
Directing
Czesław Petelski
Born — Died
1922-11-05 — 1996-09-19
Place of birth
Białystok, podlaskie, Polska
Known for
Directing
Credits
40 titles
Czesław Petelski (November 5, 1922 – September 19, 1996) was a Polish film director and screenwriter. He directed 25 films between 1953 and 1990. His 1963 film Black Wings was entered into the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Silver Prize. In 1965 he was a member of the jury at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival. His 1973 film Copernicus was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Silver Prize. He often worked together with his wife Ewa Petelska.
Known for
7.2A 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
No synopsis available yet.
Bołdyn
1981
A young doctor, accused of desecrating a body, is brought to the presence of the Inquisition.
The Tortures of Hope
1969
7.5The life and reign of Polish king Casimir III The Great.
Kazimierz Wielki
1976
5.1Diver 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
8.0The 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
Behind the camera
7.2A 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
No synopsis available yet.
Bołdyn
1981
No synopsis available yet.
Bołdyn
1981
A young doctor, accused of desecrating a body, is brought to the presence of the Inquisition.
The Tortures of Hope
1969
A young doctor, accused of desecrating a body, is brought to the presence of the Inquisition.
The Tortures of Hope
1969
7.5The life and reign of Polish king Casimir III The Great.
Kazimierz Wielki
1976
7.5The life and reign of Polish king Casimir III The Great.
Kazimierz Wielki
1976
5.1Diver 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
5.1Diver 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
8.0The 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
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
6.0A 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
4.7Poland, 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
4.7Poland, 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
6.9The 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
6.9The 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
8.5The 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
10.0A 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
10.0The 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
7.0The 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
7.0The 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
7.0The Polish Army fights to liberate Kołobrzeg from the Germans in the final months of World War 2.
Red Rowan
1970
7.0The Polish Army fights to liberate Kołobrzeg from the Germans in the final months of World War 2.
Red Rowan
1970
NR1945. 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
7.1In the rugged mountain gorges and ravines of southeastern Poland, a new boss and his wife become a catalyst for violence.
The Depot of the Dead
1959
7.0Three 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
7.0Three 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
8.0An 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
NRSelected episodes from a television series of thrilling stories based on works of world literature classics.
Świat grozy
1968
5.0The short stories showing the troubles of youth serving in the "Służba Polsce" organisation.
Three Stories
1953
5.0The short stories showing the troubles of youth serving in the "Służba Polsce" organisation.
Three Stories
1953
During the war, a nurse finds footwear belonging to a Soviet soldier. The discovery haunts her.
Buty
1966
7.0The 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
7.0The 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
6.0A 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
6.0A 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
A Soviet soldier stays with a Polish family.
Córeczka
1965
During the Civil War, two soldiers fighting on opposite sides meet.
Kwestia sumienia
1969
During the Civil War, two soldiers fighting on opposite sides meet.
Kwestia sumienia
1969
7.0The Warsaw Uprising. Five people hiding in a basement under an apartment complex get buried by the rubble when it's bombed by the Germans. With no way of escape, the people gradually descend into madness.
The Stone Sky
1959
