
Directing
Håkan Pieniowski
Born 1948-03-02 · Sweden
Håkan Pieniowski (born 2 March, 1948; Sweden) is a Swedish documentary filmmaker, director and photographer. Pieniowski was educated at Christer Strömholm photo School in Stockholm 1971-74. He worked as a photographer at the Stockholm City Museum 1975-80. Pieniowski is a member of the image group MIRA and began his film career in 1985.
Acting credits
Behind the camera
NRA film about the murder of Olof Palme. The clock starts when the killer fires the first fatal shot. Second by second, the testimonies are placed and the witnesses tell what they saw. A new, surprising scenario of what has reasonably happened emerges.
30 sekunder: Skotten på Sveavägen
2023
NRA film about the murder of Olof Palme. The clock starts when the killer fires the first fatal shot. Second by second, the testimonies are placed and the witnesses tell what they saw. A new, surprising scenario of what has reasonably happened emerges.
30 sekunder: Skotten på Sveavägen
2023
NRCollected scenes, voices and conversations from an editorial staff who tries to keep track of what is happening with princes and princesses, other royals and celebrities in general.
I damernas värld
2002
NRA trip on the Swedish lake Mälaren by a 115-year-old steamboat. The journey between Stockholm and Mariefred takes 3,5 hours. The steamboat Mariefred was manufactured over a hundred years ago and is one of the last steam-powered vessels on the lake. The steam whistle sounds when Maja, as she is called in Mariefred, steers into the bay towards the small town. A fanfare for the summer!
Ånga om sommaren
2018
NRAbout the IB affair 1973. Two young journalists, Peter Bratt and Jan Guillou, reveal an unknown spy organization. They themselves are accused of espionage and have to pay a high price for their whistle-blowing.
IB - hemligare än Säpo
2020
Documentary about the security of a hometown somewhere in Sweden, with a church in the middle of the village, many generations of farming, a newly opened restaurant, and neighbors who usually get along. A community that welcomes but also excludes.
A nice little community
2013
NRTwelve years ago Anya and Zhenya had a daughter, Nadya. They were very young, and their life soon became a problem. Zhenya ended up in jail, and Anya and Nadya ended up living with Zhenyas family. During the twelve years that have passed, Anya has done quite a lot of changes in her own and Nadya’s life, some of them involving Zhenya. The first time Zhenya went to jail – for beating Anya – he didn’t have to stay that long. But the second time he was sentenced to four years, for rape. During most of the twelve years Anya has worked with Zhenyas mother in their shoemaker’s workshop. Zhenyas father, a retired policeman, has come and gone in the shop, taken care of his granddaughter, but also had a relationship with Anya. When Sasha, Zhenya’s father, beats Anya and ends up in prison, Anya finally leaves Zhenyas family.
Once There Was Love
2012
NRTwelve years ago Anya and Zhenya had a daughter, Nadya. They were very young, and their life soon became a problem. Zhenya ended up in jail, and Anya and Nadya ended up living with Zhenyas family. During the twelve years that have passed, Anya has done quite a lot of changes in her own and Nadya’s life, some of them involving Zhenya. The first time Zhenya went to jail – for beating Anya – he didn’t have to stay that long. But the second time he was sentenced to four years, for rape. During most of the twelve years Anya has worked with Zhenyas mother in their shoemaker’s workshop. Zhenyas father, a retired policeman, has come and gone in the shop, taken care of his granddaughter, but also had a relationship with Anya. When Sasha, Zhenya’s father, beats Anya and ends up in prison, Anya finally leaves Zhenyas family.
Once There Was Love
2012
Florence Stephens inherited one of Sweden's richest estates. Her home was visited by royalty and nobility. As heir to her large estate, she appoints, herself unmarried and childless, the young extravagant Prince Carl Bernadotte trustee. A well-known family secret suggests that Florence Stephens might have blood ties to the Royal family.
Skandalen på Huseby
2021
A movie about getting a big buck on top of the salary. Åke Persson, director of the company, gives his employees the full gain-on the condition that they vote for each other based on how much each of them is worth to the company. Åke believes that it is possible to get more out of us Swedes.
Experimentet
2012
Portrait of mime professor Stanislaw Brosowski, teacher at the Stockholm Theatre Academy.
Professor Stanislaw
2006
After the fall of communism, the Catholic Church wants to reintroduce a total abortion ban in Poland. The film describes what happens to women when the new law forces them to have an abortion illegally.
Larmrapport Polen
1993
The story of Dagny Juel (1867-1901) who was considered the muse of several artists and writers around the turn of the last century. Dagny married Polish writer Stanisław Przybyszewski. Dagny Juel spent time in the circles of August Strindberg and Edvard Munch.
Förtrollerskan
2004
Munir comes from the war in former Yugoslavia and falls in love with Jessica from Örebro. The love story develops into a struggle between two separate worlds.
Bröllopet
1995
Muharem came to Sweden as a refugee from Prijedor in former Yugoslavia. He returns in the film to Prijedor and is confronted with the war and captivity in the Omar camp.
Muharems resa
2000
No synopsis available yet.
Hector i Italien
2003
Zdzisław Pieniowski (1916-2000) came to Mariefred with a Polish submarine during World War II. He stayed and married a Swedish woman and started a family in Sweden. The film is about the rootlessness of Exile.
Z.P. - en matros utan fartyg
1989
The horrors of the Holocaust and the loss of both mother and father has given Hédi Fried (1924-2022) a worry that cannot be calmed. She harbors hope for the future and a strong and stubborn belief that something like this will never happen again. Hédi Fried was a Swedish-Romanian author and psychologist. A Holocaust survivor, she passed through Auschwitz as well as Bergen-Belsen, coming to Sweden in July 1945 with the boat M/S Rönnskär.
Hédi Fried: Min oro
2018
NRA film filled with music and a dense web of personal thoughts. From the machine sludge of the large washing facility, music emerges and women emerge with their simple but strong stories. In contrast to the working women, a concert pianist sits in the evening dress and plays Chopin's nocturner.
Rent, vitt, slätt och några livstycken
2014
NRA film filled with music and a dense web of personal thoughts. From the machine sludge of the large washing facility, music emerges and women emerge with their simple but strong stories. In contrast to the working women, a concert pianist sits in the evening dress and plays Chopin's nocturner.
Rent, vitt, slätt och några livstycken
2014
NRSeven Polish nuns take care of 35 Swedish women at a retirement home in Bagarmossen in Stockholm. The nuns have their clause and their chapel where they Daily pray their prayers. The ladies live in the second part of the House. The film tells about the still life.
Nunnorna och damera i Bagarmossen
2004
NRA K-Special on the theme of Public Service where satirgänget Public Service from Sveriges Radio's Good Morning, the world! take us on a journey in today's media world. Today's sketches heckled politicians and media celebrities interspersed with voices from Public Service antiquity. The debate from the start of Sweden's Television and our relationship with the Dear TV and radio. Who should own and who should decide and how should it sound?
...detta förbaskade Public Service
2008
No synopsis available yet.
Jag älskar dig Natasja!
1999
The film is set in the textile town of Łódź in Poland. Anna Skoneczka is an employee of the internal radio station of the plant. In the break between communism and The New Poland, she ends up in remorse and confusion. A film describing what happened to people in the shadow of the fall of the Iron Curtain:
Anna och friheten
1990
