Ewa Petelska

Directing

Ewa Petelska

Born — Died

1920-12-24 — 2013-08-20

Place of birth

Pyzdry, Wielkopolskie, Poland

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

Ewa Petelska (December 24, 1920 – August 20, 2013) was a Polish film director and screenwriter. She directed 26 films between 1951 and 1985. Her 1963 film Black Wings (Czarne skrzydła) was entered into the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Silver Prize. Her 1973 film Copernicus (Kopernik) was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Silver Prize. She often collaborated with her husband, Czesław Petelski.

Known for

Behind the camera

Return Ticket poster
7.2

A young peasant girl, Antonina, emigrates for bread to Canada. She stays with her uncle, who offers her marriage, but Antonina does not accept the offer. She marries a farmer from a nearby village, surreptitiously puts away pennies to pennies and sends to Poland, her son to build a house. When her husband finds out, he catcalls her in a rage and throws her out. She returns to the country, and what does she find?

Return Ticket

1979

Morning Stars poster
NR

A Soviet tank breaks through the front line during the January 1945 offensive.

Morning Stars

1980

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10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bołdyn

1981

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10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bołdyn

1981

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10.0

A young doctor, accused of desecrating a body, is brought to the presence of the Inquisition.

The Tortures of Hope

1969

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10.0

A young doctor, accused of desecrating a body, is brought to the presence of the Inquisition.

The Tortures of Hope

1969

Kazimierz Wielki poster
7.5

The life and reign of Polish king Casimir III The Great.

Kazimierz Wielki

1976

Kazimierz Wielki poster
7.5

The life and reign of Polish king Casimir III The Great.

Kazimierz Wielki

1976

Wraki poster
5.1

Diver Antoni Barnat is falsely accused of causing an accident underwater that almost led to his fellow diver's death. Interestingly enough, they are both in love with the same girl, Teresa.

Wraki

1957

Wraki poster
5.1

Diver Antoni Barnat is falsely accused of causing an accident underwater that almost led to his fellow diver's death. Interestingly enough, they are both in love with the same girl, Teresa.

Wraki

1957

Na własną prośbę poster
8.0

The story is of an engineer in conflict with his superior. He won't go along with the ususal corruption and conformity. He is left to himself amid indifference and ineptitude by his fellow workers and the management.

Na własną prośbę

1980

Na własną prośbę poster
8.0

The story is of an engineer in conflict with his superior. He won't go along with the ususal corruption and conformity. He is left to himself amid indifference and ineptitude by his fellow workers and the management.

Na własną prośbę

1980

No artwork available
4.7

The story is set in 1939. A military officer is stripped of his rank for his apparent collaboration with a counter-espionage agent while on a mission in Paris. Then he is enlisted in his own country's counterespionage unit, due to his knowledge of languages. He is assigned to Gdansk where he is trying to uncover mysterious "Wotan" in the German Secret Service. He eventually tracks down and kills the agent, but by doing so wipes out the possibility to clearing himself of the charges. Just as the death sentence is to be carried out on him the war breaks out and he escapes out of the bombed prison to join partisans.

Who Is That Man?

1985

Copernicus poster
6.0

A biography of Nicholas Copernicus covering 50 years of the astronomer's life - from his studies in Europe to his theological work all the way to the creation of his magnum opus, On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres.

Copernicus

1973

Gorzka miłość poster
4.7

Poland, 1945. Crowds of repatriates are traveling from east to west in search of new homes and loved ones lost during the war. At one of the train stations, a young woman, Hanna Powiłańska, sits among the crowd of displaced persons. The girl recalls a story of turbulent love. Before the war, at a carnival ball, she met the handsome Lech Oleszkiewicz. In September, war broke out. Hanna meets the engineer again and spends the night with him. In the morning, the man tells her that he is married. Hanna breaks off the relationship.

Gorzka miłość

1990

The Artillery Sergeant Kaleń poster
6.9

The movie is about the fate of Polish soldier named Kaleń who fought with UPA in 1946.The film recounts the exploits of the Polish soldier caught in the turmoil among the Polish Communist army, anti-communist underground and Ukrainian fascists.

The Artillery Sergeant Kaleń

1961

The Artillery Sergeant Kaleń poster
6.9

The movie is about the fate of Polish soldier named Kaleń who fought with UPA in 1946.The film recounts the exploits of the Polish soldier caught in the turmoil among the Polish Communist army, anti-communist underground and Ukrainian fascists.

The Artillery Sergeant Kaleń

1961

The Birthday poster
8.5

The four sequences in the film cover four days in a life of young Warsaw lad in September 1938, 1939, 1943 and 1944. In the first sequence Jurek decides not to study in the Sorbonne but enlists in a Polish military school instead. In the second sequence the war starts and Warsaw is occupied. In the third sequence he works in the underground resistance. The final sequence takes place during the Warsaw uprising.

The Birthday

1980

Cześć kapitanie poster
10.0

A spy barely makes it out of a police ambush and goes on the run, taking a young woman with him along the way.

Cześć kapitanie

1968

Cześć kapitanie poster
10.0

A spy barely makes it out of a police ambush and goes on the run, taking a young woman with him along the way.

Cześć kapitanie

1968

Don Gabriel poster
10.0

The first Polish film to discuss the failure of September 1939 Polish-German war, seen from the point of view of a university intellectual, fascinated by German culture, who decides to take active part in the conflict.

Don Gabriel

1966

Czarne skrzydła poster
7.0

The miners of one of the mines in Zagłębie Dąbrowskie receive news about the planned layoffs. The miners decide to organize a strike. One of the local MPs is trying to prevent this from happening. The French mine owner makes a dangerous decision - he orders the miners to work in an area at risk of fire. An explosion occurs unexpectedly. The miners lynch Coeur, and their demonstration, in which they carry the bodies of the victims of the crash, is brutally suppressed by the police.

Czarne skrzydła

1963

Czarne skrzydła poster
7.0

The miners of one of the mines in Zagłębie Dąbrowskie receive news about the planned layoffs. The miners decide to organize a strike. One of the local MPs is trying to prevent this from happening. The French mine owner makes a dangerous decision - he orders the miners to work in an area at risk of fire. An explosion occurs unexpectedly. The miners lynch Coeur, and their demonstration, in which they carry the bodies of the victims of the crash, is brutally suppressed by the police.

Czarne skrzydła

1963

Red Rowan poster
7.0

The Polish Army fights to liberate Kołobrzeg from the Germans in the final months of World War 2.

Red Rowan

1970

Red Rowan poster
7.0

The Polish Army fights to liberate Kołobrzeg from the Germans in the final months of World War 2.

Red Rowan

1970

Manhunter poster
NR

1945. Home Army soldier who hides in the village must decide if he wants to engage into dangerous situation to help group of Jewish runaways.

Manhunter

1964

Trzy starty poster
7.0

Three separate short stories about young athletes who lose their chances of success. Young swimmer - because of unhappy love. Boxer because of a fight with hooligans, for which the judges will disqualify him. But the cyclist must decide for himself what is more important for him: victory or friendship.

Trzy starty

1955

Trzy starty poster
7.0

Three separate short stories about young athletes who lose their chances of success. Young swimmer - because of unhappy love. Boxer because of a fight with hooligans, for which the judges will disqualify him. But the cyclist must decide for himself what is more important for him: victory or friendship.

Trzy starty

1955

The Canterville Ghost poster
8.0

An American businessman moves to Europe and lives in a castle, where the ghost of one of the previous owners haunts him.

The Canterville Ghost

1968

Świat grozy poster
NR

Selected episodes from a television series of thrilling stories based on works of world literature classics.

Świat grozy

1968

Three Stories poster
5.0

The short stories showing the troubles of youth serving in the "Służba Polsce" organisation.

Three Stories

1953

Three Stories poster
5.0

The short stories showing the troubles of youth serving in the "Służba Polsce" organisation.

Three Stories

1953

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8.0

During the war, a nurse finds footwear belonging to a Soviet soldier. The discovery haunts her.

Buty

1966

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8.0

During the war, a nurse finds footwear belonging to a Soviet soldier. The discovery haunts her.

Buty

1966

Kamienne tablice poster
7.0

The film is set in 1956 in India. John Tokarski has an affair with the beautiful Margit . He is close to abandonment of wive and children, who were in the country. But one day, while in the cinema, he watches a newsreel of the shocking riots in Poznan. Deeply moved by the events that are taking place in the country John is faced with a fundamental problem of the determination of his own nationality.

Kamienne tablice

1984

Kamienne tablice poster
7.0

The film is set in 1956 in India. John Tokarski has an affair with the beautiful Margit . He is close to abandonment of wive and children, who were in the country. But one day, while in the cinema, he watches a newsreel of the shocking riots in Poznan. Deeply moved by the events that are taking place in the country John is faced with a fundamental problem of the determination of his own nationality.

Kamienne tablice

1984

The Wooden Rosary poster
6.0

A young girl sent to an orphanage run by nuns gets confronted with the cruel and outdated methods used by the staff.

The Wooden Rosary

1965

No artwork available
9.0

A Soviet soldier stays with a Polish family.

Córeczka

1965

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9.0

A Soviet soldier stays with a Polish family.

Córeczka

1965

No artwork available
8.0

During the Civil War, two soldiers fighting on opposite sides meet.

Kwestia sumienia

1969