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Wojciech Has is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Supervising Art Director and Script Polonais born on 1 april 1925 at Kraków (Pologne)

Wojciech Has

Wojciech Has
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Birth name Wojciech Jerzy Has
Nationality Pologne
Birth 1 april 1925 at Kraków (Pologne)
Death 3 october 2000 (at 75 years) at Łódź (Pologne)

Wojciech Jerzy Has (né le 1er avril 1925 à Cracovie, mort le 3 octobre 2000 (à 75 ans) à Łódź) est un cinéaste polonais.

Biography

Wojciech Has naît le 1er avril 1925 à Cracovie où ses parents sont restaurateurs. Il grandit dans cette ville qui marquera profondément toute sa création. Sous l'Occupation allemande de la Pologne lors de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Wojciech Has étudie à l'École supérieure de commerce de Cracovie avant d'être admis dans une école qui, sous couvert d'un enseignement technique, était en réalité une école d'art clandestine, l'Académie des Beaux-Arts de Cracovie ayant été fermée par les Allemands. À la fin de la guerre, l'Académie des Beaux-Arts ayant rouvert, il s'y inscrit pour étudier la peinture et il suit en même temps les cours de la première école de cinéma polonaise qui vient d'être créée à Cracovie. Il obtient en 1946 son diplôme de cinéma et en 1948 celui de l'Académie des Beaux-Arts. Le moyen métrage Harmonia, qu'il réalise en 1948, n'étant pas du goût des autorités (il n'a jamais été distribué), Wojciech Has patiente en réalisant des films documentaires au Studio du film documentaire de Varsovie. En 1950, après Moje miasto, il est contraint d'aller travailler au Studio du film éducatif de Łódź. Après 1956, du fait du changement politique et de la réorganisation de la cinématographie polonaise, il peut enfin rejoindre le cinéma de fiction.

À partir de 1974, il travaille comme professeur à l'École de cinéma de Łódź. Parmi ses films les plus célèbres figurent Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse (1965), La Poupée (1968), La Clepsydre (1973), Les Tribulations de Balthazar Kober (d'après Les Tribulations héroïques de Balthasar Kober) (Jeck film, 1988) qui sont respectivement les adaptations d'œuvres de Jan Potocki, Bolesław Prus, de Bruno Schulz et de Frédérick Tristan.

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Filmography of Wojciech Has (15 films)

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Actor

Gold Dreams, 1h31
Directed by Wojciech Has
Origin Pologne
Genres Drama
Actors Barbara Krafftówna, Elżbieta Czyżewska, Tadeusz Fijewski, Jan Kobuszewski, Wojciech Has, Wojciech Siemion
Roles Militiaman (uncredited)
Rating64% 3.218363.218363.218363.218363.21836
Un jeune homme arrive pour travailler sur le chantier d'un complexe industriel. Epaulé par un ingénieur, il tente de s'intégrer au monde des ouvriers, mais il semble cacher un lourd secret.

Director

The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober, 1h55
Directed by Wojciech Has
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Historical
Actors Michael Lonsdale, Gabriela Kownacka, Emmanuelle Riva, Daniel Emilfork, Jerzy Bończak, Zofia Merle
Rating67% 3.3803453.3803453.3803453.3803453.380345
Young alchemy student Balthazar (Rafal Wieczynski) and his master (Michael Lonsdale) are forced to flee their home by the inquisition. The set off on a journey across a plague-stricken Germany, encountering various people including corrupt priests and Kabbalists, not to mention ghosts and even an angel, before ending up in Venice where he falls in love with a young actress.
Memoirs of a Sinner, 1h54
Directed by Wojciech Has
Genres Drama, Fantasy
Actors Piotr Bajor, Ewa Wiśniewska, Maciej Kozłowski, Franciszek Pieczka, Anna Dymna, Katarzyna Figura
Rating66% 3.326423.326423.326423.326423.32642
Robert (Piotr Bajor) is exhumed from the grave by a gang of grave robbers and is forced to recount his lifestory - a struggle between good and evil, embodied in his doppelganger whom he eventually kills.
Write and Fight, 1h53
Directed by Wojciech Has
Genres Drama
Actors Gustaw Holoubek, Gabriela Kownacka, Andrzej Krukowski, Gustaw Lutkiewicz, Jerzy Zelnik
Rating63% 3.178383.178383.178383.178383.17838
Set during the First World War, Raphael (Wojciech Wysocki), is a young journalist with literary ambitions who is arrested and put in prison for publishing an anti-clerical magazine called "The Devil". There he is given a cell with a famous safecracker (Zdzislaw Wardejn) and Sixtus (Jan Peszek), a taciturn former monk charged with murder. The writer forms the idea for a novel based on the stories his cellmates share, however when he contracts typhoid fever it becomes hard for him to distinguish what is real and what is imaginary.
An Uneventful Story, 1h46
Directed by Wojciech Has
Genres Drama
Actors Gustaw Holoubek, Janusz Gajos
Rating70% 3.5005953.5005953.5005953.5005953.500595
Michal (Gustaw Holoubek) is a middle aged professor of medicine in a provincial town who is bored by the mundane and superficial nature of his life, friends and family. Katarzyna (Hanna Mikuc), a young woman returns to the town and the two have an affair.
The Hourglass Sanatorium, 2h4
Directed by Wojciech Has
Origin Pologne
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Actors Jan Nowicki, Gustaw Holoubek, Jerzy Przybylski, Ludwik Benoit, Jerzy Trela, Tadeusz Schmidt
Rating74% 3.7490153.7490153.7490153.7490153.749015
Joseph (Jan Nowicki) travels through a dream-like world, taking a dilapidated train to visit his dying father, Jacob, in a sanatorium. When he arrives at the hospital, he finds the entire facility is going to ruin and no one seems to be in charge or even caring for the patients. Time appears to behave in unpredictable ways, reanimating the past in an elaborate artificial caprice.
The Doll
The Doll (1968)
, 2h19
Directed by Wojciech Has
Origin Pologne
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Beata Tyszkiewicz, Mariusz Dmochowski, Tadeusz Fijewski, Wiesław Gołas, Jan Machulski, Kalina Jędrusik
Rating68% 3.4336753.4336753.4336753.4336753.433675
As a descendant of an impoverished Polish noble family, young Wokulski is forced to work as a waiter at Hopfer's, a Warsaw restaurant, while dreaming of a life in science. After taking part in the failed 1863 Uprising against Tsarist Russia, he is sentenced to exile in Siberia. On eventual return to Warsaw, he becomes a salesman at Mincel's haberdashery. Marrying the late owner's widow (who eventually dies), he comes into money and uses it to set up a partnership with a Russian merchant he had met while in exile. The two merchants go to Bulgaria during the Russo-Turkish War, and Wokulski makes a fortune supplying the Russian Army. The enterprising Wokulski now proves a romantic at heart, falling in love with Izabela, daughter of the vacuous, bankrupt aristocrat, Tomasz Łęcki. In his quest to win Izabela, Wokulski begins frequenting theatres and aristocratic salons; and to help her financially distressed father, founds a company and sets the aristocrats up as shareholders in his business. The indolence of these aristocrats, who secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condescended to. Because of his "help" (in secret) to Izabela's impecunious but influential father, the girl becomes aware of his affection. In the end she consents to accept him, but without true devotion or love.
The Saragossa Manuscript, 3h2
Directed by Wojciech Has
Origin Pologne
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Historical
Themes Ghost films, Political films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Iga Cembrzyńska, Kazimierz Opaliński, Elżbieta Czyżewska, Jan Machulski, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Gustaw Holoubek
Rating77% 3.898213.898213.898213.898213.89821
During a battle in the Aragonese town of Saragossa (Zaragoza) during the Napoleonic Wars, an officer retreats to the second floor of an inn. He finds a large book with drawings of two men hanging on a gallows and two women in a bed. An enemy officer tries to arrest him but ends up translating the book for him; the second officer recognizes its author as his own grandfather, who was a captain in the Walloon Guard.
How to Be Loved, 1h37
Directed by Wojciech Has
Origin Pologne
Genres Drama
Themes Political films
Actors Barbara Krafftówna, Wieńczysław Gliński, Wiesław Gołas, Mirosława Krajewska, Tadeusz Pluciński, Kalina Jędrusik
Rating73% 3.6863353.6863353.6863353.6863353.686335
Dans un avion à destination de Paris, Felicja, une célèbre actrice de radio, se souvient de la nuit de 1939, quand elle devait débuter dans le rôle d'Ophélie, auprès de l'homme qu'elle aimait, Wiktor, qui jouait Hamlet. Lors de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, pour ne pas se compromettre sur les scènes allemandes, elle préfère travailler comme serveuse. Lorsque Wiktor est accusé d'avoir tué un collaborateur, elle lui fournit un alibi. Mais après la guerre, elle est accusée d'avoir collaboré.
Gold Dreams, 1h31
Directed by Wojciech Has
Origin Pologne
Genres Drama
Actors Barbara Krafftówna, Elżbieta Czyżewska, Tadeusz Fijewski, Jan Kobuszewski, Wojciech Has, Wojciech Siemion
Rating64% 3.218363.218363.218363.218363.21836
Un jeune homme arrive pour travailler sur le chantier d'un complexe industriel. Epaulé par un ingénieur, il tente de s'intégrer au monde des ouvriers, mais il semble cacher un lourd secret.
The Noose
The Noose (1958)
, 1h36
Directed by Wojciech Has
Origin Pologne
Genres Drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Gustaw Holoubek, Aleksandra Śląska, Tadeusz Fijewski, Emil Karewicz, Roman Kłosowski, Jan Machulski
Rating76% 3.8348253.8348253.8348253.8348253.834825
Kuba, un alcoolique âgé de trente ans, décide d'arrêter de boire. Mais avant d'aller à l'hôpital, il devra faire face à tous ceux qui le connaissent comme un alcoolique.