Janusz Zaorski

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Janusz Zaorski

Born September 19, 1947 (age 78)

Janusz Zaorski (born 19 September 1947) is a Polish film director, scenarist and actor, representative of the cinema of moral anxiety (Polish: kino moralnego niepokoju), trend in Polish cinema. Zaorski has directed mainly psychological dramas, comedies and TV series. Zaorski graduated National Film School in Łódź in 1969. He made his own individual film director debut in 1970. In 1987 Zaorski was…

Known For

Screen TestsScreen Tests · 1977
Screen Tests
6.11977
MovieDrama
Three-part film centered around a film being made by a group of young directors. In the first a working-class girl finishes school and has her first love affair, which ends badly. In the second a provincial boy with dreams of life in the theater has an affair with his boss' wife. They meet during the film's screen tests.
Night SilenceNight Silence · 2024
Night Silence
4.72024
MovieHorrorDrama
A theatre actor whose health is failing gets admitted to a nursing home. Soon, he starts having nightmares that seemingly become deceptively real. The so-called nightmares were able to make him live in two parallel dimensions.
Siberian ExileSiberian Exile · 2013
Siberian Exile
4.12013
MovieDramaRomance
An epic tale of Poles, Ukrainians, Jews who are deported to Russia. Their fate is shown from the perspective of a young boy Staszek, who goes to Siberia with his family and neighbors from a small village in the eastern Polish borderlands. Together with his companions he starts hard struggle for survival, where the most fearsome opponent turns out to be terrible, merciless nature... Circumstances force the boy to reevaluate his life and grow up faster. Soon he will have to learn the essential struggle for survival and make decisions that will where rate will be life of his relatives. He will also have to choose between love for the Jewish Zinnia and the Russian Luybka.
HackerHacker · 2002
Hacker
4.32002
MovieComedyAction
Two friends make a bet. One of them - an A student and a computer genius Marcin - under the terms of the dispute must be received five days of complete submission to his clever friend Turbo - and he, in turn, guarantees him the easy money and attention to a long-legged beauty.
Tree DoctorTree Doctor · 2005
Tree Doctor
2005
MovieDrama
Szymon discovers a naked woman and takes her to his secluded house where, over the next few days, she tells contradictory stories about her life. But it turns out she is not the only person in the house with something to hide.
Lazarus' WhimsLazarus' Whims · 1973
Lazarus' Whims
10.01973
MovieTV MovieDrama
Jacenty is nearing the end of his days. However, he wants to go on his own terms, bargaining until the very end.
BarytonBaryton · 1985
Baryton
8.01985
MovieDrama
A famous opera singer comes to his hometown in Poland, where he loses his voice.
Childish QuestionsChildish Questions · 1981
Childish Questions
8.11981
MovieDrama
A young architect is locked up in prison. He recalls his uncompromising youth and gradual sliding into the moral swamp of compromises. He was not alone. A group of his friends, dreamers and glass house builders, accompanied him.

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