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Jacek Petrycki

Jacek Petrycki

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Guczo. Notes on Life (2020)

Full of archival flavors, the story of an aristocrat cursed by his family, a man of many faces and talents living in turbulent times. Who was August Zamoyski? A lover of female beauty, an athlete, a sculptor, and a citizen of the world who draws full atten ...

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Red (2019)

A young woman becomes close with a mechanic who feels responsible for the death of her brother. ...

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Warsaw: A City Divided (2019)

The history of the Warsaw Ghetto (1940-43) as seen from both sides of the wall, its legacy and its memory: new light on a tragic era of division, destruction and mass murder thanks to the testimony of survivors and the discovery of a ten-minute film shot b ...

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The Dybbuk: A Tale of Wandering Souls (2015)

30 thousand Hasidim journey to Uman in Ukraine to celebrate the Jewish New Year at the gravesite of Rebbe Nachmann. A Ukrainian far-right group erects a cross at the site of Hasidic prayers and builds a monument to Cossacks who slaughtered thousands of Jew ...

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Don't Breathe (2014)

Don't Breathe is a dark comedy set in Georgia that follows the tribulations of a middle-aged man, Levan, who is suddenly led to question his existence because of a routine medical examination. It sends him into a downward spiral of paranoia and doubt as he ...

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The Return of Agnieszka H. (2014)

Agnieszha Holland takes Jacek Petrycki on a journey to the places of her youth; she tells him stories of experiences of the past. It is a dialogue of a famous director with the camera, behind which, there is her true friend. ...

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Viva Belarus! (2013)

Belarus has been under dictatorship of Lukashenko for 15 years. Miron (23) is not interested in politics. However, the next concert of his 'apolitical' rock band triggers off an anti-regime manifestation. Miron, is enlisted for the army for 15 months by wa ...

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My Notes from the Underground (2011)

The document consists of recordings collected in the years 1982-1987 by an informal group that included Jacek Petrycki, Bohdan Kosiński and Marcel Łoziński. The film reveals the backstage of the activities of the anti-communist underground, shows the ev ...

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Heritage (2011)

A small village in Świętokrzyskie. The alcohol-breathing father instills faith in the princely roots of their family in the few-year-old Zbyszek. The awakened aspirations make the tight provincial atmosphere unbearable for Zbyszek several years later. ...

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Operation Dunaj (2009)

Operation Danube was the cover name for the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact armies in August 1968. The fleet of Polish tanks which arrive to liberate their neighbor, ostensibly threatened by a counter-revolution, includes the old tank nicknamed L ...

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Poste restante (2009)

In Poland, letters with incorrect address end up at the Department of Unsent Mail in Koluszki. The film follows one of these letters, on which a child's hand has written an unusual address: 'God. Heaven. ...

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Kites (2008)

'Kites' tells the inspiring story of Kabul's budding young video producers. Through a clever combination of the students' video and their mentor Jacek Szaranski's artful camera work, we take a look at the use of video and high tech in a world more commonly ...

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How It's Done (2006)

Piotr Tymochowicz, media advisor to some of Poland's top politicians, claims that anybody can be molded into a charismatic leader. To prove it he's looking for a greenhorn that can be turned into a candidate. A call is put out for would-be participants, an ...

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Dead Man's Bounty (2006)

A mysterious loner (Karel Roden) rides into a small town carrying the body of a sought-after outlaw (Val Kilmer is the corpse). But after he gambles his bounty away in a card game with the sheriff (Boguslaw Linda), he must devise a scheme to reclaim the de ...

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To the Offspring (2004)

The tragic life of five Warsaw poets who died during the World War II: Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, Tadeusz Gajcy, Zdzisław Stroiński, Andrzej Trzebiński and Wacław Bojarski. ...

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Waiting for the Clouds (2003)

A member of a Greek family in Turkey is forced to immigrate from Trabzon to Mersin in her youth. However, events cause her to face her own past. ...

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Julie Walking Home (2002)

Julie's son is dying of cancer and her marriage falling apart. She goes to Poland in search of a man who can heal using his hands. Julie finds not only a magical cure for her son, but also comes across a love so pure it begins to heal the aching in her h ...

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Shooters (2001)

Shooters is a drama documentary film, directed by Dan Reed for Suspect Device Films. The film is set in Liverpool and used local criminals as actors depicting the lives of local 'gangsters'. It is most notable for having been completely unscripted apart fr ...

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Shot in the Heart (2001)

The story of a man coming to terms with the sins and secrets of his notorious brother and, in the process, exploring the legacy of violence in his own family. ...

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The Letter (2001)

In a refugee camp in Bosnia, while a group of boys is playing ball, the one-legged Enes, accidentally breaks his crutch. His friend Ado decides to help him, as now the immobile Enes is completely dependable on others. They write a request to the United Nat ...

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A Kind of Hush (1999)

Six teens who were traumatized by child abuse early in their lives come together to form a gang that ultimately plots revenge against the ones who committed the crimes against them. The gang leader is the only one who has something of a normal life, living ...

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Journey to the Sun (1999)

Mehmet, a young Turkish man newly migrated from the village Tire, takes a job searching for water leaks below the surface of the streets of Istanbul. Due to a strange set of events, he is mistaken for a Kurd, imprisoned, and brutally beaten. Upon his relea ...

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Men in Pink (1999)

The aftermath of the Rwandan genocide: A student theatre troupe tours Rwanda with a comedy about the genocide, a gang of killers gets rough justice at the local genocide court, and a prosecutor investigates a priest for the murder of five Tutsi children. M ...

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Krok (1998)

A mockumentary in which during a visit to the NATO headquarters in Brussels, a secret agent discovers the Pact authorities expect the Polish army to change its parade step. ...

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So it Doesn’t Hurt (1998)

Polish filmmaker Marcel Łoziński revisits the farmer/intellectual Urszula Flis, subjects of his 1978 film 'A visit'. Łoziński observes the changes that have occurred over the intervening 23 years and again persuades this sensitive, secluded woman to ta ...

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The Mission (1997)

Deep in the Ugandan bush, an Italian nun tries to get back 30 of her convent school girls who have been abducted for sex by an army of children led by a mystic claiming to be the son of God. ...

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The Betrayed (1995)

As Russian tanks advance over the plains of Chechnya, a group of Russian mothers search for the sons, conscripts from the ill-fated 131st Brigade, they believe have been captured by the Chechens. They place their trust in Colonel Kosov, a Russian liaison ...

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Moscow Central (1994)

This documentary follows the election campaigns of a journalist, a local crime boss, a formerly exiled oligarch, and a local access TV host as they compete for a spot in the Moscow Central Constituency, in Russia's first free elections since 1917 ...

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89 mm from Europe (1993)

This movie shows the simplest difference between Europe and former Soviet Union. It is the eponymous 89 mm - Russian train tracks are 89 mm wider than tracks in European countries. And because of this fact, it is not easy to go through the Soviet border by ...

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Europa Europa (1990)

A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth. ...

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The Katyn Forest (1990)

Marcel Łoziński tells the story of the crime committed by the NKVD in Katyn in 1940. He interweaves accounts of witnesses and survivors with images from the pilgrimage of members of Katyn Families to the place of murder, death and nameless burial of thei ...

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Interrogation (1989)

In Stalinist Poland, cabaret singer Tonia decides to spend the evening drinking with a group of friends. The next morning, she awakes to find that, for reasons unknown to her, she has been jailed as a political prisoner. As prison officials interrogate, to ...

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Give Me This (1988)

"Give Me This" is a unique recording of a therapy session conducted by Wojciech Eichelberger at the Psychoeducation Laboratory, the first Polish institution of psychotherapy, training and coaching established in 1978. The film includes recordings of fragme ...

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Cyrk odjeżdża (1988)

The circus leaves 1948. In one of the towns there is a circus organized right after the liberation. A conflict arises between Kossakowski, a lion trainer, and Chamron, a horse trainer, which creates a tense atmosphere in the entire team. ...

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Soc... (1988)

At the end of the 1980s, high school students watch fragments of a congress of the Union of Polish Artists and Designers that took place in 1949. During the congress, socialist realism and pictures representing the imposed aesthetics were proclaimed. Viewe ...

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Witnesses (1987)

On July 4th, 1946, the crowd in Kielce, Poland, slaughtered forty-two Jews and wounded many others. Forty years later, in 1987, Marcel Łoziński visited those places and met some witnesses of the carnage. ...

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A Woman Alone (1987)

Irena, a postal delivery worker, is struggling with inadequate housing, a drunk neighbor who wants to take her place, and a heartless boss, knowing that the whole day at work, she is leaving her young son. But the worst is the loneliness, exacerbated by he ...

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Workshop Exercises (1986)

A street poll about contemporary youth. The answers are engineered to show the manipulation of propaganda and television. ...

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No End (1985)

1982, Poland. A translator loses her husband and becomes a victim of her own sorrow. She looks to sex, to her son, to law, and to hypnotism when she has nothing else in this time of martial law when Solidarity was banned. ...

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Workers '80 (1982)

Documentary about the beginning of Solidarnosc. ...

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Fever (1981)

The film is set in 1905, in a time of feverish revolutionary underground activity in Poland partitioned between three neighbours. All the characters are committed anarchists. The bomb maker puts an invention together to place it at the disposal of young in ...

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How to Live (1981)

A holiday training camp for young married couples who belong to the Polish Socialist Youth Union (ZSMP) begins at the campsite. From the commander's welcome speech, they learn that a film crew will record camp life and training classes under the slogan "Mo ...

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We Summon You (1981)

A record of the unveiling of the monument to the victims of December '70 that took place in front of gate 2 of the Gdańsk Shipyard. Witnesses to the December events describe their experiences. ...

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The Calm (1980)

A young man in his twenties leaves prison after a three-year sentence. He wants to start a new life in a place where he is not known and dreams only of a job, a wife and a family. He succeeds partially in fulfilling these dreams, but then runs into a confl ...

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Talking Heads (1980)

People of different age, profession and social status answer two simple questions: who they are and what they want from life. ...

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Microphone's Test (1980)

A Warsaw Pollena-Uroda cosmetics factory radio broadcaster is working on a programme investigating the workers' sense of factory ownership. The workers' answers come as a surprise, especially to the management. About the ruling and the ruled in communist P ...

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...One of us... (1979)

A poetic attempt at creating a biography of Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, a wartime poet, member of the Columbus generation. The biography consists of archival photos, manuscripts, drawings, and reconstruction of key moments in the protagonist's life. ...

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Camera Buff (1979)

Filip buys an 8mm movie camera when his first child is born. Because it's the first camera in town, he's named official photographer by the local Party boss. His horizons widen when he is sent to regional film festivals with his first works but his focus o ...

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Provincial Actors (1979)

The film is set in a small town near Warsaw, to which a young and coming director comes to produce a classic play (Wyspianski "Wyzwolenie") with a modern vein. Everyone in the production gets his usual stereotypical role, but the aging idol of the ensemble ...

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Matriculation (1979)

The final oral exam in history and social studies at one of Warsaw's high schools. The film illustrates the theatre of social life in Soviet Poland where one says different things on the stage and another behind the scenes. ...

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Reverse Gear (1978)

The house of a family of five is to be demolished due to the expansion of the city. The residents who are waiting to move are surprised by the progressive paralysis of their son. ...

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Winners (1978)

Young people with disabilities are provided with health care and vocational training. Is it enough to prepare them for their independent life? We get to know some charges of the Rehabilitation Center in Konstancin. ...

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Something for Something (1977)

A psychologist is asked about a scientific consultation with a girl who attempted suicide. ...

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Hospital (1977)

24 hours in the life of a hospital from the point of view of the doctors and nurses. ...

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Community: Rehearsal (1976)

"Stu" theatre rehearses "The Patients", a play based on Mikhail Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita". ...

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Curriculum Vitae (1975)

A communist party control committee interrogates a worker and party activist who is to be excluded from the party. ...

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Front Collision (1975)

Shortly before retiring, an old railway worker causes a serious accident which ultimately destroys his whole professional career. ...

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First Love (1974)

After the doctor's refusal to perform abortion on a 17-year old girl, she and her boyfriend have to cope with the new situation. They both need to learn to take responsibility for their decisions, in spite of numerous hardships facing them. ...

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X-Ray (1974)

Patients with serious lung diseases, who are now in a sanatorium, tell us about their thoughts and feelings. ...

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The King (1974)

Brief portrait of a conformist. ...

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The Visit (1974)

A "Polityka" weekly journalist Marta Wesolowska and photo-reporter Erazm Ciolek visit Urszula Flis, who runs a country farm. A young woman living on her own, Flis is an untypical villager in that she is interested in culture, corresponds with writers, etc. ...

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Happy End (1973)

A purge in the style of those of March 1968 is to take place at a party meeting. Instead, it turns into a psychodrama. ...

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Workers '71: Nothing About Us Without Us (1972)

Robotnicy - Nic o nas bez nas tells a story about Gdańsk Shipyard and its workers after so called Grudzień 1970 (1970 protests). After those events Edward Gierek replaced Władysław Gomułka as party first secretary and promised redical change in style ...

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Between Wrocław and Zielona Góra (1972)

A commissioned film about the Lubin copper mine. ...

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The Principles of Safety and Hygiene in a Copper Mine (1972)

Commissioned film about the conditions of safety and hygiene in the Lubin copper mine. ...

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Movies Starring Jacek Petrycki (4)

Talking Heads 2021 (2021)

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?". ...

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Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe (2019)

Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Solidarity), the first independent trade union behind the Iron Curtain. The long and hard battle to bring down communist dictatorship has begun. ...

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The Naked King - 18 Fragments on Revolution (2019)

In 1979, a revolution in Iran. In 1980, a revolution in Poland. The fall of the Shah, the "King of Kings," in Iran. Mass strikes and the foundation of Solidarność (Solidarity) in Poland. What was in the minds of the young women and men who fomented revol ...

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Illumination (1973)

Krzysztof Zanussi's groundbreaking film chronicles a decade in the life of a young physics student whose absolute faith in the primacy of rationality and science is shaken by tragedy and affairs of the heart. ...

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