Andrzej Łapicki

AKA: Анджей Лапицкий

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1924-11-11

Ryga, Łotwa

Biography

Crew Roles

Spóźnieni przechodnie

Director

Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {73}

Trawiński

1975-02-21 7.3

The Promised Land

In nineteenth-century 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 is shown through the ...

Genre :Drama, History

A Lady's companion in "Kolorowa" (uncredited)

1957-12-09 6

Two Hours

Follows the lives of people shortly after World War 2 as they try to adjust to their new lives. Completed in 1946, it was banned from release by the communist government of Poland until 1957 in edited ...

Genre :Drama

Dr. Bogumił

1968-03-26 3.5

Poradnik matrymonialny

Roksana is the editor of the heart advice section of a widely read magazine. Her problem is the handsome and loving husband Bogumił. The man was taken to the hospital, where he is looked after by his ...

Genre :Comedy

Violinist's Executioner

1947-01-08 7.4

Forbidden Songs

Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house. ...

Genre :Music, War, Drama

Narrator (voice)

1956-01-01 6

The Children Accuse

One of several films by the Hoffman-Skórzewski duo, made as part of the "black series" of Polish documentaries showing social problems hidden from viewers behind the façade of socialist realist produc ...

Genre :Documentary

Himself (segment 5)

1962-09-03 6

Spóźnieni przechodnie

Five short stories. ...

Genre :Drama

German Officer

1981-09-15 3.9

From a Far Country

This heroic story follows the life of Karol Wojtyla, a Polish Roman catholic who ascends the throne of St. Peter as Pope John Paul II. As a young boy, Karol is a bright and talented student. Archbisho ...

Genre :Drama, History

Andrzej

1966-07-20 7.3

A Cure for Love

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 dispatc ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

Leśniewski

1947-12-25 0

Jasne łany

A young teacher educates the peasants and electrifies the village, which the local miller does not like. ...

Genre :Drama

Narrator (voice)

1950-06-01 0

The New Art

A propaganda piece of reportage from the first Polish Nationwide Art Exhibition that was held in the National Museum in Warsaw in 1950. Makarczynski’s film is a typical example of a socialist realism ...

Genre :Documentary

Narrator (voice)

1950-07-01 0

A Letter at the Editorial Office

The documentary shows the work of journalists and the importance of the press in building socialism. It is an exemplary implementation of the socialist-realist convention imposed on Polish cinema in 1 ...

Genre :Documentary

John Lane

1953-05-08 0

Soldier of Victory

Two-part biopic about General Karol Świerczewski, living embodiment of the party line, and the group of party members from his hometown fighting the fascist forces towards the socialist state of affai ...

Genre :Drama, War

Narrator

1956-12-31 6.1

Warszawa 1956

Over a decade after the almost total wartime destruction, Warsaw still looks bruised and battered. Ruined houses are nevertheless inhabited which can be dangerous for the local population. ...

Genre :Documentary

German Tourist

1971-02-12 6.8

Dancing at Hitler's Headquarters

Lives of three people intersect when they meet on a holiday in Mazury. ...

Genre :Drama

Dance Master

1969-04-23 5.7

Mistrz tańca

A mysterious man takes a writer back to the 19th century, where they meet Death. ...

Genre :Fantasy, Horror, TV Movie

Lieutenant Gorczyński

1970-01-17 7

Red Rowan

The Polish Army fights to liberate Kołobrzeg from the Germans in the final months of World War 2. ...

Genre :War

Captain Stefan Berent

1967-01-20 5.667

Where Is the Third King?

Two militia officers are assigned to a museum in an undercover assignment to protect a valuable painting from an international group of art thieves. ...

Genre :Crime

SS Officer

1950-12-07 4

Unvanquished City

Unvanquished City (Polish: Robinson warszawski, Polish: Miasto nieujarzmione) is a 1950 Polish drama film directed by Jerzy Zarzycki. It was entered into the 1951 Cannes Film Festival. ...

Genre :War, Drama

Narrator (voice)

1956-12-12 0

Rolling Mill

In February 1956, after several months of construction, the largest rolling mill in Poland, the rolling mill of the Lenin Smelter, started to operate. The viewers could see the final preparations and ...

Genre :Documentary

Narrator

1955-01-01 0

Szarlejka

Genre :Documentary

Andrzej

1972-05-05 6.4

How Far, How Near

A middle-aged man sets out on a symbolic journey through past, present, and future to learn why an old friend committed suicide, and learns much about his own life along the way. ...

Genre :Drama

Spy

1968-04-14 0

Cześć kapitanie

A spy barely makes it out of a police ambush and goes on the run, taking a young woman with him along the way. ...

Genre :Crime, TV Movie

Lord Artur Savile

1968-01-28 0

Zbrodnia lorda Artura Savile'a

The wealthy Lord Artur Savile learns from a palm reader that he's destined to become a murderer. Obsessed with the prophecy, he decides to commit the deed as quickly as possible. ...

Genre :Mystery, Crime, TV Movie

Tsar

1989-11-06 5.6

Lava

On the eve of the Day of the Dead, among mysterious old rituals of the Vilnius region, ghosts of the past and present start to appear. ...

Genre :Drama, History

Narrator (voice)

1953-01-01 6

A Railwayman's Word

A documentary about the hard work of railwaymen transporting coke from Tarnowskie Góry to Szczecin Iron works. They’re doing their best to arrive on time. ...

Genre :Documentary

Robert H. Jackson / Narrator (voice)

1971-05-07 9

Nuremberg Epilogue

Reproduction of the Nuremberg trials using transcripts, made for Polish TV. ...

Genre :Drama, History, TV Movie

Professor

1986-04-14 6

The Girls of Nowolipki

Coming of age story of four girls living in the same poor district of Warsaw just before the outbreak of World War One. ...

Genre :Drama

Captain Parrol Hartroy

1969-11-27 0

Kwestia sumienia

During the Civil War, two soldiers fighting on opposite sides meet. ...

Genre :History, War, TV Movie

Mayor

1954-01-16 0

Domek z kart

August 1939. After publishing an article criticizing the government, a journalist has to hide from the authorities. ...

Genre :Drama

Wacław Urbin

1967-12-27 0

Klub szachistów

Wacław Urbin joins an exclusive club, learning the secrets of its members. ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

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Hamlet x 5

Five interpretations of Hamlet's monologue. ...

Genre :Documentary

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Spotkanie

A man returns to his homeland after war-forced emigration. He meets his ex-wife, who has changed much due to war traumas. ...

Genre :

Priest

1999-10-18 5.4

Pan Tadeusz

A grand and patriotic tale of Poland's struggle for freedom just before Napoleon's war with Russia. Written in poetic style by Adam Mickiewicz, this story follows two feuding Polish families as they o ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Andrzej

1969-01-28 5.9

Everything for Sale

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 movi ...

Genre :Drama

Narrator (voice)

1951-02-01 3

Peace Will Win

This film describes the Second World Congress of Peace Defenders, held in Warsaw on November 16-22, 1950. Sheffield, an industrial city in England, was the initial location of the event, however, it w ...

Genre :Documentary

Ruczynski

1987-10-19 3.7

Suspended

Anna, a nurse, meets her wartime lover Marcel in 1951. Learning that he has been sentenced to death for his role in the Home Army, she hides him in her cellar for five years. She gets pregnant with hi ...

Genre :

Narrator (voice)

1951-01-01 0

The Mazovia

A treasure of Polish culture. A concert film that presents the performance of Mazowsze Song and Dance Ensemble recorded at its headquarters – the palace in Karolina (a part of the village of Otrębusy ...

Genre :Documentary

King Duncan

1969-06-30 0

Makbet

A staging of William Shakespeare's tragedy, directed in 1969 by Andrzej Wajda. The roles of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are played by Tadeusz Łomnicki and Magda Zawadzka - actors who at that time gained ...

Genre :Drama

Narrator (voice)

1955-01-01 0

Look Out, Hooligans!

A staged documentary that started the Polish Black Series. The film takes the form of a warning against indifference to the rogue behavior of hooligan groups and their pernicious effect on young peop ...

Genre :Documentary, Drama

Artur Savile (segment "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime")

1968-05-21 0

Świat grozy

Three comedy-horror TV movies released together theatrically. ...

Genre :Comedy, Horror, Crime, TV Movie

Poet

1973-01-09 7.3

The Wedding

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 ...

Genre :Drama

Pietuch

1965-06-10 6.4

Salto

A man jumps off a moving train and goes to a small town to face its inhabitants, who seem familiar, but odd. ...

Genre :Drama

Stanisław Bielecki

1980-09-23 7

The Birthday

The four sequences in the film cover four days in a life of young Warsaw lad in September 1938, 1939, 1943 and 1944. In the first sequence Jurek decides not to study in the Sorbonne but enlists in a P ...

Genre :Drama, War

Piotr Grajewski

1965-03-12 5

Back to Life Again

Three idealists - a communist secretary, a former RAF pilot and a female political activist - need to face the hardships and accusations of postwar Stalinist years before being finally rehabilitated. ...

Genre :Drama

Hulanicki

1988-09-11 5.4

Wherever You Are...

An Uruguayan diplomat brings his new wife with him on a business trip to Poland in the summer immediately preceding the outbreak of World War II. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Tomek's Father

1989-10-23 6.3

Inventory

Difficulty of human relations in a 3-cornered tale: a neurotic woman, idealistic young man and his mother. Tomek is a clean-cut, high-minded geography student. He lives with his mother Zofia, a sensit ...

Genre :Drama

Nowak

1963-11-08 4

Naprawdę wczoraj

The story concerns a succesful writer at the height of his career. He is in a state of crisis, unable to forget the girl he had a brief affair in the 40's. At the promotion of his new book he meets he ...

Genre :Drama

Jacek Renowicki

1963-08-29 8

Mrs. Hanka's Diary

The young and beautiful wife of a prominent diplomat complains of boredom. To change her monotonous life, she has an affair, through which she gets entangled in intrigues and espionage affairs. ...

Genre :Romance, Comedy

Afraniusz

1972-03-29 6.3

Pilate and Others

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 ...

Genre :TV Movie, Drama

Kazimierz Starski

1968-11-07 6.2

The Doll

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 ...

Genre :Drama, Romance, History

Count Miński

1968-04-14 6

Poczmistrz

Post clerk's young daughter runs away from home with a tsarist officer. ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Kulczycki, sędzia śledczy

1977-11-25 5.8

The Gorgon Case

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 arr ...

Genre :Drama, Crime, Mystery, History

Narrator (voice)

1951-01-01 4.5

Destination Nowa Huta!

This documentary describes the process of building and the first days of the combine and the city of Nowa Huta. Andrzej Munk realizes the postulates of socialist realism decreed in Polish cinematograp ...

Genre :Documentary

Jerzy

1982-08-16 5.5

Debutante

Ewa is a young ambitious engineer who starts to work for the team of an acclaimed architect Jerzy. Gradually she becomes aware of the bizarre relations he has with his wife and lovers. ...

Genre :Drama

Dr. Tamten

1973-09-25 5.1

Jealousy and Medicine

In 1930s, a doctor has an affair with the wife of a wealthy industrialist in Poland. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Narrator (voice)

1954-01-01 0

Are You Amongst Them?

This film criticizes various types of vandalism and behavior that is socially harmful: people spitting on the street, housewives wasting water, teenagers destroying sockets, passengers storming buses ...

Genre :Documentary

Bartolomeo

1967-07-01 7

Checkmate!

Short TV film upon the story of Ludwik Niemojski of the same title, which was a part of his "Incredible Stories". It tells about Bartolomeo, brilliant chess player, who had ruined his private life bec ...

Genre :Drama, Fantasy, TV Movie

Dr. Roman Kawski

1966-10-07 7.4

Master

A young actor preparing for the part of Macbeth recalls his wartime memories connected with his mentor. ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Doctor

1979-09-04 6.4

The Maids of Wilko

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 famil ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Wacław

1974-02-20 3.5

Lost Night

A Warsaw writer, Wacław Kisielecki, returning from Rome, has his car break down somewhere late in the evening on a country road, so he and his chauffeur, Konstanty, have to look for accommodation in a ...

Genre :Drama

Stanisz, actor playing Lojza

1950-09-01 0

Two Brigades

A social drama that depicts a conflict between a young factory collective and a sympathetic but backward old specialist. ...

Genre :Drama

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

1953-09-05 6

Sprawa do załatwienia

A series of misfortunes plagues a journalist and his new friend. ...

Genre :Comedy

Piotr

1961-09-04 7

Dziś w nocy umrze miasto

An unlikely couple - a Polish concentration camp inmate and a young German girl - stick together and try to survive the RAF bombing of Dresden in February 1945. ...

Genre :War, Drama

Wiktor

1962-12-19 0

Spotkanie w 'Bajce'

"A Meeting in Bajka" tells a seemingly banal story of a marital triangle which bristles with intrigues and psychological nuances as a man, his wife and her lover rendezvous at the Bajce cafe. ...

Genre :Drama

Protagonist

1966-01-25 3.5

Sposób bycia

A forty-year old man, destroyed physically and mentally by life experiences recounts his life. ...

Genre :Drama

Jurek 'Gray'

1960-09-26 5.2

The Return

A former World War 2 resistance fighter returns to Poland to reconnect with his old comrades, but finds out they have moved on with their lives and have no time for him. ...

Genre :Drama

Narrator (voice)

1953-01-01 0

The Story of Gdansk

The protagonist of this documentary is Gdańsk and its history. The story begins on the shore of the Baltic Sea, in a Pomeranian town on the European Amber Road. It ends in the contemporary Gdańsk Ship ...

Genre :Documentary, History

Narrator (voice)

1956-01-01 0

Letters from Vietnam

In 1955, the team of the Polish Film Chronicle documented life in communist Vietnam for almost half a year. There was an opportunity to do so, as Poles were a part of the international commission supe ...

Genre :Documentary

Narrator (voice)

1952-12-01 0

Vows

A poetic piece of reportage focusing on a convention of young shock workers in Warsaw. The climax of the event was the solemn oath of the youth of the Polish People's Republic. It took place on the 22 ...

Genre :Documentary

Prezes

1994-11-21 0

Kordian

Genre :Drama

1971-10-01 3

Theatre Macabre

Christopher Lee hosts this horror anthology series from Poland with stories from various classic authors. ...