Jan Józef Szczepański

Writing

Jan Józef Szczepański

Born 1919-01-12 · Warsaw, Poland

Jan Józef Szczepański (born January 12, 1919 – February 20, 2003) was a Polish writer, reporter, essayist, screenwriter, and translator, Tatra mountaineer, and traveler. He was president of the Polish Writers' Union and the Polish Writers' Association. He was an Orientalist by training.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe poster
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The story of catholic saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz.

Life for Life: Maximilian Kolbe

1991

From a Far Country poster
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This heroic story follows the life of Karol Wojtyla, a Polish Roman catholic who ascends the throne of St. Peter as Pope John Paul II. As a young boy, Karol is a bright and talented student. Archbishop Sapieha recognizes the very special, moving qualities Karol possesses and encourages him to consider the priesthood. Although determined to study Polish literature, Karol turns to the church; he is ordained and studies in Italy, France, and Belgium. Torn by fear and repression in post-Stalin Eastern Europe, Karol becomes a poisonous thorn in the communists' side. His deer reverence and commitment return him to Poland as Pope John Paul II.

From a Far Country

1981

Westerplatte Resists poster
7.1

Westerplatte is a small peninsula at the entry to the Gdańsk Harbour. Before World War II, it functioned as a Polish ammunition depot in the Free City of Danzig. Its crew consisted of one infantry company and a group of civilians, 182 people in total. It was the only Polish guard-post at the mouth of the Vistula River, with as little as five sentries, one field cannon, two anti-armour guns and four mortars. The first shots of World War II were fired there. This film tells the story of Westerplatte's courageous defenders.

Westerplatte Resists

1967

Hubal poster
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Major Henryk "Hubal" Dobrzański refuses to surrender to the Germans in the wake of the 1939 campaign and continues to lead his regiment in guerilla warfare against the invaders.

Hubal

1973

Stajnia na Salvatorze poster
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WWII. Zyga, one of the Resistance soldiers in Kraków is arrested by Gestapo. Soon later the Germans make a number of other arrests and Zyga is accused of being an informer.

Stajnia na Salvatorze

1967

Free City poster
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The heroic struggle of Polish post office workers in Gdańsk on the first day of World War II.

Free City

1958

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9.0

A group of resistance fighters discover the secret collaboration between a local beggar and the Nazis.

Na melinę

1981

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7.0

Guests from America came to Poland, and there were three of them. One, a businessman, intends to buy the land from the battlefields in order to cash it for a profit abroad. The second is looking for a wife in his home village, highlander, and the third wants to visit his uncle's family. Will their trip be successful?

Guests Are Coming

1962