Walerian Borowczyk Movies

An animated film made by Walerian Borowczyk for W.D. & H.O. Wills. A very pompous cigar smoker reminisces about the good old days when the lower...

A short film by Walerian Borowczyk. Ostensibly a film of a concert given by the round, unassuming Monsieur Kabal and his spiky, terrifying wife, it's...

Lucrezia Borgia, accompanied by her husband Giovanni Sforza visits his father, Pope Alexander VI, and his brother, Cardinal Cesare Borgia. The...

Ximen Qing, a rich mandarin, deserts his wives to play with the courtesans. One of his young spouses, tired of languishing, consoles herself with a...

Camera operator Noël Véry provides a commentary on footage shot during the making of The Beast.

Borowczyk and Lenica are at their most expressive in this crude paper miniature.

From Boccaccio's "La précaution inutile". Jean, a rich old merchant, is blessed with a young and beautiful wife. Although Bianca is absolutely...

During a hospital stay in 2001, the Polish painter, sculptor and filmmaker Walerian Borowczyk compiled a handwritten list of the objects and animals...

Countess Erzsébet Báthory, accompanied by her page, visits the villages and hamlets of her county of Nyitra in Hungary.

Animated photographs (made with Jan Lenica) with elements of animated cartoon. A display of military drill.

A monster, the Beast of Gévaudan, is spreading terror in France, in the Massif Central.

A short film by Walerian Borowczyk

A portrait of Serb erotic surrealist painter Ljubomir "Ljuba" Popović.

Paris is a monstrously inhuman cityscape, in which cars, buses, crowds, and unceasing noise combine to smother any decent and delicate human...

A witty and eye-opening tour through Borowczyk's own collection of vintage erotica. Originally intended as part of his 'Contes immoraux', it was...

An animated advert made by Walerian Borowczyk for a French pasta company.

This short film by Walerian Borowczyk was made in 1979 but is so little known that when it was rediscovered in 2014 it had not been included in any...

About the work of the naive painter J. Plaskocinski. A playful tale about the requited love of a shy young man.