
Krzysztof Krauze
Directing
Biography
Krzysztof Krauze (2 April 1953 – 24 December 2014) was a Polish film director, cinematographer and actor, best known for his thriller The Debt (1999). Krauze was born in Warsaw and completed his cinematography studies at the National Film School in Łódź in the 1970s. He left Poland in 1980, but returned in 1983. In the 1980s and early 1990s he worked for various production studios in Poland. In 1997 he was named "Man of the Year" by the Polish magazine Życie. He also acted in several films by other Polish directors. Krauze was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2006, and died on 24 December 2014, aged 61. Description above from the Wikipedia article Krzysztof Krauze, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For

The rise and fall of the most distinguished Polish-Roma poetess Bronislawa Wajs, widely known as Papusza, and her relationship with her discoverer, writer Jerzy Ficowski.
Papusza

We meet ornithologist Anna in 1994 just as genocide is raging in Rwanda, perpetrated by the majority Hutus against the Tutsis. Anna manages to save the daughter of a colleague whose family has been murdered, and she takes her to Poland. But the woman returns to Rwanda to visit the graves of her loved ones. The director originally worked on the movie with her husband Krzysztof Krauze (My Nikifor – Crystal Globe, KVIFF 2005), but after his death in 2014 she eventually finished this challenging picture alone.
Birds Are Singing in Kigali
The protagonists of the film are two employees of a private television station. Janek is a journalist and Witek is a cameraman. Their specialty is hot, sensational topics. They are just working out the case of a gang, dealing in explosives. One day someone tosses them a tape from which they learn that a well-known politician named Makowski was a UB agent with the alias Ketman in the 1970s.
Street Games

Based on true events, the movie tells the story of two men who want to start a scooter business but don't have the required collateral for a bank loan. Then one of them runs into a former flat neighbour who offers to lend them the money. The guy turns out to be a thug and starts to extort them. Their life goes downhill from there.
The Debt

A story of a married couple with two children, whose housing problems, the man's infidelity and the woman's fragility lead the family to destruction.
Saviour Square
A young bus driver's life changes after he meets a woman that later becomes a victim of a road accident.
777

A sleepy provincial town with only one "Błysk" bar. If it weren't for the nearby prison, it would be forgotten to the world. This is how guests come. Agnieszka works in the bar and dreams of New York . Krzysiek and Józek love the girl. Józek tells her about a militia van carrying money.
New York, 4 A.M.

In 1960s Krynica, veteran artist Włosiński’s orderly life is disrupted when local outsider Nikifor - deaf, mute, and dismissed as a harmless eccentric - arrives at his studio and begins painting his naïve masterpieces. Their unlikely friendship transforms both men, sparking a late-life creative and personal rebirth that reshapes Włosiński’s world and finally earns Nikifor recognition for his singular talent.
My Nikifor

The characters from Marian Falski's Elementarz come to life as protagonists of a chronicle drama from the 1960s and then protagonists of a new wave plot from the 1970s. The voiceover adjusts its tone and message to the image, staying within the world of the primer.
Primer

The history of the last fifty years as seen through the eyes of a domestic helper. She began her service before the war, and after the war and a year-long stay in a camp, she returned to her profession. In October 1956, her employer lost his job because of her. She served her next employers until 1970. They had a family atmosphere, and her ward, like her predecessors, got a cool job. In 1976, she finally got her own 12-square-meter apartment, but unfortunately, in 1981, it became infested with vermin. Although the infestation was eliminated, it would be useful to have some good poison just in case. "Overall, I am happy with everything, I just need some poison."
Vermin

A group of ethnography students meet the enigmatic Mruk family while doing an internship at the Świętokrzyskie Mountains.
Opis obyczajów

The inhabitants of Zbrosza Duża and their parish priest go to a meeting with John Paul II.
There Is

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Kallafiorr
A filmed portrait of Professor Tadeusz Reichstein, discoverer of cortisone and holder of the patent for the production of vitamin C, a Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1950. Born in Włocławek at the end of the nineteenth century, Professor Reichstein lectures in Basel and holds Swiss citizenship. A man of remarkable modesty who avoids the media, he nevertheless makes an exception for Polish journalists. In the film, he speaks about his life and scientific career.
Ogrody Tadeusza Reichsteina

An ironic pastiche of the typical instructional-education film.
Practical Tips for Butterfly Collectors
Emotional portrayal of a man's relationship with his mother.