5 Movies Directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz

Cien

Cien

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1956-05-01

Languages:

Polish

Countries:

Poland

Runtime:

98 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (73 Reviews)

Genres:

ActionDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Aleksander Scibor-Rylski (screenplay)

Aleksander Scibor-Rylski (stories)

Fullplot:

Night Train

Night Train

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1959-09-06

Languages:

Polish

Countries:

Poland

Runtime:

99 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (1380 Reviews)

Fullplot:

A man, Jerzy, enters a train set for the Baltic coast. He seems to be on the run from something--and so does the strange woman with whom he must share a sleeping compartment.

Mother Joan of the Angels

Mother Joan of the Angels

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1961-02-09

Languages:

Polish, Latin

Countries:

Poland

Runtime:

110 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (1535 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz (novel)

Tadeusz Konwicki (screenplay)

Jerzy Kawalerowicz (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Set in the 17th century. A convent in a small town is being visited by high-ranking Catholic official trying to exorcise the nun supposedly posessed by demons. A local priest have been burnt for creating this condition by sexual temptation of the nuns, especially the Mother superior who bring on the collective hysteria of the group. There is another young priest who is to help with the exorcism. His first meeting with the convent head, Mother Joanne of the Angels, has her seemingly posessed by Satan - she yells blasphemies and incites the priest. She begs the priest to save her and to help her to be a saint. To help her, he kills two innocent people to be forever a prey of the devil and thus allow her freedom.

Faraon

Faraon

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1966-03-11

Languages:

Polish

Countries:

Poland

Runtime:

180 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (1043 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Boleslaw Prus (novel)

Tadeusz Konwicki (screenplay)

Jerzy Kawalerowicz (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Young Pharaoh Ramses XIII clashes with Egypt's clergy over influence on the affairs of the state and its coffers.

Quo Vadis

Quo Vadis

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2001-09-14

Languages:

Polish

Countries:

Poland, USA

Runtime:

165 min

IMDB Ratings:

5.8 (1481 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Jerzy Kawalerowicz

Henryk Sienkiewicz (novel)

Fullplot:

Marcus Vinicius meets Lygia in Rome and falls in love. But she is Christian and doesn't want anything to do with him. Marcus decides to kidnap her but Ursus, her bodyguard, catches Marcus. After that, Lygia falls in love, but Marcus must go to meet Nero. After the meeting somebody told Marcus that Nero burnt Rome. Marcus decides to go back to Rome and find Lygia.

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