Andrzej Kostenko (Director)
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Works
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 Date1959-12-31
Charactersd (uncredited)
Vote Count36
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 Date1969-01-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobFirst Assistant Director
Charactersd Kostek
Vote Count27
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 Date1959-01-12
Charactersd The Big
Vote Count8
Knife in the Water: A Ticket to the West
Release Date2003-08-01
Charactersd Self
Maigret
The pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth.
Release Date1991-12-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count54
Vote Count21
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 Date1979-10-15
DepartmentCamera
JobSecond Unit Director of Photography
Episode Count3
Vote Count2
Ojciec Mateusz
Release Date2008-12-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count23
Vote Count10
Sukces
Release Date2000-09-09
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Bulionerzy
Release Date2004-09-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count75
Vote Count5
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 Date1962-03-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count443
Pirates
The adventures of pirate Captain Red and his first mate Frog.
Release Date1986-05-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobSecond Unit Director
Vote Count275
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 Date1967-03-06
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count40
Hands Up!
The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.
Release Date1985-01-21
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count10
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 Date1970-07-03
DepartmentCamera
JobCamera Operator
Vote Count6
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 Date1962-12-31
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count41
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 Date1989-10-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobSecond Unit Director
Vote Count7
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 Date1984-05-26
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count5
Barrier
A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.
Release Date1966-11-18
DepartmentWriting
JobCo-Writer
Vote Count19
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 Date1978-11-30
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count4
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 Date1965-09-25
DepartmentCamera
JobCamera Operator
Vote Count15
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 Date1963-07-08
DepartmentCamera
JobCamera Operator
Vote Count9
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 Date1985-09-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
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 Date1968-02-16
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count9
No More Divorces
Three short segments about love, all set in Warsaw’s Civil Registry Office at the corner of Nowy Świat and Aleje Jerozolimskie, against a vivid backdrop of early 1960s city life.
Release Date1964-02-25
DepartmentCamera
JobAssistant Camera
Vote Count9
Gangsters and Philanthropists
The movie consists of two satirical novels based on the same idea: both the "gangsters" and "philanthropists" end up in the courtroom.
Release Date1963-02-15
DepartmentCamera
JobCamera Operator
Vote Count10
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 Date1977-04-25
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
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 Date2008-11-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
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 Date1968-11-29
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count3
Personal Search
Two women trying to smuggle western goods back to Poland have only a few hours to convince a dedicated customs officer to take a bribe and let them pass.
Release Date1973-03-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count5
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 Date1986-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Ostatni liść
A suggestive, lyrical story about friendship, loneliness and illusory hope.
Release Date1973-11-01
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
What Will My Wife Say to This?
The hero of the story is the writer Vladimír Tůma, who is invited to spend a month studying in a neighbouring country. There, the foreign office assigns him a guide, Irena Stepowska. The two young people are attracted to each other, but there is a catch - Vladimír is married, Irena is married. But as they say, opportunity makes the thief, so it's no wonder that Tůma has his work cut out for him, and Irena, too, sometimes recovers only at the last minute. And she doesn't even know that her husband is coming to visit her...
Release Date1958-09-26
Vote Count2