Ludwik Starski

Writing

Ludwik Starski

Born — Died

1903-03-01 — 1984-02-29

Place of birth

Warsaw, Poland

Known for

Writing

Credits

19 titles

Ludwik Starski (March 1, 1903 – February 29, 1984) was an author of film scripts, stage lyrics, and songs. He made his debut in 1925 with the vaudeville "Halo, Łodzianki," performed at the Municipal Theatre in Łódź, and subsequently collaborated with entertainment theatres in Warsaw. After the war, he wrote scripts for the Warsaw theatre "Syrena." From 1948-49, he headed the "Warszawa" Film Studio, and from 1955-63, he directed the "Iluzjon" Film Studio. Father of set designer Allan Starski.

Known for

Happy Days poster
7.0

Two friends, Szczepko and Tonko, are made unemployed in a toy factory where there was a ban on singing and they broke the rule. In a park they find a abandoned baby, and they take it into their care. Meanwhile, Wanda, owner of a toy shop, comes to Lwów with her uncle. He wants his niece to work for the director of this factory. By coincidence, the child is given to Wanda. Szczepko and Tonko look for him desperately. But the uncle is more and more happy about having the child. After numerous hurdles, the child remains at the uncle's, Wanda and Julian are in heaven, and Szczepko and Tonko, reconciled with fate, leave....

Happy Days

1936

Zapomniana melodia poster
7.0

Helenka Roliczówna is the daughter of a wealthy cosmetics manufacturer and a boarder at the Institute for Girls' Further Education. There she meets Stefan Frankiewicz, who has decided to visit his uncle, a music teacher at the school. The young people quickly take a liking to each other.

Zapomniana melodia

1938

Klub kawalerów poster
7.2

A group of chauvinistic men start a Bachelors' Club, but soon they start falling in love with women, threatening the continued existence of the club.

Klub kawalerów

1962

Forbidden Songs poster
7.3

Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house.

Forbidden Songs

1947

First Start poster
9.0

A juvenile delinquent becomes a model citizen thanks to the teaching of a gliding school.

First Start

1951

Pieśniarz Warszawy poster
6.7

Julek doesn't want to work, he prefers to sing on the street and marry his beloved. His family doesn't want to hear about it, to which Julek sings in the voice of Eugeniusz Bodo: "That's just how cold-hearted I am..."

Pieśniarz Warszawy

1934

Behind the camera

Happy Days poster
7.0

Two friends, Szczepko and Tonko, are made unemployed in a toy factory where there was a ban on singing and they broke the rule. In a park they find a abandoned baby, and they take it into their care. Meanwhile, Wanda, owner of a toy shop, comes to Lwów with her uncle. He wants his niece to work for the director of this factory. By coincidence, the child is given to Wanda. Szczepko and Tonko look for him desperately. But the uncle is more and more happy about having the child. After numerous hurdles, the child remains at the uncle's, Wanda and Julian are in heaven, and Szczepko and Tonko, reconciled with fate, leave....

Happy Days

1936

Zapomniana melodia poster
7.0

Helenka Roliczówna is the daughter of a wealthy cosmetics manufacturer and a boarder at the Institute for Girls' Further Education. There she meets Stefan Frankiewicz, who has decided to visit his uncle, a music teacher at the school. The young people quickly take a liking to each other.

Zapomniana melodia

1938

Klub kawalerów poster
7.2

A group of chauvinistic men start a Bachelors' Club, but soon they start falling in love with women, threatening the continued existence of the club.

Klub kawalerów

1962

Forbidden Songs poster
7.3

Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house.

Forbidden Songs

1947

First Start poster
9.0

A juvenile delinquent becomes a model citizen thanks to the teaching of a gliding school.

First Start

1951

Pieśniarz Warszawy poster
6.7

Julek doesn't want to work, he prefers to sing on the street and marry his beloved. His family doesn't want to hear about it, to which Julek sings in the voice of Eugeniusz Bodo: "That's just how cold-hearted I am..."

Pieśniarz Warszawy

1934

O czym się nie mówi... poster
NR

Krajewski, a young bank clerk, is a romantic and dreams of perfect love. One day, he accidentally meets a beautiful girl whom he helps dry her clothes in his apartment after she falls into a puddle while getting off the tram. Enchanted by her beauty and delicacy, he falls madly in love with her, believing that he has found the love of his life. Frania, as the girl is called, disappears every evening, claiming that as a seamstress she has a lot of work and has to work at night as well. In reality, under the assumed name of Irena, she spends her nights as an escort at the Orfeum cabaret. Afraid of losing her beloved, she does not reveal the truth to him. However, the idyll does not last long.

O czym się nie mówi...

1939

Hello, Fred the Beard poster
6.8

The revue theater "Red Mill" is in crisis, the owner has no money to pay the salaries of the employees. When the bailiff hands the director an order to seize the theater's assets, an elegant gentleman engineer Fred Kampinos unexpectedly appears and offers his help.

Hello, Fred the Beard

1978

A Sportsman Against His Will poster
6.7

A story about a misunderstanding between a hairdresser and world renowned hockey player, due to coincidence, switching their jobs.

A Sportsman Against His Will

1940

Adventure in Marienstadt poster
6.5

While visiting Warsaw, Hanka falls for a record-breaking bricklayer. She returns to the city to work at construction sites and prove that women can work as hard as men

Adventure in Marienstadt

1954

Treasure poster
6.9

Witek and Krysia, a married couple, move to Warsaw and have nowhere to stay. They rent a room in a house with many other lodgers. Witek dreams of their own house and draws a sketch of their future home, marking the place where his wife will sleep with the word "treasure". The other lodgers find the draft and a frantic search for the treasure begins.

Treasure

1949

Big Beat poster
4.7

At Kuba's wedding an unknown woman comes up to him and accuses him of cheating on her. This causes Kuba's soon-to-be wife, Majka, to leave him. It turns out that the woman, Lola, confused Kuba with his boyfriend, famous guitarist Johnny, so Kuba embarks on a journey to find him and prove his innocence.

Big Beat

1967

The Apartment Above poster
7.2

Two apartment house dwellers, although unrelated, share the same name. One is an older man with an appreciation for and love of classical music, while the other is a younger man addicted to swing music. The niece of the older man arrives for a visit and gets into the wrong apartment. Complications arise.

The Apartment Above

1937

Paweł & Gaweł poster
7.6

Two neighbours with similar names, Paweł and Gaweł, meet a violinist girl Violetta who pretends to be a child. When Paweł learns she's not a child anymore, he falls in love with her. And vice versa.

Paweł & Gaweł

1938

Nikodem Dyzma poster
4.7

Nikodem Dyzma is a poor dancer who comes to Warsaw to find a job. The problem is that nobody wants to hire him. One day he finds an invitation to the party with very important people and decides to attend. A small accident at the party makes him the hero of the night and becomes the beginning of his career.

Nikodem Dyzma

1956

Border Street poster
6.4

The story of Polish and Jewish families living side by side in one Warsaw street. Everything changes once and for all with the Nazi invasion.

Border Street

1949

No artwork available
9.0

Polish TV movie.

Wizyta u królów

1966

Robert and Bertrand poster
6.5

Robert and Bertrand covered accused of theft and are sent to prison where they meet Irena.

Robert and Bertrand

1938

Ja tu rządzę poster
8.5

The young Count Józio Lulewicz leads a rather dissolute life. At the urging of his friends, he tries to extract a large sum of money from his mother to start an operetta. When she refuses, he defiantly applies to a shoemaker for a job as a terminator. The distraught countess agrees to give her son the money he needs, but Józio is already head over heels in love with his boss's daughter and has no intention of giving up his new job.

Ja tu rządzę

1939