Krzysztof Zanussi

Krzysztof Zanussi

Nascimento : 1939-06-17, Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

História

From Wikipedia Krzysztof Zanussi, (born 17 June 1939) is a Polish film and theatre director, producer and screenwriter. He is a professor of European film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland where he conducts a summer workshop. He is also a professor at the Silesian University in Katowice.

Perfil

Krzysztof Zanussi

Filmes

The Perfect Number
Writer
The young mathematician David dedicated his whole life to the study of prime numbers. Getting to know his distant cousin, Joachim, causes the man to gradually reevaluate his priorities. This meeting will have a huge impact on both of them and will provoke a long discussion on the mysterious world order, the meaning of life and its passing.
The Perfect Number
Director
The young mathematician David dedicated his whole life to the study of prime numbers. Getting to know his distant cousin, Joachim, causes the man to gradually reevaluate his priorities. This meeting will have a huge impact on both of them and will provoke a long discussion on the mysterious world order, the meaning of life and its passing.
Talking Heads 2021
Self
The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talking Heads (1980). The director asked his interlocutors seemingly simple questions, such as “Who are you?” and “What do you want?”.
The Gift
Self
After the release of "Nostalgia", Andrei Tarkovsky runs out his Soviet authorities permission to work abroad: he has to go back home. But he understands from the messages of some friends and colleagues that his life in Russia would be even tougher than before. So he then decides to break with Soviet authorities and, a year before the Milan Conference of 1984 during which he will announce publicly his decision, he leaves his friends that are hosting him in Rome and takes refuge in a secret location.
Ether
Director
Rússia, início do século XX. Um médico militar usa uma dose letal de éter e acidentalmente mata uma paciente por quem estava apaixonado. Exilado em uma fortaleza e convencido de que seus experimentos vão alterar a resistência dos soldados, ele logo se encontrará no centro de uma trama de espionagem.
Ether
Writer
Rússia, início do século XX. Um médico militar usa uma dose letal de éter e acidentalmente mata uma paciente por quem estava apaixonado. Exilado em uma fortaleza e convencido de que seus experimentos vão alterar a resistência dos soldados, ele logo se encontrará no centro de uma trama de espionagem.
Ether
Producer
Rússia, início do século XX. Um médico militar usa uma dose letal de éter e acidentalmente mata uma paciente por quem estava apaixonado. Exilado em uma fortaleza e convencido de que seus experimentos vão alterar a resistência dos soldados, ele logo se encontrará no centro de uma trama de espionagem.
My Beloved Enemy
Original Story
professor saves the life of an injured hit man who, in return, promises to find and kill an enemy of his. Although the professor says not to have any enemy the killer goes for his mission and turns the professor's square life into chaos.
The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov
Self
August 2015, a courtroom in Rostov-on-Don. A man is peering through the bars of his cage, his eyes reveal that his nerves are about to snap. Today he will be handed down a sentence to which he must submit: 20 years’ imprisonment in Siberia for terrorism. The man is Oleg Sentsov, a film director and Maidan activist born in Simferopol in the Ukraine. He is charged with leading an anti-Russian terrorist movement and having planned attacks on bridges, power lines and a monument of Lenin. Sentsov defends himself, courageously and without flinching. He responds to the verdict with an emphatic denial of his crimes and instead accuses the accusers themselves ...
Rastros
Producer
Janina Duszejko, uma ex-engenheira, astróloga e vegetariana, vive numa pequena aldeia pitoresca nas Montanhas dos Sudetos. Uma noite, ela tropeça no cadáver de um vizinho. O caçador morreu de forma misteriosa. Há vestígios de cascos de cervos na sua casa... Com o tempo, cadáveres dos VIPs locais são descobertos. Todos eles eram caçadores. Duszejko tenta convencer a polícia local de que eles foram assassinados por animais selvagens. À medida que outros VIPs são encontrados mortos, Duszejko se torna a principal suspeita. Quando a casa paroquial local queima e o padre, que também é o capelão da associação de caça local, morre entre as chamas, a polícia está quase certa do culpado. Uma história sutilmente humorística de amizade, amor à natureza e vingança, com personagens únicos e ambíguos. Uma mistura que vai do do drama psicológico à história de detetive de tipo pastiche.
Under Electric Clouds
Co-Producer
Russia 2017. The world could be on the verge of a great war. People are anxious that things could fall apart. Evolving around an unfinished building, a diverse group of outsiders struggle to find their place in this rapidly changing society, making up the mosaic of existence that is life itself…
Close-Ups
Producer
37-year-old Marta gets married and wants to have a baby. But her toxic relationship with overbearing mother complicates her life in many ways.
Foreign Body
Writer
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.
Foreign Body
Director
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.
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
Director
Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.
Celluloid Man
Self
Indian documentary about Indian film history and P. K. Nair, the founder of the National Film Archive of India and guardian of Indian cinema. He built the archive can by can in a country where the archiving of cinema was considered unimportant.
Rose
Co-Producer
This harrowing tale of survival centers on Rose, a Masurian woman, whose German soldier husband was killed in the war, leaving her alone on their farm. A single woman had no defense against Russian soldiers who raped as a form of revenge, nor against plundering Poles who found themselves in desperate straits. Help arrives for Rose in the form of Tadeusz, a former officer in the Polish Home Army who deserted after he saw his wife raped and murdered by Russian troops and is attempting to hide his identity.
Sodankylä Forever
Self
The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets. Founded by Aki and Mika Kaurismäki along with Anssi Mänttäri and Peter von Bagh in 1985, the festival has played host to an international who’s who of directors and each day begins with a two-hour discussion. To mark the festival’s silver anniversary, festival director Peter von Bagh edited together highlights from these dialogues to create an epic four-part choral history of cinema drawn from the anecdotes, insights, and wisdom of his all-star cast: Coppola, Fuller, Forman, Chabrol, Corman, Demy, Kieslowski, Kiarostami, Varda, Oliveira, Erice, Rouch, Gilliam, Jancso — and 64 more. Ranging across innumerable topics (war, censorship, movie stars, formative influences, America, neorealism) these voices, many now passed away, engage in a personal dialogue across the years that’s by turns charming, profound, hilarious and moving.
Revisited
Screenplay
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.
Revisited
Director
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.
Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky
Himself
In honor of the twentieth anniversary of Andrei Tarkovsky's death, student filmmaker Dmitry Trakovsky sets out in search of his favorite director's legacy. His journey leads him to fifteen moving interviews in California, Italy, Sweden, and finally, Russia as he attempts to come closer to the meaning of one of Tarkovsky's most enigmatic beliefs... that death doesn't exist.
Um Coração Caloroso
Screenplay
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.
Um Coração Caloroso
Director
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.
Black Sun
Screenplay
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
Black Sun
Director
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
Solidarność, Solidarność...
Writer
Solidarność, Solidarność...
Director
Solidarność, Solidarność...
Self
Persona non grata
Writer
A Polish ambassador (Zbigniew Zapasiewicz) finds his life falling into ruin following the death of his wife.
Persona non grata
Director
A Polish ambassador (Zbigniew Zapasiewicz) finds his life falling into ruin following the death of his wife.
Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski
Self
Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz directed this insightful TV documentary (2005) tracing the Polish filmmaker's career. Former classmates reminisce about Kieslowski's happy beginnings at the Lodz film school and how his dissatisfaction with some of his early documentaries prompted the dramatic work and stylistic experimentation that led to his monumental series of films The Decalogue (1989). Wim Wenders, Agnieszka Holland, and Juliette Binoche are among the many admirers weighing in on his hard-driving work methods and preoccupation with the ephemeral. In Polish, French, and German with subtitles.
Pope John Paul II.
Director
The Supplement
Writer
An examination of the relationship between an indecisive medical student and his fiancee.
The Supplement
Director
An examination of the relationship between an indecisive medical student and his fiancee.
Weekend Stories: The Hidden Treasure
Writer
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.
Weekend Stories: The Hidden Treasure
Director
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.
Weiser
Producer
The film is based on the well-known, translated into many languages novel of writer Pawel Huelle. It is imbued with nostalgia and the atmosphere of mystery story of a group of children, fascinated by the figure of a man named David Weiser.
Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease
Writer
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.
Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease
Director
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.
Weekend Stories: Unwritten Law
Writer
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: Unwritten Law
Director
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
Writer
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: Dilatory Line
Director
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
Writer
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: The Last Circle
Director
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
Director
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
konferansjer
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.
Weekend Stories: The Soul Sings
Director
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.
Weekend Stories: The Soul Sings
Writer
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
Producer
In this adaptation of an historical play by Pope John Paul II, painter Albert Chmielowski decides to devote his life to helping the homeless.
Our God's Brother
Writer
In this adaptation of an historical play by Pope John Paul II, painter Albert Chmielowski decides to devote his life to helping the homeless.
Our God's Brother
Director
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
Writer
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.
Weekend Stories: Little Faith
Director
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.
At Full Gallop
Producer
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.
At Full Gallop
Writer
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.
At Full Gallop
Director
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.
Weekend Stories: A Woman's Business
Writer
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.
Weekend Stories: A Woman's Business
Director
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.
Danish Girls Show Everything
Director
Despite its suggestive title, this multi-part Danish omnibus film is not a work of exploitation. Instead, it presents 20 different short films (back-to-back) on the general theme of Danish women, directed by filmmakers including Krzysztof Zanussi, Monika Treut, Gustav Hamos, David Blair, Vibeke Vogel, Dusan Makavejev, Morten Skallerud and Lars Norgaard. Some dramatic vignettes mix with other comedic ones, but all are offbeat and experimental. The picture includes one animated sequence (by Norgaard).
The Wrong Address
Screenplay
A film by Krzysztof Zanussi inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s painting “The Lady with an Ermine”. The director takes us to the Museum Czartoryski in Cracow where he presents his favourite painting and with the aid of video effects, he wryly invites us to compare “The Lady with an Ermine” with the better known “Mona Lisa”.
The Wrong Address
Director
A film by Krzysztof Zanussi inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s painting “The Lady with an Ermine”. The director takes us to the Museum Czartoryski in Cracow where he presents his favourite painting and with the aid of video effects, he wryly invites us to compare “The Lady with an Ermine” with the better known “Mona Lisa”.
The Silent Touch
Writer
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.
The Silent Touch
Director
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
Writer
Das lange Gespräch mit dem Vogel
Director
Maximiliano Kolbe
Writer
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.
Maximiliano Kolbe
Director
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.
Inventory
Writer
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.
Inventory
Director
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.
Wherever You Are...
Writer
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.
Wherever You Are...
Director
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.
Power Of Evil
Writer
An unsuspecting student thinks that the wife of an arms dealer is unhappy, but in reality she appears as cynical as her capitalist man.
Power Of Evil
Director
An unsuspecting student thinks that the wife of an arms dealer is unhappy, but in reality she appears as cynical as her capitalist man.
Blaubart
Director
A Year of the Quiet Sun
Writer
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...
A Year of the Quiet Sun
Director
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...
The Unapproachable
Director
Imperative
Writer
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.
Imperative
Director
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
Writer
Versuchung
Director
From a Far Country
Writer
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.
From a Far Country
Director
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
Writer
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 Contract
Director
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
Writer
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 Constant Factor
Director
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.
Amador
Himself
Filip Mosz é um operário que resolve comprar uma filmadora 8 mm para registrar os primeiros dias da filha recém-nascida. No entanto, o que era para ser apenas um hobby se torna uma obsessão. Mosz começa a filmar tudo e todos. Pessoas do cotidiano transformam-se em "astros" de suas produções. Mas não tarda para que o "operário-documentarista" se depare com dilemas éticos, que trarão sérias consequências para ele e sua família.
Ways in the Night
Writer
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.
Ways in the Night
Director
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.
The Spiral
Writer
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.
The Spiral
Director
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.
Haus der Frauen
Director
Mimetismo
Writer
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.
Mimetismo
Director
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.
Pittsville - Ein Safe voll Blut
Writer
Pittsville - Ein Safe voll Blut
Director
A Woman's Decision
Writer
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.
A Woman's Decision
Director
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.
Nachtdienst
Writer
Nachtdienst
Director
The Catamount
Director
A banker troubled by both business and personal problems is transferred to a small town. There he meets and seduces an older woman. Together, they decide to pull off a payroll holdup together.
Hipoteza
Writer
Short Drama
Hipoteza
Director
Short Drama
Iluminação
Writer
Vida de tabloide de um físico; seu trabalho, sua vida amorosa e sua busca pelo significado da vida. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
Iluminação
Director
Vida de tabloide de um físico; seu trabalho, sua vida amorosa e sua busca pelo significado da vida. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
Behind the Wall
Writer
Jan is a young assistant professor in chemistry and a workaholic, Anna is an unsuccessful science writer who turns to Jan for advice and human compassion, but Jan, absorbed with his career, remains immune to Anna's clumsy efforts to pierce his defenses.
Behind the Wall
Director
Jan is a young assistant professor in chemistry and a workaholic, Anna is an unsuccessful science writer who turns to Jan for advice and human compassion, but Jan, absorbed with his career, remains immune to Anna's clumsy efforts to pierce his defenses.
Family Life
Writer
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.
Family Life
Director
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.
Mountains at Dusk
Writer
An old professor and his student go mountain climbing together.
Mountains at Dusk
Director
An old professor and his student go mountain climbing together.
The Structure of Crystal
Screenplay
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 Structure of Crystal
Director
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.
Podróżni jak inni
Writer
Krzysztof Penderecki
Writer
A biographical documentary about Krzysztof Penderecki
Krzysztof Penderecki
Director
A biographical documentary about Krzysztof Penderecki
Examination
Director
A student who missed his final exam because of illness arrives at his professor's house to beg to be allowed to take it.
Face to Face
Director
The film depicts a moral dilemma of a clerk who has to face a choice: whether to save a stranger or to pretend that he hasn't seen anything, so that he won't put himself into risk.
The Death of a Provincial
Director
Young and lively artist lives at the monastery while restoring the interiors and pays attention to the very old monk who is going to pass away soon.
Students
Director
This is a short story woven into the scenery of Kraków's students' festival. The camera is always at the center of events and is accompanied by the main character – Jurek, in search of his sister. In this film, events are part of a larger whole. The main role in this film is filled by Andrzej Paczkowski, now a known historian.
A Plane from Budapest
Director
Here we see short scenes from a random day at the airport. We have flying planes, landings, passport checking scenes, passengers waiting for their relatives. This documentary shows the ordinary but unique behaviors and reactions of the passengers and the airport maintenance staff.
Recepta dla Johna
Director
A spy named John learns the importance of sports and health from Nowa Huta citizens