Andrzej Kostenko

Directing

Andrzej Kostenko

Born 1936-06-24 · Łódź, łódzkie, Polska

Acting credits

The Attempt poster
7.0

Set in the occupied Warsaw, the film tells the story of the mission carried out by the student underground resistance group to execute the hated SS General Franz Kutchera.

The Attempt

1959

When Angels Fall poster
6.6

The twenty-one-minute-film is set in a men's public rest room and recounts the day to day existence of an elderly woman who serves as an attendant in the lavatory. As an endless procession of men pass before her, relieving themselves in the urinals, the attendant escapes her reality by daydreaming about the past and the soldier she once loved and the child she bore him.

When Angels Fall

1959

Everything for Sale poster
6.1

Wajda's homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, the "Polish James Dean" who starred in the director's ASHES AND DIAMONDS and died young. The movie follows the tribulations of a director attempting to make a movie with a Cybulski-like star who never shows up.

Everything for Sale

1969

What Will My Wife Say to This? poster
3.3

The hero of the story is the writer Vladimír Tůma, who is invited to spend a month studying in a neighbouring country. There, the foreign office assigns him a guide, Irena Stepowska. The two young people are attracted to each other, but there is a catch - Vladimír is married, Irena is married. But as they say, opportunity makes the thief, so it's no wonder that Tůma has his work cut out for him, and Irena, too, sometimes recovers only at the last minute. And she doesn't even know that her husband is coming to visit her...

What Will My Wife Say to This?

1958

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Knife in the Water: A Ticket to the West

2003

Behind the camera

The Departure poster
6.6

A young Belgian car nut and hairdresser's apprentice attempts to get a Porsche by all means for his nearing debut race and meets a girl in the same time.

The Departure

1967

The Evolution of Snuff poster
3.9

Mockumentary about a pornographic film starlet who commits suicide during the filming of a documentary about the adult film business, leading to the discovery of a snuff film.

The Evolution of Snuff

1978

The Evolution of Snuff poster
3.9

Mockumentary about a pornographic film starlet who commits suicide during the filming of a documentary about the adult film business, leading to the discovery of a snuff film.

The Evolution of Snuff

1978

Hands Up! poster
5.7

The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.

Hands Up!

1985

Stary człowiek i pies poster
5.7

The film presents the story of Robert - an aging, once-recognized artist who is today struggling with his own complexes and vices, and helplessness towards a new reality that ruthlessly throws him to the margins of existence. One day Robert finds himself in a roadside ditch hit by a dog's car. In a reflex of spontaneous compassion, he takes the dog home and begins to look after him.

Stary człowiek i pies

2008

Personal Search poster
5.2

Two women trying to smuggle western goods back to Poland have only a few hours to convince a dedicated customs officer to take a bribe and let them pass.

Personal Search

1973

Personal Search poster
5.2

Two women trying to smuggle western goods back to Poland have only a few hours to convince a dedicated customs officer to take a bribe and let them pass.

Personal Search

1973

Sam na sam poster
8.5

"Alone"- A psychological and moral drama dealing with the crisis of feelings in interpersonal relations. Young heroes, basing their relationship on a program-based resignation from emotional involvement, under the influence of a tragic accident, change the rules of past coexistence.

Sam na sam

1977

Sam na sam poster
8.5

"Alone"- A psychological and moral drama dealing with the crisis of feelings in interpersonal relations. Young heroes, basing their relationship on a program-based resignation from emotional involvement, under the influence of a tragic accident, change the rules of past coexistence.

Sam na sam

1977

My Blood, Your Blood poster
NR

A BBC documentary on the mid-'80s rock scene in Poland, focusing on performers at the Jarocin '86 music festival.

My Blood, Your Blood

1986