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Wiesław Zdort

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27-04-1931

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Taurus

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Warsaw, Poland

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53 Works

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52 Works

Like a Drug

Like a Drug

18-year-old Anna finds out she's terminally ill and has only a few years left. Fragile girl changes her mindset, starts living out the remaining time as intensively as possible and marries Piotr, a student whom she just met in sanatorium.
6.0

Year:

1999

Temptation

Temptation

Poland under Stalinist rule, 1953. A young nun Anna is brought to a prison where an influential priest is kept in. She discovers the priest is the man she loved a few years before. Communist authorities try to make her spy on him now.
6.0

Year:

1996

Nothing But Fear

Nothing But Fear

TV presenter Katarzyna has been a teetotaller for a year now. She attends regular AA meetings and even takes care of a novice there. Will she really manage to stay sober?
8.0

Year:

1994

The Spider Women

The Spider Women

Two sisters, a journalist and a student, are struggling with financial problems. They decide to save their budget by stealing from wealthy men. They break into their apartments through windows in order to realize their American dream...
6.8

Year:

1993

The Spider Women

The Spider Women

Two sisters, a journalist and a student, are struggling with financial problems. They decide to save their budget by stealing from wealthy men. They break into their apartments through windows in order to realize their American dream...
6.8

Year:

1993

An Immoral Story

An Immoral Story

Told as a film within the film, the story concerns an aging actress. Ewa is a flamboyant, pushy actress whose career and love life have come to a dead end. She lives in a faceless housing development. She is totally engrossed in herself and dreams of making a comeback as a singer. But her overbearing personality time after time sets her into conflict with those she tries to work with in the theater and her bedroom.
6.4

Year:

1990

The Hostage of Europe

The Hostage of Europe

On the island of Saint Helena, a prisoner Napoleon resisted allies who, through the voice of the English governor, Hudson Lowe, tried to humiliate him, break him, poison him in the figurative sense of the word, and perhaps literally.
6.0

Year:

1989

Decalogue I

Decalogue I

Krzysztof, a semantics professor and computer hobbyist, is raising his young son, Paweł, to look to science for answers, while Irena, Paweł’s aunt, lives a life rooted in faith. Over the course of one day, both adults are forced to question their belief systems.
8.1

Year:

1989

Caged

Caged

Władysław is declared a hero after controlling panic in a bank archive fire.
0.0

Year:

1988

The Girls of Nowolipki

The Girls of Nowolipki

Coming of age story of four girls living in the same poor district of Warsaw just before the outbreak of World War One.
6.0

Year:

1986

Apple Tree of Paradise

Apple Tree of Paradise

Girls no more, four heroines emerge into womanhood with a more clear-eyed outlook on life.
4.7

Year:

1986

Idol

Idol

In 1969 a young writer decides to write an essay on a well known Polish writer, who had to leave the country in the 50's, later living, working and dying in exile. He slowly assembles the character and even the exterior appearances of his idol until his own identity tragically disappears.
0.0

Year:

1985

Heads Full of Stars

Heads Full of Stars

Two young boys living in a small town in the east of Poland try to survive the war by working as projectionists in a local cinema. They provide entertainment to Poles, Germans and Russians alike.
4.0

Year:

1983

The Scream

The Scream

A woman just out of prison gets a job in a nursing home and tries, unsuccessfully, to put her life back together.
7.9

Year:

1983

Debutante

Debutante

Ewa is a young ambitious engineer who starts to work for the team of an acclaimed architect Jerzy. Gradually she becomes aware of the bizarre relations he has with his wife and lovers.
5.5

Year:

1982

The Boarded Window

The Boarded Window

An anxiety-riddled woman and her husband reside in a small, secluded house in the forest. They live a relatively peaceful life until one night when the woman appears to fall sick and die.
6.7

Year:

1981

System

System

An alternately restrained and outrageous adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether” updated to the modern world.
0.0

Year:

1981

Without Love

Without Love

Ewa is a reporter. Using her feminine charms and other means she is trying to become a journalist on a Warsaw weekly popular magazine. She hopes to become political interviewer of personalities and state leaders. On her way up the ladder she trips over one of her own shoestrings and falls short of the goal she has been pursuing so fanatically.
0.0

Year:

1980

Ukryty w słońcu

Ukryty w słońcu

Artist Janek is waiting for his beloved Joanna. He is worried because he has a feeling that there has been a tragedy the night before. After an hour of waiting, the man departs. He keeps reminiscing about Joanna all the time.
0.0

Year:

1980

The Beads of One Rosary

The Beads of One Rosary

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.
6.1

Year:

1980

Nightmares

Nightmares

Set before the first World War in part of Poland under Austrian occupation, the story of a young boy in primary school who later grows up to become a rebellious, poetic-minded teen in the same school when the national movement toward liberation is under way. The story of a country where church and state work together to suppress the human spirit.
6.6

Year:

1979

Brunet Will Call

Brunet Will Call

Modest editor, has shipped his wife and kids for the weekend, and is trying to relax in his house at the outskirts of Warsaw. His quiet evening is only disturbed by the accidental forecast made by a Gypsy woman, that at evening time he will murder a mysterious brunet.
7.1

Year:

1976

Tylko Beatrycze

Tylko Beatrycze

Raised by the monks, Stanisław gets involved in a scheme to murder the king.
0.0

Year:

1976

A Story in Red

A Story in Red

Former soldier take up a fight with a bunch who attacks his home village
0.0

Year:

1974

A Girl and the Pigeons

A Girl and the Pigeons

TV adaptation of a short story by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz. In after-war Poland father discourages his only surviving child, Edek, from falling in love by buying him pigeons to take care of.
2.0

Year:

1974

Lost Night

Lost Night

A Warsaw writer, Wacław Kisielecki, returning from Rome, has his car break down somewhere late in the evening on a country road, so he and his chauffeur, Konstanty, have to look for accommodation in a nearby manor house. Its owner is a young man, Jan, who has been managing the severely run-down estate himself since his mother's death.
3.5

Year:

1974

Jealousy and Medicine

Jealousy and Medicine

In 1930s, a doctor has an affair with the wife of a wealthy industrialist in Poland.
5.1

Year:

1973

Ten okrutny, nikczemny chłopak

Ten okrutny, nikczemny chłopak

Romek is a boy whom nobody wants and who cannot find love in anyone. His mother has no interest in him at all. The boy gets under the influence of enterprising Janusz. This one teaches him to steal. During the first attempt, he is caught and puts in a juvenile court. The mother decides to take the opportunity to put him in an orphanage.
0.0

Year:

1972

The Sun Rises Once a Day

The Sun Rises Once a Day

After the war, the community of mountaineers is eager to start their own sawmill. When the communist authorities come to take over the sawmill, a rebellion starts.
5.5

Year:

1972

Markheim

Markheim

Markheim impulsively kills an elderly antique dealer during an attempted robbery. From there Markheim’s sense of reality steadily dissolves in a morass of guilt and shame, until a spectral dog leads him to a shadowy figure who seems to know an awful lot about Markheim and his problems.
7.0

Year:

1972

Five and Half of Pale Joe

Five and Half of Pale Joe

A young journalist from Warsaw goes to a small town of Kamienica to prepare a report on a motorcycle gang.
4.0

Year:

1971

The Taste of the Black Earth

The Taste of the Black Earth

During the 1920 Silesian uprising, seven brothers take part in the struggle with the Germans to keep the region in the Polish hands.
6.7

Year:

1970

The Pier

The Pier

After completing a project, a shipbuilder grows restless and travels the country on his motorcycle. He leaves his wife as he engages in a series of drunken escapades.
5.8

Year:

1969

Roly Poly

Roly Poly

Based on the novel by Stanislaw Lem (Solaris). The main character, race car driver Ryszard Fox, is involved in many car accidents. After each car crash he gets a transplant for one or another internal organ. After a while there is a question: Who really is Ryszard Fox?
6.8

Year:

1968

Stajnia na Salvatorze

Stajnia na Salvatorze

WWII. Zyga, one of the Resistance soldiers in Kraków is arrested by Gestapo. Soon later the Germans make a number of other arrests and Zyga is accused of being an informer.
0.0

Year:

1967

Skinny and Others

Skinny and Others

A group of workers builds a bridge near a large dam. They get drunk with a visiting reporter, who falls into the river and disappears.
6.8

Year:

1967

Maria and Napoleon

Maria and Napoleon

In 1807, Napoleon meets and falls in love with 22-year-old Polish countess Marie Walewska, who is unhappily married to a much older man. Enchanted by the blonde, blue-eyed countess, the emperor enters into an affair with Marie, who uses the relationship to induce Napoleon to treat Poland fairly.
6.2

Year:

1966

Pharaoh

Pharaoh

Young Pharaoh Ramses XIII clashes with Egypt's clergy over influence on the affairs of the state and its coffers. inexperienced, but quite ambitious pharaoh is putting up a fight against a powerful clan of priests usurping rule over the country.
6.7

Year:

1966

Heat

Heat

Two Elderly Men are asked by the Prime Minister to take care of the city for one day. During this time, they have to deal with the heat, a diplomatic conflict, a love rivalry, and a lack of water. They do it in their style – they sing easily.
6.5

Year:

1964

Silence

Silence

Set in a small Polish town just after the war, the story of an unruly teenager who constantly taunts the old priest. One day the youth has a horrible accident, which the villagers call divine punishment.
6.2

Year:

1963

Teenager

Teenager

A young teenager from the provinces comes to Warsaw to find her relatives and gets herself in various trouble.
6.0

Year:

1963

Wild Horses

Wild Horses

In a secluded dog-breeding facility four people try to find a place for themeselves.
5.0

Year:

1962

Samson

Samson

The hero is a Jewish youth. He, like his family, has always been silent and undemonstrative in the face of prejudice. Now he stands up for his right to survive, and in so doing represents the fighting spirit that culminated in the Warsaw Uprising.
4.6

Year:

1961

Glass Mountain

Glass Mountain

A quarry worker falls in love with a practicing doctor.
0.0

Year:

1960

Innocent Sorcerers

Innocent Sorcerers

A young doctor is tired of being sought by women. One night he meets a young girl who all but forces herself into his room where they talk of morals and love. But he loses her when he goes out to see some friends and then rushes madly around the city after her.
7.1

Year:

1960

Rok pierwszy

Rok pierwszy

1944. Communist militiaman take a post in a little town in the east of Poland. He has to stand against his own men that are not happy with new authorities.
0.0

Year:

1960

Night Train

Night Train

Two strangers, Jerzy and Marta, accidentally end up holding tickets for the same sleeping chamber on an overnight train to the Baltic Sea coast. Also on board is Marta's spurned lover, who will not leave her alone. When the police enter the train in search of a murderer on the lam, rumors fly and everything seems to point toward one of the main characters as the culprit.
7.6

Year:

1959

Eagle

Eagle

Based on a true story of Polish submarine "Orzel" (The Eagle): September 1939, "Orzel" is coming to Estonian neutral harbor in Tallin. Under pressure from Germany Estonians have intern the ship. Commander Grabinski decides to escape to England through the Baltic Sea, without any maps that has been confiscated and with only small amount of fuel on board.
6.8

Year:

1959

Ashes and Diamonds

Ashes and Diamonds

A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting face to face with his victim, he gets a shock. He faces the necessity of repeating the assassination. He meets Krystyna, a girl working as a barmaid in the restaurant of the "Monopol" hotel. His affection for her makes him even more aware of the senselessness of killing at the end of the war. Loyalty to the oath he took, and thus the obligation to obey the order, tips the scales.
7.4

Year:

1958

Eroica

Eroica

Tells two tales set during WWII: A seemingly feckless and selfish man finally takes up arms in the national struggle against the Nazis. Set in a POW camp, Polish inmates cling to their hopes for an eventual escape, encouraged by the legendary escape of one of their own.
6.9

Year:

1958