Stanisław Lenartowicz

Directing

Stanisław Lenartowicz

Born — Died

1921-02-07 — 2010-10-28

Known for

Directing

Credits

32 titles

Stanislaw Lenartowicz was a Polish film director and screenwriter. He was born on February 7, 1921, in Dzianowo in the Vilnius region. During the war, he was a soldier of the Home Army, then a prisoner of the Kaluga camp in Russia. Following repatriation in 1946, he settled in Wrocław. He graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the University of Wroclaw and the Directing Department of Łódź Film School (1953), where his supervisor was Antoni Bohdziewicz. He began directing films for the Educational Film Studio in Łódź, with which he cooperated in 1952-1955. It was there that he made Miniatury Kodeksu Behema/The Behem Code Miniatures (1953), awarded the Special Award at the Oberhausen fes…

Known for

Winter Twilight poster
6.2

Rumsza, the elderly railwayman, leading a sedate life with his wife, misses his only remaining son (two older boys were killed in the war). Joziuk finally returns from the military in the first scene but with the pregnant Zosia, while Rumsza expected him to marry Celinka, the daughter of Krywka, his only friend and neighbour. The hero will not accept the new situation; he throws his son and Zosia out of his house. Celinka is distressed but she still harbours hope for Joziuk. The birth of the child changes the situation: Rumsza accepts his son's relationship but Celinka decides to leave.

Winter Twilight

1957

Full Ahead poster
6.8

Two friends from army meet in a harbour and start to reminisce about their adventures.

Full Ahead

1967

Nos poster
4.0

An ambitious civil servant's career dreams are shattered when his nose falls off. All the worse, the nose starts living its own life and achieves the success its former owner wanted.

Nos

1971

Giuseppe in Warsaw poster
6.3

The Italian soldier Giuseppe Santucci, on his way home from the Russian front has his machine gun stolen in Warsaw. Afraid of consequences, he stays in Warsaw and occupies a flat of the Polish girl Maria, whom he suspects of stealing weapon. Maria indeed is an active member of the Polish resistance, contrary to her brother, Staszek, a painter, who only wants a calm living. In a course of events Giuseppe falls in love and, along with Staszek, becomes a hero of the Polish resistance.

Giuseppe in Warsaw

1964

Poczmistrz poster
7.3

Post clerk's young daughter runs away from home with a tsarist officer.

Poczmistrz

1968

Martwa fala poster
NR

After graduating from maritime school, Marek goes on his first voyage.

Martwa fala

1971

Behind the camera

Winter Twilight poster
6.2

Rumsza, the elderly railwayman, leading a sedate life with his wife, misses his only remaining son (two older boys were killed in the war). Joziuk finally returns from the military in the first scene but with the pregnant Zosia, while Rumsza expected him to marry Celinka, the daughter of Krywka, his only friend and neighbour. The hero will not accept the new situation; he throws his son and Zosia out of his house. Celinka is distressed but she still harbours hope for Joziuk. The birth of the child changes the situation: Rumsza accepts his son's relationship but Celinka decides to leave.

Winter Twilight

1957

Full Ahead poster
6.8

Two friends from army meet in a harbour and start to reminisce about their adventures.

Full Ahead

1967

Full Ahead poster
6.8

Two friends from army meet in a harbour and start to reminisce about their adventures.

Full Ahead

1967

Nos poster
4.0

An ambitious civil servant's career dreams are shattered when his nose falls off. All the worse, the nose starts living its own life and achieves the success its former owner wanted.

Nos

1971

Nos poster
4.0

An ambitious civil servant's career dreams are shattered when his nose falls off. All the worse, the nose starts living its own life and achieves the success its former owner wanted.

Nos

1971

Giuseppe in Warsaw poster
6.3

The Italian soldier Giuseppe Santucci, on his way home from the Russian front has his machine gun stolen in Warsaw. Afraid of consequences, he stays in Warsaw and occupies a flat of the Polish girl Maria, whom he suspects of stealing weapon. Maria indeed is an active member of the Polish resistance, contrary to her brother, Staszek, a painter, who only wants a calm living. In a course of events Giuseppe falls in love and, along with Staszek, becomes a hero of the Polish resistance.

Giuseppe in Warsaw

1964

Poczmistrz poster
7.3

Post clerk's young daughter runs away from home with a tsarist officer.

Poczmistrz

1968

Martwa fala poster
NR

After graduating from maritime school, Marek goes on his first voyage.

Martwa fala

1971

Zobaczymy się w niedzielę poster
8.0

Two soldiers spend their free Sunday in Wrocław.

Zobaczymy się w niedzielę

1960

Zobaczymy się w niedzielę poster
8.0

Two soldiers spend their free Sunday in Wrocław.

Zobaczymy się w niedzielę

1960

Possession poster
4.0

A married couple is unsuccessfully trying to have a child. The woman decides to bring her husband closer to another woman.

Possession

1973

Żelazna obroża poster
7.0

Kozyra - a former athlete wants to return to the circus arena, where young Błażyce is successful.

Żelazna obroża

1976

Żelazna obroża poster
7.0

Kozyra - a former athlete wants to return to the circus arena, where young Błażyce is successful.

Żelazna obroża

1976

The Vampire poster
7.0

Gothic story based on novella by Aleksey Tolstoy.

The Vampire

1968

The Vampire poster
7.0

Gothic story based on novella by Aleksey Tolstoy.

The Vampire

1968

The Red and the Gold poster
5.2

An old man escapes from a retirement home to impersonate a man who has died in his arms and told him he never went home to his new bride after the first World War.

The Red and the Gold

1969

I killed poster
4.0

During a routine traffic stop, the police discovers the body of a girl in the trunk of a truck. Since the dead girl spent the night before with the driver of the car, he becomes the prime suspect. In the course of the trial uncomfortable truths surface.

I killed

1975

No artwork available
9.0

Adaptation of a short story by Michał Lermontow. Forces stationed in the Caucasus. Lieutenant Wulicz is a fatalist. He believes that everyone has a fate that cannot be avoided. To prove it, he puts a loaded pistol to his temple ... but it doesn't fire. Lieutenant Pechorin listens doubtfully to his colleague's arguments. Accompanied by a premonition, Wulicz will die soon. Will his premonitions prove to be prophetic?

Fatalista

1968

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

Spotkania poster
6.0

Four stories showing the various facets of love.

Spotkania

1957

Spotkania poster
6.0

Four stories showing the various facets of love.

Spotkania

1957

Aktorka poster
7.0

A failed actress wants to go back to her husband, who has fallen into alcoholism.

Aktorka

1971

Aktorka poster
7.0

A failed actress wants to go back to her husband, who has fallen into alcoholism.

Aktorka

1971

Pills for Aurelia poster
6.0

Soldiers of the Polish underground resistance army prepare to break into a prison to release their friend imprisoned by Gestapo.

Pills for Aurelia

1958

No artwork available
8.0

A moral story about two people who have completely different attitudes to life and people. The duel of the heroes ends tragically.

Zabijaka

1967

Mrs. Hanka's Diary poster
7.5

The young and beautiful wife of a prominent diplomat complains of boredom. To change her monotonous life, she has an affair, through which she gets entangled in intrigues and espionage affairs.

Mrs. Hanka's Diary

1963

Mrs. Hanka's Diary poster
7.5

The young and beautiful wife of a prominent diplomat complains of boredom. To change her monotonous life, she has an affair, through which she gets entangled in intrigues and espionage affairs.

Mrs. Hanka's Diary

1963

Nafta poster
7.5

Szymek, a young man at clash with his home village takes up a job as a geologist and marries a girl whose parents dissaprove of him.

Nafta

1961

Nafta poster
7.5

Szymek, a young man at clash with his home village takes up a job as a geologist and marries a girl whose parents dissaprove of him.

Nafta

1961

No artwork available
10.0

Teresa, a revue dancer dreaming of stardom and love with actor Modecki, endures fleeting affairs, her friend’s suicide and a struggling provincial theatre before returning to Warsaw. After winning a leading role and finding success, she learns she’s pregnant and must choose between her career and motherhood.

Szkoda twoich łez

1985

No artwork available
10.0

Teresa, a revue dancer dreaming of stardom and love with actor Modecki, endures fleeting affairs, her friend’s suicide and a struggling provincial theatre before returning to Warsaw. After winning a leading role and finding success, she learns she’s pregnant and must choose between her career and motherhood.

Szkoda twoich łez

1985