JERZY LIPMAN

GREAT CINEMATOGRAPHERS

#2: "Dzien oczyszczenia" [1969]

JERZY LIPMAN

Born: 10 April 1922, Brześć nad Bugiem/Brest-on-the-Bug [Brześć Litewski/Brest-Litovsk], Poland [now Brest, Belarus].

Died: 11 November 1983, London, UK.

Education: PWSFTviT, Lódz [1948-52].

Career: Wounded while fighting for the Polish underground during WW2. Later imprisoned by the Russians. Started as c.asst. Left Poland in 1969 and went to West Germany.

Awards: German Film Award in Gold [1972] for 'Das falsche Gewicht'.

'Some of the most memorable visuals of 1950s/60s European cinema came via the camera of Jerzy Lipman. 'Kanal', with its sweaty, tightly-framed shots of violence in the sewers of war-torn Warsaw; a lone white mare called Lotna on a misty plane; bleak, empty landscapes of the lake and shoreline in 'Knife in the Water' - just three examples to illustrate the versatility of a man rightly called in his time Poland's greatest cameraman. But his became a career of lost opportunities. Whatever Lipman's reasons for leaving Poland (political? professional?), cinematically it was a disastrous move.' [Markku Salmi in 'Film Dope', #35, September 1986.]

FILMS AT THE PWSFTviT
1949	Wczasy akademickie [Jerzy Kaden] b&w; doc/16m; superv ph; ph: Georgi Karajordanow
1950	Kiedy ty spisz/While You're Asleep [Andrzej Wajda] b&w; doc/11m
1951	Wczoraj dzis [Ewa Petelska] b&w; short/7m
1951	Ceramika Ilzecka/The Pottery at Ilza/The Ilza Ceramics [Andrzej Wajda] b&w; doc/10m
1952	Trzy opowiesci/Three Stories [seg 'Jacek' dir by Konrad Nalecki] b&w; cph: Stefan Matyjaszkiewicz; other ph: Zbigniew Czajkowski & Czeslaw Swirta; ph superv: Andrzej Ancuta

FILMS

1954	Pokolenie/A Generation [Andrzej Wajda] b&w
1956	Cien/[The] Shadow [Jerzy Kawalerowicz] b&w
1956	Kanal/Canal/They Loved Life [Andrzej Wajda] b&w
1957	Prawdziwy koniec wielkiej wojny/Real End of the Great War [Jerzy Kawalerowicz] b&w
1957	Ósmy dzien tygodnia/Der achte Wochentag/The Eighth Day of the Week [Aleksander Ford] b&w + color seq; cph: Igor Oberberg
1958	Zamach/Answer to Violence [Jerzy Passendorfer] b&w
1959	Lotna [Andrzej Wajda] c
1959	Zezowate szczescie/Bad Luck [Andrzej Munk] b&w; cph: Krzysztof Winiewicz
1961	Nóz w wodzie/Knife in the Water [Roman Polanski] b&w
1961	Rozmowa z panem K. [Mieczyslaw Waskowski] b&w; short/169mtr
1961	Ambulans/The Ambulance [Janusz Morgenstern] b&w; short/10m
1962	L'amour à vingt ans/Love at Twenty [seg 'Warszawa/Warsaw' dir by Andrzej Wajda] scope/b&w; 5 seg
1962	Gangsterzy i filantropi/Gangsters and Philanthropists [Jerzy Hoffman & Edward Skórzewski] b&w; cph: Andrzej Kostenko & Antoni Nurzynski
1963	Zbrodniarz i panna/The Murderer and the Girl [Janusz Nasfeter] b&w
1963	Les plus belles escroqueries du monde/The Beautiful Swindlers [seg 'La rivière de diamants/Amsterdam' dir by Roman Polanski] fs/b&w-c; 5 seg
1963	Rozwodów nie bedzie/No More Divorces [Jerzy Stefan Stawinski] b&w
1964	Prawo i piesc/The Law and the Fist [Jerzy Hoffman & Edward Skórzewski] b&w
1965	Popioly/The Ashes [Andrzej Wajda] cs/b&w; in 2 parts
1965	Sposob bycia/A Frame of Mind/Way of Life [Jan Rybkowski] b&w
1965	Lenin v Polshe/Lenin in Poland [Sergei Yutkevich] ss/b&w; cph: Jan Laskowski
1966	Zosya [Mikhail Bogin] b&w

[Top/right] with dir Jerzy Hoffman - "Pan Wolodyjowski"

1968	Pan Wolodyjowski/Colonel Wolodyjowski [Jerzy Hoffman] scope/c
1969	Dzien oczyszczenia/The Day of Purification/Day of Remission [Jerzy Passendorfer] c
1970	Psychologie des Orgasmus/Liebe, wie du sie brauchst/Psychology of the Orgasm [Hermann Schnell] c; dram doc/93m
1972	Und der Regen verwischt jede Spur/Tears of Blood [Alfred Vohrer] c
1973	Sie sind frei, Dr. Korczak/Der Märtyrer - Dr. Korczak und seine Kinder [Aleksander Ford] c
1980	Charlotte/Charlotte S. [Frans Weisz] c; cph: Theo van de Sande
1981	Der Tod in der Waschstraße [Friedemann Schulz] c

TELEVISION
1966	Wenus z ille/Venus of the Island [Janusz Majewski] tvm
1967	Ojciec/The Father [Jerzy Hoffman] tvm/b&w/25m
1969	Das Bastardzeichen [Herbert Vesely] tvm/b&w/16mm
1970	Das falsche Gewicht/The Wanting Weight [Bernhard Wicki] tvm/146m
1971	Davor/Before [Peter Schulze-Rohr] tvm/45m
1972	Tatort [ep #25 'Tote Taube in der Beethovenstraße/Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street' dir by Samuel Fuller] tvm-ep series; also released theatrically
1972	Sternschnuppe [Herbert Vesely] tvm
1973	Die schöne Marianne [Roger Fritz & Wolf Erlend Rosenberg] 13-part series, 1974; followed by 14-part series 'Hotel zur schönen Marianne' (1978)
1974	Münchner Geschichten [Helmut Dietl & Herbert Vesely] 9-part series; other ph: Ingo Hamer & Igor Luther
1975	Ach Himmel, es ist verspielt! [Jochen Bauer] tvm
1975	Der aufsehenerregende Fall des Studienrats Adam Juracek [Tom Toelle] tvm
1976	Jede Woche hat nur einen Sonntag [Claus Peter Witt] 13-part series, 1977
1977	Amor [Slawomir Mrozek & Jerzy Lipman] tvm/b&w
1979	Lemminge, Teil 1 Arkadien [Michael Haneke] tvm/16mm; cph: Walter Kindler
1979	Lemminge, Teil 2 Verletzungen [Michael Haneke] tvm/16mm
1980	Eingriffe [Thomas Fantl] tvm
1981	Der Poltergeist [Jindrich Mann] tvm
1981	Kudenow oder An fremden Wassern weinen [Claus Peter Witt] tvm

MISCELLANEOUS
1953	Piatka z ulicy Barskiej/Five Boys from Barska Street [Aleksander Ford] 2nd cam; ph: Jaroslav Tuzar & Karol Chodura
1977	Amor [co-dir/ph; tvm] see Television