Witold Sobociński

Witold Sobociński

Nascimento : 1929-10-15, Ozorków, Poland

Morte : 2018-11-19

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Witold Sobociński

Filmes

Busca Frenética
Director of Photography
Richard Walker é um médico que vai com Sondra, sua mulher, a Paris para uma conferência. Porém, logo no primeiro dia de viagem ela é seqüestrada. Querendo entender a razão do acontecido, ele acaba indo parar no submundo parisiense em uma procura desesperada, sem pistas e sem ninguém para auxiliá-lo. Até que surge a linda Michelle, que resolve lhe ajudá-lo para tentar encontrar Sondra até que ambos se vêem envoltos em uma trama internacional.
Piratas
Director of Photography
O capitão Red comanda um navio pirata com seu imediato Frog, até que é feito prisioneiro e levado a bordo de um galeão espanhol, onde insufla um motim e sequestra a sobrinha do governador de Maracaibo.
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
Terra Prometida
Director of Photography
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.
Nachtdienst
Director of Photography
On the Earth and in the Sky
Director of Photography
O Sanatório de Clepsidra
Cinematography
Ambientado na época pré-Segunda Guerra Mundial. Um jovem viaja num combóio estranho para ir visitar o seu pai moribundo num sanatório. Mas o lugar está em ruínas e recorda muitas memórias do passado. Ele está sitiado por soldados do passado, mercenários negros coloniais, meninas de sua infância e seus pais. É uma aventura interior, com um toque atmosférico incomum e cenários exuberantes.
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.
The Third Part of the Night
Director of Photography
Set during the Nazi occupation of Poland, in which Michal witnesses the murder of his mother, wife and child. He is hurled into a life that literally is not his own; a surreal world littered with trapdoors, doppelgängers and wormholes. It also tells the true untold story of a Nazi vaccine laboratory where Jews and members of the resistance were “employed” as feeders for parasites infected with typhus.
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
A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.
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