IEC
#1: From interview [2015]
#2: From interview
#3: With c.op Jan Holoubek - "Meskie - Zenskie" [2003]
Born: 15 October 1929, Ozorków, Poland, as Witold Sobociński.
Died: 19 November 2018, Konstancin-Jeziorna, Poland.
Education: PWSFTviT, Lódz [graduated in 1956].
Career: Started as lighting director at Lódz Television; since 1960 c.asst and ph at Czolówka Studios.
Was ph coach on numerous films at the PWSFTviT, Lódz [1984-2009].
Was a member of the PSC.
His son Piotr [1958-2001] was his c.op and became a doph.
Awards: Camerimage Lifetime Achievement Award [1994]; Camerimage 'Golden Frog' nom [1999] & Polish FF 'Best Cinematography' Award [1999] for 'Wrota Europy'; Camerimage 'Award for Duo' [2000] for Andrzej Wajda & W. Sobocinski; ASC International Achievement Award [2002].
FILMS AT THE PWSFTviT | |
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1953 |
Worek wegla [Janusz Weychert; short/19m] co-c.asst; ph: Jerzy Matuszkiewicz |
1954 |
Guziki [Janusz Kidawa] b&w; short/9m |
1954 |
Odwety. Trzy fragmenty z II aktu [Jerzy Ziarnik; short/14m] co-c.asst; ph: Jerzy Matuszkiewicz |
1954 |
Ostatni wieczór [Stanislaw Jedryka; short/10m] co-c.asst; ph: Wieslaw Zdort |
1954 |
Wiosna [Jerzy Gruza] b&w; short/7m |
1955 |
Godzina bez slonca [Pawel Komorowski; short/16m] c.asst; ph: Jerzy Wójcik |
1955 |
Hejnal i bzy [Janusz Kidawa] b&w; short/14m |
1955 |
Lodzie wyplywaja o swicie [Ryszard Ber] b&w; doc/15m |
1955 |
Piatka z IV b [Sylwester Szyszko] b&w; short/15m |
1955 |
W marcu [Maria Kwiatkowska] b&w; doc/6m |
1956 |
Kurdebalans [Mieczyslaw Waskowski] b&w; short/16m |
FILMS | |
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1959 |
Codzienna obsluga samochodów/Daily Car Service [?] ?; doc/?m |
1960 |
Cena sekundy/Second Price [?] ?; doc/?m |
1961 |
Katapultowanie/Catapult [?] ?; doc/?m |
1962 |
Zespól piesni i tanca wojska polskiego/The Choir and Dance Group of the Polish Army [?] ?; doc/?m |
1962 |
Podchorazacka etiuda/Training of Officers [?] ?; doc/?m |
1963 |
Nasz zespól/Our Ensemble [Jerzy Gruza] c; doc/593mtr |
1963 |
Ballada o dobrym zolnierzu/Ballad of a Good Soldier [?] ?; doc/?m |
1963 |
Tych czterech [Tadeusz Worontkiewicz] b&w; doc/616mtr |
1963 |
Przelomem dunajca/The Defiles of Dunajec [Stanislaw Mozdzenski] ?; doc/?m |
1963 |
Rocznica slubu/Wedding Anniversary [Maciej Sienski] b&w; short/18m |
1963 |
Wioska mala jak Plowce/A Small Town Like Plowce [Roman Banach] b&w; doc/229mtr |
1963 |
Poligon smialków/The Polygon of Bold Men [Jerzy Vaulin] b&w; doc/238mtr |
1964 |
Pierwszy dyzur/First Service [Tadeusz Worontkiewicz] b&w; doc/310mtr |
1964 |
Podniebny balet/Heavenly Ballet [?] ?; doc/?m |
1964 |
Niedotlenienie [?] ?; doc/?m |
1964 |
Dziewczyna, przygoda i.../A Girl, an Adventure and... [?] ?; doc/?m; cph: ? |
1964 |
My kobiety/We, the Women [Maria Kwiatkowska] b&w; doc/17m |
1964 |
Uwaga, grozba pozaru/Attention! Fire Risk [?] ?; doc/?m |
1965 |
Ostatnie dni swiatyni ptah [Jerzy Bednarczyk] ?; doc/?m; cph: Jacek Stachlewski |
1965 |
Tych czterystu/The Four Hundred [?] ?; doc/?m |
1965 |
Warszawskie skrzydla/Warsaw Wings [Zygmunt Koziarski] b&w; doc/325mtr |
1967 |
Wspomnienie o bitwie [Tadeusz Worontkiewicz] b&w; doc/16m |
1967 |
Rece do góry/Hands Up! [Jerzy Skolimowski] c; cph: Andrzej Kostenko; re-edited and released in 1981 |
1968 |
Dancing w kwaterze Hitlera/Dancing Party at Hitler's Headquarters [Jan Batory] b&w |
1968 |
Wszystko na sprzedaz/Everything for Sale [Andrzej Wajda] c |
1968 |
The Adventures of Gerard [Jerzy Skolimowski] p/c; 2uc: Enzo Barboni |
1969 |
Album polski/Polish Album/The Return [Jan Rybkowski] c; 2 parts: 'Maria/Scorched Earth' (72m) & 'Anna/This Is My Home' (64m) |
1970 |
Legenda/The Legend [Sylwester Checinski] c |
1970 |
Zycie rodzinne/Family Life [Krzysztof Zanussi] c |
1971 |
Trzecia czesc nocy/The Third Part of the Night [Andrzej Zulawski] c |
1972 |
Wesele/The Wedding [Andrzej Wajda] c |
1972 |
Sanatorium 'Pod klepsydra'/The Hour-Glass Sanatorium [Wojciech Jerzy Has] c |
1973 |
Na niebie i na ziemi/On the Earth and In the Sky [Julian Dziedzina] c |
1973 |
Pittsville - Ein Safe voll Blut/Lohngelder für Pittsville/The Catamount Killing [Krzysztof Zanussi] c |
1974 |
Ziemia obiecana/The Promised Land/Land of Promise [Andrzej Wajda] 35mm & 70mm/c; 179m; cph: Edward Klosinski & Waclaw Dybowski; also 4-part tv-miniseries/204m (1975) |
1975 |
Der S-Bahn Mörder [Peter Schulze-Rohr] c |
1975 |
Smuga cienia/The Shadow Line [Andrzej Wajda] c |
1975 |
Moja wojna - moja milosc/My War - My Love [Janusz Nasfeter] c |
1976 |
Lady Frankenstein [Jerzy Skolimowski] unfinished |
1977 |
Sam na sam/Face to Face [Andrzej Kostenko] c |
1977 |
Smierc prezydenta/Death of a President [Jerzy Kawalerowicz] c; cph: Jerzy Lukaszewicz |
1978 |
Zaproszenie do wnetrza/Einladung zur Besichtigung von Innenräumen [Andrzej Wajda] c; doc/55m |
1978 |
Szpital Przemienienia/Hospital of the Transfiguration [Edward Zebrowski] c |
1980 |
Alice/Alicja [Jerzy Gruza & Jacek Bromski] c; cph: Alec Mills |
1981 |
W obronie wlasnej [Zbigniew Kaminski] c |
1981 |
Byl Jazz/And All That Jazz [Feliks Falk] c; + small part |
1982 |
L'âne qui joue de la lyre [Wojciech Jerzy Has] unrealized |
Dir Marek Nowicki - c.op Piotr Sobocinski - W. Sobocinski - "Widziadlo"
1983 |
Widziadlo/The Phantom [Marek Nowicki] c |
1983 |
Uindii/Races/A Windy Story/Rennsaison/Der erste Sieg [Masato Harada] c |
1984 |
O-bi, O-ba - Koniec cywilizacji/O-Bi, O-Ba - The End of Civilization [Piotr Szulkin] c |
1985 |
Pirates [Roman Polanski] p/c |
1987 |
Podróz magiczna [Andrzej Wasylewski] c; ballet film/30m |
1987 |
Zjoek: De kunst van het vergeten [Erik van Zuylen] b&w-c |
1987 |
Frantic [Roman Polanski] c |
1989 |
Acque di primavera/Torrents of Spring [Jerzy Skolimowski] c; cph: Dante Spinotti |
1990 |
Bronsteins Kinder/Bronstein's Children [Jerzy Kawalerowicz] c; cph: Piotr Sobocinski |
1991 |
Skarga/Complaint [Jerzy Wójcik] c |
[Left] with actors Piotr Szwedes & Piotr Adamczyk - "Wrota Europy"
Photo by Andrzej Tarasewicz
1999 |
Wrota Europy/The Gateway of Europe [Jerzy Wójcik] c |
2009 |
Rewizyta/Revisited [Krzysztof Zanussi] c; ph archive footage ('Zycie rodzinne', 1970); ph: Dariusz Kuc |
TELEVISION | |
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1958 |
Wielki testament [Jerzy Antczak] theater perf/?m; cph: Wieslaw Rutowicz; prod Telewizja Polska (Lódz) |
1958 |
Mur [Zbigniew Kuzminski] theater perf/?m; cph: Wojciech Król & Zygmunt Leski; prod Telewizja Polska (Lódz) |
1962 |
Labedzi spiew/Swan Song [Jerzy Antczak] tvm/b&w/722mtr |
1969 |
Prawdziwie magiczny sklep/The Magic Magazine [Mieczyslaw Waskowski] tvm/b&w/25m |
1970 |
Najlepszy kolega/The Best Comrade [Andrzej Trzos-Rastawiecki] tvm/35m |
1971 |
Beczka Amontillado/The Barrel of Amontillado [Leon Jeannot] tvm/28m |
1974 |
Silverson [Falk Harnack] tvm |
1975 |
Nachtdienst [Krzysztof Zanussi & Edward Zebrowski] tvm/54m |
1975 |
Bielszy niz snieg [Wojciech Marczewski] tvm/32m |
1977 |
Haus der Frauen [Krzysztof Zanussi] tvm |
1978 |
Wege in der Nacht/Drogi posród nocy/Ways in the Night [Krzysztof Zanussi] tvm/16mm |
1979 |
Wlasna wina [Wieslaw Helak] tvm/47m |
1983 |
Freundschaften [Eugen York] 2-part tvm ('Karl und Luis' & 'Die gelbe Nelke') |
1986 |
Die Katze läßt das Mausen nicht [Gero Erhardt] 3-part miniseries |
1988 |
Der Landarzt [ep #15 'Auf neuen Wegen' (88m), #16 'Der Spieler', #17 'Diagnose Liebeskummer', #18 'Aus alten Zeiten', #19 'Auf Herz und Niere' & #20 'Routineeingriff' dir by Christian Quadflieg] 297-part series, 1987-2013; 2nd season, 1989 (15 ep) |
1992 |
Das letzte U-Boot/The Last U-Boat [Frank Beyer] tvm |
1994 |
...nächste Woche ist Frieden [Peter Schulze-Rohr] tvm; 2uc: Piotr Sobocinski |
2003 |
Meskie - Zenskie [ep #1 'Wigilia', #2 'Ciaza' & #3 'Narzeczony' dir by Krystyna Janda] 6-part series/v, 2003-04; other ph: Edward Klosinski |
MISCELLANEOUS | |
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1958 |
Co rekne zena.../Zadzwoncie do mojej zony/What Will My Wife Say to This? [Jaroslav Mach] actor; ph: Boguslaw Lambach |
1962 |
Czerwone berety/Red Berets [Pawel Komorowski] c.op; ph: Krzysztof Winiewicz |
1965 |
Faraon/Pharaoh [Jerzy Kawalerowicz] c.op; ph: Jerzy Wójcik & Wieslaw Zdort |
1965 |
Potem nastapi cisza [Janusz Morgenstern] c.op; ph: Jerzy Wójcik |
With actress Halina Luszczewska - "Ktokolwiek wie..."
1966 |
Ktokolwiek wie.../Whoever May Know [Kazimierz Kutz] actor; ph: Antoni Nurzynski |
1966 |
Bariera/Barrier [Jerzy Skolimowski] actor; ph: Jan Laskowski |
1966 |
Szyfry/The Codes [Wojciech Jerzy Has] c.op; ph: Mieczyslaw Jahoda |
1966 |
Zosya/Zosia [Michail Bogin] c.op; ph: Jerzy Lipman |
1967 |
Ojciec/The Father [Jerzy Hoffman; tvm/25m] co-c.asst; ph: Jerzy Lipman |
1987 |
Czerwonym blaskiem otoczona [Katarzyna Remin; short/5m] co-lighting; ph: Katarzyna Remin; prod PWSFTviT |
1996 |
Spózniona podróz [Wojciech Zogala] tvm/b&w/24m; ph coach; ph: Witold Plociennik |
2010 |
Zuzanna [Daria Kopiec] c; live action + anim/17m; co-artistic superv; ph: Monika Kotecka |
2012 |
Matka [Michal Goscik] c; short/6m; ph cons; ph: M. Goscik; prod PWSFTviT |