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Daniel Szczechura

Born July 11, 1930 · Wilczogęby, Poland (age 96)

Daniel Szczechura is a Polish director and screenwriter of animated films, set designer and pedagogue. Daniel Szczechura is a renowned Polish director, screenwriter, and set designer, celebrated for his contributions to animated cinema. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and the Cinematography Department at the National Film School in Łódź. Szczechura's work is characterized by its…

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ProblemProblem · 1977
Problem
1977
MovieAnimation
A humorous grotesque about an average man who asks himself a basic philosophical question about the meaning of existence.
Miłość z listy przebojówMiłość z listy przebojów · 1985
Miłość z listy przebojów
★ 5.01985
MovieMusicRomance
Peter and Eliza are vacationing in the Mazury region. After an argument with her boyfriend, the girl leaves him and goes away. Meanwhile, Eliza's father Jul, a sculptor, organizes a reunion of former members of the student theater in which he performed years ago.
DobranockaDobranocka · 1997
Dobranocka
★ 8.01997
MovieAnimation
The protagonist of the film is a rabbit (hare), who experiences various adventures, meets strange people and strange situations. The film begins with a sequence of dreams, but the dream events are repeated in the real world and have their continuation. Everything ends well. This is how the plot looks like in a nutshell. But the mood and atmosphere of the film is difficult to verbalize, because it is assumed to be ambiguous, just as the painting of Stasys Eidrigevičius is ambiguous.
LiteraLitera · 1962
Litera
1962
MovieAnimation
A perverse story of an audacious theft of an extremely important letter
SkokSkok · 1978
Skok
1978
MovieAnimation
Morning. Cold interior of an apartment in a block of flats. The hero gets up, carefully does hi morning rituals, eats breakfast, reads the newspaper, gets dressed, adjusts his tie, looks at his watch, it's 7:50... He'll probably go to work soon. He is in a hurry not to be late... And suddenly, instead of going to the door, he directs his steps to the window. He jumps...
The MachineThe Machine · 1961
The Machine
★ 5.21961
MovieAnimation
An animated short film in which many men work many years on a machine which is revealed to be something very common.
The Landing OperationThe Landing Operation · 1968
The Landing Operation
1968
MovieAnimation
Humoresque based on a text once presented by Andrzej Warchał at Krakow's "Piwnica pod Baranami". A private and a corporal jump out of an airplane. During the flight it turns out that they forgot their parachutes. So they discuss how to fall and land. The order of landing seems to be the most important. The conversation continues until it is interrupted by a violent contact with the ground. Originally made in 1968.
ConflictsConflicts · 1960
Conflicts
★ 5.51960
MovieAnimationAction
A parody of early cinematic conventions and a mockery of the movie audience, which gets excited about a bloody melodrama featuring a love triangle and a revolver, and protests when the animator, at the request of some commission, changes the finale into one deprived of blood.

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