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Jacek Petrycki

Born December 1, 1948 (age 77)

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A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth.

Operation Dunaj · 2009

Operation Dunaj

★ 5.22009

MovieComedyHistory

Operation Danube was the cover name for the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact armies in August 1968. The fleet of Polish tanks which arrive to liberate their neighbor, ostensibly threatened by a counter-revolution, includes the old tank nicknamed Ladybird, which is the last to leave the barracks.

Poste restante · 2009

Poste restante

2009

MovieDocumentary

In Poland, letters with incorrect address end up at the Department of Unsent Mail in Koluszki. The film follows one of these letters, on which a child's hand has written an unusual address: 'God. Heaven.'

Belarus has been under dictatorship of Lukashenko for 15 years. Miron (23) is not interested in politics. However, the next concert of his 'apolitical' rock band triggers off an anti-regime manifestation. Miron, is enlisted for the army for 15 months by way of punishment for 'fomenting political unrest among young people'. And this is just a beginning.. A film inspired by the story of Frank Viachorka, activist of the Belorussian opposition. Starring top Belorussian cinema and rock stars.

Patients with serious lung diseases, who are now in a sanatorium, tell us about their thoughts and feelings.

So it Doesn’t Hurt · 1998

So it Doesn’t Hurt

★ 7.41998

MovieDocumentary

Polish filmmaker Marcel Łoziński revisits the farmer/intellectual Urszula Flis, subjects of his 1978 film 'A visit'. Łoziński observes the changes that have occurred over the intervening 23 years and again persuades this sensitive, secluded woman to talk through her thoughts, fears and feelings. Through this, the morality of the documentary portrait itself is called into question.

Brief portrait of a conformist.

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A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth.

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Operation Dunaj · 2009

Operation Dunaj

★ 5.22009

MovieComedyHistory

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Poste restante · 2009

Poste restante

2009

MovieDocumentary

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Director of Photography

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Patients with serious lung diseases, who are now in a sanatorium, tell us about their thoughts and feelings.

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So it Doesn’t Hurt · 1998

So it Doesn’t Hurt

★ 7.41998

MovieDocumentary

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Brief portrait of a conformist.

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A holiday training camp for young married couples who belong to the Polish Socialist Youth Union (ZSMP) begins at the campsite. From the commander's welcome speech, they learn that a film crew will record camp life and training classes under the slogan "Model Family".

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1982, Poland. A translator loses her husband and becomes a victim of her own sorrow. She looks to sex, to her son, to law, and to hypnotism when she has nothing else in this time of martial law when Solidarity was banned.

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Andrzej Wajda: On Ashes and Diamonds · 2005

Andrzej Wajda: On Ashes and Diamonds

2005

MovieDocumentary

Insights on Ashes and Diamonds (1958) from the director Andrzej Wajda, filmmaker Janusz "Kuba" Morgenstern, and film critic Dr. Jerzy Plazewski.

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In Stalinist Poland, cabaret singer Tonia decides to spend the evening drinking with a group of friends. The next morning, she awakes to find that, for reasons unknown to her, she has been jailed as a political prisoner. As prison officials interrogate, torture and humiliate her, she fights for survival and to maintain her innocence by refusing to sign a false confession. As her years of imprisonment pass, her relationship with her captors grows more complicated.

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89 mm from Europe · 1993

89 mm from Europe

★ 6.71993

MovieDocumentary

This movie shows the simplest difference between Europe and former Soviet Union. It is the eponymous 89 mm - Russian train tracks are 89 mm wider than tracks in European countries. And because of this fact, it is not easy to go through the Soviet border by train in Brest as the passengers in the film do.

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Piotr Tymochowicz, media advisor to some of Poland's top politicians, claims that anybody can be molded into a charismatic leader. To prove it he's looking for a greenhorn that can be turned into a candidate. A call is put out for would-be participants, and hundreds apply. A small group is selected and under go training. Polish master Marcel Lozinksi followed Tymochowicz and this project for three years, and this beautifully shot and edited work paints a compelling portrait of cynical (and quite familiar) demagogy and populism in action.

Director of Photography

Curriculum Vitae · 1975

Curriculum Vitae

★ 7.01975

MovieDrama

A communist party control committee interrogates a worker and party activist who is to be excluded from the party.

Director of Photography

Don’t Breathe is a dark comedy set in Georgia that follows the tribulations of a middle-aged man, Levan, who is suddenly led to question his existence because of a routine medical examination. It sends him into a downward spiral of paranoia and doubt as he fumbles his way through the theatre of the absurd that we call life. Using humour and a playful tone, the film examines the fragility of human nature, when our bearings get lost and our imagination takes over, highlighting our common fears, doubts, hopes and resilience.

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Julie Walking Home · 2002

Julie Walking Home

★ 5.62002

MovieDramaRomance

Julie's son is dying of cancer and her marriage falling apart. She goes to Poland in search of a man who can heal using his hands. Julie finds not only a magical cure for her son, but also comes across a love so pure it begins to heal the aching in her heart.

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Shot in the Heart · 2001

Shot in the Heart

★ 6.02001

MovieDramaTV Movie

The story of a man coming to terms with the sins and secrets of his notorious brother and, in the process, exploring the legacy of violence in his own family.

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A Film for Northern Uganda · 2016

A Film for Northern Uganda

2016

MovieDocumentary

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Bratříček Karel · 2016

Bratříček Karel

★ 8.02016

MovieDocumentary

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Filip buys an 8mm movie camera when his first child is born. Because it's the first camera in town, he's named official photographer by the local Party boss. His horizons widen when he is sent to regional film festivals with his first works but his focus on movie making also leads to domestic strife and philosophical dilemmas.

Director of Photography

A Very Polish Secret · 1988

A Very Polish Secret

1988

MovieDocumentary

Documentary about the previously untold story of a 1945 massacre of Polish partisans by Russian troupes and pro-Russian Polish security forces.

Director

Dead Man's Bounty · 2006

Dead Man's Bounty

★ 3.52006

MovieActionThriller

A mysterious loner rides into a small town carrying the body of a sought-after outlaw. But after he gambles his bounty away in a card game with the sheriff, he must devise a scheme to reclaim the dead man.

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A Kind of Hush · 1999

A Kind of Hush

★ 10.01999

MovieDrama

Six teens who were traumatized by child abuse early in their lives come together to form a gang that ultimately plots revenge against the ones who committed the crimes against them. The gang leader is the only one who has something of a normal life, living at a hotel where he is an apprentice and friends with the managers who are like surrogate parents to him. However, when the others start to attack their tormentors, Smith is drawn into the conflagaration also.

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Rosemary's Baby · 2014

Rosemary's Baby

★ 5.72014

SeriesDramaMystery

Young Rosemary Woodhouse and her husband Guy move in with a rich couple, who soon take an unusual interest in the Woodhouses' attempts to have a second baby after Rosemary miscarried the first one. Guy soon has unusual success and Rosemary becomes pregnant, but it becomes clear that the two are connected and that the pregnancy may not be all that Rosemary hoped for...

Second Unit Director of Photography

Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution · 2005

Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution

★ 7.62005

SeriesDocumentaryCrime

This documentary series tackles one of history's most horrifying subjects: the Holocaust and the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

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The Passing Bells · 2014

The Passing Bells

★ 7.62014

SeriesDramaWar & Politics

At the outbreak of World War I, two teenage boys - one German and one British - defy their parents to sign up. An epic historical drama spanning the five years of the First World War, as seen through the eyes of two ordinary young soldiers.

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World War Two: Behind Closed Doors · 2008

World War Two: Behind Closed Doors

★ 5.72008

SeriesDocumentaryWar & Politics

Documentary series using dramatic reconstructions and testimony from witnesses to reveal the 'behind closed doors' politics of the Second World War.

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