https://shotonwhat.com/region/poland The Source for Motion Picture & Television Technical Information Tue, 13 Aug 2024 16:11:01 -0800 en-US hourly 1 https://shotonwhat.com/the-zone-of-interest-2023 Tue, 13 Aug 2024 16:11:01 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-zone-of-interest-2023
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Cinematographer: Lukasz Zal
Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden beside the camp. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/eo-2022 Mon, 15 Apr 2024 15:48:58 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/eo-2022
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
Cinematographer: Michal Dymek
Follows a donkey who encounters on his journeys good and bad people, experiences joy and pain, exploring a vision of modern Europe through his eyes. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/never-look-away-2018 Fri, 15 Dec 2023 23:03:46 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/never-look-away-2018
Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Cinematographer: Caleb Deschanel
German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/sloborn-2020 Sun, 10 Dec 2023 04:12:41 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/sloborn-2020
Director: Christian Alvart, Adolfo J. Kolmerer
Cinematographer: Christian Alvart, Christian Huck
After a pandemic rolled through the island of Sløborn, the survivors have to deal with the consequences ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/cold-war-2018 Tue, 14 Nov 2023 06:36:25 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/cold-war-2018
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Cinematographer: Lukasz Zal
In the 1950s, a music director falls in love with a singer and tries to persuade her to flee communist Poland for France. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/a-dream-of-warsaw-2014 Thu, 20 Apr 2023 22:45:45 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/a-dream-of-warsaw-2014
Director: Krzysztof Magowski
Cinematographer: Maciej Magowski
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Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski
In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-painted-bird-2019 Fri, 02 Aug 2019 19:04:22 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-painted-bird-2019
Director: Václav Marhoul
Cinematographer: Vladimír Smutný
A young Jewish boy somewhere in Eastern Europe seeks refuge during World War II where he encounters many different characters. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/karakter-1997 Fri, 28 Jun 2019 15:44:16 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/karakter-1997
Director: Mike van Diem
Cinematographer: Rogier Stoffers
Jacob Katadreuffe lives mute with his mother, has no contact with his father who only works against him and wants to become a lawyer, at all costs. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-test-2015 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 05:53:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-test-2015
Director: Teresa Czepiec
Cinematographer: Piotr Uznanski
A young woman checks into a special institute, to judge, if she has a potential to become a celebrity. She had never expected how much she will discover about herself during tests. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/male-stluczki-2014 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 21:34:49 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/male-stluczki-2014
Director: Aleksandra Gowin, Ireneusz Grzyb
Cinematographer: Ita Zbroniec-Zajt
An unconventional love story about the oddity of ordinary things. Eccentric and natural at once. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/kebab-i-horoskop-2014 Mon, 17 Jun 2019 21:17:59 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/kebab-i-horoskop-2014
Director: Grzegorz Jaroszuk
Cinematographer: Magnus Borge
A group of misfits from a carpet shop have a chance to change their lives with the help of two marketing experts - an ex-kebab shop worker and an ex-fortune teller from a wildlife magazine. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/odium-2013 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 12:23:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/odium-2013
Director: Leszek Hendzel
Cinematographer: Michal Wisniowski
Futuristic vision of the future, where negative emotions are limited. Any uncontrolled behavior results in 'extraction'. NUN is one of many ideal citizens. One day his emotions increase to ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/peter-the-wolf-2006 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:38:00 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/peter-the-wolf-2006
Director: Suzie Templeton
Cinematographer: Hugh Gordon, Mikolaj Jaroszewicz
An animated retelling set to Prokofiev's suite. Peter is a slight lad, solitary, locked out of the woods by his protective grandfather, his only friend a duck. In town, he's bullied. When a... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/katyn-2007 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:26:31 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/katyn-2007
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Cinematographer: Pawel Edelman
An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/bridge-of-spies-2015 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:47:45 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/bridge-of-spies-2015
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski
During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/most-2003 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:27:12 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/most-2003
Director: Bobby Garabedian
Cinematographer: Michael FitzMaurice
A poetic and powerful story of a father forced to choose between love and duty. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/meska-sprawa-2001 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 09:55:06 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/meska-sprawa-2001
Director: Slawomir Fabicki
Cinematographer: Bogumil Godfrejow
13-year-old Bartek tries desperately to hide the fact that his father beats him. Lonely and with no support from his mother or his school, tyrannised by his soccer coach, the boy finds his only friend in an old dying stray dog. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/ida-2013 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 08:24:16 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/ida-2013
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Cinematographer: Ryszard Lenczewski, Lukasz Zal
A novice nun about to take her vows uncovers a family secret dating back to the German occupation. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/in-darkness-2011 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 08:22:57 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/in-darkness-2011
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Cinematographer: Jolanta Dylewska
A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the German-occupied Polish city of Lvov. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-pianist-2002 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 07:52:38 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-pianist-2002
Director: Roman Polanski
Cinematographer: Pawel Edelman
A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/le-dernier-des-injustes-2013 Sun, 16 Jun 2019 07:19:49 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/le-dernier-des-injustes-2013
Director: Claude Lanzmann
Cinematographer: Caroline Champetier, William Lubtchansky
A place: Theresienstadt. A unique place of propaganda which Adolf Eichmann called the "model ghetto", designed to mislead the world and Jewish people regarding its real nature, to be the ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-reader-2008 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 16:09:52 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-reader-2008
Director: Stephen Daldry
Cinematographer: Roger Deakins, Chris Menges
Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/triumph-of-the-spirit-1989 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 08:23:05 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/triumph-of-the-spirit-1989
Director: Robert M. Young
Cinematographer: Curtis Clark
Fact based story about a former Greek Olympic boxer who was taken as a prisoner during World war II and placed in the Auschwitz prison camp. There he was permitted to survive as long as he ... ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/the-chronicles-of-narnia-the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe-2005 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 04:56:51 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/the-chronicles-of-narnia-the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe-2005
Director: Andrew Adamson
Cinematographer: Donald McAlpine
Four kids travel through a wardrobe to the land of Narnia and learn of their destiny to free it with the guidance of a mystical lion. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/inland-empire-2006 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 04:32:39 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/inland-empire-2006
Director: David Lynch
Cinematographer: David Lynch
As an actress starts to adopt the persona of her character in a film, her world starts to become nightmarish and surreal. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/mlyn-i-krzyz-2011 Sat, 15 Jun 2019 03:05:57 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/mlyn-i-krzyz-2011
Director: Lech Majewski
Cinematographer: Lech Majewski, Adam Sikora
The film focuses on a dozen of the 500 characters depicted in Bruegel's painting. The theme of Christ's suffering is set against religious persecution in Flanders in 1564. ]]> https://shotonwhat.com/winged-migration-2001 Fri, 14 Jun 2019 23:06:31 -0800 https://shotonwhat.com/winged-migration-2001
Director: Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats
Cinematographer: Olli Barbé, Michel Benjamin, Sylvie Carcedo, Laurent Charbonnier, Luc Drion, Laurent Fleutot, Philippe Garguil, Dominique Gentil, Bernard Lutic, Thierry Machado, Stéphane Martin, Fabrice Moindrot, Ernst Sasse, Michel Terrasse, Thierry Thomas
Documentary on the migratory patterns of birds, shot over the course of three years on all seven continents. ]]>