Directing

Marcel Łoziński

Born — Died

1940-05-17 — 2025-08-20

Place of birth

Paris - France

Known for

Directing

Credits

46 titles

Marcel Loziński was born in 1940 in Paris. He earned his degree in Film Directing from Łódź Film School. He has made a number of excellent documentaries, which include How It’s Done(2006), Anything Can Happen (1995), Microphone’s Test (1980), Front Collision (1975), The Visit (1974) and was nominated to the European Academy Award and American Oscar for his documentary film 89 mm from Europe (1993). For the past four years he has been the head of the documentary programme at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing.

Known for

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A TV film about the preparations for Wojciech Fortuna's return from Sapporo, after he won the Olympic gold medal.

Koło fortuny

1972

I Remember poster
6.3

Weaves together the personal recollections of four Polish survivors of the Holocaust with original footage from the present day. The film focuses specifically on the relations between Jews and Poles in Nazi occupied Poland.

I Remember

2002

Autoportret poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Autoportret

1993

We Film the People! poster
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The unique story of film directors who managed to critic the Communist regime while being produced by the State: this is Polish cinema's golden age, in the 1970s. Director Ania Szczepanska, born in Poland and raised in France, meets prominent filmmakers, producers, actors such as Andrzej WAJDA, Marcel LOZINSKI, Krzyszstof ZANUSSI, Kristina JANDA, Ryszard BUGAJSKI and confronts them the testimonies of the State men of that time. Through unknown archives, forgotten documentaries and excerpts of cult films, she relates how the Solidarnosc people ended up in Cannes.

We Film the People!

2013

Poste restante poster
NR

In Poland, letters with incorrect address end up at the Department of Unsent Mail in Koluszki. The film follows one of these letters, on which a child's hand has written an unusual address: 'God. Heaven.'

Poste restante

2009

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8.0

This movie is about the visit of Clive Harris, the famous healer, to Warsaw. Incredible crowds gather before the entrance and Harris "heals" thousands of people by briefly touching them. Tireless on his stand, he fulfills his duty for 24 hours a day.

The Touch

1978

Film credits

2010s · 3 titles

Behind the camera

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A TV film about the preparations for Wojciech Fortuna's return from Sapporo, after he won the Olympic gold medal.

Koło fortuny

1972

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A TV film about the preparations for Wojciech Fortuna's return from Sapporo, after he won the Olympic gold medal.

Koło fortuny

1972

I Remember poster
6.3

Weaves together the personal recollections of four Polish survivors of the Holocaust with original footage from the present day. The film focuses specifically on the relations between Jews and Poles in Nazi occupied Poland.

I Remember

2002

I Remember poster
6.3

Weaves together the personal recollections of four Polish survivors of the Holocaust with original footage from the present day. The film focuses specifically on the relations between Jews and Poles in Nazi occupied Poland.

I Remember

2002

Autoportret poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Autoportret

1993

Autoportret poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Autoportret

1993

Poste restante poster
NR

In Poland, letters with incorrect address end up at the Department of Unsent Mail in Koluszki. The film follows one of these letters, on which a child's hand has written an unusual address: 'God. Heaven.'

Poste restante

2009

Poste restante poster
NR

In Poland, letters with incorrect address end up at the Department of Unsent Mail in Koluszki. The film follows one of these letters, on which a child's hand has written an unusual address: 'God. Heaven.'

Poste restante

2009

No artwork available
8.0

This movie is about the visit of Clive Harris, the famous healer, to Warsaw. Incredible crowds gather before the entrance and Harris "heals" thousands of people by briefly touching them. Tireless on his stand, he fulfills his duty for 24 hours a day.

The Touch

1978

No artwork available
8.0

This movie is about the visit of Clive Harris, the famous healer, to Warsaw. Incredible crowds gather before the entrance and Harris "heals" thousands of people by briefly touching them. Tireless on his stand, he fulfills his duty for 24 hours a day.

The Touch

1978

If It Happens poster
9.0

Tomek, Marcel Lozinski's son, is eighteen now. Exactly twelve years ago, when he was six, his father filmed him while he was visiting a park in Warsaw. Tomek used to stop next to some old people sitting on the benches, and, with childish frankness, would ask them questions about joy, loneliness, fear of death, dreams, love and lack of love. Now, after twelve years, on his birthday, Tomek comes back to the garden of his childhood. A magical encounter will commence.

If It Happens

2007

If It Happens poster
9.0

Tomek, Marcel Lozinski's son, is eighteen now. Exactly twelve years ago, when he was six, his father filmed him while he was visiting a park in Warsaw. Tomek used to stop next to some old people sitting on the benches, and, with childish frankness, would ask them questions about joy, loneliness, fear of death, dreams, love and lack of love. Now, after twelve years, on his birthday, Tomek comes back to the garden of his childhood. A magical encounter will commence.

If It Happens

2007

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Marcel Lozinski was born in May 1940 in Paris, and he spent part of his childhood in various children’s homes. His Jewish communist parents were members of the resistance. After the war he went with his mother to Poland, where he became a celebrated documentary maker of some 20 films. Prompted by his son Pawel, also a renowned documentarian, the pair embark on a road trip from Warsaw to Paris. Father and son point the camera at each other and themselves and take stock of one another. In the end, the two men each made their own film about this journey.

Father and Son on a Journey

2013

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Marcel Lozinski was born in May 1940 in Paris, and he spent part of his childhood in various children’s homes. His Jewish communist parents were members of the resistance. After the war he went with his mother to Poland, where he became a celebrated documentary maker of some 20 films. Prompted by his son Pawel, also a renowned documentarian, the pair embark on a road trip from Warsaw to Paris. Father and son point the camera at each other and themselves and take stock of one another. In the end, the two men each made their own film about this journey.

Father and Son on a Journey

2013

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Andrzej Koszyk, a filmmaker, and Jacek Kaczmarski, a singer, take a trip around Warsaw, the place of their birth and youth, after years of emigration.

Warszawa 94. Podróż sentymentalna

1994

Absolutorium poster
5.0

A group of director's school colleagues meet after 12 years at his place. They talk about what they think of their life choices.

Absolutorium

1971

My Place poster
7.3

At the famous Grand Hotel in Sopot, each worker - whether a porter, a maid, a cook or a stoker - feels an important part of their workplace. Perhaps even the most important.

My Place

1986

My Place poster
7.3

At the famous Grand Hotel in Sopot, each worker - whether a porter, a maid, a cook or a stoker - feels an important part of their workplace. Perhaps even the most important.

My Place

1986

How to Live poster
7.0

A holiday training camp for young married couples who belong to the Polish Socialist Youth Union (ZSMP) begins at the campsite. From the commander's welcome speech, they learn that a film crew will record camp life and training classes under the slogan "Model Family".

How to Live

1981

How to Live poster
7.0

A holiday training camp for young married couples who belong to the Polish Socialist Youth Union (ZSMP) begins at the campsite. From the commander's welcome speech, they learn that a film crew will record camp life and training classes under the slogan "Model Family".

How to Live

1981

Anything Can Happen poster
7.2

A story of life and death, featuring Lozinski's six-year-old son Tomaszek and elderly people spending time on the benches of a Warsaw park. Riding his scooter, Tomaszek asks the elderly very adult, though basic, questions, which they are happy to answer. The boy's ideas of future and life are confronted with those of men at the end of their lives.

Anything Can Happen

1995

Anything Can Happen poster
7.2

A story of life and death, featuring Lozinski's six-year-old son Tomaszek and elderly people spending time on the benches of a Warsaw park. Riding his scooter, Tomaszek asks the elderly very adult, though basic, questions, which they are happy to answer. The boy's ideas of future and life are confronted with those of men at the end of their lives.

Anything Can Happen

1995

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11-year-old Werka and her 9-year-old brother Marcel wind up at the front door of a children's home in Wroclaw. Asked who they are, Werka replies, "We are children of communists." In return the teacher yells, "Why do they only send us Judeo-communists?!!!" It is 1949. Werka and Marcel's mother, a pre-war communist, is arrested and charged with collaborating with American intelligence. She will do five and half years. Her children will spend these years in other children's homes. A film about a brother and a sister marked with the ideological choices of their parents.

Tonia and her Children

2011

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11-year-old Werka and her 9-year-old brother Marcel wind up at the front door of a children's home in Wroclaw. Asked who they are, Werka replies, "We are children of communists." In return the teacher yells, "Why do they only send us Judeo-communists?!!!" It is 1949. Werka and Marcel's mother, a pre-war communist, is arrested and charged with collaborating with American intelligence. She will do five and half years. Her children will spend these years in other children's homes. A film about a brother and a sister marked with the ideological choices of their parents.

Tonia and her Children

2011

How It's Done poster
6.2

Piotr Tymochowicz, media advisor to some of Poland's top politicians, claims that anybody can be molded into a charismatic leader. To prove it he's looking for a greenhorn that can be turned into a candidate. A call is put out for would-be participants, and hundreds apply. A small group is selected and under go training. Polish master Marcel Lozinksi followed Tymochowicz and this project for three years, and this beautifully shot and edited work paints a compelling portrait of cynical (and quite familiar) demagogy and populism in action.

How It's Done

2006

How It's Done poster
6.2

Piotr Tymochowicz, media advisor to some of Poland's top politicians, claims that anybody can be molded into a charismatic leader. To prove it he's looking for a greenhorn that can be turned into a candidate. A call is put out for would-be participants, and hundreds apply. A small group is selected and under go training. Polish master Marcel Lozinksi followed Tymochowicz and this project for three years, and this beautifully shot and edited work paints a compelling portrait of cynical (and quite familiar) demagogy and populism in action.

How It's Done

2006

So it Doesn’t Hurt poster
7.4

Polish filmmaker Marcel Łoziński revisits the farmer/intellectual Urszula Flis, subjects of his 1978 film 'A visit'. Łoziński observes the changes that have occurred over the intervening 23 years and again persuades this sensitive, secluded woman to talk through her thoughts, fears and feelings. Through this, the morality of the documentary portrait itself is called into question.

So it Doesn’t Hurt

1998

So it Doesn’t Hurt poster
7.4

Polish filmmaker Marcel Łoziński revisits the farmer/intellectual Urszula Flis, subjects of his 1978 film 'A visit'. Łoziński observes the changes that have occurred over the intervening 23 years and again persuades this sensitive, secluded woman to talk through her thoughts, fears and feelings. Through this, the morality of the documentary portrait itself is called into question.

So it Doesn’t Hurt

1998

The King poster
6.3

Brief portrait of a conformist.

The King

1974

Window to the Yard poster
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A man doing the ironing on the ground floor of a tenement house observes the yard.

Window to the Yard

1979

Father and Son poster
7.0

Two acclaimed documentary film-makers - father and son - drive from Poland to Paris to see the place where the ashes of the father's mother are buried. What accompanies them on the way are resentments, quarrels and sincere confessions.

Father and Son

2013

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sept Jews from my class

1991

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No synopsis available yet.

Sept Jews from my class

1991

Microphone's Test poster
7.0

A Warsaw Pollena-Uroda cosmetics factory radio broadcaster is working on a programme investigating the workers' sense of factory ownership. The workers' answers come as a surprise, especially to the management. About the ruling and the ruled in communist Poland.

Microphone's Test

1980

89 mm from Europe poster
6.7

This movie shows the simplest difference between Europe and former Soviet Union. It is the eponymous 89 mm - Russian train tracks are 89 mm wider than tracks in European countries. And because of this fact, it is not easy to go through the Soviet border by train in Brest as the passengers in the film do.

89 mm from Europe

1993

89 mm from Europe poster
6.7

This movie shows the simplest difference between Europe and former Soviet Union. It is the eponymous 89 mm - Russian train tracks are 89 mm wider than tracks in European countries. And because of this fact, it is not easy to go through the Soviet border by train in Brest as the passengers in the film do.

89 mm from Europe

1993

Workshop Exercises poster
7.0

A street poll about contemporary youth. The answers are engineered to show the manipulation of propaganda and television.

Workshop Exercises

1986

The Katyn Forest poster
10.0

Marcel Łoziński tells the story of the crime committed by the NKVD in Katyn in 1940. He interweaves accounts of witnesses and survivors with images from the pilgrimage of members of Katyn Families to the place of murder, death and nameless burial of their loved ones.

The Katyn Forest

1990

The Katyn Forest poster
10.0

Marcel Łoziński tells the story of the crime committed by the NKVD in Katyn in 1940. He interweaves accounts of witnesses and survivors with images from the pilgrimage of members of Katyn Families to the place of murder, death and nameless burial of their loved ones.

The Katyn Forest

1990

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8.0

Documentary about post-communist Poland.

After the Victory 1989-1995

1995