Leonard Buczkowski (5 August 1900 – 19 February 1967) was a Polish

film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...

and screenwriter. He directed 23 films between 1928 and 1966. His 1959 film '' The Eagle'' was entered into the

1st Moscow International Film Festival The 1st Moscow International Film Festival was held from 3 to 17 August 1959. The Grand Prix was awarded to the Soviet film '' Destiny of a Man'' directed by Sergei Bondarchuk. Jury * Sergei Gerasimov (USSR - President of the Jury) * Antonin B ...

Selected filmography

* '' Daredevils'' (''Szaleńcy'', 1928) * ''

Gwiaździsta eskadra ''Gwiaździsta eskadra'' (''The Starry Squadron'') is a lost film, lost 1930 Polish war film directed by Leonard Buczkowski. Shot with the co-operation of the Polish army, it was the most expensive Polish film made before World War II. It was fir ...

'' (1930) * ''

Rapsodia Bałtyku Rapsodia Bałtyku (English: ''Baltic Rhapsody'') is a Polish melodrama film from 1935 directed by Leonard Buczkowski. It is the story about two friends, Adam and Zygmunt, serving in the floatplanes escadrille of the Polish Navy. It is notable f ...

'' (1935) * '' Wierna rzeka'' (1936) * ''

Straszny dwór ''The Haunted Manor'' () is an opera in four acts composed by Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko in 1861–1864. The libretto was written by . Despite being a Romantic music, romance and a comedy, it has strong Polish patriotism, patriotic ...

'' (1936) * ''

Zakazane piosenki ''Forbidden Songs'' ( Polish: ''Zakazane piosenki'' ) is a 1946 Polish musical film directed by Leonard Buczkowski. It was the first feature film to be created in Poland following the six years of World War II. The film, set during the German ...

'' (1946) * ''

Sprawa pilota Maresza ''Sprawa pilota Maresza'' is a Polish film directed by Leonard Buczkowski released in 1956. Based on a novel by Janusz Meissner, which was inspired by actual events. One of the first Polish features filmed in color. Cast * Wieńczysław Glińs ...

'' (1956) * '' The Eagle'' (1959)

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* 1900 births 1967 deaths Film people from Warsaw People from Warsaw Governorate Polish film directors 20th-century Polish screenwriters Polish male screenwriters 20th-century Polish male writers {{Poland-film-director-stub