Krzysztof Penderecki

The Cat Of Bridget (2023)

This film depicts a cat laying down. Penderecki's Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima plays in the background. ...

Die Teufel von Loudun - Bayerische Staatsoper (2022)

Penderecki's Opera of an entire convent, in the small French village of Loudun, apparently possessed by the devil. ...

Day (2021)

An experimental short film shot on iPhone 7 Plus during the first year of the COVID-19 outbreak. The film depicts a young man's love for arts and his struggle to coexist with his personas. ...

As Tristes Lágrimas do Crocodilo (2020)

The story of a boy too angry with internal demons who decides to kill himself. On the path of this decision he ends up hitting new surroundings, others exist, which may, perhaps, change his mind. ...

Persephone (2016)

Persephone combines an excerpt from Penderecki's "Cello Concerto No 1" with a static image of a shivering cat, emerging from the shade. ...

Demon (2015)

A bridegroom is possessed by an unquiet spirit in the midst of his own wedding celebration, in this clever take on the Jewish legend of the dybbuk. ...

Inventorium of Traces (2009)

In the Renaissance castle of the Polish count - Jan Potocki - in Lancut, the modern traces of a past glory persevere and become visible again at the tones of Krzysztof Penderecki's music and Brothers Quay's imaginary animation. ...

Katyn (2007)

On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the Soviet Red Army crosses the border. The Polish army, unable to fight on two fronts, is defeated. Thousands of Polish men, both military and government offi ...

The House with Arched Windows (2000)

Seen from the outside, it's an old arch-windowed house overlooking a field isolated from the center of the village. But the rooms of this dark haven of demons hide unimaginable secrets. It was within those very four walls that an artist ordained to Lucifer ...

Sonata for Hitler (1989)

As with so many early films by Sokurov, this film has two dates: the first is the date of its creation (the film was then banned), the second is the date of the final edition and legal public screening. The film consists of German and Soviet archive footag ...

The Lonely Voice of Man (1987)

Set in the early 1920s after the end of the Russian Civil War, Red Army soldier Nikita returns to his hometown to see his partner Lyuba, both of whom are scarred by the trauma of the Russian Empire of yesteryear. ...

The Preservation of Secret (1986)

Marked (1984)

Irma Auer (Satu Silvo) is a former call-girl, trying to distance herself from the past. In a séance she is told to be 'marked for death', and is afterward threatened by her former pimp and abandoned by her groom, as he learns about her past. Irma attempts ...

Cada ver es... (1983)

The life and thoughts of Juan Manuel Espada, keeper in charge of the morgue sited at the Medicine University of Valencia. ...

The Shining (1980)

Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within. ...

Simiterio do Adão e Eva (1974)

The Devils of Loudun (1969)

This opera revolves around the demonic collective possession suffered by the Ursuline nuns in the convent of Loudun in 1634. The story concentrates on the handsome but doomed Urbain Grandier who fights against fanaticism and evil. ...

Les Gauloises bleues (1969)

The harsh life of a troubled young man provides the basis of this grim French tragedy that begins when the fellow stops into a shop to buy a pack of the title cigarettes. There he meets a pretty shop girl with whom he falls in love and eventually marries. ...

Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime (1968)

Recovering from an attempted suicide, a man is selected to participate in a time travel experiment that has only been tested on mice. A malfunction causes the man to experience moments from his past in a random order. ...

Conscience (1968)

When a partisan attack on a Nazi officer sets off a chain of brutal recriminations, the inhabitants of a German-occupied Ukrainian village are faced with a sickening dilemma lest they not disclose the whereabouts of the fugitives at large. ...

The Codes (1966)

An elderly man returns to Poland to find his long-lost son, missing since World War II. In his quest the man is forced to contemplate the elusive and coded nature of truth itself. ...

Zejście do piekła (1966)

Etnographers travelling through the Amazon jungle find an enclosed colony ran by former Nazi Germany officials. ...

The Saragossa Manuscript (1966)

During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather. ...

Icons (1966)

A film about Slovak icons painted in the period of the late 15th to the early 19th centuries, when original Byzantine icon was ending in Slovak folk art. ...

Keeping a Distance (1966)

Documentary illustrating the classic principles of Byzantine iconography on the examples of sixteen icons from a museum of ancient Greek art. ...

The Charm of the Wheels (1966)

A swarm of locusts teases a herd of horses. A four-wheeled vehicle drives into the herd. It pulls behind its riders, the horses, and the insects. The gallop is more and more dynamic, gravediggers prepare coffins for crazy drivers. ...

Hamlet x 5 (1966)

Five interpretations of Hamlet's monologue. ...

Passacaglia Dedicated to Royal Sigmond’s Chapel at the Wawel Castle (1966)

A film impression showing the Royal Sigismond's Chapel at the Wawel Castle as an interior with a unique and abundant collection of sculptures. It brings to light details of construction and presents them in close-ups which makes it possible to profoundly a ...

Sweet Rhythms (1965)

An old beekeeper and a little boy look into a hive. A brown-yellow shape and a black ball of a motile swarm begin to move on the surface of the screen. Physical reality turns into abstract forms. ...

Portrait of a Conductor (1965)

The film shows the conductor Witold Rowicki during a rehearsal of Krzysztof Penderecki's piece entitled "Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima" with the National Philharmonic Orchestra in Warsaw. The outline of a perfectionist and brilliant musician emerges ...

Don Juan (1963)

The adventures of a classic "podrywacz" character known from Molière's drama and Byron's poem, who has not lost popularity until today. All this is shown with a pinch of salt, in a grotesque form of a cut-out film, reminiscent of the comic book editions o ...

Trap (1962)

Ijon Tichy arrives on a new planet in a single-person spacecraft. His habits and fantasies are with him. The aliens recreate the sex bomb from the poster that could be found in the cabin of his spacecraft. Then, they present him a live dummy. A male-female ...

Bitterness (1962)

An anti-alcohol poster full of bitterness. Artistic compositions made of bottles and alcohol labels tell the story of drinking alcohol – it starts from drinking alcohol as a young person and ends with the death on the operating table. ...

Kidnapping (1962)

The little naughty bunny is kidnapped by a fox and a wolf. ...

Space Travel (1961)

An elderly traveler arrives on an alien planet. The natives greet him friendly. Cosmic virgins want to clone the guest so that each of them would have him for herself. The man from planet Earth manages to escape, but his clones remain where they are. ...

Basilisk Encounter (1961)

A story illustrating the legend of Bazyliszek who mischief among tenement houses in Warsaw's Old Town. ...

The General and the Fly (1961)

A Prussian general instructs his soldiers how to get rid of the storks bringing new lives. He turns the conscripts into cannon fodder, and he can't deal with one fly himself. ...

Bulandra and the Devil (1959)

Bulandra the miner explores the underground and wins gold from its inhabitant, an old spirit. Little does he know that the Devil will cause mischief to him once he gets out. ...

Beth Gibbons: Henryk Górecki: Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs) (2019)

Beth Gibbons (vocalist for acclaimed UK band Portishead) was formally invited to Poland in 2014 to sing soprano at Warsaw's Grand Theatre. This performance forms the basis of the film and album titled Henryk Górecki: Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful ...

Wege Durchs Labyrinth - Der Komponist Krzysztof Penderecki (2014)

Martin Slivka: The Man Who Planted Trees (2007)

A tribute to Martin Slivka, one of the most important personalities of Slovak cinematography and culture. He was the creator of Slovak documentary ethnographic film, director, screenwriter, dramaturgist, film theoretician, pedagogue, author and ethnograph, ...

Poles Poles (2003)

For decades the photographer Krzysztof Gierłatowski has portrayed eminent Polish figures, thus creating an invaluable visual testimony. This time his "victims" are well-known citizens of Kraków: Stanisław Lem, one of the most brilliant, versatile, and u ...

Krzysztof Penderecki (1968)

A biographical documentary about Krzysztof Penderecki ...