Directing

Zygmunt Hübner

Born 1930-03-23 · Warsaw, Poland

Acting credits

No artwork available
NR

Jakub, who is dominated by his mother, invites a healer to his home.

Pokój dziecinny

1987

No artwork available
8.0

Set in the 16th century in the Grand Inqusition period. Ruprecht stops overnight at an inn, and falls in love with the lovely Renata. She however, has fallen under the spell of Count Henryk, whom she believes to be an "angel of fire". The girl eventually brings him before the Inquisition.

Angel of Fire

1986

Blind Chance poster
7.5

Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.

Blind Chance

1987

The Gorgon Case poster
5.5

In 1931, just before the New Year, in a house of architect Henryk Zaremba scream rips the night. The daughter of Zaremba is found killed in her bedroom, obviously killed with a pickaxe. The police arrives and starts the investigation. Rita Gorgonova, the governess of the girl and also lover of Zaremba becomes the main suspect.

The Gorgon Case

1977

Convicted poster
6.3

A man is tried in court for failing to help his brother to avoid suicide.

Convicted

1976

The Shadow-Line poster
6.4

Andrzej Wajda's English-language film of a novella by Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, aka Joseph Conrad, about a young man in his first command as a sea captain. A series of crises prove incredibly difficult for his new authority, for the sea is curiously becalmed and the crew is weakened by feverish malaria. When the first mate's fear convinces many that the ship is haunted and cursed by the malevolent spirit of the previous captain, the young man must cope with their superstition as well as the conspicuous absence of much-needed medicine.

The Shadow-Line

1976

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

Samson poster
4.8

The hero is a Jewish youth. He, like his family, has always been silent and undemonstrative in the face of prejudice. Now he stands up for his right to survive, and in so doing represents the fighting spirit that culminated in the Warsaw Uprising.

Samson

1961

Eagle poster
6.8

Based on a true story of Polish submarine "Orzel" (The Eagle): September 1939, "Orzel" is coming to Estonian neutral harbor in Tallin. Under pressure from Germany Estonians have intern the ship. Commander Grabinski decides to escape to England through the Baltic Sea, without any maps that has been confiscated and with only small amount of fuel on board.

Eagle

1959

Hospital of the Transfiguration poster
6.2

The beginning of the occupation. A closed mental world for the sick. Dr. Kauters values ​​only methods of resolution, Dr. Rygier is a believer in strong authority, Dr. Marglewski considers psychic property a form of haunting, Dr. Nosilewska left Austria after the Nazi occupation. The writer Sekułowski seeks shelter. The young, newly arrived doctor, Stefan, refuses to remain passive in the face of the situation and events...

Hospital of the Transfiguration

1979

Free City poster
7.2

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

Free City

1958

Hotel klasy lux poster
10.0

The five participants in the meeting for the construction of a luxury hotel meet years later at its opening.

Hotel klasy lux

1979

Personal Search poster
5.2

Two women trying to smuggle western goods back to Poland have only a few hours to convince a dedicated customs officer to take a bribe and let them pass.

Personal Search

1973

Ivy poster
10.0

Kinga, a divorced woman raising her daughter Emilka, decides to change her professional life and start writing a book. Personal matters and problems with finding common ground with her child, however, throw her off balance.

Ivy

1984

Ferry poster
7.5

1945. A packed ferry drifts down the Vistula after its tow rope snaps. Only a single militiaman sees notices the ferry and organizes a rescue before the it drifts into the Gdańsk Bay, which is still full of mines.

Ferry

1970

Operation "Brutus" poster
9.0

Jaruga, the chief of the local branch of Security Office leads a fight against a Home Army unit led by a man known as Boruta and begins to suspect that one of his men was planted by the insurgents. Another Security Office agent arrives to uncover the conspiracy and deal the final blow to Boruta.

Operation "Brutus"

1971

The Criminal Who Stole a Crime poster
7.0

Retired police captain Siwy recounts to a reporter how he undertook a final, private investigation into the suspicious death of Ewa Salm, known as “Princess.” Though her testimony had secured a conviction, Siwy doubted the man’s guilt and set out to uncover the real killer—risking his own life to see justice done.

The Criminal Who Stole a Crime

1969

Powrót po śmierć poster
NR

One June evening, a Krakow prostitute nicknamed Rączka is accosted by a bloody man who wants to spend the night with her. The girl agrees, but when the next day she learns that a gruesome crime has been committed near the place where the mysterious customer accosted her, she reports the night's meeting to the police.

Powrót po śmierć

1987

The Card Index poster
5.2

A former partisan now 38 years old remembers his childhood in the war.

The Card Index

1979

Rust poster
8.8

After many years, director Bryła reveals hidden family secrets.

Rust

1982

Miejsce dla jednego poster
10.0

The deputy director of a machine plant is injured in a car accident and loses important documents. An uncompromising controller is sent to the plant to investigate the matter.

Miejsce dla jednego

1966

No artwork available
7.0

Warsaw 1941. Gestapo captures a Home Army soldier who knows the code needed to read the list of agents working in Reich. Tortured Wójcik asks the doctors for poison.

I Died So I Could Live

1984

No artwork available
NR

In the sanatorium in Nałęczów, Halina meets Adolf Poświatowski. They both have heart disease.

Tętno

1986

No artwork available
5.0

A psychology student believes that the knowledge and experience she has gained at university give her the right to act independently. She begins psychotherapy sessions with a group of students. Unfortunately, they end in failure.

Psychoterapia

1983

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