Marek Piestrak
{{Short description|Polish film director (*1938)}}
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Marek Piestrak (born March 31, 1938) is Polish film director and screenwriter.[https://www.filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php?osoba=113028 Marek Piestrak]
Filmography
- 1974: {{ill|Śledztwo|pl|Śledztwo (film 1973)}} Polish TV film based on Stanislaw Lem's novel The Investigation[http://www.filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php?film=124427 ŚLEDZTWO Film fabularny - telewizyjny]
- :Lem was unhappy with the work, but he wrote he was aware of the extremely low budget and appreciated the director's dedication, who sometimes used dirty tricks to make shots (e.g., he pretended to be a crazy man and burst into Scotland Yard with a camera to make some valuable shots for free) .Łukasz Maciejewski,[https://solaris.lem.pl/home/czytelnia/wywiady/319-swiety-spokoj?start=1 "Święty spokój", an interview with Lem]
- 1979: Inquest of Pilot Pirx
- :"Golden Asteroid" Big Prize at the International Cinema Festival at Trieste 1979.Eva Näripea, [http://www.kinokultura.com/specials/10/pirx-naripea.shtml Transnational Spaces of Science Fiction: An Estonian-Polish coproduction The Test of Pilot Pirx (Test pilota Pirxa / Navigaator Pirx, 1978)], Kinokultura, 2010
- 1988: Curse of Snakes Valley
- :Despite the box office success, film critics considered it a failure and gave name to the Snake Award for Polish cinematographic failures, similar to the American Golden Raspberry Awards.[https://web.archive.org/web/20170921002658/http://film.onet.pl/weze-2014-smialkowski-i-kedzierski-o-fenomenie-klatwy-doliny-wezy/y6nym Węże 2014: Śmiałkowski i Kędzierski o fenomenie "Klątwy Doliny Węży"], April 2, 2014
- 1993: {{ill|Tear of the Prince of Darkness|pl|Łza księcia ciemności}} (Satan's Tear) Saatana pisar {{in lang|et}}, Łza księcia ciemności {{in lang|pl}}, Слеза князя тьмы {{in lang|ru}}
- :Horror / crime fiction. Actions are in Tallinn, 1939. A German baron and a sect of Satanists are looking for a legendary ring hidden by the 18th-century Satanists, with which they want to bring Satan to Earth.[http://sfkadr.com/pl/movies/281/lza-ksiecia-ciemnosci.html Łza księcia ciemności]