Michał Waszyński

Directing

Michał Waszyński

Born 1904-09-30 · Kowel, Poland, Russian Empire [now Kovel, Volyn Oblast, Ukraine]

Michał Waszyński (September 30, 1904 – February 20, 1965), born Mosze Waks, was a Polish film director, editor, and screenwriter. He directed the largest number of Polish feature films during the interwar period.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Black Pearl poster
4.5

Polish seaman returns home from Tahiti with a native lover and a fortune in sacred pearls, gets seduced by a married woman unaware she is part of a gang trying to get his riches.

Black Pearl

1934

Profesor Wilczur poster
9.0

Profesor Wilczur is a 1938 Polish romantic drama film directed by Michał Waszyński. It is based on the novel by Tadeusz Dolega-Mostowicz.

Profesor Wilczur

1938

55 Days at Peking poster
6.9

Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals.

55 Days at Peking

1963

No artwork available
7.0

Rena is adored by the prosecutor's son, but his father won't let them be together. The manager of the warehouse where she works is also trying to win her favor.

Rena

1938

A Dangerous Affair poster
9.0

A Polish crime film in which Hieronim Śpiewankiewicz (Bogusław Samborski), the chief cashier of a Warsaw bank, steals a large sum of money and runs away with his lover Ada (Betty Amann). He is unaware that the woman is in cahoots with a gang that plans to defraud him and take the loot.

A Dangerous Affair

1930

Three Hearts poster
8.0

Two children are born in a rich family's manor house - one of them, Gogo, is a son of a countess and the second one, Maciek, a son of the servant. The servant decides to switch the babies so her son can have a better life. They both grow up and fall for the same woman, a girl named Kasia raised by the countess.

Three Hearts

1939

The Dybbuk poster
6.7

In a Polish shtetl, two young men who have grown up together betrothe their unborn children, ignoring the advice of a mysterious traveler not to pledge the lives of future generations. Soon after, one of them dies, and the wife of the other dies in childbirth. The children grow up in different towns, without ever knowing of the betrothal, but the power of the vow leads them to meet each other when they are marriageable. The young woman, Leah, is promised to another man, but Channon, the son of the father who died, is a practitioner of mysticism, and seeks to win his bride through sorcery.

The Dybbuk

1937

Happy Days poster
7.0

Two friends, Szczepko and Tonko, are made unemployed in a toy factory where there was a ban on singing and they broke the rule. In a park they find a abandoned baby, and they take it into their care. Meanwhile, Wanda, owner of a toy shop, comes to Lwów with her uncle. He wants his niece to work for the director of this factory. By coincidence, the child is given to Wanda. Szczepko and Tonko look for him desperately. But the uncle is more and more happy about having the child. After numerous hurdles, the child remains at the uncle's, Wanda and Julian are in heaven, and Szczepko and Tonko, reconciled with fate, leave....

Happy Days

1936

The Vagabonds poster
8.1

Two Lviv batiars are taking care of their deceased neighbor's granddaughter.

The Vagabonds

1939

Gehenna poster
8.0

A young girl falls in love with an aristocrat against her uncle's wishes.

Gehenna

1938

No artwork available
10.0

On the day Andrzej graduates from police academy and receives his officer's stripes, his father, a senior police officer, is murdered. Andrzej, assigned to the investigative brigade, tries to find the murderer, who turns out to be a member of an international gang of counterfeiters. The mysterious ringleader resorts to the help of Janina, an innocent girl who has nothing to do with the criminals. He blackmails her into pretending to be in love with Andrzej and extracting the necessary information from him. But the girl falls in love for real, and he falls in love with her too...

Nameless Heroes

1932

The Quiet American poster
5.8

Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for her attention. In retaliation, Fowler informs the communists that the American is selling arms to their enemy.

The Quiet American

1958

Druga młodość poster
3.7

A middle-aged woman takes a young lover, and leaves her husband and family to live with him. Her lover tires of her, and tosses her out and she wanders around pawning her jewelry in order to live. She makes a last visit to her family, planning suicide after she sees them.

Druga młodość

1938

Pieśniarz Warszawy poster
6.7

Julek doesn't want to work, he prefers to sing on the street and marry his beloved. His family doesn't want to hear about it, to which Julek sings in the voice of Eugeniusz Bodo: "That's just how cold-hearted I am..."

Pieśniarz Warszawy

1934

The Toy poster
10.0

A landowner meets a cabaret dancer in Warsaw who unexpectedly accompanies him to his rural estate, shocking his household. When his son arrives with his fiancée, the dancer is hidden in the gamekeeper’s cottage, sparking suitors among the gamekeeper’s son and later the landowner’s own son.

The Toy

1933

Wacuś poster
7.0

The main character is Tadeusz Rosołek, an average civil servant who, unfortunately for him, falls in love with the beautiful Kazi. However, he does not have the courage to confess his feelings to her in person. He comes up with the idea of pretending to be her fictional brother Wacus. This is not easy, as he has to constantly change his clothes...

Wacuś

1935

The Quack poster
7.0

A renowned surgeon, abandoned by his wife and daughter, gets robbed and loses his memory. Wandering around the countryside, he becomes a village healer and performs operations.

The Quack

1937

The Great Way poster
7.0

A pair of Poles deported to Siberia are taken to the army formed by General Anders and along the battle trail.

The Great Way

1947

Kobiety nad przepaścią poster
4.8

The film presents the problem of women forced into prostitution abroad. Marysia Żurkówna is looking for a better life, she believes that when she leaves, she will go to a better world. A terrible disappointment awaits her. The "kind" people who organized her departure have prepared a cruel surprise for her - she is to become a prostitute. What can a lonely girl in a foreign country do in such a situation?

Kobiety nad przepaścią

1938

Panienka z poste restante poster
8.5

Marysia, a postal clerk, travels to Vienna to work as Mr. Olszewicz's secretary as a result of a distorted telegram. Their first joint venture is to sign a contract with American industrialist Smith, pretending to be a young married couple. He takes them to his yacht in Dubrovnik, where he refuses to sign the contract, having guessed the deception and feeling cheated.

Panienka z poste restante

1935

Bolek i Lolek poster
8.0

Bolek, a young locksmith’s apprentice, fights off two suspicious men to defend a friend and, fleeing the police, hides at a party where guests mistake him for the wealthy but naïve Lolek.

Bolek i Lolek

1936

U kresu drogi poster
7.5

Professor Turwid is conducting research on a vaccine to combat encephalitis. The medical community is skeptical about this. Suspecting his wife of having an affair with a younger colleague, Count Łański, he fakes his own death. The only person who knows his secret is his servant Feliks. Over the next few years, he passes on information about the situation of his wife and daughter. The professor knows that his suspicions were completely unfounded and that his wife devoted herself entirely to raising their child. After many years, he returns to Warsaw, where he starts working at a clinic and, together with Jerzy, his daughter's future fiancé, completes work on the serum. There is a chance to return to his family, but it may already be too late.

U kresu drogi

1939

District Attorney poster
6.3

Jan Winkler borrows 1,000 zł from a respected professor in exchange for introducing young women to dubious “scientific” experiments. He uses the money to buy a nightclub and falls for prosecutor Alicja Horn.

District Attorney

1933

The Twelve Chairs poster
6.1

The first movie adaptation of the Russian novel "The Twelve Chairs" by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeniy Petrov. The basic idea from this movie, in which a barber and an antique salesman were searching for money hidden in one of of twelve chairs, was later reused for other official and unofficial adaptions of the book

The Twelve Chairs

1933