Wojciech KilarFilmography

Welcome

A young Kurdish refugee finds friendship from an unlikely source in Welcome, writer-director Philippe Lioret's dramatic...

And A Warm Heart

In this moral fable from Poland, Konstanty (Bohdan Stupka) is a wealthy and amoral man who has made his fortune running a...

We Own the Night

Set against the backdrop of the bloody battle waged between New York City cops and the Russian mafia in the 1980s, director...

Persona non grata

Zemsta

One of the most important figures in the Polish cinema, director Andrzej Wajda, teams up with the nation's most famous...

The Pianist

Filmmaker Roman Polanski, who as a boy growing up in Poland watched while the Nazis devastated his country during World War...

Suplement

Directed by Krzysz Zanussi, this Polish film centers around the ethical dillemas of Tomasz Berg (Zbigniew Zapasiewicz), a...

Zycie Jako Smiertelna Choroba Przenoszona Droga Plciowa

The title of this film -- taken from graffiti on a wall near director Krzysztof Zanussi's home -- provides ironic commentary...

The Ninth Gate

An authority on rare books is drawn into a confrontation with the forces of darkness in this thriller directed by...

Pan Tadeusz

Legendary Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda adapts a nationally treasured epic poem to the silver screen. For 400 years,...

Tydzien z zycia mezczyny

Jerzy Stuhr wrote, directed, and starred in this drama about a man sworn to uphold the law who applies a very different moral...

Our God's Brother

For this Italian-Polish-German co-production, Krzysztof Zanussi adapted the 1949 play Brat Naszego Boga by Karol Wojtyla, aka...

Fantome Avec Chauffeur

Aimed at younger audiences, this special-effects filled French comedy centers on the afterlife adventures of two recently...

The Portrait of a Lady

Jane Campion directed this expressive adaptation of the classic novel by Henry James. Isabel Archer (Nicole Kidman) is a...

Cwal

Set in the 1950s when Stalin was in power, this thoughtful Polish story is an autobiographical account of filmmaker...

Smierc Jak Kromka Chleba

Death and the Maiden

Ariel Dorfman's acclaimed play of the same name serves as the basis for Roman Polanski's drama, which depicts a politically...

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Based on Bram Stoker's classic 1897 novel, this film from Francis Ford Coppola and screenwriter James Victor Hart offers a...

The Silent Touch

After stumbling creatively in the 1980s due to an exile from Poland because of his ties to solidarity, director...

Zycie Za Zycie

Korczak

The life of Polish pediatrician Janusz Korczak (Wojtek Pszoniak) is the subject of Andrzej Wajda'a docudrama. Also known as...

Stan Posiadania

Tomek (Arthur Zmijewski) is one of those rare people who follow their best instincts and get away with it. In this story,...

Gdzieskolwiek Jest, Jeslis Jest...

This Polish political melodrama examines the days leading up to the German invasion of Poland and centers upon two...

La Table Tournante

Paul Grimault and Jacques Demy collaborated to create this unconventional retrospective of Grimault's career. One of the...

Kronika Wypadkow Milosnych

The futility of war was one of Polish director Andrzej Wajda's major themes, and he explored it from nearly every perspective...

Paradigma

In a befuddling look at the nature of evil (apparently linked with how much money one has), a young idealist finds himself in...

Na Strazy Swej Stac Bede

Director Kazimierz Kutz has set off the extreme virtues of Jan Klimza (Krysztof Kolberger), a good resistance fighter who...

A Year of the Quiet Sun

The Polish Year of the Quiet Sun is set in the years following World War II. In a small Polish town, a United Nations...

Blaubart

In this made-for-television courtroom drama, a modern Bluebeard with multiple lovers has been charged with the murder of one...

Imperativ

Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi once more explores the dilemma of intellectualism at the expense of humanity in 1982's...

Blind Chance

Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski's Blind Chance was originally titled Przypadek. Boguslaw Linda plays a middle-aged man...

Die Unerreichbare

Klaudia (Leslie Caron) once starred in movies and on the stage, but now she is wealthy enough to retire to her exclusive...

Versuchung

Ludwig (Helmut Griem) loves his wife Martha (Maja Komorowska) very much, something that is first apparent when they leave...

Z Dalekiego Kraju

Premiering on American television on December 29, 1981, From a Far Country: Pope John Paul II was originally an...

Le Roi et l'Oiseau

A triumph of animation for both children and adults, this engaging story was adapted from the fairy tale of The Shepherdess...

Kontrakt

Bearing traces of the old Anton Chekhov play The Wedding, The Contract is set during an "arranged" ceremony. The bride and...

Constans

The main character in this effective, convincing drama is Witold (Tadeusz Bradecki) who is high in what later would be termed...

Paciorki Jednego Rózanca

The 116 minutes of the Polish Beads of One Rosary passes rather quickly and pleasantly, even though the cast is comprised of...

Wege in der Nacht

Friedrich, a cultured, aristocratic young officer in the German army forms a romantic relationship with Elzbieta, a Polish...

David

David (Mario Fische) is the son of a German rabbi during the early days of the Holocaust. The boy is a horrified witness to...

Spirala

In what appears to be an inexplicable incident, a man drives up to a resort hotel in midwinter, throws away his car keys,...

Anatomie Stunde

Barwy Ochronne

A group of students who are participating in a university's summer science camp are drawn into an incredible quagmire of...

Leper

This classical romantic melodrama, based on the novel by Helena Miniszkowna, is retold without any hint of irreverence, even...

Smuga Cienia

Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 1976 Polish Film Festival, this drama from director Andrzej Wajda was based on the...

Bilans Kwartalny

Krzysztof Zanussi's 1974 feature Bilans Kwartalny (aka The Quarterly Balance) represented the filmmaker's first attempt to...

Nachtdienst

The Promised Land

Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda adapted his 1975 effort Land of Promise (Ziemia Obiecana) from an 1897 novel by...

Drzwi W Murze

Playwrighting is not a particularly lucrative profession, so the playwright in this movie must stay with a hospitable family...

Iluminacja

Illuminacja follows the education of a young man from his entry into college to his final achievement of a doctorate....

Hipoteza

Zazdrosc I Medycyna

Perla W Koronie

This is the second and more realistic of two films made by Kazimierz Kutz and set in the Silesian coal mines -- the other...

Znaki Na Drodze

Following his release from prison for "diversion" of government property, Michal (Tadeusz Jancsar) gets a job at a plant...

Zycie Rodzinne

Zycie Rodzinne (Family Life, 1970), Krzysztof Zanussi's follow-up to his 1969 The Structure of Crystals, begins with an...

Die Rolle

Rejs

Life in Poland is satirized in this standard comedy drama about a group of people who take a short cruise together, a brief...

Lokis

A pastor stays at the home of a young nobleman when he comes to study folklore in Estonia. A local doctor tells the pastor...

Sól Ziemi Czarnej

A Polish father and his seven sons fight the Germans when their region in Upper Silenia becomes part of Germany after the...

Struktura Krysztalu

The prolific Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi's debut feature, Struktura Krysztalu (The Structure of Crystals, 1969), is a...

Molo

After completing a project, a shipbuilder grows restless and travels the country on his motorcycle. He leaves behind his...

Czerwone i Zlote

An elderly nursing-home resident escapes on a mission to find the wife of a man who died after making a startling...

Lalka

A successful businessman has no outside interest and leads a lonely life away from work. He falls in love with a tantalizing...

Westerplatte Broni Sie Nadal

Nazis who invade Poland in 1939 are met with heroic resistance from the locals near the Northern fort of Westerplatte. The...

Stall on Savlador

Polish resistance fighters battle against Nazi occupation during World War II. A key rebel leader is arrested by the Gestapo...

Chudy I Inni

A group of workers building a dam combine forces for the good of the country to complete the project in this adventure drama...

Sami Swoi

This Polish black comedy was initially released as Sami Swoi. The protagonists are members of two Eastern Polish families,...

Salto

In this Polish comedy-drama, a stranger jumps off a train and ends up in a tiny village. He begins claiming that he has been...

Marysia I Napoleon

The Eagle director Leonard Buczkowski takes the helm for this tale of the forbidden love shared between Napoleon Bonaparte...

Bumerang

Jutro Meksyk

Giuseppe W Warszawie

Dauntless resistance member Maria (Elzbieta Czyzweska) finds her life unexpectedly complicated when an Italian deserter...

The Echo

In this Polish drama, a man's past catches up with him and destroys his new life. Though he is a good father and a loving...

Milczenie

When a priest is blinded from a bomb explosion, a young boy is blamed for the accident. The priest remains silent even...

Czerwone Berety

Glos Z Tamtego Swiata

A charlatan doctor and an equally fake medium offer their own brand of palliatives to a series of gullible people in this...