Feliks Falk

Director

February 25, 1941 (85 years)

Stanisławów (obecnie Iwano-Frankowsk), Polska (obecnie Ukraina)

Biography

Feliks Falk ps. Robert F. Lane, Edward Neyman (born 25 February 1941) is a Polish film and theater director as well as writer of film scripts, stage plays, television plays, and radio shows. A 1966 graduate of Warsaw's Academy of Fine Arts, he also is a painter and graphic artist. Falk is one of creators of the 1970s wave of Polish cinematography, called Cinema of Moral Anxiety. His most famous films include Wodzirej (Top Dog) (1977) and Samowolka (AWOL) (1993). Falk has won a number of major …

Filmography

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Twarze i maski

Series set behind the scenes of a Warsaw theater during the last twenty-five years of the 20th century. The creators’ ambition was to explore the interplay between life and art, and how these realms intertwine in the lives of the characters. Each episode features its own protagonist and its own play, usually set within a broader social, political, and cultural context.

6.5

The Collector

Lucjan Bohme is a ruthless debt collector working in a post-industrial Silesian town. In the land of unemployment and misery, he's got a lot of work and no mercy at all. Until something happens.

6.3

Joanna

In an era in which it is difficult for the true emotion and excitement, Feliks Falk found the key to the human heart. How many of us love? How much we are able to self-sacrifice? Is there a price that can not pay, when it comes to life of a loved one? Are we really as good as we think about yourself? In Joanna's life is given forever. Today's friend suddenly becomes an enemy. Reflex heart turns into a curse. When one of the lonely woman takes care of little girls-czynkę do not know that from now on, her life will be sweet - bitter taste. Fate in this film is everything. Allows people to find that in a moment blow and lead to separation. After-forgives love, for which you have to pay a huge price. Fulfills the promise of happiness loneliness, brittle as glass.

6.0

Idol

In 1969 a young writer decides to write an essay on a well known Polish writer, who had to leave the country in the 50's, later living, working and dying in exile. He slowly assembles the character and even the exterior appearances of his idol until his own identity tragically disappears.

7.4

Samowolka

New recruits go to the army and experience nothing but humiliation, cruelty and pure sadism from older soldiers.

6.5

Case Unknown

Wroclaw, 1997. The city is threatened by flooding. Hospitals are being evacuated. Young ambitious psychiatrist Konstanty Grot takes a catatonic patient to the bus. He is a severe case, not responding to any attempts at contact. However, when the bus starts moving, he unexpectedly makes a gesture that awakens certain memories in the doctor. The psychiatrist decides to apply an unusual therapy.

5.5

Summer of Love

Alexandre is a young medical student who is holidaying at his uncle's country home for the summer. He begins a lustful love affair with his cousin Sonia, but his attentions quickly rift towards her beautiful Polish friend, Nathalie.

8.0

Hero of the Year

The early 1980s. A former entertainment industry star is now selling leather goods. One day, he watches a TV interview with a department store employee who smelled gas leaking and prevented a tragedy in time. This gives him an idea. With the support of his journalist friend Lutek Danielak, he begins to organize a series of meetings with the "hero of the year" across the country. He hopes that this will help him make a comeback in the industry. The meetings gain momentum. Lutek accepts the offer to host the final "Miss Polonia" contest.

7.5

Chance

Jerzy Stuhr plays a high school teacher with a sensitive outlook on life and a soft spot for students who like art and literature as passionately as he does. His adversary is a possessed sports instructor, gaining growing control over the students and authorities. His methods are questionable and his influence dangerous, but the handball team's prospects look good and the school needs success...

7.3

Solidarność, Solidarność...

A 2005 novella film created to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Solidarity movement. It consists of 13 10-minute shorts. There are various forms: mini-feature, music video, documentary, animation, interview.

5.9

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.

6.9

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.

7.5

Game Is Over

Janusz starts working as an inspector in a department store. One day he notices on the monitor a woman who is stealing a bottle of perfume. He resolves to let her go. Intrigued by the woman, Janek finds out that she is Monika Małecka, a leader of an influential political party, who is going to run as a party candidate in the parliamentary elections. The two develop a difficult relationship in which lack of trust together with neglect lead inevitably to its end.

8.0

Pictures from Life

Seven stories based on unusual court cases from Poland.

8.0

And All That Jazz

Set in 1952, film tells the story of young musicians playing - then forbidden - jazz music in basements and attics around Poland. The group hires itself to social parties, youth dances, etc, each time waiting for the management to disappear in order to shift gears to hot music. The crowd either loves it or does not know what to do. Occasionally they are harassed by the police.

6.5

Nieproszony gość

The film is set in a house where a thug terrorizes a certain unhappy family. He is a psychologist and TV personality, she is a musicologist. The extreme situation in which they unexpectedly find themselves makes them wake up ghostly. Resentments and frustrations hidden on a daily basis erupt with redoubled force. As a result, husband and wife play a ruthless psychological game between themselves instead of uniting in the face of danger.

10.0

At the Height of Summer

A married couple from the city goes to a lodge for the summer. Despite the idyllic surroundings, the woman is more and more anxious. The locals tell the story of a sunken tourist, the husband ignores his wife's growing fear. Meanwhile, a stranger comes to the house.

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