Andrzej Łapicki

Andrzej Łapicki

Birthday: 1924-11-11

Place of Birth: Ryga, Łotwa

Biography: Andrzej Łapicki (11 November 1924 – 21 July 2012) was a Polish film actor, theater director and actor. He enjoyed a long career, appearing in 50 films between 1947 and 1999.

Movies

The Promised Land
The Promised Land

In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and invest...

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Two Hours
Two Hours

Follows the lives of people shortly after World War 2 as they try to adjust to their new lives. Comp...

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Poradnik matrymonialny
Poradnik matrymonialny

Roksana is the editor of the heart advice section of a widely read magazine. Her problem is the hand...

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Forbidden Songs
Forbidden Songs

Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inha...

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The Children Accuse
The Children Accuse

One of several films by the Hoffman-Skórzewski duo, made as part of the "black series" of Polish doc...

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Spóźnieni przechodnie
Spóźnieni przechodnie

Five short stories. (1) “Czas przybliża, czas oddala” – Edward recalls his unfulfilled love for Ann...

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From a Far Country
From a Far Country

This heroic story follows the life of Karol Wojtyla, a Polish Roman catholic who ascends the throne ...

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A Cure for Love
A Cure for Love

An architect Joanna tells her friend Halina on the telephone about her love troubles and suddenly he...

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Jasne łany
Jasne łany

A young teacher educates the peasants and electrifies the village, which the local miller does not l...

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The New Art
The New Art

A propaganda piece of reportage from the first Polish Nationwide Art Exhibition that was held in the...

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A Letter at the Editorial Office
A Letter at the Editorial Office

The documentary shows the work of journalists and the importance of the press in building socialism....

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Soldier of Victory
Soldier of Victory

Two-part biopic about General Karol Świerczewski, living embodiment of the party line, and the group...

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Warszawa 1956
Warszawa 1956

Over a decade after the almost total wartime destruction, Warsaw still looks bruised and battered. R...

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Dancing at Hitler's Headquarters
Dancing at Hitler's Headquarters

Lives of three people intersect when they meet on a holiday in Mazury....

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Mistrz tańca
Mistrz tańca

A mysterious man takes a writer back to the 19th century, where they meet Death....

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Red Rowan
Red Rowan

The Polish Army fights to liberate Kołobrzeg from the Germans in the final months of World War 2....

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Where Is the Third King?
Where Is the Third King?

Two militia officers are assigned to a museum in an undercover assignment to protect a valuable pain...

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Unvanquished City
Unvanquished City

Warsaw after the fall of the Warsaw Uprising. The Germans expel the civilian population and then pro...

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Rolling Mill
Rolling Mill

In February 1956, after several months of construction, the largest rolling mill in Poland, the roll...

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Szarlejka
Szarlejka

The film shows the miners' dedicated work on the construction of a tunnel connecting two mines—lead ...

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How Far, How Near
How Far, How Near

A middle-aged man sets out on a symbolic journey through past, present, and future to learn why an o...

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Cześć kapitanie
Cześć kapitanie

A spy barely makes it out of a police ambush and goes on the run, taking a young woman with him alon...

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Zbrodnia lorda Artura Savile'a
Zbrodnia lorda Artura Savile'a

The wealthy Lord Artur Savile learns from a palm reader that he's destined to become a murderer. Obs...

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Lava
Lava

On the eve of the Day of the Dead, among mysterious old rituals of the Vilnius region, ghosts of the...

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A Railwayman's Word
A Railwayman's Word

A documentary about the hard work of railwaymen transporting coke from Tarnowskie Góry to Szczecin I...

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Nuremberg Epilogue
Nuremberg Epilogue

Reproduction of the Nuremberg trials using transcripts, made for Polish TV....

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The Girls of Nowolipki
The Girls of Nowolipki

Coming of age story of four girls living in the same poor district of Warsaw just before the outbrea...

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Kwestia sumienia
Kwestia sumienia

During the Civil War, two soldiers fighting on opposite sides meet....

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Klub szachistów
Klub szachistów

Wacław Urbin joins an exclusive club, learning the secrets of its members....

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Domek z kart
Domek z kart

August 1939. After publishing an article criticizing the government, a journalist has to hide from t...

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Spotkanie
Spotkanie

A man returns to his homeland after war-forced emigration. He meets his ex-wife, who has changed muc...

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Hamlet x 5
Hamlet x 5

Five interpretations of Hamlet's monologue....

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The Last Days
The Last Days

Romance brings two warring families together in this historical drama. As citizens fight for indepen...

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Everything for Sale
Everything for Sale

Wajda's homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, the "Polish James Dean" who starred in the director's ASHES AND...

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Peace Will Win
Peace Will Win

This film describes the Second World Congress of Peace Defenders, held in Warsaw on November 16-22, ...

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Suspended
Suspended

Anna, a nurse, meets her wartime lover Marcel in 1951. Learning that he has been sentenced to death ...

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The Mazovia
The Mazovia

A treasure of Polish culture. A concert film that presents the performance of Mazowsze Song and Danc...

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Makbet
Makbet

A staging of William Shakespeare's tragedy, directed in 1969 by Andrzej Wajda. The roles of Macbeth ...

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Look Out, Hooligans!
Look Out, Hooligans!

A staged documentary that started the Polish Black Series. The film takes the form of a warning aga...

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Świat grozy
Świat grozy

Selected episodes from a television series of thrilling stories based on works of world literature c...

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The Wedding
The Wedding

Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to...

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Salto
Salto

A man jumps off a moving train and goes to a small town to face its inhabitants, who seem familiar, ...

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The Birthday
The Birthday

The four sequences in the film cover four days in a life of young Warsaw lad in September 1938, 1939...

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Back to Life Again
Back to Life Again

Three idealists - a communist secretary, a former RAF pilot and a female political activist - need t...

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Inventory
Inventory

Difficulty of human relations in a 3-cornered tale: a neurotic woman, idealistic young man and his m...

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Wherever You Are...
Wherever You Are...

An Uruguayan diplomat brings his new wife with him on a business trip to Poland in the summer immedi...

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Naprawdę wczoraj
Naprawdę wczoraj

The story concerns a succesful writer at the height of his career. He is in a state of crisis, unabl...

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Mrs. Hanka's Diary
Mrs. Hanka's Diary

The young and beautiful wife of a prominent diplomat complains of boredom. To change her monotonous ...

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Pilate and Others
Pilate and Others

The trial of Yeshua Ha-Notsri is led by prosecutor Pontius Pilate who believes in the innocence of t...

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The Doll
The Doll

Set in the 19th century Warsaw. The indolence of aristocrats who, secure with their pensions, are to...

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Poczmistrz
Poczmistrz

Post clerk's young daughter runs away from home with a tsarist officer....

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The Gorgon Case
The Gorgon Case

In 1931, just before the New Year, in a house of architect Henryk Zaremba scream rips the night. The...

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Destination Nowa Huta!
Destination Nowa Huta!

This documentary describes the process of building and the first days of the combine and the city of...

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Debutante
Debutante

Ewa is a young ambitious engineer who starts to work for the team of an acclaimed architect Jerzy. G...

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Jealousy and Medicine
Jealousy and Medicine

In 1930s, a doctor has an affair with the wife of a wealthy industrialist in Poland....

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Are You Amongst Them?
Are You Amongst Them?

This film criticizes various types of vandalism and behavior that is socially harmful: people spitti...

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Checkmate!
Checkmate!

Short TV film upon the story of Ludwik Niemojski of the same title, which was a part of his "Incredi...

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Master
Master

A young actor preparing for the part of Macbeth recalls his wartime memories connected with his ment...

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The Maids of Wilko
The Maids of Wilko

Set in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a c...

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Lost Night
Lost Night

A Warsaw writer, Wacław Kisielecki, returning from Rome, has his car break down somewhere late in th...

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Two Brigades
Two Brigades

A social drama that depicts a conflict between a young factory collective and a sympathetic but back...

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Sprawa do załatwienia
Sprawa do załatwienia

A series of misfortunes plagues a journalist and his new friend....

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Dziś w nocy umrze miasto
Dziś w nocy umrze miasto

An unlikely couple - a Polish concentration camp inmate and a young German girl - stick together and...

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Spotkanie w 'Bajce'
Spotkanie w 'Bajce'

"A Meeting in Bajka" tells a seemingly banal story of a marital triangle which bristles with intrigu...

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Sposób bycia
Sposób bycia

A forty-year old man, destroyed physically and mentally by life experiences recounts his life....

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The Return
The Return

A former World War 2 resistance fighter returns to Poland to reconnect with his old comrades, but fi...

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The Story of Gdansk
The Story of Gdansk

The protagonist of this documentary is Gdańsk and its history. The story begins on the shore of the ...

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Letters from Vietnam
Letters from Vietnam

A series of twelve "letters" from different parts of Vietnam in the days following the 1954 Geneva C...

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Vows
Vows

A poetic piece of reportage focusing on a convention of young shock workers in Warsaw. The climax of...

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Kordian
Kordian

The staging of "Kordian" by Juliusz Słowacki, refers to the November Uprising and attempts to unders...

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On The Set
On The Set

Reportage from the set of the film "Everything for Sale", focusing on the director - Andrzej Wajda. ...

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Febliki Tatiany
Febliki Tatiany

Actor Henryk bets his friend that he will make his ex, Tatiana, come back to him in half an hour....

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