Jan Batory

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

Behind the camera

The Last Witness poster
5.3

Years after WWII a group of German "tourists" arrives in Poland to find a hidden Nazi treasure.

The Last Witness

1970

The Last Ride poster
6.7

Polish police is investigating the series of a taxi drivers murders.

The Last Ride

1963

Con Amore poster
6.2

Andrzej 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

Dancing at Hitler's Headquarters poster
6.8

Lives of three people intersect when they meet on a holiday in Mazury.

Dancing at Hitler's Headquarters

1971

Dancing at Hitler's Headquarters poster
6.8

Lives of three people intersect when they meet on a holiday in Mazury.

Dancing at Hitler's Headquarters

1971

Karino poster
7.0

The 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

Karino poster
7.0

The 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

A Cure for Love poster
7.4

An 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

A Cure for Love poster
7.4

An 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

The Two Who Stole the Moon poster
5.2

Twin 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

The Two Who Stole the Moon poster
5.2

Twin 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

Skradziona kolekcja poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Skradziona kolekcja

1979

Skradziona kolekcja poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Skradziona kolekcja

1979

No artwork available
9.0

A teenager's world is shattered when her mother marries the father of her boyfriend.

The Lake of Mysteries

1973

No artwork available
9.0

A teenager's world is shattered when her mother marries the father of her boyfriend.

The Lake of Mysteries

1973

Podhale w ogniu poster
NR

Podhale, 17th century – the story of an anti-nobility peasant rebellion led by Aleksander Kostka Napierski.

Podhale w ogniu

1956

Podhale w ogniu poster
NR

Podhale, 17th century – the story of an anti-nobility peasant rebellion led by Aleksander Kostka Napierski.

Podhale w ogniu

1956

Rendes-Vous with a Spy poster
6.7

A thriller about Polish Intelligence Service working on detecting a net of foreign spies.

Rendes-Vous with a Spy

1964

No artwork available
10.0

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

No artwork available
7.0

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

No artwork available
7.0

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