Directing

Jerzy Passendorfer

Born April 8, 1923 · Wilno, Wilenskie, Poland [now Vilnius, Lithuania]

Died February 20, 2003 · aged 79

Jerzy Passendorfer (April 8, 1923 in Wilno – February 20, 2003 in Skolimów, near Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish film director, specialising in films about the German occupation of Poland in World War II,and member of parliament. Passendorfer graduated from the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in 1951, and went on to become the leading exponent of the popular "national …

Known For

The Verdict

The Verdict · 1962

An alcoholic mother of a born out of wedlock child has a difficult decision to make when a journalist proposes to adopt her son and pay her for it.

Zabijcie czarną owcę

Zabijcie czarną owcę · 1972

Zabijcie czarną owcę

Young man struggles with being rejected by society.

The Attempt

The Attempt · 1959

Set in the occupied Warsaw, the film tells the story of the mission carried out by the student underground resistance group to execute the hated SS General Franz Kutchera.

Kierunek Berlin

Kierunek Berlin · 1969

Kierunek Berlin

Polish Army takes part in the Berlin Operation in the final weeks of World War 2.

Niedziela sprawiedliwości

Niedziela sprawiedliwości · 1966

Niedziela sprawiedliwości

MovieCrimeDrama

A prosecutor takes up a post in a small town where he has to deal with corruption and murder.

The Lost Bridge

The Lost Bridge · 1963

The Lost Bridge

Lieutenant Mosura fights the groups of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Suddenly, he manages to capture and eliminate its commander. Several years passed. The lieutenant is accused of collaborating with the insurgents, because he took part in several terrorist operations in order to gain their trust.

Mewy (fragmenty życiorysu)

Mewy (fragmenty życiorysu) · 1986

Mewy (fragmenty życiorysu)

Contemporary Poland. Teenager Zosia Zadora decides to start an adult life. She runs away from home, settles with two friends in the Tri-City. Here she experiences her first love. The sympathizer, twenty-year-old Kostek, turns out to be the head of a criminal group. Zosia's roommates are involved in the procedure. When Kostek is arrested, the girl, after some hesitation, becomes a prostitute. She tries to hide her profession from a young sailor she met, Stefan Janiak, with whom she began to have feelings. One day the man learns the truth.

Signals

Signals · 1959

MovieCrimeDrama

A taxi driver decides to take part in a robbery to earn money for the treatment of his sick wife.

Filmography

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The Verdict

The Verdict · 1962

An alcoholic mother of a born out of wedlock child has a difficult decision to make when a journalist proposes to adopt her son and pay her for it.

Director

Zabijcie czarną owcę

Zabijcie czarną owcę · 1972

Zabijcie czarną owcę

Young man struggles with being rejected by society.

Director

The Attempt

The Attempt · 1959

Set in the occupied Warsaw, the film tells the story of the mission carried out by the student underground resistance group to execute the hated SS General Franz Kutchera.

Director

Kierunek Berlin

Kierunek Berlin · 1969

Kierunek Berlin

Polish Army takes part in the Berlin Operation in the final weeks of World War 2.

Director

Niedziela sprawiedliwości

Niedziela sprawiedliwości · 1966

Niedziela sprawiedliwości

MovieCrimeDrama

A prosecutor takes up a post in a small town where he has to deal with corruption and murder.

Director

The Lost Bridge

The Lost Bridge · 1963

The Lost Bridge

Lieutenant Mosura fights the groups of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Suddenly, he manages to capture and eliminate its commander. Several years passed. The lieutenant is accused of collaborating with the insurgents, because he took part in several terrorist operations in order to gain their trust.

Director

Mewy (fragmenty życiorysu)

Mewy (fragmenty życiorysu) · 1986

Mewy (fragmenty życiorysu)

Contemporary Poland. Teenager Zosia Zadora decides to start an adult life. She runs away from home, settles with two friends in the Tri-City. Here she experiences her first love. The sympathizer, twenty-year-old Kostek, turns out to be the head of a criminal group. Zosia's roommates are involved in the procedure. When Kostek is arrested, the girl, after some hesitation, becomes a prostitute. She tries to hide her profession from a young sailor she met, Stefan Janiak, with whom she began to have feelings. One day the man learns the truth.

Director

Signals

Signals · 1959

MovieCrimeDrama

A taxi driver decides to take part in a robbery to earn money for the treatment of his sick wife.

Director

Barwy walki

Barwy walki · 1964

Świętokrzyskie Mountains, 1944. A People's Army unit receives orders to transport a party delegate outside the front line, while heavy fighting is going on between the Germans and resistance fighters in the region.

Director

The Return

The Return · 1960

A former World War 2 resistance fighter returns to Poland to reconnect with his old comrades, but finds out they have moved on with their lives and have no time for him.

Director

Adventure in Marienstadt

Adventure in Marienstadt · 1954

Adventure in Marienstadt

MovieComedyMusic

While visiting Warsaw, Hanka falls for a record-breaking bricklayer. She returns to the city to work at construction sites and prove that women can work as hard as men

Assistant Director

A Hole in the Ground

A Hole in the Ground · 1970

A Hole in the Ground

An ambitious, enthusiastic young geologist is entangled in bureaucratic red tape when he tries to drill for oil. Frustrated with the situation, he torches an abandoned mill, ignores his girlfriend, and fights with his friends who do not share his exuberance about the project.

Supervising Art Director

Skąpani w ogniu

Skąpani w ogniu · 1963

Skąpani w ogniu

Captain Sowiński finds himself on the Recovered Territories in 1945, right in the midst of local conflicts stemming from Poles settling there.

Director

Uczta Baltazara

Uczta Baltazara · 1954

Uczta Baltazara

Engineer Andrzej Uriaszewicz returns to Poland in order to smuggle a valuable painting out of the country.

First Assistant Director

The Others Will Follow

The Others Will Follow · 1949

The Others Will Follow

A war drama that tells the story of the discovery of the illegal AL printing works by the Nazis, showing the activities of the left-wing underground in the occupied capital.

Secret University Student (uncredited)

Victory

Victory · 1975

This film was created by combining and shortening the films Kierunek Berlin (Destination Berlin) and Ostatnie dni (The Last Days). It presents the final phase of the great offensive of 1945, which ended with the capture of Berlin, from the perspective of a private soldier of the First Polish Army.

Writer

Big Beat

Big Beat · 1967

MovieComedyMusic

At Kuba's wedding an unknown woman comes up to him and accuses him of cheating on her. This causes Kuba's soon-to-be wife, Majka, to leave him. It turns out that the woman, Lola, confused Kuba with his boyfriend, famous guitarist Johnny, so Kuba embarks on a journey to find him and prove his innocence.

Director

What Will My Wife Say to This?

What Will My Wife Say to This? · 1958

What Will My Wife Say to This?

The hero of the story is the writer Vladimír Tůma, who is invited to spend a month studying in a neighbouring country. There, the foreign office assigns him a guide, Irena Stepowska. The two young people are attracted to each other, but there is a catch - Vladimír is married, Irena is married. But as they say, opportunity makes the thief, so it's no wonder that Tůma has his work cut out for him, and Irena, too, sometimes recovers only at the last minute. And she doesn't even know that her husband is coming to visit her...

First Assistant Director

Operation "Brutus"

Operation "Brutus" · 1971

Operation "Brutus"

MovieActionCrime

Jaruga, the chief of the local branch of Security Office leads a fight against a Home Army unit led by a man known as Boruta and begins to suspect that one of his men was planted by the insurgents. Another Security Office agent arrives to uncover the conspiracy and deal the final blow to Boruta.

Director

Janosik

Janosik · 1974

MovieAdventureHistory

In the early 19th century, the legendary Tatra brigand Janosik defies the oppressive local nobility and Austrian troops by robbing the rich to give to the poor, becoming a folk hero among the peasants.

Director

Skarb kapitana Martensa

Skarb kapitana Martensa · 1957

Skarb kapitana Martensa

MovieActionDrama

A ship crew fight over a deceased captain's notebook, believing that it contains clues to find a treasure.

Director

Ferry

MovieActionThriller

1945. A packed ferry drifts down the Vistula after its tow rope snaps. Only a single militiaman sees notices the ferry and organizes a rescue before the it drifts into the Gdańsk Bay, which is still full of mines.

Supervising Art Director

Ostatnie dni

Ostatnie dni · 1969

MovieWarRomance

As the Polish Army continues its march into Berlin corporal Naróg is tasked with delivering important documents to the staff headquarters.

Dialogue

Dom

The story of the residents of a tenement house on Złota Street in Warsaw from 1945 to 1980.

dyrektor szpitala w Będzinie

Janosik

Janosik · 1974

SeriesAction & Adventure

Janosik was a television series that aired in Poland in 1974. It is about a famous Polish highlander outlaw who in folk legends steals money and goods from the rich and helps out the poor. The series was directed by Jerzy Passendorfer. There are 13 1-hour episodes.

Director