Directing
Jerzy Zarzycki
Born — Died
1911-01-11 — 1971-01-02
Place of birth
Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland
Known for
Directing
Credits
28 titles
Jerzy Zarzycki was a Polish film director. He directed 24 films between 1931 and 1970. He co-directed the 1933 film The Sea, which was nominated for an Academy Award in 1933 for Best Short Subject (Novelty).
Known for
3.7A look at the lives of people who work on the barges and boats flowing across the Vistula River.
The People of the Vistula
1938
7.2A group of chauvinistic men start a Bachelors' Club, but soon they start falling in love with women, threatening the continued existence of the club.
Klub kawalerów
1962
10.0Filmed shortly before the outbreak of World War II, Żołnierz Królowej Madagaskaru is the only Polish film allowed by German occupiers to be completed. Its last known surviving copy was destroyed in the late 1940s. In 1958, Zarzycki remade the film in color under the same title.
Żołnierz Królowej Madagaskaru
1940
10.0The action takes place in the second half of the 19th century in a small Californian town in the Wild West. Hans, a German émigré, opens a shop on one of the streets. To his annoyance, his fellow countryman, young and beautiful Lora, sets up a shop on the opposite side. There is fierce competition. Lora decides to take Hans to court. However, unfamiliar with German, the judge mistakenly marries them.
Komedia z pomyłek
1967
Polish TV movie. Lost.
Instrumentum mortis
1965
6.0Warsaw after the fall of the Warsaw Uprising. The Germans expel the civilian population and then proceed to systematically destroy the city. The capital is transformed into a sea of rubble, among which a few survivors hide – modern-day Robinsons. One of them is Piotr Rafalski, who rescues Krystyna, a wounded Jewish woman. Three soldiers of the People's Army, cooperating with a Soviet telegraph operator, are also in the city.
Unvanquished City
1950
Behind the camera
3.7A look at the lives of people who work on the barges and boats flowing across the Vistula River.
The People of the Vistula
1938
7.2A group of chauvinistic men start a Bachelors' Club, but soon they start falling in love with women, threatening the continued existence of the club.
Klub kawalerów
1962
10.0Filmed shortly before the outbreak of World War II, Żołnierz Królowej Madagaskaru is the only Polish film allowed by German occupiers to be completed. Its last known surviving copy was destroyed in the late 1940s. In 1958, Zarzycki remade the film in color under the same title.
Żołnierz Królowej Madagaskaru
1940
10.0The action takes place in the second half of the 19th century in a small Californian town in the Wild West. Hans, a German émigré, opens a shop on one of the streets. To his annoyance, his fellow countryman, young and beautiful Lora, sets up a shop on the opposite side. There is fierce competition. Lora decides to take Hans to court. However, unfamiliar with German, the judge mistakenly marries them.
Komedia z pomyłek
1967
Polish TV movie. Lost.
Instrumentum mortis
1965
6.0Warsaw after the fall of the Warsaw Uprising. The Germans expel the civilian population and then proceed to systematically destroy the city. The capital is transformed into a sea of rubble, among which a few survivors hide – modern-day Robinsons. One of them is Piotr Rafalski, who rescues Krystyna, a wounded Jewish woman. Three soldiers of the People's Army, cooperating with a Soviet telegraph operator, are also in the city.
Unvanquished City
1950
6.0Warsaw after the fall of the Warsaw Uprising. The Germans expel the civilian population and then proceed to systematically destroy the city. The capital is transformed into a sea of rubble, among which a few survivors hide – modern-day Robinsons. One of them is Piotr Rafalski, who rescues Krystyna, a wounded Jewish woman. Three soldiers of the People's Army, cooperating with a Soviet telegraph operator, are also in the city.
Unvanquished City
1950
A popularity-hungry young journalist writes a sensationalist article on a supposed teen suicide club.
Liczę na wasze grzechy
1964
NRA collection of intimate television short stories based on well-known literary works.
Komedie pomyłek
1968
No synopsis available yet.
Dziś mamy bal
1932
7.0The Sea [Morze] is a 1933 Polish short documentary film directed by Wanda Jakubowska. It was nominated for an Academy Award in 1933 for Best Short Subject (Novelty).
The Sea
1933
7.0One day in the miserable life of a female factory worker and single mother of four children. One of her sons - ridiculed by his peers - leaves home and gets into trouble.
Lost Feelings
1957
7.0One day in the miserable life of a female factory worker and single mother of four children. One of her sons - ridiculed by his peers - leaves home and gets into trouble.
Lost Feelings
1957
7.5Poland in the 50s, 20th century The process of collectivization of agriculture is under way. The wealthy Slumdog farmer is one of the last individual farmers who have not joined the cooperative and are trying to grow their own land. But it is very difficult - the unemployed mercenaries who paid for them run to cooperatives (where they have better conditions), the environment or the local authorities do not accept him as a kulak. Struggling with the problem of how to make a 40-hectare farm last, he remains alone in the face of a loss of land that he cannot cultivate.
Land
1957
7.0Ala is unable to settle down and often changes husbands. She introduces each newly married spouse to her mother.
This is Your New Son
1967
9.0Ola, a local school teacher, meets Janek, a sanatorium patient, and his friend Ark.
Lovers from Marona
1966
9.0Ola, a local school teacher, meets Janek, a sanatorium patient, and his friend Ark.
Lovers from Marona
1966
9.0A stranger shows up in an American town, promising a reward for the person who once helped him out of trouble.
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
1967
6.0A film director uses a South American premiere of his latest picture to reconnect with his old friends from the Warsaw Uprising, the protagonists of his movie.
Pogoń za Adamem
1970
6.0A shy lawyer tries to win the hand of a beautiful girl and hilarities ensue.
Żołnierz królowej Madagaskaru
1958
6.0A shy lawyer tries to win the hand of a beautiful girl and hilarities ensue.
Żołnierz królowej Madagaskaru
1958
6.5Engineer Andrzej Uriaszewicz returns to Poland in order to smuggle a valuable painting out of the country.
Uczta Baltazara
1954
6.5Engineer Andrzej Uriaszewicz returns to Poland in order to smuggle a valuable painting out of the country.
Uczta Baltazara
1954
NRThe man admits to the crime. He confesses everything because he is tormented by remorse.
Zdradzieckie serce
1947
A year after his death, a young artist returns to the world of the living.
Zmartwychwstanie Offlanda
1968
Polish feature film from 1939 , directed by Wanda Jakubowska with a screenplay by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz , based on the novel by Eliza Orzeszkowa of the same title. The film was lost during World War II.
On The Niemen
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7.3A Jewish man who escapes a Nazi transport hides in a Polish ski resort town by posing for photos with tourists dressed as a polar bear.
Polar Bear
1959
7.3A Jewish man who escapes a Nazi transport hides in a Polish ski resort town by posing for photos with tourists dressed as a polar bear.
Polar Bear
1959
