Wojciech Kilar

Wojciech Kilar

Nascimento : 1932-07-17, Lwów, Lwowskie, Poland

Morte : 2013-12-29

História

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Wojciech Kilar (Polish: [ˈvɔjt͡ɕex ˈkilar]; 17 July 1932 – 29 December 2013) was a Polish classical and film music composer. His film scores have won many honors including the best score award for the music to Ziemia obiecana / The Promised Land in 1975, followed by the Prix Louis Delluc in 1980 for the music to Le Roi et l'Oiseau / The King and the Mockingbird, and an award at the Cork International Film Festival for the music to From A Far Country (1981) about the life of Pope John Paul II. One of his greatest successes came with his score to Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula in 1993 which received the ASCAP Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Producers in Los Angeles, nominated also for the Saturn Award for Best Music in a science fiction, fantasy, or horror film in San Francisco in 1993. In 2003, he won the César Award for Best Film Music written for The Pianist, at France's 28th César Awards Ceremony in 2003, for which he also received a BAFTA nomination. The Pianist (soundtrack) featured his "Moving to the Ghetto Oct. 31, 1940" with the other 10 tracks being works by Frédéric Chopin. The music in the movie includes pieces by Beethoven and Bach. The vast majority of Wojciech Kilar's work remains undiscovered by the music public at large, despite having written music for well over 100 films, including: Bram Stoker's Dracula, Death and the Maiden, The Portrait of a Lady, The Ninth Gate, Pan Tadeusz, The Pianist, Zemsta, and We Own the Night.

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Wojciech Kilar

Filmes

Foreign Body
Original Music Composer
A dashing young Italian in Poland finds himself caught between two women — a novitiate nun and a ruthless corporate ladder-climber — in this lacerating vision of contemporary Poland from master filmmaker Krzysztof Zanussi.
Poste restante
Music
Revisited
Original Music Composer
In this mixture of fiction and documentary Krzysztof Zanussi invites a number of Poland’s great actors—Maja Komorowowska, Daniel Olbrychski, and Jan Nowicki—to "revisit" characters they played in the director's earlier works.
Welcome - Bem-Vindo
Music
Bilal tem 17 anos e vem do Iraque. Deixou a sua terra, pouco depois de a namorada ter emigrado para Inglaterra, com o objetivo de a voltar a ver. Mas ao chegar a França, no porto de Calais, depara-se com muitos emigrantes ilegais que também tentam chegar a Londres. É então que Bilal decide aprender a nadar para atravessar o canal da Mancha. Na piscina municipal, o rapaz conhece Simon, um instrutor de natação e o seu cúmplice nesta perigosa viagem.
Um Coração Caloroso
Original Music Composer
Até o homem mais rico do mundo pode estar doente. Em Um coração caloroso, o diretor Krzysztof Zanussi conta a história de Konstanty, um empresário sem escrúpulos que, apesar de sua imensa riqueza, não pode comprar uma solução para um problema de coração raro e mortal. No entanto, isso não significa que ele não vai tentar solucioná-lo e que não vai ter problemas com quem se interponha em seu caminho. O segredo para a sobrevivência de Konstanty está no corpo de um homem chamado Stefan, um perdedor de tempo integral que, após ser abandonado por sua namorada, está procurando uma maneira de acabar com tudo. Ele já tentou se matar uma vez, e Konstanty, que precisa do coração de Stefan para um transplante, tem de convencer o coitado de tentar viver de novo, e, desta vez, para ter sucesso.
Os Donos da Noite
Original Music Composer
Em 1988, a polícia de Nova York declara guerra ao tráfico de drogas. Bobby Green (Joaquin Phoenix) tenta se manter em território neutro, mas gerencia uma boate frequentada por gângsteres, e tanto seu irmão (Mark Wahlberg) quanto seu pai (Robert Duvall) trabalham na polícia.
Black Sun
Original Music Composer
After learning the identity of the man who killed her husband, a young widow struggles with whether to forgive the killer or avenge her husband's death
Persona non grata
Original Music Composer
A Polish ambassador (Zbigniew Zapasiewicz) finds his life falling into ruin following the death of his wife.
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Himself
A Vingança
Original Music Composer
A winter day at a Polish castle, half owned by a fatalistic notary and half by a volcanic old soldier's niece. The old soldier, Cupbearer, and the notary are sworn enemies, which may doom the love between the niece, Klara, and the notary's son, Waclaw. On this day, the tongue-tied Cupbearer asks a braggart courtier, Papkin, to sue on his behalf for the hand of the widow Hanna. Papkin succeeds and
O Pianista
Original Music Composer
Em 1939, quando a Polónia é invadida pela Alemanha Nazi, o pianista Wladyslaw Szpilman interpretava peças clássicas numa rádio em Varsóvia. O jovem pianista irá então partilhar o drama do povo judeu, testemunhando a sua transferência forçada para o gueto de Varsóvia e, depois, para os campos de extermínio. Determinado a sobreviver, foge do gueto dias antes da grande revolta que os alemães esmagarão com sangue. Com a ajuda de membros da resistência polaca, viverá uma existência de fome, solidão e medo, entre os escombros de um mundo que colapsa ao seu redor.
The Supplement
Original Music Composer
An examination of the relationship between an indecisive medical student and his fiancee.
Weekend Stories: The Hidden Treasure
Original Music Composer
Rose, an older woman living in Paris was born in Poland as a daughter of an aristocratic family. Her family house is now an impoverished home for the elderly.
Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease
Original Music Composer
The story of a doctor named Tomasz who questions his beliefs, faith and morality as his end is near, so he makes all efforts to find dignity in his imminent death.
Pan Tadeusz
Original Music Composer
A grand and patriotic tale of Poland's struggle for freedom just before Napoleon's war with Russia. Written in poetic style by Adam Mickiewicz, this story follows two feuding Polish families as they overcome their old conflicts and petty lives. However, they are able to unite as one with their patriotic and rebellious efforts to free the country they deeply love from Russian control.
O Último Portal
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Johnny Depp está no papel de Dean Corso, um especialista em livros raros. Ele é contratado por Boris Balkan, um estudioso sobre demônios que acabou de conseguir uma raro livro do século 17 que, segundo a lenda, foi escrito pelo Diabo e traz uma poderosa invocação satânica. O novo cliente quer que Corso viaje à Europa e encontre os dois outros únicos exemplares do mesmo livro para verificar sua autenticiadade. De Nova York a Toledo, de Portugal à Paris, Corso submerge-se num labirinto cheio de armadilhas e tentações, lidando com violência e mortes misteriosas
A Week in the Life of a Man
Original Music Composer
Jerzy Stuhr wrote, directed, and starred in this drama about a man sworn to uphold the law who applies a very different moral code to himself than he does to others. As Adam Borowski, Stuhr plays a government lawyer prosecuting a variety of cases, including smuggling, theft, child abandonment, and racially motivated assault. However, Adam's own life is hardly a model by which to live. He's overextended himself financially and is trying to figure out how to avoid paying the hospital bills for his terminally ill mother. Adam is married, but he's been having an affair for some time, and, while he breaks off his relationship with his mistress, he's easily tempted into other liaisons. His wife wants to adopt a handicapped child; Adam would prefer not to have another child in the house, and he uses his influence to slow up the paperwork. And in order to reduce his tax bill, Adam has involved himself in a charitable donation scheme of dubious legality.
The Truman Show - A Vida em Directo
Original Music Composer
Uma antevisão do grande fenómeno dos ""reality shows"". Truman é um homem cuja vida é vigiada por milhões de espectadores todos os dias, através de um sistema de câmaras de que a personagem principal não se apercebe. Quando começa a desconfiar do ambiente que o rodeia, Truman revolta-se e põe em causa todas as personagens e cenários que o manipulam constantemente para tornar a sua vida única e interessante para as audiências. Tudo é uma mentira na sua vida e a questões põe-se: será melhor viver naquele mundo perfeito ou enfrentar a realidade?...
Weekend Stories: Unwritten Law
Music
A handsome young chauffeur hired by a powerful and charismatic businesswoman discovers he has been made an unwitting party to fraud, but his moral outrage is complicated: the married man allowed himself to be seduced by the woman, who threatens to tell the man's wife.
Weekend Stories: Dilatory Line
Music
A young TV producer struggles with his conscience when he becomes convinced that his TV program is covering up a lie, but the more he tries to reveal the truth the more uncertainty he discovers.
Weekend Stories: The Last Circle
Original Music Composer
An aging ballet legend who defected to France years before returns home to Poland for the first time to appear in a charity performance, and he immediately clashes with his ex-wife, who stayed behind when he defected.
Weekend Stories: Deceptive Charm
Music
An idealistic scientist is encouraged by his wife to use his good looks to get ahead, but his new job carries with it temptations and traps.
Weekend Stories: Deceptive Charm
Original Music Composer
An idealistic scientist is encouraged by his wife to use his good looks to get ahead, but his new job carries with it temptations and traps.
Weekend Stories: The Soul Sings
Music
A classical singer who put his career on hold to raise a family gets a big break when a major company hires him for a televised New Year's Eve concert, but his shot at fame is threatened when, against his better judgment, he goes out on a rainy night and gets a cold.
Our God's Brother
Music
In this adaptation of an historical play by Pope John Paul II, painter Albert Chmielowski decides to devote his life to helping the homeless.
Weekend Stories: Little Faith
Music
A rational young man and his devoutly Catholic wife believe their sickly son may have leukemia. As they await further tests over a weekend they both struggle with a crisis of faith in both science and Catholicism.
Retratos de uma Mulher
Original Music Composer
Bela, rica e liberal, a americana Isabel Archer viaja pela Europa em busca de sua própria identidade como pessoa e como mulher. Ao mesmo tempo em que habilmente se desvencilha das investidas de Caspar Goodwood, um insistente americano que a seguiu até a Inglaterra, Isabel estreita a amizade com o próprio primo, Ralph Touchett. Porém, através da misteriosa Madame Merle, Isabel conhece Gilbert Osmond, um colecionador de objetos de arte, que a seduz e acaba casando-se com ela.
At Full Gallop
Original Music Composer
Zanussi has described the film as his most autobiographical work. A young boy in post-World War II, Communist-dominated Poland, whose father's decision to remain in Britain after the war has made his family politically-suspect with the local Party authorities, is sent by his mother to stay with an "aunt" (in reality an old family friend) in Warsaw.
Fantôme avec chauffeur
Original Music Composer
A chauffeur for a corrupt CEO, and a few hours later, his boss himself, are killed by the industrialist's associate. But their ghosts remain on Earth, and they try to tell the millionaire's teenage son the identity of the killer.
Weekend Stories: A Woman's Business
Music
A woman whose passport was denied under the previous Communist regime by a vindictive party secretary is given a chance to confront the woman and take revenge.
Santa Faustina
Original Music Composer
Inspirado no diário espiritual de Santa Faustina, narra as revelações de Jesus a ela, e as experiências espirituais extraordinárias que ela viveu. Em 1931, Jesus lhe confia uma missão especial. Ele lhe apareceu vestido de branco, tendo a mão direita levanta no ato de abençoar e a esquerda pousava no peito, deixando sair dois grandes raios, um vermelho e outro branco. Disse-lhe Jesus: "Pinta uma imagem de acordo com o modelo que você está vendo, com a inscrição: Jesus, eu confio em Vós! Desejo que esta imagem seja venerada no mundo inteiro". Faustina dedicou toda sua vida para relançar no mundo a mensagem da misericórdia de Deus que acompanha cada pessoa.
Death as a Slice of Bread
Music
Death as a Slice of Bread
Original Music Composer
A Morte e a Donzela
Original Music Composer
Em um país sul-americano recém saído de um regime ditatorial, Paulina Escobar fica sabendo pelo rádio que seu esposo, o famoso advogado Gerardo Escobar, deverá chefiar as investigações das mortes ocorridas no antigo regime. Em seguida Gerardo chega em casa, acompanhado de um estranho que o socorreu na estrada. Pela voz ela identifica o desconhecido como Roberto Miranda, homem que a torturou e estuprou durante sua atuação na resistência ao regime. Paulina decide então "julgá-lo" ali mesmo apesar dos protestos do marido.
A King for Burning
Original Music Composer
"King of the Last Days" is a German television miniseries in 1993 about the 16th century Anabaptist rebellion in Münster .
Drácula de Bram Stoker
Orchestrator
O vampiro Conde Drácula vem à Inglaterra atrás de quem ele acredita ser sua antiga paixão, de quando ainda era um mortal.
Drácula de Bram Stoker
Original Music Composer
O vampiro Conde Drácula vem à Inglaterra atrás de quem ele acredita ser sua antiga paixão, de quando ainda era um mortal.
The Silent Touch
Original Music Composer
Henry Kesdi is a silenced classical composer and a survivor of the Holocaust. He is coaxed out from retirement by an inspired musicologist, Stefan, who convinces him to compose a complex symphony on his neglected piano. As a help Kesdi gets his new musical secretary. His loyal wife reluctantly accepts her as his young lover.
Das lange Gespräch mit dem Vogel
Music
Maximiliano Kolbe
Music
Conta a história do sacerdote católico polonês que foi preso no campo de concentração nazista de Auschwitz. O filme se passa em julho de 1941 e mostra Maximiliano Kolbe que dá a sua vida por outro prisioneiro, um homem de família inocente condenado à morte por inanição em represália por uma fuga.
As 200 Crianças do Dr. Korczak
Original Music Composer
The story of Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war.
Inventory
Original Music Composer
Difficulty of human relations in a 3-cornered tale: a neurotic woman, idealistic young man and his mother. Tomek is a clean-cut, high-minded geography student. He lives with his mother Zofia, a sensitive, practicing Catholic, like her son. When he meets Julia, a depressed woman older than he, he first tries to comfort her, then invites her to stay with him and his mother. Tomek makes a trip to West Berlin to visit his well-off father. He refuses to take money from him and looks for work as a house painter. Julia ends up in a rest home for treatment, while Tomek is trying to make their relationship work.
Turning Table
Musical
On a winter night, the author of "The King and the Mockingbird" is visited by the cartoon characters he created in his studio. Along with a little clown, he screens a selection of his favorite shorts
Turning Table
Music
On a winter night, the author of "The King and the Mockingbird" is visited by the cartoon characters he created in his studio. Along with a little clown, he screens a selection of his favorite shorts
Wherever You Are...
Original Music Composer
An Uruguayan diplomat brings his new wife with him on a business trip to Poland in the summer immediately preceding the outbreak of World War II.
Salsa, O Filme Quente
Music
Robby Rosa, o líder do supergrupo Menudo, estrela essa sensual história sobre sonhos adolescentes, paixões perigosas e dança incendiária! Com participações especiais das lendas da Salsa Celia Cruz e Tito Puente, este musical superenergético brilha com sua magnífica coreografia e todo o sensual encanto da quente salsa! À noite, quando escapa de sua rotina diária como mecânico, Rico (Rosa) se encontra em seu verdadeiro elemento: a exuberância selvagem do clube de salsa "La Luna". Sonhando que ele e sua namorada podem se tornar "O Rei e a Rainha da Salsa", Rico coloca toda sua energia nos treinos para vencer a Grande Competição de Salsa de La Luna. Mas quando a deslumbrante proprietária do clube resolve fazer de Rico seu parceiro de danças, Rico precisa decidir o que é mais importante para ele: sua ambição... ou seu coração.
Sorte Cega
Original Music Composer
Witek, um estudante de medicina, pede uma licença de um ano da faculdade após a morte de seu pai, para repensar sua vocação; ele decide viajar para Varsóvia, mas enquanto corre para tentar alcançar o trem na estação, três possíveis eventos acontecem.
Crônica de Acontecimentos Amorosos
Original Music Composer
Set in the summer months preceding the September 1939 outbreak of World War II in Polish part of Lithuania. A young highschool lad, Witek, is hoping to pass the entrance exams to the university. His love interest is Alina, his high-school colleague.
Power Of Evil
Music
An unsuspecting student thinks that the wife of an arms dealer is unhappy, but in reality she appears as cynical as her capitalist man.
A Year of the Quiet Sun
Original Music Composer
Shortly after World War II an American soldier (Norman) and a Polish refugee (Emilia) fall in love. Eventually he will return to the U.S. and both expect that she will soon follow him with her mother. Emilia's mother is sick, but will recover with the right medicine. But the mother, and not Emilia, knows that there will only be one ticket...
Imperative
Music
Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi once more explores the dilemma of intellectualism at the expense of humanity in 1982's Imperative. The story concerns math professor Robert Powell, who feels that there is something lacking in his ever-so-precise life. What is missing is truth, specifically philosophical truth. Thus he philosophizes at great length, allowing director Zanussi plenty of room for didactic but little room for warmth. Leading ladies Brigette Fossey and Leslie Caron occasionally melt through the cold logic of Imperative.
Versuchung
Music
From a Far Country
Music
This heroic story follows the life of Karol Wojtyla, a Polish Roman catholic who ascends the throne of St. Peter as Pope John Paul II. As a young boy, Karol is a bright and talented student. Archbishop Sapieha recognizes the very special, moving qualities Karol possesses and encourages him to consider the priesthood. Although determined to study Polish literature, Karol turns to the church; he is ordained and studies in Italy, France, and Belgium. Torn by fear and repression in post-Stalin Eastern Europe, Karol becomes a poisonous thorn in the communists' side. His deer reverence and commitment return him to Poland as Pope John Paul II.
The Contract
Music
Bearing traces of the old Anton Chekhov play The Wedding, The Contract is set during an "arranged" ceremony. The bride and groom barely know each other, but this matters not at all to their tradition-bound families. At the last minute, the bride balks. Only slightly nonplused, the groom's father, a status-seeking doctor, decides to go ahead with the expensive reception anyway. Polish director Krzysz Zanussi uses this scenario to stick it to capitalist corruption, and to society's destruction of the individual spirit. Leslie Caron, the one recognizable member of the cast, is outstanding as a wealthy, over-the-hill ballerina who happens to be a kleptomaniac.
The Constant Factor
Music
The main character in this effective, convincing drama is Witold (Tadeusz Bradecki) who is high in what later would be termed the "emotional quotient" or the ability to bounce back from adverse, tragic circumstances. Witold has been nursing both his sick mother and a deeply rooted desire to climb the Himalayas. His father had died climbing in those mountains, and they have an allure for Witold as well. But his dreams begin to crumble when his mother succumbs to her illness and trouble brews at work. The situation becomes bad enough to scramble Witold's life with no indication of future improvement.
The Beads of One Rosary
Music
The crusty hero, Habryka, is an old miner who has won many worker medals and is now retired with his youngest son and latter's family living with him. To build new apartment buildings, the old houses are being bought out, the residents given apartments in the new houses, and being cleared away. But Habryka refuses to sell.
O Rei e o Pássaro
Music
The kingdom of Takicardie quakes under the rule of the tyrannical King Charles V-et-III-font-VIII-et-VIII-font-XVI, whose favourite pastime is shooting birds. His archenemy is a cheeky mockingbird, whose favourite pastime is thwarting the king’s attempts to shoot birds. One night, a portrait of the king comes to life and disposes of the real king, taking his place. The portrait king falls in love with a young shepherdess in another painting and intends to marry her. But, alas, the shepherdess has fallen in love with a chimneysweep and together they elope from the king’s palace. Enraged, the king sends his police to capture them and once they are within his power he forces the shepherdess to marry him. The mockingbird must use all his guile and courage to once more thwart the king and bring his evil reign to an end.
Ways in the Night
Original Music Composer
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.
O Ponto de Vista de um Porteiro Noturno
Original Music Composer
At the time of the Polish social regime, a security officer is promoted to work at a prison yard. Introducing concurrently with the narrator; he speaks of himself, his thoughts, his point of view.
Rodzina Połanieckich
Music
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.
David
Music
Although members of the Hitler Youth chant anti-Semitic paroles in front of his house during the Purim festival, Rabbi Singer is still profoundly convinced that Germany will stay a safe country for him, his family, and his fellow believers. But several years later, his son David is banned from going to school because he is a Jew. Shortly after, Rabbi Singer and his wife are deported. Now, young David also fears for his life. In constant fear of being detected, he tries to find a way to leave Germany.
The Spiral
Music
In what appears to be an inexplicable incident, a man drives up to a resort hotel in midwinter, throws away his car keys, enters, and proceeds to agitate everyone he meets with his urgency -- a message he is somehow unable to communicate. Then he leaves, disappearing in the snow. Later, the people he appeared to have upset have gathered to search for him and find him frostbitten, but alive. Visiting him at the sanatorium to which he has been taken, they gradually discover what was really happening.
Mimetismo
Original Music Composer
Um retrato dramático e perversamente subversivo do tenso conflito entre alunos e professores em um curso de verão de linguística. Krzysztof Zanussi oferece uma crítica sutil, mas forte, à política do Partido Comunista e da precariedade do sucesso em uma sociedade socialista.
The Leper
Original Music Composer
A simple governess and a wealthy aristocrat fall madly in love with each other. However, his family are prejudiced towards her and have other plans for him.
The Shadow-Line
Original Music Composer
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
Original Music Composer
Znikąd donikąd
Music
Terra Prometida
Original Music Composer
The Polish film based on the book of the same name by Wladyslaw Reymont. Taking place in the nineteenth century town of Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion shown through the eyes of one Polish town.
A Woman's Decision
Original Music Composer
The main character is a bookkeeper, 40, who lives a quiet, uninteresting life with her husband and son of school age. She realizes that soon she won't be needed much at home as the boy grows up and the relationship with her husband crumbles. It's only when an embezzlement is discovered at the office and she stands up to her management, that she realizes life has more to offer. She meets a well-off former classmate, married to an American. Then she meets Jacek and starts contemplating possibilities of a new start. She discovers love for the first time, but turns to old ways rather than to break loose.
Hipoteza
Original Music Composer
Short Drama
Iluminação
Original Music Composer
Vida de tabloide de um físico; seu trabalho, sua vida amorosa e sua busca pelo significado da vida. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
Jealousy and Medicine
Music
In 1930s, a doctor has an affair with the wife of a wealthy industrialist in Poland.
Hubal
Original Music Composer
Based on a true story. After Poland is overrun by Axis forces in 1939, an officer and his remaining men decide to continue fighting the invaders alone, thereby becoming the first guerrillas of World War II.
Pearl in the Crown
Compositor
Film set during the Silesian Uprising in the 1920's. The German owners of a mine decide that it is unprofitable and want to close it by flooding it. The miners go on strike.
Family Life
Original Music Composer
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.
The Ring of Queen Ann
Original Music Composer
Adventures of a three good friends during school summer vacation.
Gwiazda Wytrwałości
Music
Officers of the 5th Horse Rifle Regiment of the 1st Armored Division go to Brussels, where they meet Joachim Lelewel. To verify the story, the press officer of the division goes to Brussels.
The Cruise
Original Music Composer
A stowaway sneaks aboard a ship departing on a cruise down the Vistula River. The captain takes him for a Communist Party cultural coordinator and the intruder gladly adapts to his new role, immediately setting to work at manipulating the passengers and crew into silly and vaguely humiliating games. Before long, Tym has got everyone under his thumb and created his own comedic dictatorship.
Lokis, a Manuscript of Professor Wittembach
Original Music Composer
A pastor studying folklore in remote parts of 19th century Lithuania is invited to stay with a young nobleman. His mother is sequestered and mad. It seems she has been attacked by a bear as a young wife and local peasants whisper the young man may be the son of a bear. A doctor, who treats the mother with old-fashioned remedies, reveals this to the pastor. Young nobleman's wife is found with a bite and the man has disappeared into the woods.
The Taste of the Black Earth
Original Music Composer
During the 1920 Silesian uprising, seven brothers take part in the struggle with the Germans to keep the region in the Polish hands.
Only the Dead Can Answer
Original Music Composer
Police captain Wójcik conducts an investigation into the murder of a cashier from a state-owned enterprise. Despite seemingly numerous leads, the investigation gets stuck in a dead end – the victim had no enemies and nothing was stolen. Despite closing the case Wójcik feels that the key to solving the mystery is the murdered cashier and his past. Exploring this plot, he discovers a full-fledged spy affair, however, trying to catch the real murderer, he’ll have to risk his life, health and career.
The Structure of Crystal
Original Music Composer
Two talented physicists used to work together in the frontline of academy in scientific discovery. One of them, Jan, gave everything up and went to a small, snowy village, to become a metereologist. The other one, Marek, who had a famous scientific career, doesn't understand why Jan is wasting his potential living a simple life, and tries to get him back to the big city. Clash of two attitudes, characters, ideas about the meaning of existence.
The Criminal Who Stole a Crime
Original Music Composer
A retired police captain, Siwy, tells a reporter about his latest action, carrying on his own investigation into the mysterious death of a Eve Salm, a.k.a. Princess. She was a witness in a case where the defendant pled guilty and was sentenced to eight years in prison. Siwy doubts the defendant's guilt and risks his life to apprehend the real killer.
Loneliness of the Couple
Music
A psychological drama film based on a story by Karol Ludwik Koniński.
The Doll
Original Music Composer
Set in the 19th century Warsaw. The indolence of aristocrats who, secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condescended to. Because of his "help" (in secret) to "the doll's" impecunious but influential father, the girl becomes aware of his affection.
Ostatni po Bogu
Music
Stajnia na Salvatorze
Music
WWII. Zyga, one of the Resistance soldiers in Kraków (Poland), is arrested by Gestapo. Soon later with new arrestings comes out that Germans must have received some new informations. Zyga is suspected to become an informator.
Our Folks
Original Music Composer
Two quarreling peasant families, who were forced to leave their lands after the war, are settled by accident on two neighboring farms.
Westerplatte Resists
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Westerplatte is a small peninsula at the entry to the Gdansk Harbour. Before World War II, it functioned as a Polish ammunition depot in the Free City of Danzig/Gdansk. Its crew consisted of one infantry company and a group of civilians, 182 people in total. It was the only Polish guard-post at the mouth of the Vistula River, with as little as five sentries, one field cannon, two anti-armour guns and four mortars. It was the first obstacle to Hitler's predatory march across Europe. The first shots of World War II were fired here. This film tells the story of Westerplatte's courageous defenders.
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Music
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Music Director
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Music
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Original Music Composer
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Music
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Echo
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Music
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Music
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Silent Traces
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Original Music Composer
"In 1960 Kazimierz Kutz' second film NIKT NIE WOLA / NOBODY'S CALLING, based on a Jozef Hen novel that was never published in Poland, described the fate of Poles on the Eastern Front. Kutz used the film to explore new formal solutions, collaborating closely with cinematographer Jerzy Wojcik to reveal the psychological landscape of a pair of lovers who are strongly affected by wartime events. The camera recorded the couple's inner experiences, contrasting their muted intimacy against the surrounding scenery of a ruined town. The film did not win over critics at the time of its release. It was not until later that critics recognized Kutz's effort to experiment with aesthetics in a manner akin to that pursued by filmmakers of the new wave. NOBODY'S CALLING came to be compared with Michelangelo Antonioni's THE ADVENTURE, which was produced around the same time."
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