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Zbigniew Preisner is a Sound Polonais born on 20 may 1955 at Bielsko-Biała (Pologne)
Zbigniew Preisner ([ˈzbiɡɲɛf ˈpɾajsnɛɾ]; born 20 May 1955 in Bielsko-Biała as Zbigniew Antoni Kowalski) is a Polish film score composer, best known for his work with film director Krzysztof Kieślowski.
(2011)
(Songs)
(2007)
(Music)
(1995)
(Original Music Composer)
(1993)
(Original Music Composer)
(2003)
(Original Music Composer)
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Zbigniew Preisner
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Nationality Pologne
Birth 20 may 1955 (69 years) at Bielsko-Biała (Pologne)
Awards Medal for Merit to Culture
Birth 20 may 1955 (69 years) at Bielsko-Biała (Pologne)
Awards Medal for Merit to Culture
Zbigniew Preisner ([ˈzbiɡɲɛf ˈpɾajsnɛɾ]; born 20 May 1955 in Bielsko-Biała as Zbigniew Antoni Kowalski) is a Polish film score composer, best known for his work with film director Krzysztof Kieślowski.
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(2011)(Songs)
(2007)(Music)
(1995)(Original Music Composer)
(1993)(Original Music Composer)
(2003)(Original Music Composer)
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Filmography of Zbigniew Preisner (49 films)
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My Hindu Friend (2016)
, 2h4Directed by Héctor Babenco
Origin Bresil
Genres Drama
Actors Willem Dafoe, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Reynaldo Gianecchini, Selton Mello, Bárbara Paz, Tania Khalill
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating57%
The Queen of Spain (2016)
, 2h8Directed by Fernando Trueba
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Historical
Actors Penélope Cruz, Antonio Resines, Neus Asensi, Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Javier Cámara
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating53%
Dans les années 1950, en plein franquisme, la superstar internationale Macarena Granada retourne en Espagne, son pays natal, pour incarner Isabelle la Catholique dans un film biographique à grand budget. Quand il apprend son retour, Blas Fontiveros, un réalisateur qui l'a fait tourner dans une comédie musicale en 1938, retourne également à Madrid pour la revoir. Mais son arrivée déclenche une série d'événements inattendus qui perturbent le tournage du biopic surveillé par les hommes de Francisco Franco...
Lost and Love (2015)
, 1h48Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Andy Lau, Jing Boran, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Sandra Ng, Sun Haiying
Rating63%
One day in 1999 when his two-year-old son Lei Da went missing, Anhui farmer Lei Zekuan (Lau) begins his fifteen-year-long journey of hardship searching for his lost son. On his way he meets Zeng Shuai, a young car mechanic who was abducted as a child himself and is also searching for his parents.
Angelica (2015)
, 1h35Directed by Mitchell Lichtenstein
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Jena Malone, Janet McTeer, Ed Stoppard, Tovah Feldshuh, Daniel Gerroll, Glynnis O'Connor
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating49%
À l'époque victorienne, un jeune couple, Constance et Joseph Barton, vivent dans une immense demeure au cœur de Londres. A l’origine complices et fusionnels, leurs relations, notamment sexuelles, se sont ternies depuis l’arrivée de leur fille Angelica, née dans des circonstances traumatisantes. Depuis, suivant le conseil de son médecin, elle pratique l'abstinence sexuelle pour ne plus souffrir. Au détriment de son époux, Constance s'est mise à surprotéger leur enfant, s'éloignant progressivement de Joseph. Un matin, la petite fille fait une confidence inquiétante à ses parents : chaque nuit, une mystérieuse présence prédatrice vient lui rendre visite dans sa chambre. Si son père ne prête guère attention aux dires de sa fille, Constance, troublée, tente d’en savoir plus. Terrorisée qu’il puisse arriver malheur à son enfant, elle se met en tête de sonder les recoins obscurs de la maison afin de percer à jour la terrifiante menace. D'autant plus qu'elle commence elle aussi à voir ce spectre comme sa fille, une forme humaine qui laisse un ectoplasme ressemblant à du sperme sur son passage... Une manifestation surnaturelle qui intensifie ses peurs sexuelles et son anxiété liée à son enfant.
The Tree of Life (2011)
, 2h19Directed by Terrence Malick
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy
Themes Films about families, Philosophie, Films about religion, Children's films
Actors Sean Penn, Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain, Tye Sheridan, Fiona Shaw, Kari Matchett
Roles Songs
Rating67%
The film begins with a quotation from the Book of Job: "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the Earth?... When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?"
A Woman in Berlin (2008)
, 2h11Directed by Max Färberböck
Origin German
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Nina Hoss, Evgueni Sidikhine, Irm Hermann, Rüdiger Vogler, Rolf Kanies, Juliane Köhler
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating69%
In the waning days of World War II, an assortment of women, children and elderly men struggle to survive in Berlin, cast out of their formerly middle-class lives.
A Secret (2007)
, 1h40Directed by Claude Miller
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families, Political films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France, La condition juive en France sous l'Occupation allemande
Actors Cécile de France, Patrick Bruel, Ludivine Sagnier, Julie Depardieu, Mathieu Amalric, Nathalie Boutefeu
Roles Music
Rating67%
The film follows Maxime Nathan and his Jewish family in France during the years leading up to World War II. François Grimbert (played as a young boy by Valentin Vigourt and as an adolescent by Mathieu Amalric) grows up in Paris in the 1950s. He is the skinny, sickly son of two marvelously athletic parents, Tania (Cécile de France) and Maxime (Patrick Bruel). For a while, he dreams of a stronger, fitter, more charismatic older brother to compensate for his own feelings of inadequacy. Only gradually does he learn of his parents' tragic past and that he has a sibling — a half-brother named Simon, his father's first son.
The Beautiful Country (2004)
, 2h5Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Bai Ling, Tim Roth, Nick Nolte, Temuera Morrison, Chapman To, Arthur J. Nascarella
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating73%
The film tells the story of Binh, a Vietnamese boy who is often referred to as a "bui doi" (a derogatory term which has come to refer to a Vietnamese-born child fathered by an American soldier during the Vietnam War). After a life of prejudice and servitude, Binh decides to leave his tiny Vietnamese village and search for his mother in Saigon. Binh finds his mother, Mai, and discovers he has a younger brother, energetic and precocious Tam. Mai is employed by Mrs. Hoa, the cruel mistress of a great house. After getting a job at the house with his mother, Binh discovers that she is sexually harassed constantly by Mrs. Hoa's son.
Strange Gardens (2003)
, 1h40Directed by Jean Becker
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors André Dussollier, Thierry Lhermitte, Jacques Villeret, Benoît Magimel, Suzanne Flon, Isabelle Candelier
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating70%
Dans les années 1950, Jacques, un instituteur de province, se rend comme tous les ans en compagnie de son épouse Louise et de ses enfants (Françoise et Lucien) dans la petite ville où il a vécu durant l'occupation allemande pour y faire un numéro de clown. Quand André, un industriel, le meilleur ami de Jacques se rend compte que Lucien ne s'amuse pas beaucoup pendant le spectacle, il l'emmène à l'extérieur de la salle de spectacle afin lui raconter l'histoire qui a provoqué cette vocation de clown chez son père.
It's All About Love (2003)
, 1h45Directed by Thomas Vinterberg
Origin Danemark
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Romance
Themes Sports films, Films set in the future, Sports d'hiver, Patinage artistique
Actors Joaquin Phoenix, Sean Penn, Claire Danes, Douglas Henshall, Alun Armstrong, Margo Martindale
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating53%
Le film raconte l'histoire d'un jeune docteur en littérature polonaise qui doit se rendre au Canada pour donner un cours à l'université. Il fait une escale à New York pour signer les papiers du divorce avec sa très belle jeune femme. Cette dernière est une vedette de patinage artistique. Son activité est très lucrative et elle est jalousement protégée par sa famille.
Between Strangers (2002)
, 1h35Directed by Edoardo Ponti
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Actors Sophia Loren, Mira Sorvino, Deborah Kara Unger, Pete Postlethwaite, Julian Richings, Klaus Maria Brandauer
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating60%
Three women in Toronto confront emotional crises regarding the men in their lives. Olivia (Sophia Loren) looks after her husband John (Pete Postlethwaite) who is confined to a wheelchair. Olivia has aspired to a career as an artist but John has refused to hear of her wasting her time. However, Olivia finds encouragement from an unlikely source, Max (Gérard Depardieu), an eccentric French gardener.
The Last September (2000)
, 1h43Directed by Deborah Warner
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Keeley Hawes, Tom Hickey, David Tennant, Lambert Wilson
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating59%
Preface Although The Last September was first published in 1929, a preface was written for this text decades later to be included in the second American edition of this novel. Concerned that readers unfamiliar with this particular chapter of Anglo-Irish history would not fully comprehend the anxieties of these times, Bowen takes great pains to explain the particulars of both her writing process and the political reasons for the unsettled atmosphere felt throughout the text, palpable even in its most seemingly serene moments. Of all her books, Bowen notes, The Last September is "nearest to my heart, [and it] had a deep, unclouded, spontaneous source. Though not poetic, it brims up with what could be the stuff of poetry, the sensations of youth. It is a work of instinct rather than knowledge—to a degree, a ‘recall’ book, but there had been no such recall before.” While Bowen's own beloved family home, Bowen's Court, remained untouched throughout "The Troubled Times" this preface explores the ramifications for witnesses of “Ambushes, arrests, captures and burning, reprisals and counter-reprisals” as "The British patrolled and hunted; the Irish planned, lay in wait, and struck.” "I was the child of the house from which Danielstown derives" Bowen concludes, “nevertheless, so often in my mind's eye did I see it [Bowen’s Court] burning that the terrible last event in The Last September is more real than anything I have lived through.”
Aberdeen (2000)
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Stellan Skarsgård, Lena Headey, Jean Anderson, Charlotte Rampling, Ian Hart, Lorraine McIntosh
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating70%
Lena Headey stars as Kaisa, a young lawyer, just promoted, who has no apparent emotional attachments, prefers nameless encounters with men, and is surprised to receive a call from her dying mother (Charlotte Rampling) with a final request to bring her estranged father (Stellan Skarsgård) to the hospital. The film is a bit of a road movie with encounters along the way, some confrontational, such as boozing louts who harass her father or angry stewardesses issuing ultimatums, while some are romantic, such as a truck driver (Ian Hart) Kaisa attempts to use, but instead finds herself attached to. What started as an unavoidable chore, perhaps the last she'd never be able to dodge, becomes a new starting point in her life.
Dreaming of Joseph Lees (1999)
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Rupert Graves, Samantha Morton, Nicholas Woodeson, Frank Finlay, Lee Ross, Miriam Margolyes
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating62%
Set in rural England in the 1950s Eva (Samantha Morton) fantasises about her handsome, worldly cousin Joseph Lees (Rupert Graves), with whom she fell in love as a girl. However, stuck in a closed community she becomes the object of someone else's fantasy, Harry (Lee Ross). When Harry learns that Eva is planning to leave the village in order to live with and look after the injured Lees, he devises a gruesome scheme in order to force her to stay and look after him.
Foolish Heart (1998)
, 2h10Directed by Héctor Babenco
Origin Bresil
Genres Drama
Actors Miguel Ángel Solá, Norma Aleandro, Maria Luísa Mendonça, Alejandro Awada, Luis Luque, Arturo Maly
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating63%
The film tells of seventeen-year-old Juan (Walter Quiroz). He lives with his parents and spends time with several intellectuals who are interested in photography. The girlfriend of the group's money person is Ana (Maria Luísa Mendonça), and Juan is attracted to her.