Marcel Łoziński

Father and Son (2013)

Two acclaimed documentary film-makers - father and son - drive from Poland to Paris to see the place where the ashes of the father's mother are buried. What accompanies them on the way are resentments, quarrels and sincere confessions. ...

Father and Son on a Journey (2013)

Marcel Lozinski was born in May 1940 in Paris, and he spent part of his childhood in various children's homes. His Jewish communist parents were members of the resistance. After the war he went with his mother to Poland, where he became a celebrated docume ...

Tonia and her Children (2011)

11-year-old Werka and her 9-year-old brother Marcel wind up at the front door of a children's home in Wroclaw. Asked who they are, Werka replies, "We are children of communists." In return the teacher yells, "Why do they only send us Judeo-communists?!!!" ...

Poste restante (2009)

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. ...

If It Happens (2007)

Tomek, Marcel Lozinski's son, is eighteen now. Exactly twelve years ago, when he was six, his father filmed him while he was visiting a park in Warsaw. Tomek used to stop next to some old people sitting on the benches, and, with childish frankness, would a ...

How It's Done (2006)

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, an ...

I Remember (2002)

Weaves together the personal recollections of four Polish survivors of the Holocaust with original footage from the present day. The film focuses specifically on the relations between Jews and Poles in Nazi occupied Poland. ...

So it Doesn’t Hurt (1998)

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 ta ...

Anything Can Happen (1995)

A story of life and death, featuring Lozinski's six-year-old son Tomaszek and elderly people spending time on the benches of a Warsaw park. Riding his scooter, Tomaszek asks the elderly very adult, though basic, questions, which they are happy to answer. T ...

After the Victory 1989-1995 (1995)

Documentary about post-communist Poland. ...

89 mm from Europe (1993)

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 ...

Sept Jews from my class (1991)

The Katyn Forest (1990)

Marcel Łoziński tells the story of the crime committed by the NKVD in Katyn in 1940. He interweaves accounts of witnesses and survivors with images from the pilgrimage of members of Katyn Families to the place of murder, death and nameless burial of thei ...

Witnesses (1987)

On July 4th, 1946, the crowd in Kielce, Poland, slaughtered forty-two Jews and wounded many others. Forty years later, in 1987, Marcel Łoziński visited those places and met some witnesses of the carnage. ...

My Place (1986)

At the famous Grand Hotel in Sopot, each worker - whether a porter, a maid, a cook or a stoker - feels an important part of their workplace. Perhaps even the most important. ...

Workshop Exercises (1986)

A street poll about contemporary youth. The answers are engineered to show the manipulation of propaganda and television. ...

How to Live (1981)

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 "Mo ...

Microphone's Test (1980)

A Warsaw Pollena-Uroda cosmetics factory radio broadcaster is working on a programme investigating the workers' sense of factory ownership. The workers' answers come as a surprise, especially to the management. About the ruling and the ruled in communist P ...

Matriculation (1979)

The final oral exam in history and social studies at one of Warsaw's high schools. The film illustrates the theatre of social life in Soviet Poland where one says different things on the stage and another behind the scenes. ...

Window to the Yard (1979)

A man doing the ironing on the ground floor of a tenement house observes the yard. ...

The Touch (1978)

This movie is about the visit of Clive Harris, the famous healer, to Warsaw. Incredible crowds gather before the entrance and Harris "heals" thousands of people by briefly touching them. Tireless on his stand, he fulfills his duty for 24 hours a day. ...

Film nr 1650 (1976)

A documentary condemning the scourge of poorly conducted inventories. ...

Front Collision (1975)

Shortly before retiring, an old railway worker causes a serious accident which ultimately destroys his whole professional career. ...

The King (1974)

Brief portrait of a conformist. ...

The Visit (1974)

A "Polityka" weekly journalist Marta Wesolowska and photo-reporter Erazm Ciolek visit Urszula Flis, who runs a country farm. A young woman living on her own, Flis is an untypical villager in that she is interested in culture, corresponds with writers, etc. ...

Happy End (1973)

A purge in the style of those of March 1968 is to take place at a party meeting. Instead, it turns into a psychodrama. ...

Koło fortuny (1972)

A TV film about the preparations for Wojciech Fortuna's return from Sapporo, after he won the Olympic gold medal. ...

Absolutorium (1971)

A group of director's school colleagues meet after 12 years at his place. They talk about what they think of their life choices. ...

We Film the People! (2013)

The unique story of film directors who managed to critic the Communist regime while being produced by the State: this is Polish cinema's golden age, in the 1970s. Director Ania Szczepanska, born in Poland and raised in France, meets prominent filmmakers, p ...

Father and Son (2013)

Two acclaimed documentary film-makers - father and son - drive from Poland to Paris to see the place where the ashes of the father's mother are buried. What accompanies them on the way are resentments, quarrels and sincere confessions. ...

Father and Son on a Journey (2013)

Marcel Lozinski was born in May 1940 in Paris, and he spent part of his childhood in various children's homes. His Jewish communist parents were members of the resistance. After the war he went with his mother to Poland, where he became a celebrated docume ...

Tren na śmierć cenzora (1992)

The film reveals the mechanisms of the communist institution of censorship. Famous filmmakers - Kazimierz Kutz, Andrzej Wajda, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Filip Bajon and Marcel Lozinski - talk about their contacts and experiences with censors, how their films w ...

Pedestrian Subway (1974)

A school teacher from a small town in Poland comes to Warsaw to see his estranged wife, a window dresser, in the hope that she will return to him rather than give him a divorce. ...

Absolutorium (1971)

A group of director's school colleagues meet after 12 years at his place. They talk about what they think of their life choices. ...