Henryk BistaFilmography

Dwa Ksiezyce

Synopsis: This Polish slice-of-life film, set in pre-WW II, offers a glimpse of life in a small resort where two social classes converge. On one hand there is the elite class of bourgeoisie tourists who come there to paint, write, and reflect upon their deserved fortune. On the other, there are the peasants Read More

Pora na Czarownice

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

Mau Mau

Actors: Henryk Bista, Peter Franke

Synopsis: For Inge, the bar she owns is an avocation and a vocation, entertainment and business all in one. On top of that, she gets her own drinking done at wholesale prices, so for her there are a lot of advantages to the arrangement. She gets to be involved in the lives of her clients as much as she Read More

Biale Malzenstwo

Porno

Actors: Katarzyna Figura

Synopsis: As he sleeplessly tosses and turns in his bed, the middle-aged protagonist of this Polish film (played by Zbigniew Rola) remembers his many purely sexual encounters with women who were as determined to achieve sexual release as he was. These couplings are shown in the form of flashbacks, and his Read More

Pozegnanie Jesieni

Actors: Jan Peszek

Synopsis: In this story, the career of an oversexed petty tyrant during the pre-communist period in Poland is followed as he moves back and forth from the boardroom to the bedrooms of his wife and his various male and female lovers. Despite his arrogant ways, he winds up being a victim many times over, his Read More

Historia Niemoralna

Actors: Dorota Stalinska, Teresa Budzisz-Krzyzanowska, Michal Bajor, Olaf Lubaszenko

Synopsis: Ewa (Dorota Stalinska) was once a big-name actress. Now she is a drunk, washed-up has-been, living in a very ordinary apartment. She doesn't know how to sincerely express any concern for anyone but herself, and her dreams of returning to prominence as a singer or making a theatrical comeback are Read More

Konsul

Actors: Piotr Fronczewski, Maria Pakulnis, Krzysztof Zaleski, Jerzy Bonczak, Gustaw Lutkiewicz

Synopsis: For con men, the game of trickery is at least as important as any monetary reward they might seek. In this wry Polish film, a con-man (Piotr Fronczewski) has just been released from prison. A real artist of conmanship, he starts back at his old tricks slowly, but his deceptions grow ever more Read More

Lawa

Actors: Maja Komorowska, Gustaw Holoubek, Artur Zmijewski, Henryk Bista

Synopsis: Director Tadeus Konwicki adapted his screenplay for Lawa from the famous Adam Mickewicz poem Dziady In slow, symbolic fashion, the film recounts the loss of Polish independence. Gustav Holoubez plays the Mickewicz counterpart, while Maja Komorawska essays the dual role of the Pilgrim and the Read More

The Decalogue 10

Actors: Jerzy Stuhr, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Henryk Bista, Olaf Lubaszenko, Maciej Stuhr

Synopsis: Jerzy (Jerzy Stuhr) trades a kidney for a rare stamp, only to see a twist of fate underline his folly. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

Zaklyatie Doliny Zmei

Actors: Krzysztof Kolberger, Roman Vilgelmi, Eva Salatska, Zbignev Lesen, Leon Nemchik

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

Zycie Wewnetrzne

Actors: Wojciech Wysocki, Maria Probosz

Synopsis: Wojciech is nothing if not difficult, bitter, vituperative, cynical and suspicious. In this black comedy, he is also a quintessential victim of circumstances. Nothing seems to go right in his life, and this, it seems, is as it should be. As he tells his mousy wife, whom he hates with a special Read More

Luk Erosa

Actors: Jerzy Stuhr, Henryk Bista, Olaf Lubaszenko, Janusz Michalowski

Synopsis: This erotic drama based on the novel by Julius Kaden Bandrowski takes place in Poland during World War I. The heroine, Maryska (Grazyna Trela) is an aristocrat whose husband is missing in action. Rather than mourning his absence, she promptly falls into bed with Professor Ciaglewicz (Jerry Stuhr) Read More

Between the Cup and the Lip

Actors: Jacek Chmielnik, Katarzyna Gniewkowska, Henryk Bista, Anna Wesolowska, Monika Marciniak

Sceny Dzieciece A Zycia Prowincji

Synopsis: This meticulously produced 153-minute character study explores the iniquities of class consciousness in contemporary Poland. A teacher of modest means moves in with a wealthy family in order to tutor their good-looking daughter. Love blooms, but the family is convinced that the tutor is merely a Read More

Yesterday

Synopsis: Named for a 1965 Beatles' song, this standard teen drama is about a quartet of students who form a band with the express purpose of playing Beatles' music for a special concert at graduation time. Short on cash, they more or less hotwire some makeshift amplifying equipment and then proceed to Read More

O-Bi, O-Ba - Koniec Cywilizacji

Actors: Jerzy Stuhr, Krystyna Janda, Kalina Jedrusik, Mariusz Dmochowski, Marek Walczewski

Synopsis: In a murky, sometimes confusing tale about a future dystopia in which people are waiting -- and waiting -- for a rescue ship called the Ark, there are several good one-liners, but they are outnumbered by the puzzling riddles and symbolism that permeate the story. The flotsam and jetsam of humanity Read More

Wierna Rzeka

Actors: Malgorzata Pieczynska, Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Franciszek Pieczka, Henryk Bista

Synopsis: A bloody national rebellion tears apart Poland in this historical drama. Duke Odrowaz (Olgierd Lukaszewicz) is a wounded nobleman who is the only survivor of a violent battle. He is given refuge in a burned-out manor by Salomea (Malgorzata Pieczynska), the daughter of a local land steward. She Read More

Wizja Lokalna 1901

Actors: Tadeusz Lomnicki, Daniel Olbrychski, Jerzy Stuhr, Henryk Bista, Wieslaw Drzewica

Synopsis: More documentary in its approach than dramatized history, this is a compelling story about a 1901 children's strike in Wrzesnia near the Polish border with Prussia. Poland was partitioned at this time, and a rigidly patriotic Prussian teacher in Wrzesnia follows the dictates of the Germans in Read More

Szpital Przemienienia

Actors: Gustaw Holoubek, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz

Synopsis: In the early years of World War II at a mental hospital in Poland, the staff is nearly as batty as the patients. Alongside the chronic mentally ill are a number of voluntary admissions, including a writer who is experiencing difficulties from both his state-of-mind and his drug addiction. A Read More

Wsrod Nocnej Ciszy

Actors: Tomasz Zaliwski, Piotr Lysak

Synopsis: This detective thriller joins the search for a serial killer whose target is boys between the ages of eight and eleven. The police commissioner is puzzled to find that the clues lead to his own home. It seems that he has been having an adversarial relationship with his teenaged son, and the boy Read More

Smierc Prezydenta

Actors: Zdzislaw Mrozewski, Marek Walczewski, Jerzy Duszynski

Synopsis: 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. Read More