Andrzej SewerynFilmography

Zemsta

Actors: Janusz Gajos, Andrzej Seweryn, Agata Buzek, Rafal Krolikowski, Roman Polanski

Synopsis: One of the most important figures in the Polish cinema, director Andrzej Wajda, teams up with the nation's most famous filmmaking expatriate, Roman Polanski, in this light comedy based on a perennially popular stage farce by Aleksandr Fredo. Czesnik (Janusz Gajos) and Rejent (Andrzej Seweryn) are Read More

Pan Tadeusz

Actors: Boguslaw Linda, Daniel Olbrychski, Andrzej Seweryn, Grazyna Szapolowska, Marek Kondrat, Alicja Bachleda-Curus

Synopsis: Legendary Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda adapts a nationally treasured epic poem to the silver screen. For 400 years, Lithuania and Poland were linked, until the country was partitioned in 1795 by aggressive nations at its borders -- Russia, Prussia, and the Austrian empire. At that point, the Read More

With Fire and Sword

Actors: Izabella Scorupco, Michal Zebrowski, Alexandr Domogarov, Andrzej Seweryn, Bogdan Stupka

Synopsis: A lavish historical epic that (on a budget of $8.5 million) was the most expensive Polish film ever at the time of its release, Ogniem I Mieczem/With Fire and Sword is based on a classic Polish novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz concerning political and social turmoil from 1647 to 1649. Cossacks are Read More

Billboard

Actors: Andrzej Seweryn

Synopsis: In this dark comedy-drama, communism has fallen in Poland after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the building that was once home to the Communist Party's Central Committee has now been taken over by that most capitalistic of enterprises, an advertising agency. A well-known Russian model under Read More

Genealogies of a Crime

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Melvil Poupaud, Andrzej Seweryn, Bernadette Lafont

Synopsis: Raul Ruiz directed this typically eccentric look at the nature of crime, the human mind, and life in the modern world. Solange (Catherine Deneuve) is a defense attorney with a reputation for taking on cases that can't be won -- and proving it by losing them. Her latest lost cause is Rene (Melvil Poupaud Read More

Total Eclipse

Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, David Thewlis, Romane Bohringer, Dominique Blanc

Synopsis: This historical drama, directed by Agnieszka Holland, focuses on the rocky relationship between the renowned 19th century French poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine. Rimbaud (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a teenage wunderkind known for his rebelliousness against conventional society and his Read More

Lucie Aubrac

Actors: Carole Bouquet, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Roger Milo, Patrice Chéreau

Synopsis: During the French Resistance, Lucie, a courageous wife, struggles to save her husband, Raymond Samuel, from a firing squad. He was arrested after blowing up a train during the war. Lucie is also a freedom fighter who goes by the moniker of Aubrac. She helps free Raymond by directly threatening a Read More

Schindler's List

Actors: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagall

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List stars Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler, a German businessman in Poland who sees an opportunity to make money from the Nazis' rise to power. He starts a company to make cookware and utensils, using flattery and bribes to win military Read More

Amok

Actors: Fanny Ardant, Andrzej Seweryn, Bernard Le Coq, Joaquim de Almeida

Synopsis: Whenever people are released from their society's constraints, there is the possibility that they will behave badly, at least according to the rules of the society they have left behind. This seems to have been particularly the case for Europeans living in colonial establishments in Africa and Read More

Indochine

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Perez, Jean Yanne, Linh-Dan Pham, Dominique Blanc

Synopsis: Regis Wargnier's epic about French Indochina -- from the years of French colonial imperialism to the days when American presence made itself felt and the country became known as Vietnam -- is a story of romance and separation told through the backdrop of a country in turmoil. The film centers on Read More

L'Echange

Actors: Dominique Blanc, Andrzej Seweryn, Marianne Denicourt, Antoine Basler

La Revolution Française

Actors: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Jane Seymour, François Cluzet, Andrzej Seweryn, Jean-François Balmer

Synopsis: With its release timed to coincide with celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution (1789-94), this film is actually two films released under one general title. The first, subtitled The Light Years, covers the period from the first stirrings of the revolution (e.g., the Read More

The Mahabharata

Actors: Robert Langton-Lloyd, Antonin Stahly-Vishwanadan, Bruce Myers, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Andrzej Seweryn, Georges Corraface

Synopsis: Director Peter Brook collaborates with writer Jean-Claude Carriére for this screen adaptation of the epic, 100,000-stanza Sanskrit poem tracing mankind's quest for universal truth as explored through the ongoing conflict between two warring families - the Pandavas and the Kauravas. Originally a Read More

Na Srebrnym Globie

Actors: Andrzej Seweryn, Grazyna Dylag, Jerzy Trela, Waldemar Kownacki, Iwona Bielska

Synopsis: The labyrinthine plot deals with a group of space researchers who left the Earth to find freedom. Their spaceship crashes and they land on the dark side of the Moon. They all die except one and leave a lot of children who eventually turn to shamanism and fire worship. They call the last survivor Read More

Le Mal D'Aimer

Actors: Robin Renucci, Isabelle Pasco, Carole Bouquet, Piera Degli Esposti, Erland Josephson

Synopsis: Physician Robert Briand (Robin Renucci) runs a leper colony in the 15th century that takes in new residents who suffer from the ravages of syphilis. When the beautiful Marie-Blanche (Isabelle Pasco) is brought to the grim, prison-like facility, Robert finds she displays no apparent signs of Read More

La Femme De Ma Vie

Actors: Jane Birkin, Christophe Malavoy, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Béatrice Agenin, Andrzej Seweryn

Synopsis: The personal tragedy of an alcoholic hemmed in by a domineering wife is the focus of this drama of hope lost and regained. Simon (Christophe Malavoy) is a solo violinist in an orchestra managed by his wife Laura (Jane Birkin). Haunted by specters of his own inadequacy, he loses his insecurities in Read More

Qui Trop Embrasse

Actors: Anne Wiazemsky, Tonie Marshall, Andrzej Seweryn, Michel Gautier

Synopsis: How couples unite, interact, separate, reunite or find other partners is the focus of this off-beat romantic drama by Jacques Davila. The links in this chain begin with Christian and Nathalie, who are coworkers and friends. Christian discovers that his lover Francoise is having an affair, and Read More

Rosa

Actors: Andrzej Seweryn, Daniel Olbrychski, Eva Kotamanidou

Synopsis: This is a story of how the conflicted feelings of people in rebellion against imposed social conditions can lead to dangerous situations in which the rebels risk their own lives. This film won several awards at the 1982 Thessaloniki Film Festival (Best Director, Actress, Photography, Music, Sets Read More

Danton

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Patrice Chéreau, Angela Winkler, Boguslaw Linda

Synopsis: In 1982, legendary Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda fled his homeland and relocated in France to direct this powerful story about the ethical boundaries of power and leadership, which had many parallels to Poland's volatile political situation in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Danton (Gérard Depardieu Read More

Man of Iron

Actors: Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Krystyna Janda, Marian Opania, Irene Byrska, Boguslaw Linda

Synopsis: Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda's sequel to his immensely well-received Man of Marble covers some of the same ground: the relationship of labor leaders to their communist political masters and the difficulties the media encounters in covering that story. But it adds an exceptionally timely element Read More

Golem

Actors: Krystyna Janda, Joanna Zolkowska, Krzysztof Majchrzak, Mariusz Dmochowski

Synopsis: In this futuristic sci-fi film, based on the legends of the Golem, insane scientists have invented technology that give them total control over the half-human, half-android population of Earth. Trouble ensues when one of the creatures begins showing independent will. He must be destroyed lest he Read More

Kung-Fu

Actors: Teresa Sawicka, Piotr Fronczewski, Daniel Olbrychski, Andrzej Seweryn, Krzysztof Janczar

Synopsis: No, this film was not made in Hong Kong, nor does it star David Carradine. This Kung-Fu comes from, of all places, Poland. The film's protagonist is in his own way as destructive as Bruce Lee; the trouble is, he succeeds only in destroying himself. A well-liked engineer in a huge company, our hero Read More

Dyrygent

Actors: John Gielgud, Krystyna Janda, Andrzej Seweryn

Synopsis: Polish director Andrzej Wajda had a habit of switching gears between socially conscious films and pure box-office entertainments. The Conductor, released in Poland in 1979 as Dyrygent, falls into the latter category. John Gielgud stars as an old and venerated orchestra conductor, making his annual Read More

Bez Znieczulenia

Actors: Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Ewa Dalkowska, Andrzej Seweryn, Krystyna Janda, Roman Wilhelmi

Synopsis: Jerzy Michalowski is a journalist who has been licensed by the Polish State to travel abroad. He researches stories and at the same time represents the country in journalistic circles. When, on a foreign broadcast, he displays a much too-thorough knowledge of the actual state of affairs inside Read More

Bestia

The Promised Land

Actors: Daniel Olbrychski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Andrzej Seweryn, Tadeusz Bialoszczynski, Anna Nehrebecka

Synopsis: Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda adapted his 1975 effort Land of Promise (Ziemia Obiecana) from an 1897 novel by Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont. The story concerns three Polish laborers of vastly different social, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds. Unlike many of their recalcitrant contemporaries, the Read More

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