Krzysztof Lang

Directing

Krzysztof Lang

Born

1950-06-02 (76)

Place of birth

Warsaw, Poland

Known for

Directing

Credits

30 titles

Born in in Warsaw 1950. Director and scriptwriter. Graduated from the Chemistry Department of the University of Warsaw, and in Film Directing from the Radio and Television Department of the University of Silesia – diploma under the supervision of Krzysztof Kieslowski. In 1981-84 a member of Team “X” by Andrzej Wajda. Director of numerous popular TV series and theater plays. Co-owner and CEO of TFT Studio.

Known for

Yes, Yes poster
4.2

Set in Poland in the 1970s, the main character half-heartedly goes about his job as a censor at the state run television station, whilst conducting affairs with nurses, airline pilots, etc. Interesting scene where main character must illegally emigrate to his own country.

Yes, Yes

1993

No artwork available
3.3

A young married couple, Iza and Slawek, stray from the forest road, with a moment of privacy in mind. In addition, their car breaks down. Slawek stays behind, while Iza decides to go to the bus stop. After a while, 4 men get out of the off-road car. It turns out that they are gangsters who are celebrating the release of one of them from prison. Iza becomes their "plaything". Meanwhile, a concerned Slawek tries to interest the police in his wife's disappearance. The gangsters, along with Iza, go to a summer house located in the so-called "quiet zone" and there they have an alcoholic libation, and Iza has to fight for survival.

Strefa ciszy

2001

Provocateur poster
6.2

Warsaw, 1909. Arthur Herling makes an assassination attempt on a Russian police official and his family. During the action, the officer's daughter is killed and his wife is maimed. The wounded militant is arrested. Tormented by remorse, Herling agrees to cooperate with the tsarist authorities as a provocateur. Into his cell comes Adam Tanski, suspected of having contacts with the wanted conspirator Andrzej Woyda. One day, while being transported in a prison ambulance, Herling kills the guards. Accompanying him, Adam urges him to escape to the mountains.

Provocateur

1995

The Lullaby Killer poster
5.3

After a spate of mysterious disappearances in 1950s Kraków, young investigator Karski believes he's on the trail of a vicious serial killer. When his investigation points to wealthy and respected playboy Wladyslaw Mazurkiewicz,Karski finds himself up against his own supervisors, a mysterious woman and the hypnotic charms of Beautiful Wladek himself.

The Lullaby Killer

2017

Career Girl poster
5.2

Zoska, is an attractive, well-educated and hard working woman who doesn't want to be stereotypically labeled by modern world. When she gets fired her world collapses, now she must realize what she really wants from life.

Career Girl

2016

March 1968 poster
6.2

Warsaw, 1968. Students protesting against the illegal expulsion of their colleagues from university and in defence of play Dziady, directed by Kazimierz Dejmek and performed at the National Theatre, which has been taken off the bill. Among the protesting young people are also Hania and Janek. Their families are on both sides of the March barricade. Young and madly in love with each other, like in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in a country in revolt, they fight for their affection. Will their love survive? Will they be able to overcome the adversities that fate throws at them?

March 1968

2022

Film credits

Behind the camera

No artwork available
3.3

A young married couple, Iza and Slawek, stray from the forest road, with a moment of privacy in mind. In addition, their car breaks down. Slawek stays behind, while Iza decides to go to the bus stop. After a while, 4 men get out of the off-road car. It turns out that they are gangsters who are celebrating the release of one of them from prison. Iza becomes their "plaything". Meanwhile, a concerned Slawek tries to interest the police in his wife's disappearance. The gangsters, along with Iza, go to a summer house located in the so-called "quiet zone" and there they have an alcoholic libation, and Iza has to fight for survival.

Strefa ciszy

2001

No artwork available
3.3

A young married couple, Iza and Slawek, stray from the forest road, with a moment of privacy in mind. In addition, their car breaks down. Slawek stays behind, while Iza decides to go to the bus stop. After a while, 4 men get out of the off-road car. It turns out that they are gangsters who are celebrating the release of one of them from prison. Iza becomes their "plaything". Meanwhile, a concerned Slawek tries to interest the police in his wife's disappearance. The gangsters, along with Iza, go to a summer house located in the so-called "quiet zone" and there they have an alcoholic libation, and Iza has to fight for survival.

Strefa ciszy

2001

Provocateur poster
6.2

Warsaw, 1909. Arthur Herling makes an assassination attempt on a Russian police official and his family. During the action, the officer's daughter is killed and his wife is maimed. The wounded militant is arrested. Tormented by remorse, Herling agrees to cooperate with the tsarist authorities as a provocateur. Into his cell comes Adam Tanski, suspected of having contacts with the wanted conspirator Andrzej Woyda. One day, while being transported in a prison ambulance, Herling kills the guards. Accompanying him, Adam urges him to escape to the mountains.

Provocateur

1995

Provocateur poster
6.2

Warsaw, 1909. Arthur Herling makes an assassination attempt on a Russian police official and his family. During the action, the officer's daughter is killed and his wife is maimed. The wounded militant is arrested. Tormented by remorse, Herling agrees to cooperate with the tsarist authorities as a provocateur. Into his cell comes Adam Tanski, suspected of having contacts with the wanted conspirator Andrzej Woyda. One day, while being transported in a prison ambulance, Herling kills the guards. Accompanying him, Adam urges him to escape to the mountains.

Provocateur

1995

The Lullaby Killer poster
5.3

After a spate of mysterious disappearances in 1950s Kraków, young investigator Karski believes he's on the trail of a vicious serial killer. When his investigation points to wealthy and respected playboy Wladyslaw Mazurkiewicz,Karski finds himself up against his own supervisors, a mysterious woman and the hypnotic charms of Beautiful Wladek himself.

The Lullaby Killer

2017

Career Girl poster
5.2

Zoska, is an attractive, well-educated and hard working woman who doesn't want to be stereotypically labeled by modern world. When she gets fired her world collapses, now she must realize what she really wants from life.

Career Girl

2016

March 1968 poster
6.2

Warsaw, 1968. Students protesting against the illegal expulsion of their colleagues from university and in defence of play Dziady, directed by Kazimierz Dejmek and performed at the National Theatre, which has been taken off the bill. Among the protesting young people are also Hania and Janek. Their families are on both sides of the March barricade. Young and madly in love with each other, like in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in a country in revolt, they fight for their affection. Will their love survive? Will they be able to overcome the adversities that fate throws at them?

March 1968

2022

March 1968 poster
6.2

Warsaw, 1968. Students protesting against the illegal expulsion of their colleagues from university and in defence of play Dziady, directed by Kazimierz Dejmek and performed at the National Theatre, which has been taken off the bill. Among the protesting young people are also Hania and Janek. Their families are on both sides of the March barricade. Young and madly in love with each other, like in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in a country in revolt, they fight for their affection. Will their love survive? Will they be able to overcome the adversities that fate throws at them?

March 1968

2022

No artwork available
NR

The story of a sold football match and a conflict between a father - a football referee and his son.

Remis

1984

No artwork available
NR

The story of a sold football match and a conflict between a father - a football referee and his son.

Remis

1984

No artwork available
NR

1926. The Szkocka café in Lviv. Among the café guests is a group of mathematicians – Banach, Mazur, Ulam, Stożek, Szuder. A heated discussion is underway. These young mathematicians are employees of the Jan Kazimierz University. The world will soon hear about them. The most brilliant of them was Stefan Banach (1892-1945). Who was this brilliant self-taught man? How did he end up in Lviv? Although he was one of the most outstanding scholars of the 20th century, not many photographs depicting his interesting life have survived. To this day, he remains a little-known figure in Poland. Due to the poor photographic documentation, as well as the complete lack of film archives concerning Banach himself, it became reasonable in this case to use fictionalized scenes that recall important events in the scholar's life and bring his character closer to the audience.

Przestrzenie Banacha

2005

No artwork available
NR

The stories of boys imprisoned for theft, robbery, and murder are intertwined with excerpts from religion classes, during which a priest discusses the Ten Commandments. Against the backdrop of a conversation about duties and universal norms derived from the Decalogue, a picture of the lives of these teenage criminals in freedom emerges. Theft, robbery, alcohol, and drugs are their everyday reality. They attack elderly people and men in their prime, usually working in groups to increase their chances of success.

Adrenalina

2001

No artwork available
NR

Alexander Joseph Lisowski was born around 1575, and served as a common soldier under Jan Potocki in the campaign against the Wallachian hospodar. Later, as the leader of a confederation of rebellious soldiers, he became famous for plunder and arbitrariness. He was sentenced to banishment for this. He then enlisted in the service of Dmitri Samozwaniec. He was already a commander shrouded in legend when the stigma of infamy was lifted from him. He returned to Poland and created his famous cavalry, later known in Europe as the Polish cavalry or Lisowczycy, after its creator.

Lisowczycy

1993

No artwork available
NR

Alexander Joseph Lisowski was born around 1575, and served as a common soldier under Jan Potocki in the campaign against the Wallachian hospodar. Later, as the leader of a confederation of rebellious soldiers, he became famous for plunder and arbitrariness. He was sentenced to banishment for this. He then enlisted in the service of Dmitri Samozwaniec. He was already a commander shrouded in legend when the stigma of infamy was lifted from him. He returned to Poland and created his famous cavalry, later known in Europe as the Polish cavalry or Lisowczycy, after its creator.

Lisowczycy

1993

Breakfast in Bed poster
5.8

Piotr's life is not working out for him until he unexpectedly hits the cover of a popular magazine.

Breakfast in Bed

2010

Breakfast in Bed poster
5.8

Piotr's life is not working out for him until he unexpectedly hits the cover of a popular magazine.

Breakfast in Bed

2010

Paper Marriage poster
4.4

Alice, a young Polish woman, arrives in England to marry a doctor. However, she faces an obstacle when her fiance changes his mind and leaves her in need of citizenship in Britain.

Paper Marriage

1992

Paper Marriage poster
4.4

Alice, a young Polish woman, arrives in England to marry a doctor. However, she faces an obstacle when her fiance changes his mind and leaves her in need of citizenship in Britain.

Paper Marriage

1992

Love on the Podium poster
4.8

A story of nineteen years old girl who is trying to become a model.

Love on the Podium

2009

No artwork available
NR

An underpass in the center of Warsaw, the camera selects one woman and follows her to her workplace - a telecommunications headquarters. The message "your call is being monitored" was broadcast from there.

The Conversation 1982

1982

No artwork available
6.0

The village of Yanashi is flooded every year by the Amazon basin waters. The locals live their lives either ashore or afloat, depending on the season, surrounded by their ancestors’ spirits and beliefs handed down through generations. These are the surroundings of Amaury, who leaves a theological seminary for the summer holidays and is not in contact. Rafal the Missionary sets off from Iquitos to learn what has happened to his mentee.

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

2024

No artwork available
6.0

The village of Yanashi is flooded every year by the Amazon basin waters. The locals live their lives either ashore or afloat, depending on the season, surrounded by their ancestors’ spirits and beliefs handed down through generations. These are the surroundings of Amaury, who leaves a theological seminary for the summer holidays and is not in contact. Rafal the Missionary sets off from Iquitos to learn what has happened to his mentee.

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

2024

No artwork available
6.0

The village of Yanashi is flooded every year by the Amazon basin waters. The locals live their lives either ashore or afloat, depending on the season, surrounded by their ancestors’ spirits and beliefs handed down through generations. These are the surroundings of Amaury, who leaves a theological seminary for the summer holidays and is not in contact. Rafal the Missionary sets off from Iquitos to learn what has happened to his mentee.

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

2024

No artwork available
NR

The unity of past and present time is shown in a symbolic way. The basic material of the film is archival footage taken by cameramen during the Warsaw Uprising (from the WFD archives) and shots of today's Warsaw, especially the Powązki Cemetery on All Saints' Day.

Powstanie warszawskie 1944

1994

No artwork available
NR

The unity of past and present time is shown in a symbolic way. The basic material of the film is archival footage taken by cameramen during the Warsaw Uprising (from the WFD archives) and shots of today's Warsaw, especially the Powązki Cemetery on All Saints' Day.

Powstanie warszawskie 1944

1994

A Sky Without Stars poster
NR

A story of the love between a father who is losing his eyesight and his seven-year-old son who learns to become his father’s guide and his eyes. What the son sees for the first time, the father is most likely seeing for the last. Their unique relationship illustrates the saying that love is invisible to the eye.

A Sky Without Stars

2018

Prawdziwe psy. Krzysiek i Sławek poster
NR

When in 2002 Jedynka presented Krzysztof Lang's TV series "Prawdziwe psy" about the work of police officers from the Capital Police Station, Commissioner Slawomir Opala and Assistant Commissioner Krzysztof Tkaczyk were among the characters in the series. At the time, both were distinguished officers of the Homicide Department with about 10 years of experience. Within a few months of the end of shooting, dramatic changes occurred in their professional and private lives, and both found themselves at a crossroads in life. Convinced that these changes were related to the series, Krzysztof Lang decided to return to his characters to complete the plot devoted to them. The film is thus a kind of epilogue to that series, and at the same time a psychological portrait of the two operational officers. It shows what a great psychological price one pays for practicing this specific profession, if one wants to do it with integrity.

Prawdziwe psy. Krzysiek i Sławek

2003

Prawdziwe psy. Krzysiek i Sławek poster
NR

When in 2002 Jedynka presented Krzysztof Lang's TV series "Prawdziwe psy" about the work of police officers from the Capital Police Station, Commissioner Slawomir Opala and Assistant Commissioner Krzysztof Tkaczyk were among the characters in the series. At the time, both were distinguished officers of the Homicide Department with about 10 years of experience. Within a few months of the end of shooting, dramatic changes occurred in their professional and private lives, and both found themselves at a crossroads in life. Convinced that these changes were related to the series, Krzysztof Lang decided to return to his characters to complete the plot devoted to them. The film is thus a kind of epilogue to that series, and at the same time a psychological portrait of the two operational officers. It shows what a great psychological price one pays for practicing this specific profession, if one wants to do it with integrity.

Prawdziwe psy. Krzysiek i Sławek

2003