---
name: "Waldemar Kalinowski"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/waldemar-kalinowski"
fi1m_id: "waldemar-kalinowski"
imdb_id: "nm0435859"
tmdb_id: 27543
wikidata_id: "Q131450097"
roles: ["Production designer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-05T02:23:36.232671+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Waldemar Kalinowski

## Identity

Waldemar Kalinowski

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/waldemar-kalinowski
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** waldemar-kalinowski
- **IMDb ID:** nm0435859
- **TMDB ID:** 27543
- **Wikidata ID:** Q131450097
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131450097, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0435859/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/27543

Production designer. Born in Austria.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Active:** 1980–2009
- **Also known as:** Вальдемар Калиновски
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 4: 2 acting, 2 crew
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 79 (1), 1990s 82 (1), 2000s 72 (2)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131450097, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0435859/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/27543

## Streaming the US now

- **Pluto TV:** [*Leaving Las Vegas*](https://film.one/film/leaving-las-vegas.md) (82)
- **Netflix:** [*The Fast and the Furious*](https://film.one/film/the-fast-and-the-furious.md) (72)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Waldemar Kalinowski is a production designer. Born in Austria and raised in Warsaw, Poland, he studied physics and mathematics at the University of Warsaw.

His credits include five films directed by Mike Figgis: *Internal Affairs* (1990), *Mr. Jones* (1993), *Leaving Las Vegas* (1995), *One Night Stand* (1997) and *Liebestraum* (1991). Other notable work encompasses *Powder* (1995), *Stigmata* (1999), *The Fast and the Furious* (2001), *Appaloosa* (2008), *Crazy Heart* (2009) and *Black '47* (2018). He has also acted in several films, including *Leaving Las Vegas*.

Since 1984 he has frequently collaborated with his wife, art historian and set decorator Florence Fellman.

*Sources: imdb.com, rottentomatoes.com, polishfilmla.org.*

## On Fi1m (4)

### Performed in (2)

- *Leaving Las Vegas* (1995), Fi1m 82, as Mobster 2 — [page](https://film.one/film/leaving-las-vegas.md)
- *Heaven's Gate* (1980), Fi1m 79, as Photographer — [page](https://film.one/film/heavens-gate.md)

### Crew (2) — the average rests on these

- *Crazy Heart* (2009), Fi1m 71, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/crazy-heart.md)
- *The Fast and the Furious* (2001), Fi1m 72, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-fast-and-the-furious.md)

## Complete filmography (39)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Soviet Jeans* (2024), series, Writer
- *Lovable* (2022), Writer
- *Black '47* (2018), Production Design
- *What Nobody Can See* (2017), Writer
- *Runaways* (2017), Production Design
- *The Shamer's Daughter* (2015), Production Design
- *A Little Longer* (2014), Writer
- *Sweetwater* (2013), Production Design
- *Life's a Breeze* (2013), Production Design
- *As Cool as I Am* (2013), Production Design
- *Passion Play* (2011), Production Design
- *Crazy Heart* (2009), Production Design — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/crazy-heart.md)
- *The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler* (2009), Production Design
- *Appaloosa* (2008), Production Design
- *Kisses* (2008), as Hotdog Man · Production Design
- *The Lost City* (2005), as Fangio
- *Path to War* (2003), Production Design
- *Crossroads* (2002), Production Design
- *The Fast and the Furious* (2001), Production Design — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/the-fast-and-the-furious.md)
- *Hanging Up* (2000), Production Design
- *ATF* (1999), Production Design
- *Stigmata* (1999), Production Design
- *Dance with Me* (1998), Production Design
- *One Night Stand* (1997), Production Design
- *Leaving Las Vegas* (1995), as Mobster 2 · Production Design — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/leaving-las-vegas.md)
- *Powder* (1995), Production Design
- *Rough Magic* (1995), Production Design
- *Wrestling Ernest Hemingway* (1993), Production Design
- *Mr. Jones* (1993), Production Design
- *The Pickle* (1993), as Crying Man
- *Liebestraum* (1991), as Ralston's Butler
- *K-9000* (1990), as Zeiss Doctor
- *Internal Affairs* (1990), as Surgeon · Production Design
- *The Boost* (1988), Production Design
- *Playing for Keeps* (1986), Production Design
- *Red Dawn* (1984), as Soldier #2
- *Testament* (1983), as Set Decoration
- *Breathless* (1983), as Tomachoff
- *Heaven's Gate* (1980), as Photographer — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/heavens-gate.md)

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