Writing

Anatol Stern

Born — Died

1899-10-24 — 1968-10-19

Place of birth

Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]

Known for

Writing

Credits

24 titles

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

No artwork available
NR

Lost Film

Krwawy wschód

1931

Path of Shame poster
NR

An international group of women traffickers is increasingly active in Poland. At a Warsaw dance school, they tempt young women with the possibility of being cast by an American film studio. What the gang doesn’t know is that among the students, there is a secret police agent.

Path of Shame

1929

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

Early Spring poster
9.0

Directed by Henryk Szaro.

Early Spring

1928

Gehenna poster
8.0

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

Gehenna

1938

Young Forest poster
5.8

In the beginning of the 20th century, Polish students are fully aware that the education system is not one in which the truth is taught, but rather one their government wants them to learn. A student contradicts his professor's stance that Suworow was one of Poland's greatest leaders. The argument between the two eventually leads to a wide strike.

Young Forest

1934

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

Kłamstwo Krystyny poster
7.0

Living only with her elderly father, Krystyna runs the household and works as a modest clerk. However, her fate takes a turn. The girl gets a job at a company, and one of the clients, Jan Merlecki, wins her heart. Things quickly become complicated, though. An anonymous phone call to her beloved's parents, followed by their intervention to prevent the young couple from marrying, prompts Krystyna to make a dramatic decision.

Kłamstwo Krystyny

1939

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

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

Wierna rzeka poster
7.0

1863. Bloody battles are raging. A squadron of dragoons is pursuing an insurgent. It is the wounded Prince Odrowąż. With his last ounce of strength, he makes his way to the home of the administrator Brynicki. Mija Brynicka, the steward's daughter, risks her own life and compromises her honor to hide him. Odrowąż finds caring attention and slowly recovers. Love blossoms between Mija and Odrowąż. Lost in ecstasy, they dream of a liberated homeland and marriage. Unfortunately, the prince's mother's selfishness stands in the way of their love, as she does not allow this misalliance. She takes her son away, leaving Mija in boundless despair.

Wierna rzeka

1936

Europa poster
7.2

Europa is a 12-minute anti-fascist film made in 1931 in Warsaw, Poland by surrealists Stefan and Franciszka Themerson. The film is based on Anatol Stern's 1925 futurist poem Europa. It uses collages and photograms, and articulates the sense of horror and moral decline its makers were witnessing. The film, while long thought to have been lost, is considered an avant-garde masterpiece.

Europa

1932

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

The Quack poster
6.8

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

Moi rodzice rozwodzą się poster
7.0

The Nałęczs have been heading toward divorce for a long time, and the only thing that connects them is their sixteen-year-old daughter, Stasia.

Moi rodzice rozwodzą się

1938

Wind from the Sea poster
NR

A film adaptation of Stefan Żeromski's novel of the same title. The last Polish silent film.

Wind from the Sea

1930

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

Heart on the street poster
NR

A Russian spy enlists naïve Nadia to seduce ministry official Henryk Barczyński and discredit him, but their staged affair turns into genuine love.

Heart on the street

1931

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Grzeszna miłość

1929

What Does My Husband Do at Night? poster
7.8

After his business partner Otto vanishes with the company’s funds, Roman Tarski tells his wife Stefie he must work secretly by night as a waiter at the club “Alhambra.” Stefie grows suspicious of his exhaustion and odd behavior, and when she finds him drunk with the maid Kazia and her fiancé Walery, she enlists Baron Carolescu’s help to expose Roman’s deception and uncover the truth about the missing money.

What Does My Husband Do at Night?

1934

No artwork available
9.5

A sculptor is desperately looking for a model for his latest work entitled New Venus. One day he meets girl who seems like perfect candidate. Soon, they both fall in love with each other.

The Cult of the Body

1930

Love or a Kingdom poster
5.1

King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland secretly falls in love with Barbara Radziwiłłówna, a noblewoman of Lithuanian magnate lineage, defying his mother Queen Bona’s plans to wed him to a French princess.

Love or a Kingdom

1936

Exile to Siberia poster
8.0

The story takes place in 1905 and shows us a glimpse of an earlier Russian occupied Poland. After the assignation of the Governor-General, the Russian authorities in Warsaw are bent on finding the conspirators. Ryszard (Adam Brodzisz) is a Polish patriot that is considered a terrorist to the Russians and a hero to the Poles. He manages to find time to fall in love with a woman named Rena before being caught. The Russians know he was part of the plot, but do not know exactly how much he was involved, so he is sentenced to exile in Siberia. But his sweetheart Rena doesn't stand still while he is sent away, so she follows him to Siberia.

Exile to Siberia

1930