Directing

Witold Lesiewicz

Born September 9, 1922 · Bialystok, Podlaskie, Poland

Died March 23, 2012 · aged 89

Witold Lesiewicz was a Polish film director and screenwriter. He directed 24 films between 1949 and 1979. He completed the work on the 1963 film Passenger after the death of director Andrzej Munk.

Known For

Passenger

Passenger · 1963

A German woman on a ship returning to Europe notices a face of another woman which brings recollections from the past. She tells her husband that she had been an overseer in Auschwitz during the war, but she has actually saved a woman's life.

Swissmade

Swissmade · 1969

MovieDocumentaryScience Fiction

Three short films about the future of Switzerland.

Dezerter

Dezerter · 1958

A Pole incorporated into the Wehrmacht deserts, hiding in a coal mine ...

Rok pierwszy

Rok pierwszy · 1960

1944. Communist militiaman take a post in a little town in the east of Poland. He has to stand against his own men that are not happy with new authorities.

The Stars Must Burn

The Stars Must Burn · 1954

The Stars Must Burn

MovieDocumentaryDrama

The year 1953 ends. Mines that failed to fulfil the plan are not allowed to light their star. Socialist realism treated seriously – with the memory of the mining tradition, with respect for the work of the old, with hope for the young.

April

Set at the end of the war. A hot-headed colonel tries to force his men on to heroics although the war is almost over. A war-weary lieutenant tries to muffle his efforts but he keeps on with his men and is killed fighting in the front lines, all his men decide to get his body.

Bolesław Śmiały

Bolesław Śmiały · 1972

Bolesław Śmiały

Portrays the power struggle between the king of Poland, Bolesław the Bold, and the Bishop of Kraków, Stanisław Szczepanowski.

Świat grozy

Świat grozy · 1968

MovieComedyHorror

Selected episodes from a television series of thrilling stories based on works of world literature classics.

Filmography

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Passenger

Passenger · 1963

A German woman on a ship returning to Europe notices a face of another woman which brings recollections from the past. She tells her husband that she had been an overseer in Auschwitz during the war, but she has actually saved a woman's life.

Director

Swissmade

Swissmade · 1969

MovieDocumentaryScience Fiction

Three short films about the future of Switzerland.

Director of Photography

Dezerter

Dezerter · 1958

A Pole incorporated into the Wehrmacht deserts, hiding in a coal mine ...

Director

Rok pierwszy

Rok pierwszy · 1960

1944. Communist militiaman take a post in a little town in the east of Poland. He has to stand against his own men that are not happy with new authorities.

Director

The Stars Must Burn

The Stars Must Burn · 1954

The Stars Must Burn

MovieDocumentaryDrama

The year 1953 ends. Mines that failed to fulfil the plan are not allowed to light their star. Socialist realism treated seriously – with the memory of the mining tradition, with respect for the work of the old, with hope for the young.

Writer

April

Set at the end of the war. A hot-headed colonel tries to force his men on to heroics although the war is almost over. A war-weary lieutenant tries to muffle his efforts but he keeps on with his men and is killed fighting in the front lines, all his men decide to get his body.

Director

Bolesław Śmiały

Bolesław Śmiały · 1972

Bolesław Śmiały

Portrays the power struggle between the king of Poland, Bolesław the Bold, and the Bishop of Kraków, Stanisław Szczepanowski.

Director

Świat grozy

Świat grozy · 1968

MovieComedyHorror

Selected episodes from a television series of thrilling stories based on works of world literature classics.

Screenplay

Między brzegami

Między brzegami · 1963

Między brzegami

A small fishing village between the sea and the lake. One day, when all the men went out to catch, a viper bitten Grandpa Filip and little Madzia was severely injured by a misfire. Holidaymakers with a motorboat refuse to help. Filip decides to take the girl to the doctor himself.

Director

The Unknown

The Unknown · 1964

Two Poles get out of Soviet Union with Polish Army. Based on autobiographical short stories by Józef Hen.

Director

Miejsce dla jednego

Miejsce dla jednego · 1966

Miejsce dla jednego

MovieCrimeDrama

The deputy director of a machine plant is injured in a car accident and loses important documents. An uncompromising controller is sent to the plant to investigate the matter.

Director

Zbrodnia lorda Artura Savile'a

Zbrodnia lorda Artura Savile'a · 1968

Zbrodnia lorda Artura Savile'a

MovieMysteryCrime

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.

Director

Theatre Macabre

Theatre Macabre · 1971

Theatre Macabre

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyMystery

Horror legend Christopher Lee hosts this anthology in the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, each half-hour episode adapting a story from a classic author, with tales by Edgar Allen Poe, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ambrose Bierce, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Oscar Wilde.

Adaptation

Doktor Murek

Doktor Murek · 1979

The story of the ups and downs of the magistrate Franciszek Murek. After losing his state job, the protagonist assumes the identity of a foreigner Franz Klamma and makes a career in the aristocratic salons of Warsaw as a master of occultism.

Director