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Jerzy Wójcik (12 September 1930 – 3 April 2019) was a Polish cinematographer, author of screenplays and film and television director.
Jerzy Wójcik graduated from the cinematography department of the Łódź Film School in 1955. He started working in film in 1956 as an assistant to cameraman Jerzy Lipman. He was a camera operator for Andrzej Wajda’s Kanał and Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s Prawdziwy Koniec Wielkiej Wojny / Real End of the Great War. Jerzy Wójcik’s name is linked to the films of ‘Polish school’ directors Andrzej Wajda and Andrzej Munk. His full-length feature debut as a cameraman was Munk’s Eroica in 1957. Two years later he was the cinematographer for Wajda’s Popiól i Diament / Ashes and Diamonds. Wójcik was also the cinematographer for several other films by Andrzej Wajda as well as films by Kazimierz Kutz, Stanislaw Różewicz, and Jerzy Kawalerowicz.
In 1981 to 1982, Jerzy Wójcik taught cinematography at the University of Silesia in Katowice. Since 1982 he taught at Łódź Film School. He has also worked as a film director, with projects such as Lament in 1991 and Wrota Europy / The Gateway of Europe in 1999 to his credit. Jerzy Wójcik also wrote a book, Labirynt Światła / Labyrinth of Light, describing his professional experiences and presenting his philosophical reflections.
Jerzy Wójcik has received some prestigious film industry awards, including the ‘Golden Camera 300’ for his lifetime achievement as a cinematographer at the International Cinematographers’ Film Festival in Bitola, Macedonia (1999), and the ‘Vitae Valor’ award for lifetime achievement at the third ‘Vitae Valor’ Film Festival in Tarnów. Jerzy Wójcik’s star in the Avenue of the Stars in Piotrkowska Street in Łódź was unveiled in 2002.
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11 April 1961
Fram is in a German POW camp where brutal, cold-hearted Gestapo officers like Weber or Von Steinhagen terrorize and execute their Polish prisoners.
27 March 1959
Three episodes showing the repercussions of war. A soldier is awarded with the Cross of Valor and vacation to home.
05 September 1962
A boy awaits the return of his long-absent emigre father but is disappointed when they finally meet.
08 February 1988
About a sound designer for films who years ago, while in bed with his mistress, failed to respond to calls for help outside his door.
01 January 1967
A film adaptation of a series of short stories by Zofia Nalkowska, describing the fate of people who survived Nazi persecution.
18 December 1991
A teenager gets killed on his way to school during the tragic events of December 1970 on the Polish coast.
22 November 1963
A carmelite monk travels through 17th century Poland and experiences various mishaps along the way.
02 September 1974
During the Swedish invasion of Poland, the brave warrior Andrzej Kmicic, considered a traitor to the nation, fights for a country, redemption and love across the 17th-century Polish territories.
17 November 1975
Two years after the war, during a train trip, Henryk (20) recollects the occupation period. He passes different train stations and recollects various situations from the past: his family life, working in a garage, guerrilla warfare, the fear that accompanied him every day.
03 October 1958
A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else.
20 April 1957
In the last few days of the Warsaw Uprising during World War II, a modest group of Resistance members remains.
25 September 1964
It seems that nothing can ruin Henryk’s (Wieńczysław Gliński) happy life. He’s a respected lawyer with a loving son and wife.
09 February 1961
A Polish priest arrives at a convent hoping to save the Mother Superior who is supposedly possessed by eight demons.
17 January 1966
Two Polish Army soldiers, both from different political backgrounds clash while fighting the Germans.
21 December 1957
A group of young Łódź hoodlums spends their time shoplifting, partying and drinking heavily, until they are faced with serious consequences of their reckless behaviour.
12 March 1965
Three idealists - a communist secretary, a former RAF pilot and a female political activist - need to face the hardships and accusations of postwar Stalinist years before being finally rehabilitated.
29 November 1979
Story of Podgaje massacre in January 1945 in which SS troop murdered captured Polish soldiers.
04 January 1958
Tells two tales set during WWII: A seemingly feckless and selfish man finally takes up arms in the national struggle against the Nazis.
11 March 1966
Young Pharaoh Ramses XIII clashes with Egypt's clergy over influence on the affairs of the state and its coffers.
01 January 1963
In occupied Poland in 1943, a wounded Jewish woman escapes a transport train and is discovered by villagers who, despite their sympathy, are unable to help her.
14 March 1978
The last days in the life of Edward Dembowski (1822-1846), the organizer of the Kraków Uprising in 1846.
05 September 1983
The action takes place in Warsaw in the second half of the 19th century. The main character is the head of the girls' school - Mrs.
11 September 1961
The hero is a Jewish youth. He, like his family, has always been silent and undemonstrative in the face of prejudice.
02 September 1985
A psychological portrait of Ewa, a young Polish theatre actress searching for her own way in life. She plays a minor role in Jasieński's 'The Ball of Mannequins', a complete opposite of her real personality, while aspires to star as Cordelia in Shakespeare's 'King Lear'.
01 September 1967
Westerplatte is a small peninsula at the entry to the Gdańsk Harbour. Before World War II, it functioned as a Polish ammunition depot in the Free City of Danzig.
15 March 1982
Set during the German occupation of Poland during WWII. A priest in a small village meets a revolutionary who is on an assignment to kill a supposed Nazi collaborator.
31 October 1960
Shortly after World War 2 a young man arrives on the Recovered Territories and starts a romance with a young woman, all the while evading the ghosts of his past.
10 October 1957
Róża marries a promising young architect, Juliusz. Then World War II breaks out and within weeks Juliusz is deported to a concentration camp.
18 August 1969
The film depicts a moral dilemma of a clerk who has to face a choice: whether to save a stranger or to pretend that he hasn't seen anything, so that he won't put himself into risk.
01 January 1999
Winter of 1918. Two friends go to a field hospital located near the frontline.
02 March 1994
Charles sits for hours in a wardrobe in a rented room on the attic, looking back on his whole life. He was brought up by a single mother who loved his only child with a sick desperate feeling and limited all his world to her own person.
06 June 1988
The hard-working son of a dying country woman hires a stranger to take care of his mother.
