Andrzej Kostenko (Directing)
Little is known about Andrzej Kostenko, a figure with a modest footprint in Directing. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
Ojciec Mateusz
Release Date:2008-12-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:23
Vote Count:10
Stary człowiek i pies
The film presents the story of Robert - an aging, once-recognized artist who is today struggling with his own complexes and vices, and helplessness towards a new reality that ruthlessly throws him to the margins of existence. One day Robert finds himself in a roadside ditch hit by a dog's car. In a reflex of spontaneous compassion, he takes the dog home and begins to look after him.
Release Date:2008-11-20
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:3
Bulionerzy
Release Date:2004-09-17
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:13
Vote Count:5
Knife in the Water: A Ticket to the West
Release Date:2003-08-01
Character:Self
Sukces
Release Date:2000-09-09
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Maigret
The pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth.
Release Date:1991-12-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:54
Vote Count:18
Torrents of Spring
In 1840, a young Russian aristocrat, Dimitri Sanin, is returning home after a long tour of Europe. In Germany, he falls in love with a beautiful pastry shop girl, Gemma Rosselli, who soon starts sharing his feelings. They decide to get married and, in order to finance the wedding, Dimitri goes back to Russia to sell his family estate. Unfortunately he falls prey to a seductress, Princess Maria Nikolaevna, who pretends to be willing to buy his land to come nearer him. Now Sanin is in a fix: should he choose the pure Gemma or the evil but irresistible Maria?
Release Date:1989-10-21
Department:Editing
Job:Co-Editor
Vote Count:6
Pirates
The adventures of pirate Captain Red and his first mate Frog.
Release Date:1986-05-08
Department:Directing
Job:Second Unit Director
Vote Count:269
My Blood, Your Blood
A BBC documentary on the mid-'80s rock scene in Poland, focusing on performers at the Jarocin '86 music festival.
Release Date:1986-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
War and Love
Jacek, who is Jewish, miraculously manages to survive World War II in Nazi-occupied Poland. As a subplot to Jacek's story, which also involves a love affair with Haling ( Kyra Sedgwick ) and German soldiers' repeated attempts to kill him, is a tale of how young kids in the Warsaw ghetto devise their own method of fighting oppression.
Release Date:1985-09-13
Department:Directing
Job:Assistant Director
Hands Up!
The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.
Release Date:1985-01-21
Department:Camera
Job:Director of Photography
Vote Count:9
Success Is the Best Revenge
Poland is under Communist rule. An exiled Polish theater director is in England, enthusiastically preparing an abstract play which will criticize the authoritarian Polish government. His sons might not share his political views, though.
Release Date:1984-05-26
Department:Editing
Job:Editor
Vote Count:5
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
Shot in Polish-British co-production series of short stories based on themes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - "father" of the world's most famous detective: Sherlock Holmes.
Release Date:1979-10-15
Department:Camera
Job:Second Unit Director of Photography
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:2
The Evolution of Snuff
Mockumentary about a pornographic film starlet who commits suicide during the filming of a documentary about the adult film business, leading to the discovery of a snuff film.
Release Date:1978-11-30
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:3
Sam na sam
"Alone"- A psychological and moral drama dealing with the crisis of feelings in interpersonal relations. Young heroes, basing their relationship on a program-based resignation from emotional involvement, under the influence of a tragic accident, change the rules of past coexistence.
Release Date:1977-04-25
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1
Personal Search
Basia and Krystyna are trying to smuggle clothes, perfumes and other things purchased abroad through the border back to Poland during communist period. They are accompanied by Basia's son Piotrek, infatuated with Krystyna. At the beginning everything appears to go smooth. Suddenly, however, the custom officer Roman stops pretending being fooled and demands body search which has to be carried out by next shift.
Release Date:1973-03-20
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:5
The Adventures of Gerard
Based on satirical short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a vain, egotistical Etienne Gerard, a French brigadier serving during the Napoleonic Wars. He thinks he's the best soldier and lover that ever lived and intends to prove it.
Release Date:1970-07-03
Department:Camera
Job:Camera Operator
Vote Count:6
Everything for Sale
Wajda's homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, the "Polish James Dean" who starred in the director's ASHES AND DIAMONDS and died young. The movie follows the tribulations of a director attempting to make a movie with a Cybulski-like star who never shows up.
Release Date:1969-01-28
Department:Directing
Job:First Assistant Director
Character:Kostek
Vote Count:25
Dialogue 20-40-60
"Using the same, three times repeating dialogue – dramatic conversation between man and woman – Jerzy Skolimowski from Poland, Slovak director Peter Solan and Czech director Zbynìk Brynych shot three different stories. The result was an extraordinary experiment in the world cinema, which we can call an insight in the relationships of men and women of different age groups, an analysis of love and marriage of those who are at the beginning, in the middle or going towards the end of their life."
Release Date:1968-11-29
Department:Camera
Job:Director of Photography
Vote Count:3
Matthew's Days
A man who is socially inept and out of touch with the world lives with his sister in a small farmhouse. The overly sensitive man lives off his hard-working sibling, taking odd jobs as he gets them to secure his meager earnings. When he brings home a woodcutter from the forest, the sister and the newcomer fall in love. Terrified over a life without his sister, the man can't cope.
Release Date:1968-02-16
Department:Camera
Job:Director of Photography
Vote Count:9
The Departure
A young Belgian car nut and hairdresser's apprentice attempts to get a Porsche by all means for his nearing debut race and meets a girl in the same time.
Release Date:1967-03-06
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:39
Barrier
A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.
Release Date:1966-11-18
Department:Writing
Job:Co-Writer
Vote Count:19
The Ashes
Set in the time of Napoleon wars, shows how the wars swept over the unfortunate Polish country at the beginning of the XIX-th century. Story revolves around the Polish legion under command of General Dabrowski, who then fought on Napoleon's side with the hopes of Poland's revival.
Release Date:1965-09-25
Department:Camera
Job:Camera Operator
Vote Count:14
No More Divorces
Three short segments about love.
Release Date:1964-02-25
Department:Camera
Job:Assistant Camera
Vote Count:8
The Criminal and the Lady
Young Małgorzata leads a very boring life as a cashier. One day a robber riddles her bank car with bullets, kills the driver and two security guards and takes the money. The police finds out that the stolen banknotes are being spent at a fashionable spa resort. The only way to find the criminal is to favor Małgorzata with a seaside holiday in the company of a handsome Captain as her brother.
Release Date:1963-07-08
Department:Camera
Job:Camera Operator
Vote Count:9
Gangsters and Philantropists
The movie consists of two satirical novels based on the same idea: both the "gangsters" and "philanthropists" end up in the courtroom.
Release Date:1963-02-15
Department:Camera
Job:Camera Operator
Vote Count:10
Mammals
"Waiting for Godot" on ice and snow, without words. Against a barren winter landscape, a figure approaches: it's a man, pulling a small sleigh on which another man sits, plucking a dead bird. They stop to trade places; the one now on the sleigh takes out his knitting. Accidents, misunderstandings, disagreements, and an outright fight await our absurd protagonists as their trip to nowhere continues, first with one pulling, then the other. What if they were to lose the sleigh? What rules of civilization and partnership would guide them then?
Release Date:1962-12-31
Department:Camera
Job:Director of Photography
Vote Count:41
Knife in the Water
On their way to an afternoon on the lake, husband and wife Andrzej and Krystyna nearly run over a young hitchhiker. Inviting the young man onto the boat with them, Andrzej begins to subtly torment him; the hitchhiker responds by making overtures toward Krystyna. When the hitchhiker is accidentally knocked overboard, the husband's panic results in unexpected consequences.
Release Date:1962-03-09
Department:Directing
Job:Assistant Director
Vote Count:433
When Angels Fall
The twenty-one-minute-film is set in a men's public rest room and recounts the day to day existence of an elderly woman who serves as an attendant in the lavatory. As an endless procession of men pass before her, relieving themselves in the urinals, the attendant escapes her reality by daydreaming about the past and the soldier she once loved and the child she bore him.
Release Date:1959-12-31
Character:(uncredited)
Vote Count:36
The Attempt
Set in the occupied Warsaw, the film tells the story of the mission carried out by the student underground resistance group to execute the hated SS General Franz Kutchera.
Release Date:1959-01-12
Character:The Big
Vote Count:8
What Will My Wife Say to This?
Release Date:1958-09-26
Vote Count:2