Stanisław Lenartowicz

Biography

Stanislaw Lenartowicz was a Polish film director and screenwriter. He was born on February 7, 1921, in Dzianowo in the Vilnius region. During the war, he was a soldier of the Home Army, then a prisoner of the Kaluga camp in Russia. Following repatriation in 1946, he settled in Wrocław. He graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the University of Wroclaw and the Directing Department of Łódź Film School (1953), where his supervisor was Antoni Bohdziewicz. He began directing films for the Educational Film Studio in Łódź, with which he cooperated in 1952-1955. It was there that he made Miniatury Kodeksu Behema/The Behem Code Miniatures (1953), awarded the Special Award at the Oberhausen festival five years later. Later, he adapted the novel by Stanisław Dygat as part of the film Trzy starty/Three Takeoffs (1955). His film debut, Zimowy zmierzch/Winter Dusk (1956), sparked violent disputes and polemics among Polish film critics; on the backdrop of the socialist realist poetics of that era, the film stood out with its innovative narrative and visual layers rich in meanings. His subsequent films, Pigułki dla Aurelii/Pills for Aurelia (1958) and Giuseppe w Warszawie/Giuseppe in Warsa…

Directed

1. Giuseppe in Warsaw (1964) — Director
2. Winter Twilight (1957) — Director
3. Full Ahead (1967) — Director
4. The Red and the Gold (1969) — Director
5. Nos (1971) — Director
6. I killed (1975) — Director
7. Possession (1973) — Director
8. Poczmistrz (1968) — Director
9. Theatre Macabre (1971) — Director
10. Pills for Aurelia (1958) — Director
11. Zobaczymy się w niedzielę (1960) — Director
12. Nafta (1961) — Director
13. Mrs. Hanka's Diary (1963) — Director
14. Aktorka (1971) — Director
15. The Vampire (1968) — Director
16. Spotkania (1957) — Director
17. Szkoda twoich łez (1985) — Director
18. Martwa fala (1971) — Director
19. Zabijaka (1967) — Director
20. Fatalista (1968) — Director
21. Trzy starty (1955) — Director
22. Żelazna obroża (1976) — Director
23. Strachy (1979) — Director