
Directing
Marek Koterski
Born 1942-06-03 · Kraków, małopolskie, Polska
Marek Koterski (born 3 June 1942, in Kraków) is a Polish film and theatre director, screenwriter, actor and playwright.
Acting credits
9.0A young man meets and falls in love with a woman met on a business trip.
Uciec jak najbliżej
1972
5.9The feature film debut of director Marek Koterski. Thirty-year-old Adaś Miauczyński visits his parents, which ends with his nervous breakdown.
The House of Fools
1985
6.5A small-time racketeer Stefek evades mob bosses by passing himself off as a mentally unstable cleptomaniac and laying low in an asylum. The racketeer and his closest devotee escape from the asylum and find work at the opera. Stefek becomes stage-doorman and soon discovers that the opera doubles as a brothel.
Seychelles
1991
Behind the camera
7.6It is a bitter story about a middle-aged man, who hates his life and other people, including himself. Adam Miauczynski, the character known from director Marek Koterski's previous films, is a 49 year-old teacher, who reads poetry during school lessons and later goes home swearing and calling his neighbours' names. The worst pain for him is the next 5 minutes of living. He doesn't accept himself and even everyday contacts with others cause his aggression. Though constantly dreaming of a romantic love, he is not bold enough to make his dreams come true. The desperate Miauczynski personalizes our own fears and obsessions, which have become so visible recently.
Day of the Wacko
2002
7.6It is a bitter story about a middle-aged man, who hates his life and other people, including himself. Adam Miauczynski, the character known from director Marek Koterski's previous films, is a 49 year-old teacher, who reads poetry during school lessons and later goes home swearing and calling his neighbours' names. The worst pain for him is the next 5 minutes of living. He doesn't accept himself and even everyday contacts with others cause his aggression. Though constantly dreaming of a romantic love, he is not bold enough to make his dreams come true. The desperate Miauczynski personalizes our own fears and obsessions, which have become so visible recently.
Day of the Wacko
2002
6.9Michał, a mature man and father, is full of bitterness, regret, and longing for unfulfilled youthful dreams of true love. He reminisces about all his past lovers. With his first, Asia, he went on a seaside camping trip. He was 19 at the time, and she was two years younger. Despite his unambiguous advances, the girl resisted for a long time. Eventually, however, she gave in. For Michał, it was the proverbial pebble that caused an avalanche.
Porno
1990
6.9Michał, a mature man and father, is full of bitterness, regret, and longing for unfulfilled youthful dreams of true love. He reminisces about all his past lovers. With his first, Asia, he went on a seaside camping trip. He was 19 at the time, and she was two years younger. Despite his unambiguous advances, the girl resisted for a long time. Eventually, however, she gave in. For Michał, it was the proverbial pebble that caused an avalanche.
Porno
1990
The film explores the work of doctors from the perspective of their professional ethics.
Lekka tkliwość
1975
Excerpts from the diaries and essays of juvenile inmates at a juvenile detention center.
Szczęście
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5.1The life of a grumpy 40-year-old man living with his wife in a high-rise block. Every day is like the other - quarrels over dinner, taking out garbage, annoying neighbours, rides in elevators, lost socks. He hates everybody, especially his wife. Not even sexual fantasies are an escape from the hell he imposes on himself.
Inner Life
1987
5.1The life of a grumpy 40-year-old man living with his wife in a high-rise block. Every day is like the other - quarrels over dinner, taking out garbage, annoying neighbours, rides in elevators, lost socks. He hates everybody, especially his wife. Not even sexual fantasies are an escape from the hell he imposes on himself.
Inner Life
1987
6.6Fear, anger, sadness, joy, disgust, envy, shame. Adaś Miauczyński goes back to his childhood days when, like most of us, he used to find it problematic to name the emotions that accompanied him. To improve the quality of his adult life, he decides to return to that time – which proves not so carefree after all – to learn how to experience the seven basic emotions. This extremely unpredictable journey into the past features an abundance of hilarious, even comical, situations but is also filled with lots of touching moments and food for thought.
7 Emotions
2018
6.6Fear, anger, sadness, joy, disgust, envy, shame. Adaś Miauczyński goes back to his childhood days when, like most of us, he used to find it problematic to name the emotions that accompanied him. To improve the quality of his adult life, he decides to return to that time – which proves not so carefree after all – to learn how to experience the seven basic emotions. This extremely unpredictable journey into the past features an abundance of hilarious, even comical, situations but is also filled with lots of touching moments and food for thought.
7 Emotions
2018
An attempt to answer the question about the ideals of today's youth. A group of high school graduates from Łódź (from High Schools No. 21 and 29) present their images of people who could become role models. The filmmakers used this meeting to write a script for a film about young people. Girls and boys work together to construct the plot of a contemporary picture.
Polski bohater współczesny
1984
An attempt to answer the question about the ideals of today's youth. A group of high school graduates from Łódź (from High Schools No. 21 and 29) present their images of people who could become role models. The filmmakers used this meeting to write a script for a film about young people. Girls and boys work together to construct the plot of a contemporary picture.
Polski bohater współczesny
1984
5.4Two middle-aged male friends are travelling together by car and expressing their thoughts and emotions connected with women.
Man, Chicks Are Just Different
2011
5.4Two middle-aged male friends are travelling together by car and expressing their thoughts and emotions connected with women.
Man, Chicks Are Just Different
2011
A portrait of the famous actor Roman Kłosowski.
Na to wszystko trzeba popatrzeć z tej drugiej, pogodniejszej strony
1979
5.8A literary critic's quest for love takes a hopeful turn when he runs into a woman from his past, but their turbulent quirks strain their new romance.
I Love You
1999
5.8A literary critic's quest for love takes a hopeful turn when he runs into a woman from his past, but their turbulent quirks strain their new romance.
I Love You
1999
6.5Adaś Miauczyński, a Polish intellectual, has severe alcohol problems which affect his relationship with his son Sylwek.
We're All Christs
2006
6.5Adaś Miauczyński, a Polish intellectual, has severe alcohol problems which affect his relationship with his son Sylwek.
We're All Christs
2006
6.9One day, hospital orderlies, watching corpse in the morgue, recognize film director. Man, even though he died, he begins to remember his life. He made a career making movies, had numerous mistresses, but never realized their dreams. His life was interspersed with many setbacks that enfeebled him from the inside. Although he made a career in film, he was not happy with his life.
Nothing Funny
1996
6.9One day, hospital orderlies, watching corpse in the morgue, recognize film director. Man, even though he died, he begins to remember his life. He made a career making movies, had numerous mistresses, but never realized their dreams. His life was interspersed with many setbacks that enfeebled him from the inside. Although he made a career in film, he was not happy with his life.
Nothing Funny
1996
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Dziwny świat Thomasa Puckey'a
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Dziwny świat Thomasa Puckey'a
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Young anti-establishment artists and art students with experiences and observations of life under communism.
Piąty międzynarodowy festiwal festiwali teatrów studenckich (fragmenty)
1976