Piotr Szulkin
Biography: Piotr Szulkin was a Polish film director and writer. He directed over thirteen films, both Polish and international productions. He was a recipient of "Best Science Fiction Film Director" at Eurocon in 1984. During the latter part of his career, he was also a professor at the National Film School in Łódź. He was the son of Paweł Szulkin, a Polish physicist from an assimilated Jewish family (his grandparents were Idel Szulkin and Małka Frydzon). His paternal uncle was Michał Szulkin, a historian and publicist. In 2013, Piotr Szulkin demanded the removal of information about the Jewish ancestry of Paweł Szulkin in his biography in the Polski Słownik Biograficzny (Polish National Dictionary). After Piotr Szulkin sued Polski Słownik Biograficzny, in January 2014, the Civil Court in Kraków, as a protective action, put a one-year prohibition on the dissemination of the volume of Polski Słownik Biograficzny including the biography of Paweł Szulkin.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 26, 1950
Deathday: August 03, 2018
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Known For
Guilty of Innocence
1992-02-10
Guilty of Innocence
Overview: This sumptuously photographed period drama is set in 1791 Vienna. Maximilian Bardo, an opportunistic 18-year old Viennese man with aspirations to rise above his bourgeois upbringing, looks for a chance to shoehorn himself into the nobility. His hopes lead him to the castle of a wealthy inventor, Alexander Plant. It is here that a strange story is played out, as Maximilian, full of naive illusions and innocent ideals of what it means to be wealthy and noble, quickly loses his innocence. Falling prey to the jaded aristocrats in residence, he is cruelly initiated into their decadent games.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1992-02-10
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A Hymn on the Death of the Young
1973-01-01
A Hymn on the Death of the Young
Overview: A surrealistic portrait of restaurant guests as seen by an otherworldly visitor who has the ability to read people’s subconscious.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Samosiuk. The Independent Film Republic
2012-10-01
Samosiuk. The Independent Film Republic
Overview: The film is a portrait of Zygmunt Samosiuk, a great forgotten cinematographer, who died in 1983. As a director of photography he worked on such films as The Birch Wood, Landscape Afterthe Battle and Austeria. He introduced, among others, hand‑held camera shots, colour lights and shooting at minimum exposure. Reminiscences of his colleagues and friends, including Andrzej Wajda and Piotr Szulkin, show a gifted artist and a modest man who valued his work above all.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2012-10-01
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Hospital of the Transfiguration
1979-03-28
Hospital of the Transfiguration
Overview: Shortly after the beginning of World War 2 a young idealist doctor is employed in a psychiatric hospital, where his notions of proper care for the patients are challenged by staff and the German occupation.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-03-28
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Lava
1989-11-06
Lava
Overview: On the eve of the Day of the Dead, among mysterious old rituals of the Vilnius region, ghosts of the past and present start to appear.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1989-11-06
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Meat (Ironica)
1994-06-30
Meat (Ironica)
Overview: "Mieso" (Meat) is a satirical and irreverent revision of the most recent history of Poland.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1994-06-30
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Kolysanka
1986-01-01
Kolysanka
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Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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