Janusz Majewski
Janusz Marian Majewski (5 August 1931 – 10 January 2024) was a Polish film director and screenwriter. Majewski married Zofia Nasierowska, who was a noted portrait photographer. He died on 10 January 2024, at the age of 92.
Works
Jazz Outsider
Release Date:2022-05-31
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Black Mercedes
In Nazi-occupied Warsaw, an investigator tries to unravel the mysterious murder of a prominent attorney's wife.
Release Date:2019-10-04
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:34
Eccentrics, the Sunny Side of the Street
Release Date:2016-01-15
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:9
Samosiuk. The Independent Film Republic
The film is a portrait of Zygmunt Samosiuk, a great forgotten cinematographer, who died in 1983. As a director of photography he worked on such films as The Birch Wood, Landscape Afterthe Battle and Austeria. He introduced, among others, hand‑held camera shots, colour lights and shooting at minimum exposure. Reminiscences of his colleagues and friends, including Andrzej Wajda and Piotr Szulkin, show a gifted artist and a modest man who valued his work above all.
Release Date:2012-10-01
Character:Self
The Rite of Passage
A couple with two small children (Ludwik is fourteen and Hania is nine) travel from Lwow to a newly liberated Krakow. Ludwik attends a good school and quickly establish friendships. Before the 1946 June "3XTAK” referendum Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, leader of the PSL party, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Agriculture, came to Krakow. During his visit Ludwig was involved in a street brawl and consequently, was arrested. In turbulent times in which Ludwik matures, things trivial and silly still verge on the serious and the tragic...
Release Date:2010-04-09
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:6
Love in an Underground Passage
Another film from the TV series "Polish Holidays", this time illustrating a holiday not entirely Polish, but already firmly rooted in the native reality - Valentine's Day. The script for it was written by Jerzy Pilch. For the famous writer, winner of the Nike Award, this is the second encounter with this cycle: earlier he wrote the script for the excellent "Yellow Scarf". His collaboration with director Janusz Majewski resulted in a story full of humor and charm, treating love with a slight wink of the eye and a touch of nostalgia. Wojciech Malajkat, who also played the main role, is a great merit.
Release Date:2007-02-14
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
After Season
Release Date:2006-03-31
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:3
Deserter's Gold
"Deserter's Gold", the sequel to the very popular "The Deserters", is a rich war comedy, skipping humorously around the more serious dangers of a war. Deserters Gold takes place during World War II, while the first film happened during WWI. The heroes' mission is to rob a Nazi-run bank in Poland for gold that will buy military supplies for the Polish Underground.
Release Date:1998-12-03
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:16
Bar Atlantic
Release Date:1996-12-14
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Devilish Education
Gosia is a beautiful and innocent young maid on the catholic countryside tending the cattle. One summer day she is having a bath in the river naked as god created her. On the next day a stranger appears painting and painting all day long. As they talk the black dressed suddenly shows her a picture showing her naked in the river. At first she is very ashamed, but then she begins to forget her shyness.
Release Date:1995-01-11
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:17
Do widzenia wczoraj. Dwie krótkie komedie o zmianie systemu
Release Date:1993-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Capital, or How to Make Money in Poland
A sociologist nearing middle-aged returns to Poland after several years of giving lectures abroad. The changing economy of the country and business successes of the people around him inspire him to venture out into the deep and unpredictable world of capitalism himself.
Release Date:1990-02-12
Character:Janusz Majewski
Vote Count:6
Mark of Cain
Release Date:1989-01-09
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Powrót po śmierć
One June evening, a Krakow prostitute nicknamed Rączka is accosted by a bloody man who wants to spend the night with her. The girl agrees, but when the next day she learns that a gruesome crime has been committed near the place where the mysterious customer accosted her, she reports the night's meeting to the police.
Release Date:1987-12-02
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
The Rotter Case
A teenage boy from a respectable family, Stanisław Czajkowski, dies in mysterious circumstances in a Krakow guesthouse. His brother-in-law, Count Maksymilian Rotter, married to Stanisław's older sister, Ksawera, is accused of the murder.
Release Date:1987-07-15
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
The Deserters
Set in military barracks in a small town during World War I. The soldiers herded in the barracks are 'politically suspect' mix of characters from all over of the Austro-Hungarian Empire: Czechs, Jews, and even Italians, but officers in charge are Germans. A new lieutenant arrives with the mission to bring order to the unit. He is the sadist, enjoying humiliating the men. Fed up with his behaviour the lower ranks kidnap him one night and string him up in a public toilet. They also make sure that he fouls up during the inspection. Eventually the five ring leaders are imprisoned. They escape and end up in Budapest posing as guards as guards of veterinary surgeons. They are caught and sent back to face a court martial and their old tormentor.
Release Date:1986-09-22
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:31
An Epitaph for Barbara Radziwill
Drama about historical figure Barbara Radziwiłł, her romance with King Sigismund II August, her death and her posthumous return to Vilnius.
Release Date:1983-03-14
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:3
Salty Rose
Release Date:1983-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:3
The Boarded Window
An anxiety-riddled woman and her husband reside in a small, secluded house in the forest. They live a relatively peaceful life until one night when the woman appears to fall sick and die.
Release Date:1981-03-16
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:3
System
An alternately restrained and outrageous adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether” updated to the modern world.
Release Date:1981-02-09
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Królowa Bona
Release Date:1980-12-24
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:12
Vote Count:4
Lesson of a Dead Language
An officer stationed in a remote Ukranian outpost at the end of the First World War is dying of consumption. Suffering from feverish dreams and hallucinations, he begins to collect religious art and attends seances.
Release Date:1979-09-06
Department:Directing
Job:Director
The Gorgon Case
In 1931, just before the New Year, in a house of architect Henryk Zaremba scream rips the night. The daughter of Zaremba is found killed in her bedroom, obviously killed with a pickaxe. The police arrives and starts the investigation. Rita Gorgonova, the governess of the girl and also lover of Zaremba becomes the main suspect. Film based on real events - investigation and court trials of the most famous pre-war Polish murder case. Despite being historically accurate the movie is both involving and entertaining since the case was simple on the surface, but very complicated in details.
Release Date:1977-11-25
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:6
Hotel Pacific
Set in the early 1930s, a young man finds a job as a dishwasher in a hotel and quickly works his way up the ladder. Loosely based on the novel by Henryk Worcell.
Release Date:1975-11-27
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:20
Lost Night
A Warsaw writer, Wacław Kisielecki, returning from Rome, has his car break down somewhere late in the evening on a country road, so he and his chauffeur, Konstanty, have to look for accommodation in a nearby manor house. Its owner is a young man, Jan, who has been managing the severely run-down estate himself since his mother's death.
Release Date:1974-02-20
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
Jealousy and Medicine
In 1930s, a doctor has an affair with the wife of a wealthy industrialist in Poland.
Release Date:1973-09-25
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:8
A Hymn on the Death of the Young
A surrealistic portrait of restaurant guests as seen by an otherworldly visitor who has the ability to read people’s subconscious.
Release Date:1973-01-01
Department:Art
Job:Art Department Assistant
Markheim
Markheim impulsively kills an elderly antique dealer during an attempted robbery. From there Markheim’s sense of reality steadily dissolves in a morass of guilt and shame, until a spectral dog leads him to a shadowy figure who seems to know an awful lot about Markheim and his problems.
Release Date:1972-01-28
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:1
Theatre Macabre
Christopher Lee hosts this horror anthology series from Poland with stories from various classic authors.
Release Date:1971-10-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:3
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 Date:1970-09-25
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:20
Podróżni jak inni
A group of Polish communists in Paris arrives in Poland to fight against the Nazis.
Release Date:1970-03-27
Department:Art
Job:Supervising Art Director
The Office
Juliusz Starzewski goes to Rome to seek justice on behalf of his father.
Release Date:1969-12-14
Department:Directing
Job:Director
The Criminal Who Stole a Crime
A retired police captain, Siwy, tells a reporter about his latest action, carrying on his own investigation into the mysterious death of a Ewa Salm, a.k.a. Princess. She was a witness in a case where the defendant pled guilty and was sentenced to eight years in prison. Siwy doubts the defendant's guilt and risks his life to apprehend the real killer.
Release Date:1969-10-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:3
Venus of Ille
A statue, fashioned in the guise of an anguished woman, is seen in a remote inn, having been recently interred from the ground. The occasion is a wedding attended by the protagonist, an unassuming man who becomes caught up in a bizarre nightmare when the groom unthinkingly sticks his wedding ring on a finger of the statue - and can’t get it off.
Release Date:1969-04-30
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Mistrz tańca
A mysterious man takes a writer back to the 19th century, where they meet Death.
Release Date:1969-04-23
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:3
First Pavilion
A young scientist is kidnapped and taken to a mysterious house in which his former professor is conducting experiments to shrink people.
Release Date:1968-09-02
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:4
Associate Professor H.
The title character is a professor looking to replace humans with cyborgs. His supremely creepy assistant Traumer, strikingly played by Majewski regular Andrzej Rausz, is one such creation. Professor H. intends to transpose Traumer’s brain with that of a renowned scientist, but is in for a surprise.
Release Date:1968-08-30
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:2
I Am Burning!
The story of a Pogorzelski nobleman who settled in the castle in Samsonów to renovate a damaged building. However, he is disturbed by the ghost of the former owner.
Release Date:1968-01-21
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:3
The Black Dress
Two handed chamber piece about a middle aged woman who returns from the camps after WWII and meets the mother of her deceased husband. Unable to explain the truth about her husband’s death, Joanna weaves a web of lies to comfort the old woman. In time she is forced to involve more and more people who know of his fate.
Release Date:1967-06-04
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
The Lodger
A pleasant, open-faced young man comes to live in a boarding house with three peculiar women.
Release Date:1967-01-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:5
Blue Room
In the nineteenth century, a young couple head to the countryside to spend the weekend together. On the train they encounter a mysterious Englishman heading for the same destination. Suspicious of this individual, they take the room next to his - the titular Blue Room - and a mystery ensues...
Release Date:1965-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Avatar: The Exchange of Souls
Count Olgierd Łabiński lives with his beloved wife in Paris in a beautiful palace. The Countess recalls her stay in Florence and her insistent admirer Octavius de Saville. Soon, Octavius, arrives in Paris and calls for the famous Dr. Cherbonneau, suspected of being a charlatan. Citing the teachings of the East, Cherbonneau offers the patient an "avatar", a reincarnation of the soul, which takes a different body...
Release Date:1964-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:11
Jazz in Poland
About Jazz in Poland
Release Date:1964-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:1
Duel
"Duel" describes the clash of two athletes, shot putters David Davis and Alfred Sosgórnik.
Release Date:1964-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Zbigniew Namyslowski Quartet
A documentary record of the stage performance of the piece titled "Piętawka" played by the Zbigniew Namysłowski quartet: the leader (alto saxophone), Włodzimierz Gulgowski (grand piano), Tadeusz Wójcik (double bass), Czesław Bartkowski (drums). The modern composition corresponds to the geometric, rhythmic stage design in the background. The film is part of a bigger project - a music documentary titled "Jazz in Poland" directed by Janusz Majewski.
Release Date:1964-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Opus Jazz
Documentary of the Kurylewicz Quintet rehearsing a jazz piece in a recording studio. After a few fits and starts the band finally hits its stride.
Release Date:1963-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Fleischer's Album
Documentary short subject based on the photo souvenirs of a German officer who traveled to different fronts during World War II.
Release Date:1962-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Hospital
1962’s SZPITAL (HOSPITAL) is set entirely in a claustrophobic hospital room where a male patient is confined. Throughout the film the room is invaded by a variety of strange people
Release Date:1962-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Rzeczywistość
The 1937 trial of communist journalists, working for the same student magazine in Vilnius, is shown through the tragic life of the paper's young collaborator Julek Szulc.
Release Date:1961-04-28
Department:Art
Job:Production Design
Play
A boy plays alone in a well of a big city yard. His mother, being in their tenement flat, passes him an empty bottle using a string. The boy has to go to a shop. His alcohol fun begins – at an off-licence shop, at a purchasing centre, at a gate.
Release Date:1961-01-02
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Kapelusz
A Silent broad comedy about upper class life
Release Date:1961-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Bridge
An adaptation of the “An Incident at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce.
Release Date:1960-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Night Train
Two strangers, Jerzy and Marta, accidentally end up holding tickets for the same sleeping chamber on an overnight train to the Baltic Sea coast. Also on board is Marta's spurned lover, who will not leave her alone. When the police enter the train in search of a murderer on the lam, rumors fly and everything seems to point toward one of the main characters as the culprit.
Release Date:1959-09-06
Character:Janusz (uncredited)
Vote Count:85
Kalosze szczęścia
Two fairies, Terencja and Felicja are in posession of the Lucky Rain Boots, which they intend to give to the most deserving person in the city of Kraków. However, they consistently fall into the wrong hands, creating a multitude of absurd and comedic situations.
Release Date:1958-10-20
Department:Art
Job:Production Design
Vote Count:4
Roundabout
A man enters a restaurant and, after trying and failing to attract the attentions of the waiter, an absurd battle of wills commences.
Release Date:1958-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Koniec nocy
A group of young Łódź hoodlums spends their time shoplifting, partying and drinking heavily, until they are faced with serious consequences of their reckless behaviour.
Release Date:1957-12-21
Character:Man buying theatre tickets from Mały (uncredited)
Vote Count:4
Szkice węglem
The dark drama of a peasant family from the second half of the 19th century: Seduced by a municipal clerk (in exchange for a promise to release her husband from military service), the woman dies at the hands of her jealous husband.
Release Date:1957-11-25
Department:Art
Job:Production Design
Uśmiech bez sensu
Release Date:1957-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Nadziei za dwadzieścia złotych
Release Date:1957-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
I Have Lived Seventeen Times
The main character of "Żyłem siedemnaście razy" reflects on his childhood in Gwoździec and tells a story about the beginning of his career as a filmmaker.
Character:Self
Blekitny pokój
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Vote Count:1