell was the doctors daughter who left Kongsvinger for Berlin to study music, and became famous painter Edvard Munchs mistress and model. Than she ran into August Strindberg. They had a brief affair but after a couple of weeks Dagny left him for Stanisław Przybyszewski.
Dramaturgy
Screenplay
Told in flashback as Mieszko lies feverish in his bed just before the Battle of Cedynia, Gniazdo recounts how the revered leader extended Poland's borders, formed an alliance with Emperor Otto I, and ultimately strengthened his country's autonomy by achieving victory during that crucial battle in the year 972.
Writer
Writer
When Stanislaw Czermien is wrongfully accused of rape and murder, he decides to exonerate himself and track down the real perpetrator. He suspects him to be his own brother, Witold.
Writer
Scenario Writer
Writer
A day before the beginning of the Second World War, a young resident of Bydgoszcz falls in love with a German teenager.
Director
A day before the beginning of the Second World War, a young resident of Bydgoszcz falls in love with a German teenager.
Writer
A lonely Border Guard officer, with a girl and a former villain, has to face a local corrupt Militia (Police) commandant and his people, in wild Bieszczady Mountains in the Polish East.
Director
A lonely Border Guard officer, with a girl and a former villain, has to face a local corrupt Militia (Police) commandant and his people, in wild Bieszczady Mountains in the Polish East.
Writer
In the last days of WW2, Polish military looks for the murderer of prosecutor responsible for storing Gestapo files.
Director
In the last days of WW2, Polish military looks for the murderer of prosecutor responsible for storing Gestapo files.
Screenplay
A disqualified trainer of water jumpers starts work in the province, where he discovers Majka's talent.
Director
A disqualified trainer of water jumpers starts work in the province, where he discovers Majka's talent.
Writer
Set in the time of Napoleon wars, shows how the wars swept over the unfortunate Polish country at the beginning of the XIX-th century. Story revolves around the Polish legion under command of General Dabrowski, who then fought on Napoleon's side with the hopes of Poland's revival.
Writer
After a violent quarrel, Nitka leaves her husband Andrzej. He meets a young girl with whom he is getting closer and closer.
Director
After a violent quarrel, Nitka leaves her husband Andrzej. He meets a young girl with whom he is getting closer and closer.
Screenplay
All the ambiance of an old-fashioned circus comes across with great clarity in this otherwise routine psychological tale about a mean-spirited mime and his effects on his colleagues. The small, traveling circus has been sliding downhill for awhile, and unless some new life is infused into its acts, its future does not look very rosy. Into this precarious situation comes a new mime with the uncanny ability to sap the confidence of his fellow performers. If he continues for long in this vein, no one will be able to believe they have any talent left at all.
Writer
The miners of one of the mines in Zagłębie Dąbrowskie receive news about the planned layoffs. The miners decide to organize a strike. One of the local MPs is trying to prevent this from happening. The French mine owner makes a dangerous decision - he orders the miners to work in an area at risk of fire. An explosion occurs unexpectedly. The miners lynch Coeur, and their demonstration, in which they carry the bodies of the victims of the crash, is brutally suppressed by the police.
Writer
Film inspired by true events. Roman Jacenko, a small village local photographer, lives in a shabby garret, which serves also as his lab and studio. He loves Beata, nice clerk in a nearby bank. Having often observed established procedures of money transport to and from the bank, and having received some information unawarely revealed by Beata, he decided to rob the car with cash.
Screenplay
1944. Communist militiaman take a post in a little town in the east of Poland. He has to stand against his own men that are not happy with new authorities.
Writer
Writer
Action drama that takes place in Poland during World War 2. Soldiers of the Polish underground resistance army (AK - National Army) prepares to break into a prison to release their friend imprisoned by Gestapo. The story focuses on their attempt to attempt to acquire guns, but the plot is not going according to the plan...
Screenplay
A man has been found dead after having been hurled from a train. As security agents, police and a medical examiner piece together his identity, three accounts emerge: one set during World War II, one in the immediate aftermath of the war, and one in contemporary Poland.
