Witold Sobociński

Witold Sobociński

Nacimiento : 1929-10-15, Ozorków, Poland

Muerte : 2018-11-19

Perfil

Witold Sobociński

Películas

Frenético
Director of Photography
La asistencia a una conferencia en París le brinda al doctor Richard Walken y a su esposa la oportunidad de revivir su luna de miel. Pero, nada más instalarse en la habitación del hotel, su mujer desaparece misteriosamente. Completamente solo, en un país desconocido cuyo idioma ignora, Walken la buscará desesperadamente. La única pista que tiene es un número de teléfono apuntado en una caja de cerillas, pero, a partir de ahí, la trama se irá complicando hasta convertirse en una auténtica pesadilla.
Piratas
Director of Photography
El temido Capitán Red es un pirata que ha sobrevivido cuatro años en una isla desierta y al que todos dan por muerto. Por fin, un día, se hace a la mar en una destartalada balsa, y tiene la suerte de ser rescatado por un galeón español que esconde un objeto muy valioso (un trono de oro). Red utilizará todas sus artimañas para provocar un motín y apoderarse del tesoro.
O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization
Director of Photography
Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People wait for the Ark to arrive and rescue them while their habitat falls apart.
The Phantom
Director of Photography
Set in the early years of the century. A story of a country gentleman haunted by the memory of his first wife. His current wife, had enough of his obsession and has taken a lover, who is mysteriously paralyzed. Meanwhile, main character's son gets his first taste of sensual experience with a mute peasant girl.
Windy Story
Director of Photography
Hands Up!
Director of Photography
The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.
Ways in the Night
Director of Photography
Friedrich is a wealthy, handsome German soldier fighting in World War II. His unit is stationed in Poland and occupies the estate of Countess Elzbieta. Forced to remain in her presence, Friedrich begins to pursue Elzbieta out of boredom.
Hospital of the Transfiguration
Director of Photography
The film is set toward the beginning of World War II, at a psychiatric hospital in the country. But this is an unusual hospital: there are several incurable schizophrenic cases, staff is bit strange and a writer has voluntarily entered the clinic because he is "peculiar" and a drug addict. Then, the occupying forces arrive...
Rodzina Połanieckich
Cinematography
The love story of Stanisław Połaniecki and the beautiful Marynia Pławicka, set in the scenery of manor houses and Warsaw from the end of the 19th century.
Death of a President
Director of Photography
After Poland won freedom from of its long overlordship by Russia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918, it took a further four years for its National Assembly to elect Gabriel Narutowicz as its first president. Narutowicz was a professor who until his election had been living in Switzerland. Those were chaotic times, and shortly after his election, he was assassinated by right-wing fanatics. This epic Polish film chronicles the circumstances of Narutowicz's election and assassination.
Sam na sam
Director of Photography
"Alone"- A psychological and moral drama dealing with the crisis of feelings in interpersonal relations. Young heroes, basing their relationship on a program-based resignation from emotional involvement, under the influence of a tragic accident, change the rules of past coexistence.
The Shadow-Line
Director of Photography
Andrzej Wajda's English-language film of a novella by Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, aka Joseph Conrad, about a young man in his first command as a sea captain. A series of crises prove incredibly difficult for his new authority, for the sea is curiously becalmed and the crew is weakened by feverish malaria. When the first mate's fear convinces many that the ship is haunted and cursed by the malevolent spirit of the previous captain, the young man must cope with their superstition as well as the conspicuous absence of much-needed medicine.
Pittsville - Ein Safe voll Blut
Director of Photography
La tierra de la gran promesa
Director of Photography
A finales del siglo XIX, la ciudad de Lodz se ha convertido en el epicentro de la industria textil, con la consiguiente necesidad de mano de obra inmigrante. Tres jóvenes estudiantes de Riga: un polaco católico, hijo de nobles terratenientes, un ambicioso judío y un alemán luterano deciden abrir una fábrica en esa ciudad para hacer fortuna y, sin escrúpulos ni prejuicios, se lanzan a acumular dinero y poder. (FILMAFFINITY)
Nachtdienst
Director of Photography
On the Earth and in the Sky
Director of Photography
The Hourglass Sanatorium
Cinematography
Joseph se dirige a visitar a su padre moribundo en un tren donde tanto el paisaje a través de las ventanas como los pasajeros, en aparente trance, y el propio estado del vehículo conforman un escenario que escapa a la razón. Sensación que se mantiene tras la llegada al sanatorio en el que está ingresado su padre, pues la curiosa estructura del edificio unida a su decadencia extrema no se ajusta a las expectativas concebidas sobre instalaciones dedicadas al cuidado de la salud. Tampoco le tranquiliza la conversación con el médico que atiende a su padre. Los métodos que dice emplear se asemejan a las fantasías de un lunático.
The Wedding
Director of Photography
Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament Poland's 100-year-long division under Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The bridegroom, a painter friend, and a journalist each in turn is confronted with spectres of Polish past. In the end a call to arms is called but turns out to be a hoax.
La tercera parte de la noche
Director of Photography
En el marco de la ocupación de Polonia durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, narra la historia de un hombre cuya huida y supervivencia se convierten en una búsqueda de la propia identidad. A pesar de que la película fue galardonada en Polonia como mejor ópera prima, su distribución fue entorpecida por las autoridades.
Family Life
Director of Photography
This intense chamber drama centers on an ambitious young industrial designer who is summoned home to help his father and sister. Both the aristocratic family he fled in shame and scorn, and their dilapidated country estate, bathed in an oppressively nostalgic light, prove ultimately inescapable.
Album polski
Director of Photography
University student Anna and her boyfriend Tomek use a precious photograph to trace and unveil the complex wartime and post-war past of their parents.
Everything for Sale
Director of Photography
Wajda's homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, the "Polish James Dean" who starred in the director's ASHES AND DIAMONDS and died young. The movie follows the tribulations of a director attempting to make a movie with a Cybulski-like star who never shows up.
The Codes
Camera Operator
A father searches for his son, who has been missing since WW II, in post-war Poland. In his quest for the truth about his son, the father is forced to contemplate the elusive and coded nature of truth itself.
Barrier
kelner rozbijający talerze; nie występuje w napisach
En la Polonia de los años sesenta, un estudiante de medicina recién graduado sigue los movimientos de una misteriosa mujer, conductora de tranvía, por las calles de una Varsovia comunista conformando un imaginario repleto de una exquisitez insospechada. Sueños y realidad se mezclan con grandes dosis de realismo mágico. (FILMAFFINITY)
Us, Women
Director of Photography
The film talks about women's participation in World War II. Former female soldiers, nurses and liaison officers tell about their wartime fates. Today they are directors, secretaries, lecturers and saleswomen.
What Will My Wife Say to This?
Musician
Jazz Talks
Himself (uncredited)
The first Polish film about jazz and, at the same time, an unusual documentary record of a concert of two legendary music bands: Hot Club Melomani and The Komeda Sextet.
Godzina bez słońca
First Assistant Camera