Andrzej Łapicki
1924 - 2012
The Promised Land
Andrzej Wajda
Daniel Olbrychski, Wojciech Pszoniak
The Polish film based on the book of the same name by Wladyslaw Reymont. Taking place in the nineteenth century town of Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion shown through the eyes of one Polish town.
The Promised Land
A Cure for Love
Jan Batory
Kalina Jędrusik, Krystyna Sienkiewicz
An architect Joanna tells her friend Halina on the telephone about her love troubles and suddenly hears a nice man's voice: "The best cure for love is another love." Then she becomes a forgers dispatcher mistaken for Honorata by telephone and decides to work out a forgers secret and the secret of her new love Andrzej.
A Cure for Love
Young Girls of Wilko
Andrzej Wajda
Daniel Olbrychski, Anna Seniuk
Set in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend. He decides to go home to his aunt and uncle for a while, but gets involved with a family of five women who had been in love with him at one time though he had apparently loved only one, who, unknown to him, has died since his departure. The women are mainly disillusioned with life or estranged from husbands while the youngest has a crush on him.
Young Girls of Wilko
The Gorgon Case
Janusz Majewski
Ewa Dałkowska, Aleksander Bardini
In 1931, just before the New Year, in a house of architect Henryk Zaremba scream rips the night. The daughter of Zaremba is found killed in her bedroom, obviously killed with a pickaxe. The police arrives and starts the investigation. Rita Gorgonova, the governess of the girl and also lover of Zaremba becomes the main suspect. Film based on real events - investigation and court trials of the most famous pre-war Polish murder case. Despite being historically accurate the movie is both involving and entertaining since the case was simple on the surface, but very complicated in details.
The Gorgon Case
The Wedding
Andrzej Wajda
Marek Walczewski, Izabela Olszewska
Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament Poland's 100-year-long division under Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The bridegroom, a painter friend, and a journalist each in turn is confronted with spectres of Polish past. In the end a call to arms is called but turns out to be a hoax.
The Wedding
Powrót
Jerzy Passendorfer
Andrzej Łapicki, Alina Janowska
Долго живший в Париже, Седой приехал в Варшаву, где когда-то воевал. Все изменилось в городе, другими стали люди, улицы и дома. Ничего не узнает Седой: Варшава живет сегодняшним днем, а он в прошлом. Седой решает, что в этом новом городе для него нет места, и возвращается в Париж.
The Return
Lalka
Wojciech Has
Beata Tyszkiewicz, Mariusz Dmochowski
Set in the 19th century Warsaw. The indolence of aristocrats who, secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condescended to. Because of his "help" (in secret) to "the doll's" impecunious but influential father, the girl becomes aware of his affection.
The Doll
Wszystko na sprzedaż
Andrzej Wajda
Beata Tyszkiewicz, Elżbieta Czyżewska
Wajda's homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, the "Polish James Dean" who starred in the director's ASHES AND DIAMONDS and died young. The movie follows the tribulations of a director attempting to make a movie with a Cybulski-like star who never shows up.
Everything for Sale
Pilatus und andere - Ein Film für Karfreitag
Andrzej Wajda
Wojciech Pszoniak, Jan Kreczmar
The trial of Yeshua Ha-Notsri is led by prosecutor Pontius Pilate who believes in the innocence of the accused but is forced to sentence him to death. This biblical story is set in present-day Germany.
Pilate and Others
