DVD: Daniel Olbrychski

DVD: Daniel Olbrychski

DVD:

Daniel Olbrychski

Boguslaw Linda, Daniel Olbrychski

Mge, 2005

A Fantastic Historical Film Set in the Early 19th Century
"Pan Tadeusz" is a dramatic historical film, based on an epic poem by Adam Mickiewicz. As the film is based on a poem, the characters often speak in rhyme, and often a very proper sounding Polish. "Pan Tadeusz" is in Polish, but many of the words used in the film are ...

Landscape After Battle

Daniel Olbrychski, Stanislawa Celinska

Vanguard Cinema, 2003

A Haunting and Memorable Film That Takes Place After WWII
"Landscape After Battle" (1970; Krajobraz Po Bitwie) is a haunting and memorable film directed by Andrzej Wajda that takes place just after World War II. The film is based on several short stories written by Tadeusz Borowski, who survived Auschwitz. The film begins ...

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Criterion Collection Spine #55)

Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche

Criterion, 1999

The best film nobody saw
The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a masterpiece, the most underrated American film of the past 30 years. Poetic, haunting, subtle, and terribly sad, it says more about the crushing impact of repressive (i.e. communist) regimes than a thousand documanteries or ...

Colonel Wolodyjowski (ES)

Tadeusz Lomnicki, Magdalena Zawadzka

Polart, 2002

Classic Historical Fiction of Sienkiewicz
"Pan Wolodyjowski" is Jerzy Hoffman's 1969 classic historical film, at the time of the Turkish invasion, in 1668. At this time, Poland controlled lands far beyond its current borders, but was under constant invasion by its neighbors. Some of the images of warfare and ...

The Tin Drum - Criterion Collection

David Bennent, Mario Adorf

Criterion, 2004

STRANGE, DISTURBING & THOUGHT PROVOKING
I am not a big fan of watching films that have subtitles, but this movie is so engrossing, it was easy to adjust to. I think because what is happening on screen is so clear, I knew what the actors were trying to say. The true star of this movie is the little boy, ...

Dangerous Moves

Michel Piccoli, Alexandre Arbatt

Homevision, 2003

Gripping psychological thriller
Set in Geneva at the World Chess Championships, the Soviet world champ vs. the free west challenger. What the two opponents imagine and hope to be a personal grudge match turns out to be a politically maneuvered competition. The KGB will go to any extreme to see its ...

Promised Land (Director's Cut)

Daniel Olbrychski, Wojciech Pszoniak

Vanguard Cinema, 2003

A Majestic story of Three Friends in 19th Century Poland
"Promised Land" (or "Ziemia Obiecana" in Polish) is a majestic story of three friends who come together to build a factory in Lodz during the 19th century. The friends, a Pole (as played by Daniel Olbrychski), a German, and a Jew, each need each others' resources and ...

With Fire and Sword (Ogniem i Mieczem), Parts 1 & 2

Izabella Scorupco, Michal Zebrowski

Polart, 2004

This film changed my life!
"With Fire and Sword" (Ogniem i Mieczem) was the film that started my interest in Polish cinema a few years ago. Its story, effects, and history amazed me. Watching the movie was a life-changing event for me on the level of being a spiritual and cultural experience. ...

Les Uns et les Autres (Bolero)

Robert Hossein, Nicole Garcia

Image Entertainment, 2003

waited a long time to see it again
I saw this movie with a dear friend back in 1982 while visiting his family in the Netherlands. I was in love with the movie and emotionally moved by the story and the music that I desperately wanted to see it again. When I returned to the the US, the movie never came ...

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Two-Disc Special Edition)

Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche

Warner Home Video, 2006

The best film nobody saw
The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a masterpiece, the most underrated American film of the past 30 years. Poetic, haunting, subtle, and terribly sad, it says more about the crushing impact of repressive (i.e. communist) regimes than a thousand documanteries or ...

Everything For Sale

Beata Tyszkiewicz, Elzbieta Czyzewska

Vanguard Cinema, 2003

Another creative & beautiful classic film by Andrzej Wajda
"Everything for Sale" (Wszystko Na Sprzedaz) is a complicated and artistic film, as are many directed by Andrzej Wajda. This 1968 film is a dedication to Zbugniew Cybulski. The film is about him, but does not star him or mention him by name. In "Everything for ...

The Deluge (Potop)

Daniel Olbrychski, Malgorzata Braunek

Polart, 2004

One of the greatest epics ever made
The protagonist, Andrei Kmicic, is a headstrong young man whose thoughtless violence gets him in trouble and threatens his relationship with his fiancee Olenka Billevich. When war breaks out with Sweden he swears allegiance to Janusz Radziwill, the Hetman of Lithuania. ...

Young Girls of Wilko

Daniel Olbrychski, Anna Seniuk

Vanguard Cinema, 2003

A Unique Film Directed by Andrzej Wajda
After 15 years of being away, Wiktor (as played by Daniel Olbrychski) returns to visit his aunt and uncle at the advice of a doctor to get away for a while and recover from the loss of the death of his best friend. Nearby, in a gorgeous manor house, live five sisters ...

Stara Basn (The Old Fairy)

Daniel Olbrychski, Bogdan Stupka

Vision, 2004

Fantastic film about an old Polish legend
Jerzy Hoffman brings one of Poland's oldest legends to film -- the story of Popiel. This a story from Poland's prehistory pagan time; a story that has been told and re-told, and Hoffman does a fantastic retelling of the story on film. The film is well done -- from ...

Young Girls Of Wilko

Daniel Olbrychski; Anna Seniuk; Maja Komorowska; Stanislawa Celinska

Vision, 2004

A Unique Film Directed by Andrzej Wajda
After 15 years of being away, Wiktor (as played by Daniel Olbrychski) returns to visit his aunt and uncle at the advice of a doctor to get away for a while and recover from the loss of the death of his best friend. Nearby, in a gorgeous manor house, live five sisters ...