Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Date of Birth: 19 Jan 1922
Biography: Polish film director and screenwriter of Armenian descent, Member of Parliament of communist era.
Total Credits at Criticker: 17 (Director), 15 (Writer)
Find more information about Jerzy Kawalerowicz at The Internet Movie Database
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Marcus Vinicius meets Lygia in Rome and falls in love. But she is Christian and doesn't want anything to do with him. Marcus decides to kidnap her but Ursus, her bodyguard, catches Marcus. After that, Lygia falls in love, but Marcus must go to meet Nero. After the meeting somebody told Marcus that Nero burnt Rome. Marcus decides to go back to Rome and find Lygia.
A man, Jerzy, enters a train set for the Baltic coast. He seems to be on the run from something. He has to share sleeping-compartment with a woman who also seems to be on the run. Eventually we get to know that the police are looking for an escaped murderer. Is it really Jerzy they are looking for? (imdb)
Set in the 17th century. A convent in a small town is being visited by high-ranking Catholic official trying to exorcise the nun supposedly posessed by demons. A local priest have been burnt for creating this condition by sexual temptation of the nuns, especially the Mother superior who bring on the collective hysteria of the group.... (imdb)
The events leading up to a possible murder are examined via Rashomon-like flashbacks, each from a different narrator. This thriller examines both the political shifts in Poland from WWII into the Iron Curtain era along with the accompanying fear.
The end of the 20th Egyptian dynasty sees the empire showing signs of deterioration. In the east, the Assyrians are rapidly expanding their empire, which threatens both Phoenicia and Israel. Meanwhile, the power behind the throne of Rameses XII lies with the select body of the priests. These worshippers of the gods Amon and Osiris jealously fight to guard their positions of influence as rulers of Egypt. (amazon.co.uk)
Set in the Polish Galicia in 1914, on the eve of World War I. Three nationalities are living in the area: Polish, Ukrainian and Jewish. The country inn (Austeria in Galician) is run by an old and wise Jew, Tag. The neighboring village is abandoned by the Jews, who left only few steps ahead of advancing Cossacks. Soon the inn is full of desperate Jews, there is also an Austrian baroness on the run and an Hungarian hussar cut off from his unit. (imdb)
The Polish-language social drama Celuloza (AKA Cellulose, 1954) witnesses the travails of a young man from a low economic strata (Józef Nowak) whose life turns a corner when he secures a job for a cellulose manufacturer in the big city. He subsequently undergoes radical politicization via repeated contact with his fellow workers and observation of their daily burdens. (allmovie.com)
Set at the historic moment of rebirth of Poland after World War I. The newly organized National Assembly elected Gabriel Narutowicz, a professor returning home from Switzerland to enter public life, as the first President in the history of Polish Republic. The film shows the turmoil leading to Narutowicz's election by a National Assembly divided between Polish Nationalists and the minorities, comprising one third of the population... (imdb)
It's 1973. The family Bronstein is a german jewish family who lives in East Berlin. Hans, the 18-year old son of Arno Bronstein, travels to the summer house of his parents with his girlfriend Martha. In the house they discover a prisoner, a man in chains. This man was a kapo at the same Nazi concentration camp where Arno and his friends were prisoned. Hans starts an argument with his father, because he's against this vigilantism.
Maddalena tells the story of a woman who is desperate to find real love in a real steady relationship on the one hand, and a priest who is doubting his ability to cope with celibacy on the other hand. (imdb)
The film shows the story of Szczesny, the main character of movie "Celuloza". The story consists of the CPP activists fighting the regime sanacja. In this street demonstrations, secret printing, exposing the provocateurs and their liquidation. The second parallel theme is love of Szczesny and activist of the party Magda. (wikipedia)
On the island of Saint Helena, a prisoner Napoleon resisted allies who, through the voice of the English governor, Hudson Lowe, tried to humiliate him, break him, poison him in the figurative sense of the word, and perhaps literally. (imdb)
Takes place on an ocean liner from Canada to Poland. It is a story of several people with pasts and problems stemming from uncomfortable confrontations. The main confrontation is between a Polish doctor with a heart condition meeting a man he knew before. Neither of them was willing to admit their differences from the college days. The meeting torments the doctor enough to start him drinking and dying of a heart attack. (imdb)
Roza (Lucyna Winnicka) marries a promising young architect, Juliusz (Roland Glowacki). They have a blissful life together for the first few months, but then World War II breaks out. (Wikipedia)
