Henryk Kluba

Directing

Henryk Kluba

Born 1931-01-09 · Przystajń, śląskie, Polska

Henryk Kluba was born on 9 January 1931 in Przystajnia, Wielkopolskie, Poland. He was an actor and director, known for 5 i 1/2 Bladego Józka (1970), Sowizdrzal swietokrzyski (1980) and. He died on 11 June 2005 in Konin, Wielkopolskie, Poland.

Acting credits

Klub kawalerów poster
7.3

A 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

Mammals poster
5.2

"Waiting for Godot" on ice and snow, without words. Against a barren winter landscape, a figure approaches: it's a man, pulling a small sleigh on which another man sits, plucking a dead bird. They stop to trade places; the one now on the sleigh takes out his knitting. Accidents, misunderstandings, disagreements, and an outright fight await our absurd protagonists as their trip to nowhere continues, first with one pulling, then the other. What if they were to lose the sleigh? What rules of civilization and partnership would guide them then?

Mammals

1962

No artwork available
NR

A cinematic grotesque whose protagonist is Mr. Kowalski, who suffers from insomnia.

Niezawodny sposób

1963

Two Men and a Wardrobe poster
6.3

The film features two men who emerge from the sea carrying a large wardrobe, which they proceed to carry into a town.

Two Men and a Wardrobe

1958

When Angels Fall poster
6.6

The twenty-one-minute-film is set in a men's public rest room and recounts the day to day existence of an elderly woman who serves as an attendant in the lavatory. As an endless procession of men pass before her, relieving themselves in the urinals, the attendant escapes her reality by daydreaming about the past and the soldier she once loved and the child she bore him.

When Angels Fall

1959

I ty zostaniesz Indianinem poster
8.0

Mirek Kubiak is a primary school student. Like his friends, he is fascinated by Indians and would like to become a brave Apache. Uncle Eligiusz from America comes to his house. The boy becomes embroiled in a criminal scandal.

I ty zostaniesz Indianinem

1962

A Story in Red poster
9.0

Former soldier take up a fight with a bunch who attacks his home village

A Story in Red

1974

A Jungle Book of Regulations poster
6.9

Janek and Wanda live in a small room in a villa, while other rooms are occupied by offices of various institutions. Janek often stays at work after hours, just to avoid returning to the cramped apartment too early. One day, a man named Malinowski, who once lived in the same small room, visits the couple. He proposes to exchange their room for a new, two-room apartment that he has just received. Janek and Wanda are initially distrustful, but eventually, the exchange takes place. It turns out that Wanda's ex-husband, Jerzy, already lives in the new apartment. Despite the divorce, as he is registered with Wanda, he has the right to continue living in her apartment. Janek tries to find a way to get rid of the intruder.

A Jungle Book of Regulations

1974

Ewa Wants to Sleep poster
6.8

Ewa Bonecka, a young student about to start school in a new place finds herself without a place to sleep after she is declined a room in a women-only hotel. Helped by a pleasant policeman, Piotr, she tries to find a lodging in the strange town full of thieves and petty troublemakers.

Ewa Wants to Sleep

1958

A Sketch in Six Parts poster
5.5

Loosely connected scenes in the life of a young student.

A Sketch in Six Parts

1973

Skinny and Others poster
7.0

A group of workers builds a bridge near a large dam. They get drunk with a visiting reporter, who falls into the river and disappears.

Skinny and Others

1967

Kalosze szczęścia poster
4.8

Two fairies, Terencja and Felicja are in posession of the Lucky Rain Boots, which they intend to give to the most deserving person in the city of Kraków. However, they consistently fall into the wrong hands, creating a multitude of absurd and comedic situations.

Kalosze szczęścia

1958

No artwork available
NR

A small cardboard train embarks on a long journey full of strange events.

Obrazki z podróży

1959

Warsaw Sketches poster
7.0

Three stories describing the life of the inhabitants of Warsaw, each set in a different time period.

Warsaw Sketches

1970

The Sun Rises Once a Day poster
5.8

After the war, the community of mountaineers is eager to start their own sawmill. When the communist authorities come to take over the sawmill, a rebellion starts.

The Sun Rises Once a Day

1972

Kryptonim Nektar poster
6.3

A journalist investigates a hot new drink that just hit the market.

Kryptonim Nektar

1963

Walkover poster
6.3

An extraordinarily stylized tale of a prizefighter who ducks a fight to romance a beautiful blonde.

Walkover

1965

No artwork available
7.8

The final stage of the great artist's life, a stage in which Witkacy decides to destroy himself. A growing sense of danger, the futility of all actions, and fear of what is to come accompany him constantly during his escape from Warsaw to the East at the outbreak of World War II. Everyday facts and events are intertwined in the film with reminiscences and images from his life, supported by the artist's inner monologue. The style of narration and the way of filming make the film a poignant study of the writer's inner disintegration. By emphasizing the painterly quality of the image and introducing dreamlike themes, Kluba captures on screen the characteristics of both Witkacy's playwriting and painting.

Gwiazda Piołun

1988

Kochajmy syrenki poster
6.0

Polish musical comedy. The film focuses on two friends who spend their vacation in the beautiful countryside of Mazury. They buy a very nice car (Syrenka), but in order to pay for it the men need to start working as solicitors for a notable art impresario named Koszajtis. Soon they get thrown right in the middle of a hilarious war between two rivaling music-and-dance groups.

Kochajmy syrenki

1967

Good Sins poster
8.3

A carmelite monk travels through 17th century Poland and experiences various mishaps along the way.

Good Sins

1963

No artwork available
5.5

An average notary finds a small fortune of coins hidden in his fireplace alongside a manuscript dating back 100 years.

Tysiąc talarów

1960

No artwork available
9.0

After returning to Poland, the painter Aleksander Gierymski encounters a lack of understanding of his works.

Mansarda

1963

Eucalyptus poster
10.0

A story about the search for an ideal in a world devoid of values. It is a surreal parable about human nature, played out in the convention of a Western, in which the myth of the Wild West is put to the ultimate test of endurance. In the Wild West's most demoralized town, Rio Bravo, love is hotter, crime more cruel and poetry more poetic than Byron himself. The minds of the residents of Rio Bravo are consumed by venereal disease, leaving behind an uncontrollable longing for Eucalyptus. The film's protagonist, Sony Holiday, a mythical figure of the Wild West, is known not only for his fast revolver, but also for his possession of an unusual bird. This bird, an object of worship and envy, fuels a spiral of crime and gruesomeness in the town.

Eucalyptus

2002

Four Tankmen and a Dog Part Four poster
NR

The last of the four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, featuring episodes 7 and 8.

Four Tankmen and a Dog Part Four

1968

Behind the camera

Listy miłosne poster
7.0

Thirty-year-old nurse Teresa spends her days caring for elderly, dying people. Janusz, a young man she met at an amusement park, enters the life of this bitter and disillusioned woman. Teresa doesn't have the courage to tell him how she feels, and he also has trouble expressing his emotions. They are helped by Julka, a girl from the neighborhood who likes Teresa. She finds a pile of love letters from the beginning of the century in the trash. By forging Teresa and Janusz's handwriting, she starts a love correspondence between them, rewriting fragments of other people's confessions.

Listy miłosne

2001

A Story in Red poster
9.0

Former soldier take up a fight with a bunch who attacks his home village

A Story in Red

1974

Skinny and Others poster
7.0

A group of workers builds a bridge near a large dam. They get drunk with a visiting reporter, who falls into the river and disappears.

Skinny and Others

1967

Warsaw Sketches poster
7.0

Three stories describing the life of the inhabitants of Warsaw, each set in a different time period.

Warsaw Sketches

1970

Five and Half of Pale Joe poster
9.0

A young journalist from Warsaw goes to a small town of Kamienica to prepare a report on a motorcycle gang.

Five and Half of Pale Joe

2025

The Sun Rises Once a Day poster
5.8

After the war, the community of mountaineers is eager to start their own sawmill. When the communist authorities come to take over the sawmill, a rebellion starts.

The Sun Rises Once a Day

1972

No artwork available
7.8

The final stage of the great artist's life, a stage in which Witkacy decides to destroy himself. A growing sense of danger, the futility of all actions, and fear of what is to come accompany him constantly during his escape from Warsaw to the East at the outbreak of World War II. Everyday facts and events are intertwined in the film with reminiscences and images from his life, supported by the artist's inner monologue. The style of narration and the way of filming make the film a poignant study of the writer's inner disintegration. By emphasizing the painterly quality of the image and introducing dreamlike themes, Kluba captures on screen the characteristics of both Witkacy's playwriting and painting.

Gwiazda Piołun

1988