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 WrocÅ‚aw. He graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the University of Wroclaw and the Directing Department of Åódź Film School (1953), where his supervisor was Antoni Bohdziewicz.
He began directing films for the Educational Film Studio in Åódź, 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 StanisÅ‚aw 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 Warsaw (1964), addressed the subject of war, but presented it in a way stripped of heroism. He also depicted the forgotten world of the Polish provinces, focusing on observations of detail and mentality (Czerwone i złote/Red and Gold, 1969, based on writings by Stanisław Grochowiak, an award at the Valladolid festival). He addressed the maritime theme twice: in Cała naprzód/Full Steam Ahead (1966) and Martwa fala/ Still Wave (1970). He also attempted to adapt the prose of Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz in Pamiętnik pani Hanki/The Diary of Mrs. Hanka (1963). On the set, he gladly collaborated with Zbigniew Cybulski.
Lenartowicz’s interest in Russian culture is reflected in the television series he directed which are adaptations of classic Russian novels. They were made at the request of Canadian television in the late 1960s. These include the movies Brawler (based on Turgenev), Phantom (Tolstoy), Postmaster (Pushkin) completed in 1967. In 1979, he directed Strachy/Spooks, a series based on the prose of Maria Ukniewska, about the life of Warsaw actors. After the introduction of martial law, he retired from the profession.
In 1959, he received the Award of the City of Wroclaw; a year later, he was also awarded the Gold Cross of Merit. At the end of his life, he was awarded the Gold Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis. He died on October 28, 2010, in Wrocław.
by Beata Pieńkowska
From Polish Film Academy – History of Polish Cinema
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Stanisław Lenartowicz Biography / Wiki
Name | Stanisław Lenartowicz |
Also Know | СтаниÑлав Ленартович |
Gender | Male |
Known For | Directing |
Place of Birth | Dzianowo, Vilnius region |
Date of Birth | 1921-02-07 |
Age(as in 2022) | 89 |
Deathday | 2010-10-28 |
Stanisław Lenartowicz Directing Movies
Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
Giuseppe in Warsaw | Director | 1964-08-07 | The Italian soldier Giuseppe Santucci, on his way home from the Russian front, during World War II (in 1943), has his machine gun stolen in Warsaw. Af… |
Szkoda twoich Å‚ez | Director | 1985-01-07 | Polish film directed by Stanislaw Lenartowicz et al…. |
Winter Twilight | Director | 1957-02-01 | Rumsza, the elderly railwayman, leading a sedate life with his wife, misses his only remaining son (two older boys were killed in the war). Joziuk fin… |
Pills for Aurelia | Director | 1958-11-24 | Action drama that takes place in Poland during World War 2. Soldiers of the Polish underground resistance army (AK – National Army) prepares to break… |
I killed | Director | 1975-04-08 | During a routine traffic stop, the police discovers the body of a girl in the trunk of a truck. Since the dead girl spent the night before with the dr… |
Portrait | Director | 1977-01-01 | A poetic reflection on the passing of time and youth…. |
The Red and the Gold | Director | 1969-09-19 | An old man escapes from a retirement home to impersonate a man who has died in his arms and told him he never went home to his new bride after the fir… |
Academy Leader Variations | Director | 1987-04-12 | Twenty animators from the U.S., Switzerland, Poland and China express their friendship with and love of animation in a series of animated variations o… |
Mrs. Hanka’s Diary | Director | 1963-08-29 | The young and beautiful wife of a prominent diplomat complains of boredom. To change her monotonous life, she has an affair, through which she gets en… |
CaÅ‚a naprzód | Director | 1967-04-14 | … |
Poczmistrz | Director | 1968-04-14 | … |
Nos | Director | 1971-10-22 | … |
Aktorka | Director | 1971-10-08 | … |
Trzy starty | Director | 1955-10-25 | Three separate short stories about young athletes who lose their chances of success. Young swimmer – because of unhappy love. Boxer because of a fight… |
The Vampire | Director | 1967-01-01 | Gothic story based on novella by Aleksey Tolstoy… |
Breakfast on the Grass | Director | 1975-01-01 | Parodist deformation of the famous painting by Manet Luncheon on the Grass…. |
Spotkania | Director | 1957-11-18 | … |
Å»elazna obroża | Director | 1976-06-04 | Kozyra – a former athlete wants to return to the circus arena, where young BÅ‚ażyce is successful…. |
Director | Christopher Lee hosts this horror anthology series from Poland with stories from various classic authors…. | ||
Writing
Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
Szkoda twoich Å‚ez | Writer | 1985-01-07 | Polish film directed by Stanislaw Lenartowicz et al…. |
Mrs. Hanka’s Diary | Screenplay | 1963-08-29 | The young and beautiful wife of a prominent diplomat complains of boredom. To change her monotonous life, she has an affair, through which she gets en… |
Nos | Screenplay | 1971-10-22 | … |
CaÅ‚a naprzód | Screenplay | 1967-04-14 | … |
Breakfast on the Grass | Writer | 1975-01-01 | Parodist deformation of the famous painting by Manet Luncheon on the Grass…. |
Trzy starty | Writer | 1955-10-25 | Three separate short stories about young athletes who lose their chances of success. Young swimmer – because of unhappy love. Boxer because of a fight… |
Å»elazna obroża | Writer | 1976-06-04 | Kozyra – a former athlete wants to return to the circus arena, where young BÅ‚ażyce is successful…. |
Adaptation | Christopher Lee hosts this horror anthology series from Poland with stories from various classic authors…. | ||
Other Info
Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
The Vampire | Script | 1967-01-01 | Gothic story based on novella by Aleksey Tolstoy… |
Kocia Wielkanoc | Editor | 1997-01-01 | … |
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