Cinematography: Zygmunt Samosiuk

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Zygmunt Samosiuk. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


The Birch Wood (Brzezina)

1970 · Movie · 100 min. · Poland

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Daniel Olbrychski · Emilia Krakowska · Olgierd Lukaszewicz · Marek Perepeczko

Plot Takes place in a prewar Poland. A tubercular young man comes to stay with his brother on a farm. He is in love with life and constantly plays 1930's music...

6.6

138 votes

6.6

138 votes

Landscape After Battle

1970 · Movie · 100 min. · Poland

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Daniel Olbrychski · Stanislawa Celinska · Aleksander Bardini · Zygmunt Malanowicz

Plot Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then...

6.6

130 votes

6.6

130 votes

Golem

1980 · Movie · 92 min. · Poland

Direction Piotr Szulkin

Cast Henryk Bak · Mariusz Dmochowski · Wieslaw Drzewicz · Krystyna Janda

Plot The film is set in a terrorizing world of the future, where technology commands the movements of individuals, supervised by the doctors, carrying out a program to improve the human...

6.4

123 votes

6.4

123 votes

The Inn

1983 · Movie · 109 min. · Poland

Direction Jerzy Kawalerowicz

Cast Franciszek Pieczka · Wojciech Pszoniak · Jan Szurmiej · Ewa Domanska

Plot Set in the Polish Galicia in 1914, on the eve of World War I. Three nationalities are living in the area: Polish, Ukrainian and Jewish. The country inn (Austeria in...

6.1

49 votes

6.1

49 votes

The War of the World: Next Century

1981 · Movie · 96 min. · Poland

Direction Piotr Szulkin

Cast Roman Wilhelmi · Krystyna Janda · Mariusz Dmochowski · Jerzy Stuhr

Plot Film opens on December 18, 1999, just a few days before the dawn of the new century. A local reporter, Iron Idem, announces that the Martians have landed. Shortly after...

6.0

51 votes

6.0

51 votes

The Story of Sin

1975 · Movie · 130 min. · Poland

Direction Walerian Borowczyk

Cast Grazyna Dlugolecka · Jerzy Zelnik · Olgierd Lukaszewicz · Roman Wilhelmi

Plot The teenage girl is first seen confessing and warned about having any impure thoughts or feelings. Her family has boarders and one day a young man moves in and they...

5.4

39 votes

5.4

39 votes

Lekcja martwego jezyka

1979 · Movie · 96 min. · Poland

Direction Janusz Majewski

Cast Olgierd Lukaszewicz · Ewa Dalkowska · Malgorzata Pritulak · Gustaw Lutkiewicz

Plot A young lieutenant Kiekeritz wants to give some meaning to his life. He starts to collect works of art.

Not rated

Not rated

Hunting Flies

1969 · Movie · 104 min. · Poland

Not rated

Not rated

The Gorgon Case

1977 · Movie · 137 min. · Poland

Direction Janusz Majewski

Cast Ewa Dalkowska · Aleksander Bardini · Mariusz Dmochowski · Andrzej Lapicki

Plot One of the most talked-about trials in 1930s Polish press. Housekeeper Rita Gorgon, who has an affair with her employer, is accused of murdering his teenage daughter.

Not rated

Not rated

Mister Blot's Academy

1984 · Movie · 166 min. · Poland

Direction Krzysztof Gradowski

Cast Piotr Fronczewski · Slavek Wronka · Leon Niemczyk · Bronislaw Pawlik

Plot A young boy is sent to a boarding school run by an eccentric scientist/magician. He befriends a talking bird named Matt and is told how it lost its human form,...

Not rated

Not rated

To Kill This Love

1972 · Movie · 92 min. · Poland

Direction Janusz Morgenstern

Cast Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak · Andrzej Malec · Wladyslaw Kowalski · Barbara Wrzesinska

Plot The young couple love each other. The boy is in constant work which will fit him, and in the end becomes a petty thief who cannot pay his debts anymore...

Not rated

Not rated

Convicted

1976 · Movie · 87 min. · Poland

Direction Andrzej Trzos-Rastawiecki

Cast Wojciech Pszoniak · Zdzislaw Kozien · Zygmunt Hubner · Piotr Pawlowski

Plot In this Polish film, a man is on trial for failing to prevent his critically ill brother from committing suicide.

Not rated

Not rated

Dagny

1977 · Movie · 85 min. · Poland

Not rated

Not rated

Epitafium dla Barbary Radziwillówny

1983 · Movie · 89 min. · Poland

Direction Janusz Majewski

Cast Anna Dymna · Jerzy Zelnik · Aleksandra Slaska · Krzysztof Kolberger

Plot King Sigismund II Augustus recalls the years spent with her beautiful queen Barbara Barbara Radziwill.

Not rated

Not rated

Hydrozagadka (TV)

1971 · Movie · 70 min. · Poland

Direction Andrzej Kondratiuk

Cast Roman Klosowski · Zdzislaw Maklakiewicz · Wieslaw Michnikowski

Plot Hydrozagadka is a Polish superhero comedy film. During a summer heat wave, all the water in Warsaw is puzzlingly disappearing. Scientists secretly call upon As (Ace), a superhero who passes...

Not rated

Not rated

A Slip-Up

1972 · Movie · 81 min. · Poland

Direction Jan Lomnicki

Cast Barbara Soltysik · Jan Englert · Jerzy Kamas · Bronislaw Pawlik

Plot The main character has quit school, makes a living by taking pictures. He seduces a nurse who treated his head wound which he earned in a fight. They witness a...

Not rated

Not rated