Szamanka (Polish pronunciation: [ʂaˈmaŋka]) is a 1996 erotic drama film directed by Andrzej Żuławski and adapted from a screenplay by Manuela Gretkowska.

The film, which was controversial upon its release in Poland, follows the obsessive relationship between an anthropology professor and a strange young woman only known as the "Italian".

During her search, she meets anthropology professor Michał (Bogusław Linda), who agrees to rent to her an apartment that was occupied by his brother.

During excavations with his students and his younger colleague Juliuz (Paweł Deląg), they find the well-conserved, more than two thousand years old corpse of a shaman.

In a moment of illumination, Michał speaks with the spirit of the shaman who reveals that he was killed by a woman who wanted to capture his magic power.

My hope is to respond to that freshness by consolidating it with maturity and an aesthetic sense that will bring out all its latent lyricism.Actor Iwona Petry was chosen by Director Żuławski after he met her accidentally in a café in Warsaw.

Although there were rumors in the Polish press that Żuławski used voodoo to improve the performance of Petry, she was in fact trained by French coach Harmel Sbraire, who had previously worked with Juliette Binoche.

The film generated some controversy in Poland due to its explicit depiction of sex and its criticism of traditional morality and Catholicism.

Variety wrote that the picture "may please rebellious youth at home and the voyeur crowd abroad, but few others will sit through this overlong study of straining faces, quivering limbs and random violence, whose larger message somehow gets lost as the number of sex scenes reaches double digits.