Krzysztof Penderecki

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Polacy Polacy
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Polacy Polacy

May 28, 2003

Polacy Polacy
2003 28 min 1 vues
For decades the photographer Krzysztof Gierłatowski has portrayed eminent Polish figures, thus creating an invaluable visual testimony. This time his "victims" are well-known citizens of Kraków: Stanisław Lem, one of the most brilliant, versatile, and unapologetically cerebral science fiction writers, author of 'Solaris'; Krzysztof Penderecki, one of the most esteemed and widely discussed Polish composers of the 20th century; and Wisława Szymborska, Nobel laureate in Literature in 1996, one of the few women poets who has received the Swedish prize. Gierłatowski assumes the role of a modern Stańczyk, a legendary thinker-jester, prophesying on the historical Polish Republic in his dramatic conviction that History annihilated the intellectual elite of his nation and the future will bring awe and destruction.
Documentary
Martin Slivka – „...muž, ktorý sadil stromy“
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Martin Slivka – „...muž, ktorý sadil stromy“

Sep 27, 2007

Martin Slivka – „...muž, ktorý sadil stromy“
2007 90 min 1 vues
A tribute to Martin Slivka, one of the most important personalities of Slovak cinematography and culture. He was the creator of Slovak documentary ethnographic film, director, screenwriter, dramaturgist, film theoretician, pedagogue, author and ethnograph, but mainly – exceptional person. This documentary is not only a remembrance of maestro Slivka through words of his close friends and colleagues, but also an attempt to slightly uncover the secret of his rich life and work.
Documentary
Beth Gibbons: Henryk Górecki: Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs)
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Beth Gibbons: Henryk Górecki: Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs)

Mar 29, 2019

Beth Gibbons: Henryk Górecki: Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs)
2019 50 min 1 vues
Beth Gibbons (vocalist for acclaimed UK band Portishead) was formally invited to Poland in 2014 to sing soprano at Warsaw’s Grand Theatre. This performance forms the basis of the film and album titled Henryk Górecki: Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs) performed by Beth Gibbons and the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Krzysztof Penderecki.
Music
Bolimorfia
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Bolimorfia

Jan 01, 2008

Bolimorfia
2008 7 min 1 vues
In this video, with every minute, the artist's body becomes more and more machine, element of a perfectly working clock mechanism, it becomes ornament; to the extent that at some point a new “organism” emerges, with the many Anetas playing the role of head, hands, torso, legs.
Animation
Don Juan
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Don Juan

Jun 01, 1963

Don Juan
1963 10 min 1 vues
The adventures of a classic "podrywacz" character known from Molière's drama and Byron's poem, who has not lost popularity until today. All this is shown with a pinch of salt, in a grotesque form of a cut-out film, reminiscent of the comic book editions of "Trzy Muszkieterów".
Animation
Persephone
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Persephone

Sep 06, 2016

Persephone
2016 3 min 1 vues
Persephone combines an excerpt from Penderecki’s “Cello Concerto No 1” with a static image of a shivering cat, emerging from the shade.
La casa con le finestre ad archi
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La casa con le finestre ad archi

Jan 01, 2000

La casa con le finestre ad archi
2000 72 min 1 vues
Seen from the outside, it’s an old arch-windowed house overlooking a field isolated from the center of the village. But the rooms of this dark haven of demons hide unimaginable secrets. It was within those very four walls that an artist ordained to Lucifer killed himself with a razor blade in the winter of 1931. Many occultists maintain that his ghost still wanders like a shadowy agent of evil, desecrating the bodies of those who come too close to his hypnotic, diabolical allure...
Horror
Hamlet x 5
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Hamlet x 5

Jan 01, 1970

Hamlet x 5
1970 16 min 1 vues
Five interpretations of Hamlet's monologue.
Documentary
Gorycz
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Gorycz

Jan 01, 1962

Gorycz
1962 7 min 1 vues
An anti-alcohol poster full of bitterness. Artistic compositions made of bottles and alcohol labels tell the story of drinking alcohol – it starts from drinking alcohol as a young person and ends with the death on the operating table.
Animation
Pułapka
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Pułapka

Jan 01, 1962

Pułapka
1962 10 min 1 vues
Ijon Tichy arrives on a new planet in a single-person spacecraft. His habits and fantasies are with him. The aliens recreate the sex bomb from the poster that could be found in the cabin of his spacecraft. Then, they present him a live dummy. A male-female evening in space with some pre-war music hits becomes possible.
Animation
Day
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Day

Oct 10, 2021

Day
2021 17 min 1 vues
An experimental short film shot on iPhone 7 Plus during the first year of the COVID-19 outbreak. The film depicts a young man's love for arts and his struggle to coexist with his personas.
Drama
Wycieczka w kosmos
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Wycieczka w kosmos

Jun 29, 1961

Wycieczka w kosmos
1961 11 min 1 vues
An elderly traveler arrives on an alien planet. The natives greet him friendly. Cosmic virgins want to clone the guest so that each of them would have him for herself. The man from planet Earth manages to escape, but his clones remain where they are.
Animation
Czar kółek
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Czar kółek

Jan 01, 1966

Czar kółek
1966 7 min 1 vues
A swarm of locusts teases a herd of horses. A four-wheeled vehicle drives into the herd. It pulls behind its riders, the horses, and the insects. The gallop is more and more dynamic, gravediggers prepare coffins for crazy drivers.
Animation
Bulandra i diabeł
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Bulandra i diabeł

Jan 01, 1959

Bulandra i diabeł
1959 9 min 1 vues
Bulandra the miner explores the underground and wins gold from its inhabitant, an old spirit. Little does he know that the Devil will cause mischief to him once he gets out.
Animation
Les Gauloises bleues
5.4

Les Gauloises bleues

Jun 07, 1969

Les Gauloises bleues
1969 93 min 5 vues
The harsh life of a troubled young man provides the basis of this grim French tragedy that begins when the fellow stops into a shop to buy a pack of the title cigarettes. There he meets a pretty shop girl with whom he falls in love and eventually marries. It was a foolish choice, for the two cannot get along and constantly fight. Things get worse when the husband resumes his criminal activities and gets caught. The two are about to divorce when the woman gets pregnant. The time comes for their baby to be born and while sitting in the waiting room, the husband reflects upon his past activities, which are revealed via flashback.
Drama
Cada ver es...
6.1

Cada ver es...

Nov 21, 1983

Cada ver es...
1983 75 min 5 vues
The life and thoughts of Juan Manuel Espada, keeper in charge of the morgue sited at the Medicine University of Valencia.
Documentary
Demon
5.9

Demon

Oct 16, 2015

Demon
2015 90 min 131 vues
A bridegroom is possessed by an unquiet spirit in the midst of his own wedding celebration, in this clever take on the Jewish legend of the dybbuk.
Drama
Generał i mucha
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Generał i mucha

Jan 01, 1961

Generał i mucha
1961 10 min 1 vues
A Prussian general instructs his soldiers how to get rid of the storks bringing new lives. He turns the conscripts into cannon fodder, and he can't deal with one fly himself.
Animation
Совість
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Совість

Jan 01, 1968

Совість
1968 75 min 7 vues
When a partisan attack on a Nazi officer sets off a chain of brutal recriminations, the inhabitants of a German-occupied Ukrainian village are faced with a sickening dilemma lest they not disclose the whereabouts of the fugitives at large.
War
Inventorium Śladów
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Inventorium Śladów

Feb 03, 2009

Inventorium Śladów
2009 23 min 1 vues
In the Renaissance castle of the Polish count - Jan Potocki - in Lancut, the modern traces of a past glory persevere and become visible again at the tones of Krzysztof Penderecki's music and Brothers Quay's imaginary animation.
Documentary
Je t'aime, je t'aime
6.6

Je t'aime, je t'aime

Apr 24, 1968

Je t'aime, je t'aime
1968 94 min 82 vues
In the Renaissance castle of the Polish count - Jan Potocki - in Lancut, the modern traces of a past glory persevere and become visible again at the tones of Krzysztof Penderecki's music and Brothers Quay's imaginary animation.
Drama
Ikony
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Ikony

Jan 01, 1966

Ikony
1966 14 min 1 vues
A film about Slovak icons painted in the period of the late 15th to the early 19th centuries, when original Byzantine icon was ending in Slovak folk art.
Documentary
Odosobnení
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Odosobnení

Jan 01, 1966

Odosobnení
1966 7 min 1 vues
Documentary illustrating the classic principles of Byzantine iconography on the examples of sixteen icons from a museum of ancient Greek art.
Documentary
Szyfry
6.6

Szyfry

Dec 25, 1966

Szyfry
1966 80 min 7 vues
An elderly man returns to Poland to find his long-lost son, missing since World War II. In his quest the man is forced to contemplate the elusive and coded nature of truth itself.
Drama
Тишина
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Тишина

Jan 21, 1991

Тишина
1991 86 min 1 vues
A young sculptor has been preparing his first exhibition for years. In the autumn of 1962 it becomes a fact. The show provokes a scandal in the society.
Drama
Die Teufel von Loudun
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Die Teufel von Loudun

Jul 02, 1969

Die Teufel von Loudun
1969 107 min 1 vues
This opera revolves around the demonic collective possession suffered by the Ursuline nuns in the convent of Loudun in 1634. The story concentrates on the handsome but doomed Urbain Grandier who fights against fanaticism and evil.
Music
Die Teufel von Loudun
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Die Teufel von Loudun

Jul 02, 1969

Die Teufel von Loudun
1969 107 min 1 vues
This opera revolves around the demonic collective possession suffered by the Ursuline nuns in the convent of Loudun in 1634. The story concentrates on the handsome but doomed Urbain Grandier who fights against fanaticism and evil.
Music
Porwanie
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Porwanie

Jan 01, 1962

Porwanie
1962 9 min 1 vues
The little naughty bunny is kidnapped by a fox and a wolf.
Animation
Katyń
6.727

Katyń

Sep 21, 2007

Katyń
2007 122 min 245 vues
The little naughty bunny is kidnapped by a fox and a wolf.
Drama
Shining
8.2

Shining

May 23, 1980

Shining
1980 144 min 17765 vues
The little naughty bunny is kidnapped by a fox and a wolf.
Horror
Malarze gdańscy
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Malarze gdańscy

Jan 01, 1964

Malarze gdańscy
1964 20 min 1 vues
This film shows the artistic milieu at the Baltic Coast formerly knows as the “Sopot School”. In the film we can only see the remnants of this group, the individual artists, the differences and similarities between them, as well as the inspiration they draw from the environment of the coastal city.
Documentary
Passacaglia na Kaplicę Zygmuntowską
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Passacaglia na Kaplicę Zygmuntowską

Jan 01, 1966

Passacaglia na Kaplicę Zygmuntowską
1966 18 min 1 vues
A film impression showing the Royal Sigismond’s Chapel at the Wawel Castle as an interior with a unique and abundant collection of sculptures. It brings to light details of construction and presents them in close-ups which makes it possible to profoundly appreciate the richness of figures and ornamental sculptures in that exquisite monument of the Renaissance style in Poland.
Documentary