Ryszard Chutkowski (Producer)

L for Love

M jak miłość is a Polish soap opera, revolving around the multiple generations of the Mostowiak family. The series premiered on November 4, 2000 on TVP2, primarily as a weekly drama, and after one season shifting into a new timeslot and extending to two episodes per week. For the last few years the show has been the most watched drama on Polish television. Its popularity led to a Russian adaptation, entitled Lyubov kak Lyubov. The series is also broadcast on the international channel TVP Polonia with English subtitles.

Release Date2000-11-04

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count10

Dekalog

Originally made for Polish television, “The Decalogue” focuses on the residents of a housing complex in late-Communist Poland, whose lives become subtly intertwined as they face emotional dilemmas that are at once deeply personal and universally human. Its ten hour-long films, drawing from the Ten Commandments for thematic inspiration and an overarching structure, grapple deftly with complex moral and existential questions concerning life, death, love, hate, truth, and the passage of time.

Release Date1989-12-10

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count10

Vote Count87

Three Colors: White

Polish immigrant Karol Karol finds himself out of a marriage, a job and a country when his French wife, Dominique, divorces him after six months due to his impotence. Forced to leave France after losing the business they jointly owned, Karol enlists fellow Polish expatriate Mikołaj to smuggle him back to their homeland.

Release Date1994-01-26

DepartmentProduction

JobProduction Manager

Vote Count1238

A Short Film About Love

19-year-old Tomek whiles away his lonely life by spying on his opposite neighbour Magda through binoculars. She's an artist in her mid-thirties, and appears to have everything - not least a constant stream of men at her beck and call. But when the two finally meet, they discover that they have a lot more in common than appeared at first sight...

Release Date1988-08-21

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count382

A Short Film About Killing

Jacek climbs into the taxi driven by Waldemar, tells him to drive to a remote location, then brutally strangles him, seemingly without motive.

Release Date1988-03-11

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count368

Priest Daens

In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the petite bourgeoisie in oppressing workers. He writes a few columns for the Catholic paper, and soon workers are listening and the powerful are in an uproar. He's expelled from the Catholic party, so he starts the Christian Democrats and is elected to Parliament. After Rome disciplines him, he must choose between two callings, as priest and as champion of workers. In subplots, a courageous young woman falls in love with a socialist and survives a shop foreman's rape; children die; prelates play billiards.

Release Date1992-10-01

DepartmentProduction

JobProduction Manager

Vote Count62

No End

1982, Poland. A translator loses her husband and becomes a victim of her own sorrow. She looks to sex, to her son, to law, and to hypnotism when she has nothing else in this time of martial law when Solidarity was banned.

Release Date1985-06-17

DepartmentProduction

JobProduction Supervisor

Vote Count107

Decalogue X

Jerzy and Artur’s father dies, leaving behind a valuable stamp collection, which, they discover, is coveted by dealers of varying degrees of shadiness. The more involved the brothers get in their father’s world, the more dire and comical their situation becomes.

Release Date1989-05-16

DepartmentProduction

JobProduction Manager

Vote Count128

Decalogue VIII

Zofia, a professor of ethics, is visited by Elżbieta, an American researching the fate of Jews who survived World War II. A daytime classroom conversation turns into a night of confrontation, and Zofia is forced to answer for a decision she made decades ago that directly affected the course of Elżbieta’s life.

Release Date1989-05-16

DepartmentProduction

JobProduction Manager

Vote Count124

Decalogue V

Jacek, an angry drifter, murders a taxi driver, brutally and without motive. His case is assigned to Piotr, an idealistic young lawyer who is morally opposed to the death penalty, and their interactions take on an emotional honesty that throws into stark relief for Piotr the injustice of killing of any kind.

Release Date1989-05-16

DepartmentProduction

JobProduction Manager

Vote Count146

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

DepartmentProduction

JobAssistant Production Manager

Vote Count21

Decalogue I

Krzysztof, a semantics professor and computer hobbyist, is raising his young son, Paweł, to look to science for answers, while Irena, Paweł’s aunt, lives a life rooted in faith. Over the course of one day, both adults are forced to question their belief systems.

Release Date1989-05-16

DepartmentProduction

JobProduction Manager

Vote Count243

Decalogue III

It’s Christmas Eve, and Ewa has plotted to pass the hours until morning with her former lover Janusz, a family man, by making him believe her husband has gone missing. During this night of recklessness and lies, the pair grapple with choices made when their affair was discovered three years ago, and with the value of their present lives.

Release Date1989-05-16

DepartmentProduction

JobProduction Manager

Vote Count144

Decalogue VII

As a high school student, Majka bore a child, Ania, whom Majka’s mother, Ewa, has been raising as her own. Now that Majka is ready for motherhood, Ewa refuses to let go, leading Majka to kidnap her own daughter, with unexpected emotional consequences.

Release Date1989-05-16

DepartmentProduction

JobProduction Manager

Vote Count127

Decalogue IX

Roman and Hanka have a loving marriage, but his impotence has led to her having an affair. The unbearable situation drives Roman to extreme measures both physically and mentally, testing their love and his own will to live.

Release Date1989-05-16

DepartmentProduction

JobProduction Manager

Vote Count118

Just Love Me

Modern-day Warsaw shines in this romantic comedy about the love life of a young, hip architect. In his break-out role, popular Polish television star Maciej Zakoscielny plays the handsome young professional, who is torn between two women.

Release Date2006-01-20

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count53

Decalogue IV

A father and daughter, Michał and Anka, have a unique intimacy, which the college-aged Anka is beginning to feel conflicted about. When she finds an unopened letter from her deceased mother, it seems to justify her attraction to Michał, who may not in fact be her father.

Release Date1989-05-16

DepartmentProduction

JobProduction Manager

Vote Count143

Lava

On the eve of the Day of the Dead, among mysterious old rituals of the Vilnius region, ghosts of the past and present start to appear.

Release Date1989-11-06

DepartmentProduction

JobProduction Manager

Vote Count12

Decalogue II

Dorota Geller, a married woman, faces a dilemma involving her sick husband's prognosis. Her husband's doctor, who believes in God, sweared about it in vain.

Release Date1989-05-16

DepartmentProduction

JobProduction Manager

Vote Count179

Decalogue VI

A teenage postal worker, Tomek, routinely spies on his older neighbor Magda, a sexually liberated artist who lives in the apartment across the courtyard from his. As their private worlds merge, fascination turns to obsession, and the line between love and curiosity becomes violently blurred.

Release Date1989-09-04

DepartmentProduction

JobProduction Manager

Vote Count144

Top Dog

An ironic look at a climber who decides to do anything to get a job he thinks will launch him into a better career.

Release Date1978-07-24

DepartmentProduction

JobProduction Manager

Vote Count17

Full Ahead

Two friends from army meet in a harbour and start to reminisce about their adventures.

Release Date1967-04-14

DepartmentProduction

JobAssistant Production Manager

Vote Count3

Mały

A student strikes up a friendship with a young uneducated construction worker to gather material for her work about worker hotels.

Release Date1970-12-04

DepartmentProduction

JobAssistant Production Manager

Vote Count4

Tell-Tale Hearts

The sight of a wounded neighbor causes anxiety in a young man.

Release Date1972-01-06

DepartmentProduction

JobAssistant Production Manager

The Castellan's Daughter

The film is set in the interwar period. Jerzy, a young journalist, spends his vacation alone, kayaking on rivers and lakes. One day, he stops for the night near an old manor house. He learns from the local residents that the once magnificent residence has now fallen into complete disrepair. Even Miss Gabrysia had to be taken out of boarding school because there was no money for her further education. To Jerzy's surprise, the local heiress appears in his tent at night. Complaining about the boredom of provincial life, begging and flirting, she obtains a promise from the journalist to help her escape "into the world."

Release Date1983-01-01

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count1