Stefan Matyjaszkiewicz (Cinematographer)
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Works
The Doll
Set in the 19th century Warsaw. The indolence of aristocrats who, secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condescended to. Because of his "help" (in secret) to "the doll's" impecunious but influential father, the girl becomes aware of his affection.
Release Date1968-11-07
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count19
Father of the Queen
Chevalier de Charentes goes to Poland on a double mission.
Release Date1980-04-07
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count1
Copernicus
A biography of Nicholas Copernicus covering 50 years of the astronomer's life - from his studies in Europe to his theological work all the way to the creation of his magnum opus, On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres.
Release Date1973-02-14
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count4
A Generation
Stach is a wayward teen living in squalor on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Guided by an avuncular Communist organizer, he is introduced to the underground resistance—and to the beautiful Dorota. Soon he is engaged in dangerous efforts to fight oppression and indignity, maturing as he assumes responsibility for others’ lives. A coming-of-age story of survival and shattering loss, A Generation delivers a brutal portrait of the human cost of war.
Release Date1955-01-26
DepartmentCamera
JobCamera Operator
Vote Count58
Placówka
The problem of the Polish population displacement from their land within the limits of the Prussian partition. Germans come to the village harassing a wealthy peasant Snail, leading to the tragedy. Slug's cottage burns, his wife dies. The peasant does not give up, defending his inheritance. He sticks on a patch of his Polish soil and protects it like a soldier his post.
Release Date1979-10-01
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count1
Manhunter
1945. Home Army soldier who hides in the village must decide if he wants to engage into dangerous situation to help group of Jewish runaways.
Release Date1964-01-10
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Christmas Eve
A man's surreal search for a woman named Eva on Christmas Eve.
Release Date1966-04-09
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count4
One Room Tenants
A subjective adaptation of a well-known autobiographical novel by Zbigniew Unilowski (screenplay by Wojciech Jerzy Has with dialogues by Stanislaw Dygat). The adventures of the tenants of a sublet room in a Warsaw townhouse inhabited mostly by students and novice writers, presented against the social context of the 1930s.
Release Date1960-02-08
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count16
Penguin
A shy Warsaw university student is in love with a girl who pays no attention to him. Change comes after her intimate love letters are read publicly at a party.
Release Date1965-04-18
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count6
Polar Bear
A Jewish man who escapes a Nazi transport hides in a Polish ski resort town by posing for photos with tourists dressed as a polar bear.
Release Date1959-12-03
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count2
Opis obyczajów
A group of ethnography students meet the enigmatic Mruk family while doing an internship at the Świętokrzyskie Mountains.
Release Date1973-07-06
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Our Folks
Two quarreling peasant families, who were forced to leave their lands after the war, are settled by accident on two neighboring farms.
Release Date1967-09-15
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count114
Mansarda
After returning to Poland, the painter Aleksander Gierymski encounters a lack of understanding of his works.
Release Date1963-09-27
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
The Structure of Crystal
Two friends who used to study physics together are forced to make tough decisions as their lives take different paths.
Release Date1969-10-14
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count49
Not Far from Warsaw
Imperialist spies try to disrupt and stop production in a large steelworks.
Release Date1954-10-21
DepartmentCamera
JobAssistant Camera
Mniejszy szuka Dużego
The protagonists of the film are two brothers - Smaller and Big, Filomena and the dog Klops. Big has problems at school, so he decides to run away from home. His brother decides to find him.
Release Date1976-02-10
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Przygody psa Cywila
Release Date1968-01-01
DepartmentCamera
JobCamera Operator
Episode Count7
Vote Count5
Markiza de Pompadour
A daughter of a furniture seller helps her father’s business by promising a marriage to the customers.
Release Date1966-04-03
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count2
Lokis: A Manuscript of Professor Wittembach
A pastor and ethnographer visits a remote corner of 19th-century Lithuania where folk customs associated with the area's pagan past still have a hold on the population.
Release Date1970-09-25
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count21
Ciemnogród
Propaganda film. The army is portrayed as a force for progress in communist Poland, eradicating the medieval superstitions of people living in the provinces.
Release Date1964-01-01
DepartmentCrew
JobCinematography
How to Be Loved
An actress travels from Warsaw to Paris and during the trip reflects on the last few years of her life. It goes back to the German occupation and her hiding of a fellow actor who has supposedly killed a collaborator.
Release Date1963-01-11
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count23
Goodbye to the Past
An actress visits her hometown to attend the funeral of her grandfather. She realizes that the places and people from her past differ from her cherished memories.
Release Date1961-03-23
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count5
Ewa Wants to Sleep
Ewa Bonecka, a young student about to start school in a new place finds herself without a place to sleep after she is declined a room in a women-only hotel. Helped by a pleasant policeman, Piotr, she tries to find a lodging in the strange town full of thieves and petty troublemakers.
Release Date1958-03-17
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count30
Venus of Ille
Janusz Majewski adapts Prosper Mérimée’s 1835 tale of the same name, centering on a mysterious statue unearthed in a provincial town. The figure, sculpted as a tormented woman, becomes an ominous presence during a wedding celebration. When the groom impulsively slips his ring onto the statue’s finger—and cannot remove it—the joyous occasion descends into a nightmarish spiral of superstition, obsession, and the uncanny.
Release Date1969-04-30
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
A Chance
Zbyszek volunteers as an organ donor for his friend.
Release Date1970-01-01
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Pearls and Ducats
A famous Polish conductor meets a young Polish student in Czechoslovakia and pretends to be Czech to impress her.
Release Date1966-04-10
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count2
Gold Dreams
The inability of a truck driver to relate to normal life after an accident for which he feels himself responsible.
Release Date1962-10-26
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count5
Ping-pong
A woman has difficulty choosing between her husband and her new lover, so she sets up a table tennis game between them.
Release Date1966-04-17
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count3
The White Mazurka
A film about the life and activities of the Polish revolutionary Ludwik Waryński. In his memoirs, Ludwik returns to his student years in St. Petersburg, to Warsaw, to Krakow, where he was arrested and put on trial. After the end of the process in Krakow, Waryński leaves for Geneva, where he meets with Russian revolutionaries. In 1881, he returned to his homeland and created the first party of workers in Poland...
Release Date1979-02-19
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Barbed Wire
Three Kościuszko Division soldiers, each of a different background, volunteer to take up the task of cutting German barbed wire before an offensive.
Release Date1983-01-17
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Three Stories
The short stories showing the troubles of youth serving in the "Służba Polsce" organisation.
Release Date1953-04-24
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count1
Drewniany różaniec
A young girl sent to an orphanage run by nuns gets confronted with the cruel and outdated methods used by the staff.
Release Date1965-01-06
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count1
Two from the Big River
A Pole and a German fall in love to the discouragement of their parents.
Release Date1958-11-17
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count3
While You Are Asleep
A documentary about the night life in a city. While some sleep, others work.
Release Date1953-01-01
DepartmentCamera
JobCamera Operator
Vote Count9
Wczasy w Tatrach
If it's a vacation, then collective meetings and obtaining the Mountain Tourist Badge are mandatory, "banditry is the first, still primitive form of class struggle."
Release Date1951-01-01
DepartmentCrew
JobCinematography
The Road West
In the last days of the war an old train driver and his young assistant carry weapons to Polish soldiers on the western front.
Release Date1961-09-07
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography
Vote Count1
Nad Odrą
The former owner, a German, shows up on a farm belonging to the Poles settled there.
Release Date1966-05-25
DepartmentCamera
JobDirector of Photography