Witold Lesiewicz

Directing

Witold Lesiewicz

Born — Died

1922-09-09 — 2012-03-23

Place of birth

Bialystok, Podlaskie, Poland

Known for

Directing

Credits

19 titles

Witold Lesiewicz was a Polish film director and screenwriter. He directed 24 films between 1949 and 1979. He completed the work on the 1963 film Passenger after the death of director Andrzej Munk.

Known for

Behind the camera

Dezerter poster
6.5

A Pole incorporated into the Wehrmacht deserts, hiding in a coal mine ...

Dezerter

1958

Passenger poster
7.3

A German woman on a ship returning to Europe notices a face of another woman which brings recollections from the past. She tells her husband that she had been an overseer in Auschwitz during the war, but she has actually saved a woman's life.

Passenger

1963

The Stars Must Burn poster
8.0

The year 1953 ends. Mines that failed to fulfil the plan are not allowed to light their star. Socialist realism treated seriously – with the memory of the mining tradition, with respect for the work of the old, with hope for the young.

The Stars Must Burn

1954

The Stars Must Burn poster
8.0

The year 1953 ends. Mines that failed to fulfil the plan are not allowed to light their star. Socialist realism treated seriously – with the memory of the mining tradition, with respect for the work of the old, with hope for the young.

The Stars Must Burn

1954

No artwork available
7.0

Wacław Urbin joins an exclusive club, learning the secrets of its members.

Klub szachistów

1967

No artwork available
7.0

Wacław Urbin joins an exclusive club, learning the secrets of its members.

Klub szachistów

1967

Rok pierwszy poster
9.0

1944. Communist militiaman take a post in a little town in the east of Poland. He has to stand against his own men that are not happy with new authorities.

Rok pierwszy

1960

Zbrodnia lorda Artura Savile'a poster
8.0

The wealthy Lord Artur Savile learns from a palm reader that he's destined to become a murderer. Obsessed with the prophecy, he decides to commit the deed as quickly as possible.

Zbrodnia lorda Artura Savile'a

1968

Zbrodnia lorda Artura Savile'a poster
8.0

The wealthy Lord Artur Savile learns from a palm reader that he's destined to become a murderer. Obsessed with the prophecy, he decides to commit the deed as quickly as possible.

Zbrodnia lorda Artura Savile'a

1968

Przeraźliwe łoże poster
6.3

Tom arrives in a strange city, where he meets casino owners who are hiding a secret.

Przeraźliwe łoże

1968

Przeraźliwe łoże poster
6.3

Tom arrives in a strange city, where he meets casino owners who are hiding a secret.

Przeraźliwe łoże

1968

April poster
9.0

Set at the end of the war. A hot-headed colonel tries to force his men on to heroics although the war is almost over. A war-weary lieutenant tries to muffle his efforts but he keeps on with his men and is killed fighting in the front lines, all his men decide to get his body.

April

1961

Bolesław Śmiały poster
6.6

Portrays the power struggle between the king of Poland, Bolesław the Bold, and the Bishop of Kraków, Stanisław Szczepanowski.

Bolesław Śmiały

1972

Bolesław Śmiały poster
6.6

Portrays the power struggle between the king of Poland, Bolesław the Bold, and the Bishop of Kraków, Stanisław Szczepanowski.

Bolesław Śmiały

1972

Między brzegami poster
7.0

A small fishing village between the sea and the lake. One day, when all the men went out to catch, a viper bitten Grandpa Filip and little Madzia was severely injured by a misfire. Holidaymakers with a motorboat refuse to help. Filip decides to take the girl to the doctor himself.

Między brzegami

1963

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

Świat grozy poster
NR

Selected episodes from a television series of thrilling stories based on works of world literature classics.

Świat grozy

1968

Świat grozy poster
NR

Selected episodes from a television series of thrilling stories based on works of world literature classics.

Świat grozy

1968

The Unknown poster
8.0

Two Poles get out of Soviet Union with Polish Army. Based on autobiographical short stories by Józef Hen.

The Unknown

1964