
Directing
Jan Batory
Born — Died
1921-08-23 — 1981-08-01
Place of birth
Kalisz, wielkopolskie, Polska
Known for
Directing
Credits
21 titles
Jan Batory (23 August 1921 - 1 August 1981) was a Polish film director and screenwriter.
Known for
5.3Years after WWII a group of German "tourists" arrives in Poland to find a hidden Nazi treasure.
The Last Witness
1970
6.7Polish police is investigating the series of a taxi drivers murders.
The Last Ride
1963
6.2Andrzej and Grzegorz are students of Warsaw Conservatory and preparing for the International Piano Competition. Eva - a beautiful Grzegorz's girlfriend is seriously ill, the doctors suspect she has brain cancer. Even for the sake of health and life of his beloved Grzegorz disagrees to miss even a single day of preparation for the contest. Andrzej has a girlfriend Zosia (the daughter of a professor of music), but the young pianist falls in love with Grzegorz's girlfriend and takes care of the sick Eve.
Con Amore
1976
6.8Lives of three people intersect when they meet on a holiday in Mazury.
Dancing at Hitler's Headquarters
1971
7.0The horse Karino is born during winter and when his mother dies, a young woman starts to care for the helpless foal. Their adventures together are followed during the years to come, from the age of a newborn to the time when Karino's a full-grown competition horse.
Karino
1977
7.4An architect Joanna tells her friend Halina on the telephone about her love troubles and suddenly hears a nice man's voice: "The best cure for love is another love." Then she becomes a forgers dispatcher mistaken for Honorata by telephone and decides to work out a forgers secret and the secret of her new love Andrzej.
A Cure for Love
1966
Behind the camera
5.3Years after WWII a group of German "tourists" arrives in Poland to find a hidden Nazi treasure.
The Last Witness
1970
6.7Polish police is investigating the series of a taxi drivers murders.
The Last Ride
1963
6.2Andrzej and Grzegorz are students of Warsaw Conservatory and preparing for the International Piano Competition. Eva - a beautiful Grzegorz's girlfriend is seriously ill, the doctors suspect she has brain cancer. Even for the sake of health and life of his beloved Grzegorz disagrees to miss even a single day of preparation for the contest. Andrzej has a girlfriend Zosia (the daughter of a professor of music), but the young pianist falls in love with Grzegorz's girlfriend and takes care of the sick Eve.
Con Amore
1976
6.8Lives of three people intersect when they meet on a holiday in Mazury.
Dancing at Hitler's Headquarters
1971
6.8Lives of three people intersect when they meet on a holiday in Mazury.
Dancing at Hitler's Headquarters
1971
7.0The horse Karino is born during winter and when his mother dies, a young woman starts to care for the helpless foal. Their adventures together are followed during the years to come, from the age of a newborn to the time when Karino's a full-grown competition horse.
Karino
1977
7.0The horse Karino is born during winter and when his mother dies, a young woman starts to care for the helpless foal. Their adventures together are followed during the years to come, from the age of a newborn to the time when Karino's a full-grown competition horse.
Karino
1977
7.4An architect Joanna tells her friend Halina on the telephone about her love troubles and suddenly hears a nice man's voice: "The best cure for love is another love." Then she becomes a forgers dispatcher mistaken for Honorata by telephone and decides to work out a forgers secret and the secret of her new love Andrzej.
A Cure for Love
1966
7.4An architect Joanna tells her friend Halina on the telephone about her love troubles and suddenly hears a nice man's voice: "The best cure for love is another love." Then she becomes a forgers dispatcher mistaken for Honorata by telephone and decides to work out a forgers secret and the secret of her new love Andrzej.
A Cure for Love
1966
5.2Twin brothers, Jacek and Placek, are the town's troublemakers. They're lazy, greedy and also cruel. They despise hard work, so they cook up a plan to make easy money that would make them rich for the rest of their lives: steal the moon and sell it. They set on a journey to find a place where the moon would be low enough for them to steal. Before they leave, they take the last loaf of bread from their poor hardworking mother. After numerous adventures the boys manage to catch the moon in a fishing net. But it is only the beginning of their troubles.
The Two Who Stole the Moon
1962
5.2Twin brothers, Jacek and Placek, are the town's troublemakers. They're lazy, greedy and also cruel. They despise hard work, so they cook up a plan to make easy money that would make them rich for the rest of their lives: steal the moon and sell it. They set on a journey to find a place where the moon would be low enough for them to steal. Before they leave, they take the last loaf of bread from their poor hardworking mother. After numerous adventures the boys manage to catch the moon in a fishing net. But it is only the beginning of their troubles.
The Two Who Stole the Moon
1962
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Skradziona kolekcja
1979
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Skradziona kolekcja
1979
A teenager's world is shattered when her mother marries the father of her boyfriend.
The Lake of Mysteries
1973
A teenager's world is shattered when her mother marries the father of her boyfriend.
The Lake of Mysteries
1973
NRPodhale, 17th century – the story of an anti-nobility peasant rebellion led by Aleksander Kostka Napierski.
Podhale w ogniu
1956
NRPodhale, 17th century – the story of an anti-nobility peasant rebellion led by Aleksander Kostka Napierski.
Podhale w ogniu
1956
6.7A thriller about Polish Intelligence Service working on detecting a net of foreign spies.
Rendes-Vous with a Spy
1964
A little boy, craving for his father's attention, imagines a made-up "Mr. President" who looks just like his father but is caring and attentive.
Visit of a President
1961
Sculptor Paul travels to the Black Sea resort. There he meets a German student of Slavic studies, Heidi, with whom he starts a romantic affair. They live in the campsite. He does not take this relationship seriously, but for the girl Paul is the first great love. Soon he accidentally discovers an illicit drug trafficking. Without a second thought, he takes the opportunity to get more cash - he takes over the goods and demands a ransom gang of twenty thousand dollars. Heidi then disappears...
Smell of the Dog's Fur
1982
Sculptor Paul travels to the Black Sea resort. There he meets a German student of Slavic studies, Heidi, with whom he starts a romantic affair. They live in the campsite. He does not take this relationship seriously, but for the girl Paul is the first great love. Soon he accidentally discovers an illicit drug trafficking. Without a second thought, he takes the opportunity to get more cash - he takes over the goods and demands a ransom gang of twenty thousand dollars. Heidi then disappears...
Smell of the Dog's Fur
1982
