Witold Lesiewicz
Witold Lesiewicz was a Polish film director and screenwriter. He directed 24 films between 1949 and 1979. He completed the work on the 1963 film Passenger after the death of director Andrzej Munk.
Works
Miejsce dla jednego
The deputy director of a machine plant is injured in a car accident and loses important documents. An uncompromising controller is sent to the plant to investigate the matter.
Release Date1966-04-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Theatre Macabre
Christopher Lee hosts this horror anthology series from Poland with stories from various classic authors.
Release Date1971-10-01
DepartmentWriting
JobAdaptation
Episode Count1
Vote Count3
Passenger
A German woman on a ship returning to Europe notices a face of another woman which brings recollections from the past. She tells her husband that she had been an overseer in Auschwitz during the war, but she has actually saved a woman's life.
Release Date1963-09-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count65
Klub szachistów
Wacław Urbin joins an exclusive club, learning the secrets of its members.
Release Date1967-12-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
April
Set at the end of the war. A hot-headed colonel tries to force his men on to heroics although the war is almost over. A war-weary lieutenant tries to muffle his efforts but he keeps on with his men and is killed fighting in the front lines, all his men decide to get his body.
Release Date1961-11-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Zbrodnia lorda Artura Savile'a
The wealthy Lord Artur Savile learns from a palm reader that he's destined to become a murderer. Obsessed with the prophecy, he decides to commit the deed as quickly as possible.
Release Date1968-01-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Przeraźliwe łoże
Tom arrives in a strange city, where he meets casino owners who are hiding a secret.
Release Date1968-05-26
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count2
Rok pierwszy
1944. Communist militiaman take a post in a little town in the east of Poland. He has to stand against his own men that are not happy with new authorities.
Release Date1960-09-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Świat grozy
Selected episodes from a television series of thrilling stories based on works of world literature classics.
Release Date1968-05-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Stars Must Burn
The year 1953 ends. Mines that failed to fulfil the plan are not allowed to light their star. Socialist realism treated seriously – with the memory of the mining tradition, with respect for the work of the old, with hope for the young.
Release Date1954-07-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Dezerter
A Pole incorporated into the Wehrmacht deserts, hiding in a coal mine ...
Release Date1958-10-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Swissmade
Three short films about the future of Switzerland.
Release Date1969-05-13
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count2
Doktor Murek
The story of the ups and downs of the magistrate Franciszek Murek. After losing his state job, the protagonist assumes the identity of a foreigner Franz Klamma and makes a career in the aristocratic salons of Warsaw as a master of occultism.
Release Date1979-05-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count7
The Unknown
Two Poles get out of Soviet Union with Polish Army. Based on autobiographical short stories by Józef Hen.
Release Date1964-10-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Między brzegami
A small fishing village between the sea and the lake. One day, when all the men went out to catch, a viper bitten Grandpa Filip and little Madzia was severely injured by a misfire. Holidaymakers with a motorboat refuse to help. Filip decides to take the girl to the doctor himself.
Release Date1963-02-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Bolesław Śmiały
Portrays the power struggle between the king of Poland, Bolesław the Bold, and the Bishop of Kraków, Stanisław Szczepanowski.
Release Date1972-10-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3