Lech KowalskiFilmography

Occupation:
Actor, Director, Editor, Cinematographer, Producer, Screenwriter

  • East of Paradise

    Crew: Camera Operator, Director, Editor, Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Filmmaker Lech Kowalski explores his belief that struggle is "the epitome of living" in this documentary which compares the wildly different life experiences of himself and his mother. Kowalski's mother came of age in Poland during the early stages of World War II, and after failed attempts to Read More

    2005

  • Hey is Dee Dee Home

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In this hourlong documentary, culled primarily from a 1991 interview with filmmaker Lech Kowalski, the late punk pioneer Dee Dee Ramone discusses his storied career - both as a musician and as an on-again, off-again drug addict. Taking its title from the Ramones anthem "Chinese Rocks," the film is Read More

    2003

  • The Boot Factory

    Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor

    Synopsis: When at a critical artistic and financial juncture, most bands either disband entirely or reform into another band with a few changes in personnel. Almost no band sidelines its musical endeavors entirely in order to reform into a moderately successful and highly-fashionable boot manufacturing Read More

    2002

  • On Hitler's Highway

    Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Screenwriter

    Actors: Lech Kowalski

    Synopsis: Hitler's Highway is the first film in a trilogy of documentaries (the other two are The Boot Factory and East of Paradise) exploring director Lech Kowalski's roots in Poland, punk rock, and the effects of history on both from World War II to the present. The documentary is told by Kowalski's video Read More

    2002

  • A Cuban Legend: The Story of Salvador Gonzalez

    Crew: Cinematographer, Producer

    2002

  • Born To Lose: The Last Rock 'N' Roll Movie

    Crew: Director, Editor, Producer

    Actors: Dee Dee Ramone, Johnny Thunders, Willy Deville, Stiv Bators

    Synopsis: Veteran documentary filmmaker and hipster Lech Kowalski creates this film about his friend and hard-partying rock god Johnny Thunders, member of legendary proto-punk band the New York Dolls. Through archive footage and interviews with such musicians as Dee Dee Ramone and Sylvain Sylvain, the film Read More

    1999

  • Chico and the People

    Crew: Director

    1992

  • Rock Soup

    Crew: Director, Editor, Producer

    1991

  • Gringo

    Crew: Co-producer, Director

    Synopsis: Gringo: The Story of a Junkie is direct cinema documentarian Lech Kowalski's third feature, completed after DOA, his seminal portrait of punk rock in America. The title junkie, John Spacely, was a fixture on the streets of New York City's Lower East Side in the 1980s and early '90s. His daily Read More

    1985

  • D.O.A.: A Right of Passage

    Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Producer

    Actors: The Sex Pistols, Sham 69, Generation X, X-Ray Spex

    Synopsis: Though principally a documentary of the Sex Pistols' 1978 American tour (the only one they did with Sid Vicious), Lech Kowalski's early-'80s film D.O.A. also covers the early punk scene as a whole. There is much footage of other early (and mostly British) punk bands, filmed far away from the Pistols Read More

    1981

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