Xawery Żuławski

Directing

Xawery Żuławski

Born December 22, 1971 · Warsaw, Poland (age 54)

Xawery Żuławski (born 22 December 1971 in Warsaw) is a Polish film director.

Known For

FidelityFidelity · 2000
Fidelity
★ 5.92000
MovieDrama
A talented photographer who lands a lucrative job in Paris with a scandal-mongering tabloid and becomes romantically involved with an eccentric children's book publisher while resisting the sexual advances of another photographer.
Bird TalkBird Talk · 2019
Bird Talk
★ 4.52019
MovieDrama
Based on a script by Andrzej Żuławski, this is a fascinating on-screen dialogue between father and son that combines nostalgia and fury, the sublime with humor, and old-school style with a sharp, penetrating look at Polish reality. The eponymous bird talk is the language used by those excluded from the aggressive majority: a history teacher tormented by children, a teacher of Polish studies fired from his job, a girl who cleans a banker’s villa, a florist with a club foot and a student with a fascination for cinema. Pushed to the margins by the extreme right, they defend themselves with irony, songs and quotes from the classics.
It Came from the WaterIt Came from the Water · 2022
It Came from the Water
★ 4.92022
MovieHorrorComedy
Fed up with pandemics, quarantines and news about ecological disasters, worried about their own uncertain future and the fate of the world, a group of high school students are invited by Kamil, a millionaire's son, to a party at his father's seaside residance.
Europe - 99euro-films 2Europe - 99euro-films 2 · 2003
Europe - 99euro-films 2
★ 4.02003
MovieDrama
Second part of a short film project, where every single short film is only allowed to cost 99 Euros. This time there are not only German filmmakers, but directors from all over Europe involved...
Kulej. All That Glitters Isn’t GoldKulej. All That Glitters Isn’t Gold · 2024
Kulej. All That Glitters Isn’t Gold
★ 6.32024
MovieDramaHistory
A biopic about Jerzy Kulej, a two-time Olympic champion and one of Poland's greatest fighters. The film is set between the Olympics, when Kulej wins his first gold and goes for a second.
Snow White and Russian RedSnow White and Russian Red · 2009
Snow White and Russian Red
★ 5.22009
MovieDramaComedy
An aggressive thug has problems with his girlfriend. Over the course of several chaotic days he walks around the hood, takes drugs and confronts himself with other women.
Portret podwójnyPortret podwójny · 2001
Portret podwójny
2001
MovieDrama
A picture of the broken world at the end of the century. A couple of contemporary young Polish intellectuals, artistic souls. They are sensitive beyond mediocrity, hence the daily hustle and bustle is not an excuse for them to live: they want to give it a meaning and shape of their own choosing. They search for their "roots", only to find out once again that, apart from natural tenderness, they have nothing in common with their families. There is no question of rebellion, of generational strife. Today's 30-year-olds face only technical, not sentimental, obstacles; childhood memories of parents not seen every day sink in, the image of a child living apart indifferently.
Conversation with a Cupboard ManConversation with a Cupboard Man · 1994
Conversation with a Cupboard Man
★ 5.81994
MovieDrama
Karol sits for hours in a wardrobe in a rented room on the attic, looking back on his whole life. He was brought up by a single mother who loved his only child with a sick desperate feeling and limited all his world to her own person. Karol's tragedy began with his adolescence. It made his mother aware of her feminity that resulted in her new marriage. Together with a new husband she decided to send the boy to a school for retarded children. Upon leaving the school Karol starts to seek his longing mother who moved out, in a meanwhile, not giving any address.

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