Władysław Forbert Movies

The ‘Żywe kamienie’ (meaning living stones) from the title are architectural monuments that convey the history of past generations....

The reminiscences of a Russian pilot, shot down over Poland during the war, of his first great love there.

A story of the love affair between Janek Małodworny and Hanka, daughter of the kulak Nalepa. The two love each other, but their happiness is...

Report from the sports parade on July 22.

A man has a day he would rather forget. From the very morning, nothing seems to go his way. Told through pantomime and slapstick, this short film was...

The story of the life of a political prisoner in a Russian gulag. Based on the book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A documentary about the problems of post-war reconstruction and the beginnings of socialism in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and Poland.

After WWII a soldier returns to his Polish homeland from Scotland.

A film suite divided into three parts showing successively the defeat of Warsaw, the gradual awakening of the capital and the first post-war Warsaw...

On Christmas Eve, a little girl falls asleep after a party at her home and dreams herself (or does she?) into a fantastic world where toys become...

A documentary showing the First of May celebrations.

An alcoholic mother of a born out of wedlock child has a difficult decision to make when a journalist proposes to adopt her son and pay her for it.

Three stories about life problems, each rooted in contemporary reality through newspaper reports and a “Polityka” magazine survey,...

Short documentary about the flooding that struck Poland in the spring of 1947.

A biographical documentary about Krzysztof Penderecki

A doctor, though not having finished his studies, earns a living providing medical advice. A former nurse enters the stage, saying she hears voices...

"Peace Will Win" documents the Second World Congress of Peace Defenders, held in Warsaw in November 1950 after the event was relocated from...

A series of twelve "letters" from different parts of Vietnam in the days following the 1954 Geneva Conference, written in images and narrated in...

The heroic struggle of Polish post office workers in Gdańsk on the first day of World War II.

The dark drama of a peasant family from the second half of the 19th century: Seduced by a municipal clerk (in exchange for a promise to release her...