Marek Andrzej Piwowski (Polish pronunciation: [ˈmarɛk piˈvɔfskʲi]; born 24 October 1935 in Warsaw) is a Polish film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his cult film Rejs (1970).
Comedy · Drama
A stowaway sneaks aboard a ship departing on a cruise down the Vistula River. The captain takes him for a Communist Party cultural coordinator and the intruder gladly adapts to his new role, immediately setting to work at manipulating the passengers and crew into silly and vaguely humiliating games. Before long, Tym has got everyone under his thumb and created his own comedic dictatorship.
7.11970
Drama
After being drafted into military service, a Polish student spends his last day coming to terms with his estranged wife, visiting old friends, and savoring some last moments of freedom.
6.41965
Drama
An extraordinarily stylized tale of a prizefighter who ducks a fight to romance a beautiful blonde.
6.31965
Drama
The story of the residents of a tenement house on Złota Street in Warsaw from 1945 to 1980.
7.31980
Drama
The main character is a bookkeeper, 40, who lives a quiet, uninteresting life with her husband and son of school age. She realizes that soon she won't be needed much at home as the boy grows up and the relationship with her husband crumbles. It's only when an embezzlement is discovered at the office and she stands up to her management, that she realizes life has more to offer. She meets a well-off former classmate, married to an American. Then she meets Jacek and starts contemplating possibilities of a new start. She discovers love for the first time, but turns to old ways rather than to break loose.
5.11975
Comedy · Drama
A parliament member's sixteen year old daughter Agatha falls in love and runs away with a convicted young tramp, while her father uses his friends in the government and police to brutally break their happiness.
7.11993
Comedy
Strange human-shaped phenomenon appears in Piotrowski's new flat and he approaches all available institutions to help him get rid of it.
7.01971
Documentary
The 1966 visit of Hollywood movie star Kirk Douglas at the legendary Polish State Film School in Lódz.
5.61966
Drama · Romance
Barbara is a forty-year-old woman of Polish origin living in Budapest. She is a biologist, a wife and a mother. The death of her woman friend opens her eyes to the fact that she is lonely, unable to find her place.
5.01979
Comedy · Drama
A stowaway sneaks aboard a ship departing on a cruise down the Vistula River. The captain takes him for a Communist Party cultural coordinator and the intruder gladly adapts to his new role, immediately setting to work at manipulating the passengers and crew into silly and vaguely humiliating games. Before long, Tym has got everyone under his thumb and created his own comedic dictatorship.
7.11970
Drama
After being drafted into military service, a Polish student spends his last day coming to terms with his estranged wife, visiting old friends, and savoring some last moments of freedom.
6.41965
Drama
An extraordinarily stylized tale of a prizefighter who ducks a fight to romance a beautiful blonde.
6.31965
Drama
The main character is a bookkeeper, 40, who lives a quiet, uninteresting life with her husband and son of school age. She realizes that soon she won't be needed much at home as the boy grows up and the relationship with her husband crumbles. It's only when an embezzlement is discovered at the office and she stands up to her management, that she realizes life has more to offer. She meets a well-off former classmate, married to an American. Then she meets Jacek and starts contemplating possibilities of a new start. She discovers love for the first time, but turns to old ways rather than to break loose.
5.11975
Comedy · Drama
A parliament member's sixteen year old daughter Agatha falls in love and runs away with a convicted young tramp, while her father uses his friends in the government and police to brutally break their happiness.
7.11993
Crime · Action
The film is a story of a young man coerced into undercover work for the police, in return for their dropping of charges against him. He is to befriend a leader of a gang of juvenile delinquents who plans big robbery of a jewelry store. The scheme works and the gang is caught in the act except the gang leader.
Comedy
Strange human-shaped phenomenon appears in Piotrowski's new flat and he approaches all available institutions to help him get rid of it.
7.01971
Documentary
The 1966 visit of Hollywood movie star Kirk Douglas at the legendary Polish State Film School in Lódz.
5.61966
Drama · Romance
Barbara is a forty-year-old woman of Polish origin living in Budapest. She is a biologist, a wife and a mother. The death of her woman friend opens her eyes to the fact that she is lonely, unable to find her place.
5.01979
Documentary
Piwowski's documentary debut is a satirical reportage, referring to the poetics of the Czech school at the time. The starting point was an order from a film studio to join a project proposed by the Germans: what do teenagers in your country do on Saturday at 5 pm? Images from the lives of teenagers from Kętrzyn make up a contrasting slice of free time in a small town. Firemen maneuvering to start a fire outside working hours, bodybuilders training, choir rehearsal, dancing in Hitler's former headquarters...
Documentary
The final stages of alcohol addiction are juxtaposed with the official attitude of Polish authorities towards the success of the ever-growing national alcohol industry.
9.01971
Documentary
How does a computer work? It’s easy! This educational film vividly explains the principles of the binary system, which is the underlying operating concept for digital machines.
10.01967
Comedy
Mockumentary imitating a live TV program covering a soccer match in which a fan stabs Italian player Dino Baggio in the head.
Documentary
The director interviews inmates at a girls' reformatory while they prepare a performance of Cinderella.
8.01972
Drama
The protagonist is preparing for a year-long business trip to Hungary. The trip appears to be a promotion, but in reality it is tantamount to losing his position. At the same time, his wife has already started an affair with his deputy, who is also his successor.
1976
Documentary
A satirical look at the Soviet-block hairdressing contest which was held in Warsaw in 1971.
1972
Documentary
Scenes from a bar - people eat, drink and talk about important and less important things.
1967
