Jan Łomnicki (30 June 1929 – 18 December 2002) was a Polish film director and screenwriter. A graduate of the National Film School in Łódź. He directed more than thirty films between 1954 and 2000. His 1976 film To Save the City (Polish: Ocalić miasto) was awarded at the Polish Film Festival (1976) and was entered into the 10th Moscow International Film Festival (1977).
The story of the residents of a tenement house on Złota Street in Warsaw from 1945 to 1980.
Release Date1980-11-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd losujący nagrody rzeczowe PKO (nie występuje w napisach)
Episode Count25
Vote Count9
Polish businessman Jarek Branicki organizes a beauty pageant. As the man in charge, he expects his girlfriend to win it and suggests this outcome to the judges. At the same time, however, he is on the verge of bankruptcy and tries to escape the country after being cornered by his creditors. Recognized by a passenger on the train, he flees and finds refuge in the underground passages of Warsaw’s central railway station.
Release Date1994-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Charactersd lekarz w zakładzie psychiatrycznym; nie występuje w napisach
Vote Count1
A well-known wheeler dealer joins the underground opposition to avoid responsibility after stealing valuable coins. When he is released from prison, he sets up a private bank with high interest rates together with a Security Service colonel. However, the colonel has bigger ambitions.
Release Date1993-01-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Guest in Hotel 'Polonia' (uncredited)
Vote Count4
A bank robbery conducted by Polish Underground members goes awry and the brother-in-law of the group's leader, Paweł gets arrested. Now Paweł must choose between helping his loved ones and staying loyal to the underground.
Release Date1967-04-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
1944. Three wounded officers from both sides of political conflict meet in the hospital where the staff is politically divided too.
Release Date1974-03-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A young man strikes up an ill-fated romance with a married woman.
Release Date1972-10-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
The laundress working at the doctor's house agrees to take her daughter out of the ghetto for a fee and get her settled with her family in the countryside. The old woman's attitude to the Jews is ambivalent but the action is unambiguous.
Release Date1992-10-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count5
18 years old boy struggles to make decisions about his future.
Release Date1970-08-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A peasant girl is abandoned by her fiancé after she has talked her father into giving her his land as a dowry.
Release Date1964-02-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
In Nazi-occupied Warsaw, teenage scouts Alek, Rudy, and Zośka risk their lives pulling down a swastika and hoisting the Polish flag atop the German “Zachęta” cultural center and then blowing up a mobile propaganda cinema.
Release Date1977-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count8
A cinematic ode to actor Adolf Dymsza, one of the biggest stars of pre-war Polish cinema. The film combines footage from Dymsza's new movies and contextualises in the frame story of Mr. Dodek, a retired actor who recounts his past exploits while trying to earn an allotment for a plot of land.
Release Date1971-02-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Warsaw Central Station, 1958. A place of greetings and farewells, an intersection of people from different parts of Poland and Europe. A girl waits in vain, she goes away. Soon the station would belong to the past too.
Release Date1958-01-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count5
On the 10th anniversary of Nowa Huta, documentary filmmakers go back to the beginnings of the town's construction and the conglomerate, using archival footage from the Polish Film Chronicle. The city is born to the rhythm of seven days of creation, and the jubilee is celebrated by children - its peers and former builders.
Release Date1959-04-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Release Date1957-11-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
In 1969, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Polish People's Republic, documentary filmmakers analyze the achievements of the past 25 years. Contemporary, color photos contrast with black and white, archival photos. Workers of different generations are the hosts of the country.
Release Date1969-09-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Docuemantary about a small town preparing for a bicycle race.
Release Date1968-05-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
After the Second World War, a cemetery turns into a city. The camera flies over Warsaw to take a bird's-eye view of its mosaic beauty: the Old Town, Śródmieście, and modern blocks of flats. The soundtrack reflects the mood of the summer of 1965.
Release Date1965-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
This documentary shows the birth of a 10,000-ton ship called "Phenian" (the deadweight tonnage of this cargo ship is 10,000 tons). The film is devoid of commentary, which emphasizes the importance of the forms and the almost mystical nature of the "birth" of the ship.
Release Date1961-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Release Date1955-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
In February 1956, after several months of construction, the largest rolling mill in Poland, the rolling mill of the Lenin Smelter, started to operate. The viewers could see the final preparations and the launch of the machine.
Release Date1956-12-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Release Date1955-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Release Date1964-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The film encourages people to settle in the so-called Regained Territories. Not only cities and towns but also villages that offer brick buildings and fertile soil. The region of Zielona Góra, Szczecin, Wrocław, Olsztyn – people are wanted there.
Release Date1954-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Release Date1956-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
1945. Soviet offensive is approaching Cracow. Local resistance cooperate despite political differences to save the city from destruction planned by Germans.
Release Date1976-10-11
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
First short film by Wajda, based on the story "A Naughty Boy" by A. Chekhov.
Release Date1951-01-01
Vote Count5
