Piotr Lysak Movies
- 1986
Without a plot to carry the action through its 78-minute running time and without characters that have the depth to do the same, this experimental film about the residents of a dilapidated Montreal tenement offers little to create and sustain interest. Among the inhabitants of the low-income apartment block are a drug dealer, a transvestite, a revolutionary, and other odd eccentrics, including excercise buffs and an erstwhile photographer. The mix might have possibilities, but not here. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Claire Nadon, Kennon Raines, (more)
- 1983
Based on a non-fiction bestseller of the same name by Rolf Hochhuth, Eine Liebe In Deutschland is about a tragic and forbidden love affair between Stanislaw, a Polish POW (Piotr Lysak) and Paulina (Hanna Schygulla) a fruit-and-vegetable vendor in a small town in Germany along the border with Switzerland. Their affair would have gone undetected except for the busybody women of the village, and when Stanislaw is picked up by a German stormtrooper (Armin Müller-Stahl) and brought in for a mock trial, he is given a chance to prove his racial purity and so perhaps escape execution. As for Paulina, she is ostracized by the villagers and imprisoned for consorting with someone who was not of the same high Aryan caste as herself. Depressing, yet politically relevant to Poland of the early 1980s, this film by acclaimed director Andrzej Wajda) is an effective and emotional statement on the nature of oppression. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Hanna Schygulla, Marie-Christine Barrault, (more)
Polish filmmaker Czesaw Petelski, who'd previously helmed the two-part historical epic Casimir the Great, sets his sights on the World War II years in Birthday. Piotr Lysak plays a young Pole who celebrates his 23rd birthday in 1944. It is at once an occasion for both exultation and anguish: Lysak's birthday coincides with the abortive Warsaw Uprising. As in his previous work, Petelski is able to place a tumultuous historical event within an intensely personal perspective. On this occasion, he manages to get it done within the relatively short timespan of 98 minutes (at least in the English-language version, which doesn't appear to be radically shortened). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Piotr Lysak, Andrzej Lapicki, (more)
- 1979
This detective thriller joins the search for a serial killer whose target is boys between the ages of eight and eleven. The police commissioner is puzzled to find that the clues lead to his own home. It seems that he has been having an adversarial relationship with his teenaged son, and the boy has made friends with a very suspicious character. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Tomasz Zaliwski, Piotr Lysak, (more)
- 1979
As an independent state, Poland did not exist before the First World War. Parts of it were claimed by the Austro-Hungarian Empire, parts by the Russian Empire, and the remaining portion went to the German Empire. In this story, a Polish boy's education under the pre-war Austrian occupation is the subject. He finds all the pro-Empire, pro-Church indoctrination hard to stomach but is powerless to really rebel against it except in quiet ways. The teachers consciously engage in many cruel acts, and the boy's only recourse is in poetry. Later, as a grown man, he is finally able to do something to throw off his nation's oppressors. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Tomasz Hudziec, Piotr Lysak, (more)
- 1976
My War-My Love is set during the week of the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939. Daring 17-year-old schoolboy Marek (Piotry Lyjak), inspired by the example of the Sobieski cadets during 1831 insurrection, vows to take on Germans singlehandedly. He devotes most of his energy to protecting a young girl who lost her mother during invasion. My War-My Love could not, by its very nature, end altogether happily, but the film can be regarded as life-affirming. The film was originally released as Moja Wojna: Moja Milosc. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Piotr Lysak, Grazyna Michalska, (more)
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