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Kurt Weber

Born May 24, 1928 · Cieszyn, Slaskie, Poland

Died June 4, 2015 · aged 87

No biography available.

Known For

First Pavilion · 1968

First Pavilion

★ 6.01968

MovieScience FictionTV Movie

A young scientist is kidnapped and taken to a house where his former mentor, a professor, is conducting experiments on shrinking humans.

A Walk in the Old City of Warsaw · 1958

A Walk in the Old City of Warsaw

★ 6.41958

MovieMusicFantasy

A young music student strolls through Warsaw’s Old Town as the city’s everyday sounds—children, traffic, machinery, music, and passing jets—shift from background noise into a spontaneous outdoor concert.

A peasant girl is abandoned by her fiancé after she has talked her father into giving her his land as a dowry.

A pleasant, open-faced young man comes to live in a boarding house with three peculiar women.

Diver Antoni Barnat is falsely accused of causing an accident underwater that almost led to his fellow diver's death. Interestingly enough, they are both in love with the same girl, Teresa.

Der Katzensteg · 1975

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

Filmography

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Supervising Art Director

First Pavilion · 1968

First Pavilion

★ 6.01968

MovieScience FictionTV Movie

A young scientist is kidnapped and taken to a house where his former mentor, a professor, is conducting experiments on shrinking humans.

Director of Photography

A Walk in the Old City of Warsaw · 1958

A Walk in the Old City of Warsaw

★ 6.41958

MovieMusicFantasy

Director of Photography

A peasant girl is abandoned by her fiancé after she has talked her father into giving her his land as a dowry.

Director of Photography

A pleasant, open-faced young man comes to live in a boarding house with three peculiar women.

Director of Photography

Diver Antoni Barnat is falsely accused of causing an accident underwater that almost led to his fellow diver's death. Interestingly enough, they are both in love with the same girl, Teresa.

Camera Operator

Der Katzensteg · 1975

Der Katzensteg

★ 7.01975

MovieDrama

Director of Photography

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

Director of Photography

The Killer Leaves a Trace · 1967

The Killer Leaves a Trace

★ 6.51967

MovieWarAction

In the last days of WW2, Polish military looks for the murderer of prosecutor responsible for storing Gestapo files.

Director of Photography

The People from the Train · 1961

The People from the Train

★ 6.31961

MovieDramaWar

A group of people find themselves stuck in remote train station in German-occupied Poland. A drunk German station guard there gets paranoid and sees partisans all around him, phones headquarters, and when the German soldiers arrive and search the station they find a gun. They then threaten to execute every fifth person unless someone claims it.

Director of Photography

In 19th-century Poland, a young couple sets out for a weekend in the countryside. On the train they meet a mysterious Englishman traveling to the same destination, whose presence arouses their suspicions. Choosing to lodge in the room beside his—the fateful Blue Room—they soon find themselves drawn into a web of intrigue and menace.

Director of Photography

All Souls' Day · 1961

All Souls' Day

★ 6.91961

MovieDrama

A pair of lovers go off to a small hotel in a little town. The memories of war, however, intrude on their idyll. The girl and boy relive certain wartime experiences in flashback. She was a communist who drove a boy loving her to give himself up.

Director of Photography

Czarne skrzydła · 1963

Czarne skrzydła

★ 7.01963

MovieDrama

The miners of one of the mines in Zagłębie Dąbrowskie receive news about the planned layoffs. The miners decide to organize a strike. One of the local MPs is trying to prevent this from happening. The French mine owner makes a dangerous decision - he orders the miners to work in an area at risk of fire. An explosion occurs unexpectedly. The miners lynch Coeur, and their demonstration, in which they carry the bodies of the victims of the crash, is brutally suppressed by the police.

Director of Photography

The Depot of the Dead · 1959

The Depot of the Dead

★ 7.11959

MovieDrama

In the rugged mountain gorges and ravines of southeastern Poland, a new boss and his wife become a catalyst for violence.

Director of Photography

Hell and Heaven · 1966

Hell and Heaven

★ 6.51966

MovieComedyFantasy

A bus crashes and its passengers find themeselves in the afterlife, which they find has the not only the same set of rules as Earth, but also the same bureaucratic chaos.

Director of Photography

Winterspelt 1944 · 1978

Winterspelt 1944

★ 8.01978

MovieDramaWar

In the Second World War, spring 1944: shortly before the planned Ardennes offensive, Germans and Americans stand waiting on the German-Belgian border. The small Eifel village of Winterspelt threatens to become the scene of a bloody battle. A German officer comes up with a plan to hand over his battalion to the Americans without a fight. He finds support from three inhabitants of the small village, who help him to present his offer of surrender to the Americans, which they ultimately reject.

Director of Photography

Avatar: The Exchange of Souls · 1964

Avatar: The Exchange of Souls

★ 4.71964

MovieTV MovieDrama

Count Olgierd Łabiński lives in Paris with his beloved wife, but their quiet life is disturbed by the arrival of Octavius de Saville, a former admirer of the Countess from her days in Florence. Obsessed with possessing her, Octavius seeks out Dr. Cherbonneau, a sinister figure dabbling in Eastern teachings of reincarnation. Through the doctor’s occult science, Octavius attempts a dangerous “exchange of souls,” scheming to inhabit the Count’s body and win the woman he desires.

Director of Photography

The Neighbours · 1969

The Neighbours

★ 6.71969

MovieDramaWar

A day before the beginning of the Second World War, a young resident of Bydgoszcz falls in love with a German teenager.

Director of Photography

Soldier of Victory · 1953

Soldier of Victory

★ 10.01953

MovieDramaWar

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 affairs.

Camera Operator

The documentary with commentary by Tadeusz Różewicz shows the everyday life of children a few years after the war and juxtaposes it with the children's experience of the "black seasons" - the loneliness, terror, hunger and misery of the Warsaw Ghetto.

Director

Snowdrops Bloom in September · 1974

Snowdrops Bloom in September

★ 9.01974

MovieDrama

This feature film describes the labor dispute of a piecework crew in a large German industrial company and its workforce against the background of the "September strikes" in Germany.

Director of Photography

Confined to a hospital room, a seemingly healthy man endures a surreal night as his space is invaded by a procession of bizarre, dreamlike visitors—many linked to the imagery of railroads. Blurring reality with hallucination, the film transforms the ward into a stage for nightmarish encounters.

Director of Photography

Atlantic Story · 1955

Atlantic Story

★ 9.01955

MovieDrama

The fate of a German found by the French peasants - a deserter from the Legion of Foreign Affairs fighting in Vietnam.

Assistant Camera

Opening Tomorrow · 1962

Opening Tomorrow

★ 7.71962

MovieComedy

A budding playwright is thrilled to find out that his play will be performed at a prestigious theater, but a series of problems pile up, along with the general feeling that opening night will be disastrous.

Director of Photography

Farmers, Politics and Bombs · 1973

Farmers, Politics and Bombs

★ 10.01973

SeriesDrama

The tax officials Thiel and Kalübbe try to confiscate two oxen, but are prevented from doing so by protesting farmers led by the community leader Reimers. The assistant editor Tredup, who takes photos of the incident, is also in the thick of things.

Director of Photography

Alle Jahre wieder – Die Familie Semmeling · 1976

Alle Jahre wieder – Die Familie Semmeling

★ 8.01976

SeriesComedy

After building their own home, the Semmeling family wants to go on vacation. However, this leads to a few problems.

Director of Photography