Richard Ciupka

Richard Ciupka

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Richard Ciupka

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Love Locks
Director of Photography
Lindsey Wilson first found love in the romantic city of Paris when she was a university student studying art there. Now, twenty years later, she is returning to the City of Light to take her daughter on an adventure there. With a little inspiration from the city's famed "love locks" on its scenic bridges, the adventure proves to be a journey of romance and rediscovery for the divorced Lindsey when she reconnects with her college flame in Paris and finds that her first love just might be the lasting love of her life after all.
Duo
Director
A romantic comedy about Pascale, an agent for musicians, who is betrayed by Lewis Carl, her fiance and most important client.
L’incomparable Mademoiselle C.
Director
In this sequel to the popular adventures of Mademoiselle C, the strange Mademoiselle Charlotte began a new life as a postwoman in Saint-Gérard where she encounters a particularly dishonest businessman.
The Mysterious Miss C.
Director
An eccentric teacher (Marie-Chantal Perron) causes children at her elementary school to change the way they look at themselves.
Task Force: Caviar
Director
Based on a true story, a veteran narcotics officer takes on a case that could cost him his life.
The Last Breath
Director
A Montreal police officer goes to Arkansas to solve the murder of his brother.
Coyote
Director
Story of a wild first love that takes place at the mouth of the St. Lawrence River between the refineries at Pointe-Au-Trembles and the rock culture of Montreal.
Heritage Minutes: Wilder Penfield
Director
A Montreal neurosurgeon makes ground-breaking advances in the treatment of seizure disorders.
Heritage Minutes: Jacques Cartier
Director
The explorer's first meeting with Iroquoian peoples provides one story of how Canada got its name.
Heritage Minutes: Orphans
Director
French Canadian families adopt Irish orphans in the 1850s while allowing them to maintain part of their Irish heritage.
Heritage Minutes: Nellie McClung
Director
Feminist, politician, and social activist Nellie McClung demands the right to vote in Manitoba.
Heritage Minutes: Soddie
Director
Prairie settlers build a house of sod.
Heritage Minutes: Responsible Government
Director
Queen Victoria decides to grant Canada responsible government after the crushing of the Rebellions of 1837.
Heritage Minutes: Peacekeepers
Director
Canadian peacekeepers are stationed in Cyprus to help diffuse tension between Greek and Turkish Cypriots.
Heritage Minutes: Superman
Director
Toronto cartoonist Joe Shuster describes the comic book hero he created.
Heritage Minutes: Jennie Trout
Director
The first woman licensed to practice medicine in Canada faces prejudice in the classroom.
Heritage Minutes: Jacques Plante
Writer
Jacques Plante becomes the first NHL player to wear a goaltender mask in regular play.
Heritage Minutes: Jacques Plante
Director
Jacques Plante becomes the first NHL player to wear a goaltender mask in regular play.
Heritage Minutes: Valour Road
Director
Three men from Pine Street in Winnipeg win the Victoria Cross in World War I, and the street's name is changed to Valour Road in their honour.
Heritage Minutes: Underground Railroad
Writer
An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.
Heritage Minutes: Underground Railroad
Director
An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.
Heritage Minutes: Halifax Explosion
Director
Train dispatcher Vince Coleman sacrifices his own life to save a train from the Halifax Explosion.
Hold-up
Director of Photography
Dressed as a clown, the clever rascal Grimm holds up the most secure bank of Montreal and takes 30 hostages. While confusing and ridiculing the police with his strange behavior, he calmly manages to rid the bank of a fortune. But then an unsatisfied companion arouses trouble...
Secret Weapons
Director of Photography
Soviet high school girls are sent to the U.S. where they are taught to become secret agents and use sex to find information.
The Guardian
Cinematography
The residents of a New York apartment building are shocked when one of them is shot during a burgulary. They decide to hire a security expert to patrol the building, but he seem a little over-committed to his work.
Heartsounds
Cinematography
New York urologist Harold Lear gets a taste of his own medicine when he suffers a heart attack and is confronted with a medical institution which doesn't seem equipped to help. Wife Martha steps in to fight the system and get a measure of service and compassion. Ultimately the greatest battle is not waged against the medical profession, however, but against Lear's own failing body and his own mortal fears.
Le Sang des autres
Cinematography
In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her affection.
Le Sang des autres
Director of Photography
In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her affection.
Joy
Director of Photography
This is the story about Joy who falls in love with an older man (she has been looking for her missing father all her life), and then travels around Paris with him and his other female companion, experiencing a broad range of sexual encounters.
The Terry Fox Story
Cinematography
The true story about the Canadian cancer amputee hero who decided to run across Canada on only one leg to raise money for cancer research.
Curtains
Director
Six young actresses auditioning for a movie role at a remote mansion are targeted by a mysterious masked murderer.
Melanie
Cinematography
A backwoods, illiterate young woman from Arkansas battles to regain custody of her son from her estranged husband who feels she is an unfit mother. In the process, she falls in love with a struggling musician who helps her cause.
Dirty Tricks
Cinematography
A Harvard University student finds a strange letter that seems to be signed by George Washington. When trying to contact an expert (Prof. Chandler) to authenticate it, he is murdered but the letter disappears. Then Chandler, who does not know anything about the case, gets chased by the mafia and haunted by a TV reporter (Polly Bishop).
Atlantic City
Director of Photography
In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.
It Rained All Night the Day I Left
Director of Photography
A tough rich female ranch owner in Africa wants to cut off the water supply to the locals, since she holds them responsible for the murder of her husband. She hires two charming gunrunners as help, but they suspect her shady competitor.
An American Christmas Carol
Cinematography
In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas Eve when he is visited by three ghostly figures who resemble three of the people whose possessions Slade had seized to collect on unpaid loans. Assuming the roles of the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future from Charles Dickens' classic story, the three apparitions force Slade to face the consequences of his skinflint ways, and he becomes a caring, generous, amiable man.
Blood Relatives
Camera Operator
A Montreal police inspector cracks a murder case with clues from the victim's diary.
Ilsa, the Tigress of Siberia
Cinematography
Siberia 1953: Ilsa is now working in a Gulag prison camp. Her mission is to "retrain the minds" of those who don't agree with the communists.
The Mystery of the Million Dollar Hockey Puck
Director of Photography
A young orphan overhears a plot by thieves to smuggle diamonds out of Canada in the equipment of his favorite hockey team, the Montreal Canadiens.