Screenplay: Henryk Sienkiewicz

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Henryk Sienkiewicz. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Quo Vadis

1951 · Movie · 171 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Robert Taylor · Deborah Kerr · Peter Ustinov · Leo Genn

Plot Returning to Rome after 3 years in the field, General Marcus Vinicius meets Lygia and falls in love with her. She is a Christian and doesn't want to have anything...

7.3

11K votes

7.3

11K votes

The Deluge

1974 · Movie · 315 min. · Poland

Direction Jerzy Hoffman

Cast Daniel Olbrychski · Malgorzata Braunek · Tadeusz Lomnicki · Kazimierz Wichniarz

Plot Set during the 17th-century Polish-Swedish war and based on a novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz, Deluge follows the romance between a violent soldier and the young woman who tries to tame...

6.5

30 votes

6.5

30 votes

6.4

171 votes

Knights of the Teutonic Order

1960 · Movie · 166 min. · Poland

Direction Aleksander Ford

Cast Urszula Modrzynska · Grazyna Staniszewska · Andrzej Szalawski · Henryk Borowski

Plot A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. He falls in love with a...

6.4

131 votes

6.4

131 votes

With Fire and Sword

1999 · Movie · 182 min. · Poland

Direction Jerzy Hoffman

Cast Izabella Scorupco · Aleksandr Domogarov · Michał Żebrowski · Krzystof Kowalewski

Plot In the mid17th century, at the start of the film's action, Poland was the largest, the most democratic, and the most tolerant country in Europe. However, the tragic civil war...

6.2

219 votes

6.2

219 votes

Quo Vadis?

2001 · Movie · 170 min. · Poland

Direction Jerzy Kawalerowicz

Cast Pawel Delag · Magdalena Mielcarz · Boguslaw Linda · Michal Bajor

Plot 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...

5.6

211 votes

5.6

211 votes

Nowy Janko muzykant (S)

1961 · Movie · 10 min. · Poland

Direction Jan Lenica

5.3

26 votes

5.3

26 votes

W pustyni i w puszczy

2001 · Movie · 111 min. · Poland

Direction Gavin Hood

Cast Adam Fidusiewicz · Karolina Sawka · Artur Zmijewski · Andrzej Strzelecki

Plot Two kids are kidnapped by the rebels during Mahdi's rebellion in Sudan. When 15 year old Stas Tarkowski and 9 year old Nel Rawlinson are kidnapped by rebels fighting for...

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W pustyni i w puszczy

1973 · Movie · 195 min. · Poland

Direction Wladyslaw Slesicki

Cast Tomasz Medrzak · Monika Rosca · Stanislaw Jasiukiewicz · Edmund Fetting

Plot Fourteen year old Polish boy Stas Tarkowski and eight year old Nel Rawlison from England are kidnapped as the hostages by Arabic fanatics and taken to their religion leader.

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Pan Wolodyjowski

1969 · Movie · 148 min. · Poland

Direction Jerzy Hoffman

Cast Tadeusz Lomnicki · Magdalena Zawadzka · Mieczyslaw Pawlikowski · Hanka Bielicka

Plot In 1668 the Ottoman Empire decides to attack and invade the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth which is one of the few major European powers to still stand in the destructive path of...

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Daggers of Blood

1962 · Movie · 112 min. · Italy

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