Movies

A peasant’s son rises through the ranks of post-war Polish society like none of his ancestors ever could. Moving to the city, he becomes part...

Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their...

Andrzej Wajda's English-language film of a novella by Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, aka Joseph Conrad, about a young man in his first...

Anka and Robert, two 18-year-olds from a small town, go to the lake for the weekend. Two weeks later, a photo of a girl appears in the Poznan press...

An industrialist's wife announces that she is leaving him, but returns shortly after and tells him that she will only stay with him for appearances....

A young couple arrives to the palace, where years ago the Countess Julia, She-Wolf was terrorising its inhabitants. Soon the ghost of the Countess...

A young teenager from the provinces comes to Warsaw to find her relatives and gets herself in various trouble.

Three young friends travel round Poland, making a living by acting out religious scenes at fairs and selling photographs. Problems arise when a...

The main character, race car driver Ryszard Fox, is involved in many car accidents. After each car crash he gets a transplant for one or another...

The arrival of some unwanted visitors interrupts the peaceful Cuban home life of sisters Dolores, Carmen and Elvira, as their presence stirs up...

A film director uses a South American premiere of his latest picture to reconnect with his old friends from the Warsaw Uprising, the protagonists of...

In 1912, Szczebieniew, a rich and ailing old man, comes to Italy with his young wife, Zinaida. Bored with his company, she looks for amusement and...

One of the passengers on a ship carrying Poles on a cruise in December 1981 is a dissident high school teacher sent abroad by Solidarity. He is...

A young journalist is arrested for freethinking ideas and placed in a cell with a famous safe-breaker and a former cleric, who murdered his mistress'...

A story of a female production manager in a garment factory discovering that an award is being given to the wrong person on purpose. She stands up...

Zbyszek Butryn returns to Poland from exile to help win the Solidarity elections. His children, staying in orphanages, who intend to find him, learn...

The Home Army's battles against the communist authorities in the Żywiec region.