Bolero 1981   N/R, 173 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Claude Lelouch
Cast: James Caan, Geraldine Chaplin, Robert Hessein, Nicole Garcia, Daniel Olbrychski, Richard Bohringer, Jean-Claude Brialy, Feodor Atkine, Fanny Ardant, Francis Huster
This film spans the era between the 1920s and 1970s as it relates experiences in the lives of a family of European musicians. 1 User Review
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| | Warren 05/15/2007 | | Best movie I have ever seen. Complex intertwining of the fates of artists from each of the theatres of WW2. Much human passion, plenty of tragedy, expert artistic performances and a convincing fictional portrayal of the history of the period. |
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Dangerous Moves 1984  PG, 100 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Richard Dembo
Cast: Michel Piccoli, Alexandre Arbatt, Leslie Caron, Liv Ullmann, Daniel Olbrychski, Michel Aumont, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Bernhard Wicki, Wojciech Pszoniak, Jacques Boudet
This story centers on a world chess championship as competitors, the old master (Michel Piccoli) and a young admirer (Alexandre Arbatt), become more and more obsessed with winning. The film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
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The Decalogue 1987  N/R, 571 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Cast: Henryk Baranowski, Krystyna Janda, Daniel Olbrychski, Adrianna Biedrzynska, Miroslaw Baka, Grazyna Szapolowska, Anna Polony, Maria Koscialkowska, Ewa Blaszczyk, Jerzy Stuhr, Artur Barcis, Wojciech Klata
"The Decalogue" is an exceptionally good film. It represents a made-for-TV offering that features 10 personal stories, each reflecting one of the Ten Commandments. The stories are are all set in a dreary Warsaw housing project and are believable as they address real issues dealing with life, death, family, friends, and love.
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The Deluge 1974 N/R, 300 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Jerzy Hoffman
Cast: Daniel Olbrychski, Malgorzata Braunek, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Kazimierz Wichniarz, Wladyslaw Hancza, Leszek Teleszynski, Ryszard Filipski, Wieslawa Mazurkiewicz, Franciszek Pieczka, Leslaw Janicki
Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film and based on a novel by Nobel prize-winning author Henryk Sienkiewicz, this saga is set during the Polish-Swedish war in the 17th century. A warrior (Daniel Olbrychski) fights not only for Poland but for the heart of Olenka (Malgorzata Braunek). Nicely photographed, even to the use of old Polish castles as subjects.
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Everything for Sale 1969  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Beata Tyszkiewicz, Andrzej Lapicki, Witold Holtz, Elzbieta Czyzewska, Daniel Olbrychski, Malgorzata Potocka, Bogumil Kobiela, Tadeusz Kalinowski, Elzbieta Kepinska, Irena Laskowska
This lesser-known film of the great Polish director paints another picture, this time of life on a movie set. It is a tribute to his friend Zbigniew Cybulski, a frequent actor in Wajda's films who was killed in an accident. In this tale, the crew on the movie set reacts (or non-reacts) in different ways to the leading man's death.
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Landscape After the Battle 1970 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Daniel Olbrychski, Stanislawa Celinska, Aleksander Bardini, Tadeusz Janczar, Zygmunt Malanowicz, Leszek Drogosz, Stefan Friedmann, Mieczyslaw Stoor, Jerzy Zelnik, Tomasz Lengren
Mayhem reins as jubilant prisoners are freed from a concentration camp at the end of World War II. But quiet Tadeusz (Daniel Olbrychski) is only interested in retrieving his books. As resettlement stresses the survivors, Tadeusz and Nina (Stanislawa Celinska) meet and try to cope with "freedom." Powerful, but sad.
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Pan Tadeusz 1999 N/R, 125 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Boguslaw Linda, Daniel Olbrychski, Grazyna Szapolowska, Andrzej Seweryn, Marek Kondrat, Krzysztof Kolberger, Michal Zebrowski, Alicja Bachleda-Curus, Jerzy Binczycki, Sergei Shakurov, Henryk Baranowski, Jerzy Trela
Based on Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz's 1834 narrative poem, this story is set during 1811 in Lithuania where exiled members of the Polish gentry live, argue, love, and fight among themselves.
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Pan Wolodyjowski 1969 N/R, 160 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Colonel Wolodyjowski
Director: Jerzy Hoffman
Cast: Tadeusz Lomnicki, Daniel Olbrychski, Jan Nowicki, Mariusz Dmochowski, Barbara Brylska, Irena Karel, Magdalena Zawadzka, Mieczyslaw Pawlikowski, Hanka Bielicka, Marek Perepeczko
Based on a historical novel by Henry Sienkiewicz, this is the story of the Turkish invasion of Poland's Eastern frontier in the mid-17th century.
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The Promised Land 1974 N/R, 178 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Daniel Olbrychski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Andrzej Seweryn, Tadeusz Bialoszczynski, Anna Nehrebecka, Kalina Jedrusik, Bozena Dykiel, Andrzej Szalawski, Franciszek Pieczka, Andrzej Lapicki
Based on a true story that represents the rise of ruthless capitalists in the late-19th century, this is the tale of three Polish workers of different backgrounds who put their differences behind them to become successful in building a thriving textile factory. But success doesn't come easily nor can it always be sustained.
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The Tin Drum 1979 R, 144 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Volker Schlondorff
Cast: Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, David Bennent, Daniel Olbrychski, Katharina Thalbach, Charles Aznavour, Andrea Ferreol, Tina Engel, Berta Drews, Roland Teubner
Based on Gunter Grass' novel, this movie won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. The story is about a little boy who refuses to grow up as a protest to the rise of Nazism and destruction of his world.
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1988 R, 172 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Philip Kaufman
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin, Derek de Lint, Erland Josephson, Donald Moffat, Daniel Olbrychski, Stellan Skarsgard, Bruce Myers, Pavel Landovsky, Tomasz Borkowy, Pavel Slaby, Pascale Kalensky, Jacques Ciron, Anne Lonnberg
In this film adaptation of Milan Kundera's story, Czechoslovakian surgeon Thomas (Daniel Day-Lewis) is an irresponsible lover whose sexual appetite is never satisfied. He falls in love with Tereza (Juliette Binoche) and marries her but continues his many affairs–particularly with Sabina (Lena Olin). In 1968, when Russia invades Prague, Sabina forms a friendship with Tereza while Thomas is obsessed with the collapse of his country. Well written, acted, and photographed.
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With Fire and Sword 1999 N/R, 183 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Jerzy Hoffman
Cast: Izabella Scorupco, Michal Zebrowski, Aleksandr Domogarov, Krzysztof Kowalewski, Bogdan Stupka, Andrzej Seweryn, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Wiktor Zborowski, Wojciech Malajkat, Ewa Wisniewska, Daniel Olbrychski, Ruslana Pisanko
Based on the novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz, this story is set in 17th-century Poland during the Ukrainian Cossacks' uprising against the Polish nobility.
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The Young Girls of Wilko 1979 N/R, 118 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Daniel Olbrychski, Krystyna Zachwatowicz, Anna Seniuk, Maja Komorowska, Stanislawa Celinska, Christine Pascal, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Zofia Jaroszewska, Tadeusz Bialoszczynski, Paul Dutron, Andrzej Lapicki, Joanna Poraska
World War I veteran Wiktor (Daniel Olbrychski) visits five sisters with whom he had spent a wonderful summer prior to the war. In flashback, the women's stories during that summer are revealed. Nominated for a Best Foreign Film Oscar.
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Zemsta 2002 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
aka: The Revenge
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Cast: Roman Polanski, Janusz Gajos, Andrzej Seweryn, Katarzyna Figura, Daniel Olbrychski, Agata Buzek, Rafal Krolikowski, Lech Dyblik, Cezary Zak, Jerzy Nowak
Based on the popular play, director Andrzej Wajda teams up with long-time friend and filmmaker Roman Polanski for this light-hearted farce. Feuding neighbors, Cseznik (Janusz Gajos) and Rejent (Andrzej Seweryn ), live in separate parts of a dilapidated castle. Cseznik yearns for rich widow Podstolina (Katarzyna Figura) and solicits the help of the flamboyant, but foolish, Papkin (Roman Polanski). But Rejent has plans of his own.
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| 1. Bolero (1981)
2. Dangerous Moves (1984)
3. The Decalogue (1987)
4. The Deluge (1974)
5. Everything for Sale (1969)
6. Landscape After the Battle (1970)
7. Pan Tadeusz (1999)
8. Pan Wolodyjowski (1969)
aka: Colonel Wolodyjowski
9. The Promised Land (1974)
10. The Tin Drum (1979)
11. The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
12. With Fire and Sword (1999)
13. The Young Girls of Wilko (1979)
14. Zemsta (2002)
aka: The Revenge
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