Tag Archives: Andrzej Wajda

When the Soviet Union on 17 September 1939 invades Poland, Anna Aleksandrowna leaves her home in Krakow Read More »

In the early 1810s, Poles, part of Russia’s client state of Lithuania, think independence will come Read More »

During the Nazi era, a Jewish woman on the run takes a trolley which passes near the Warsaw ghetto Read More »

From Joseph Conrad’s great novel comes the story of a young seaman trying to helm a damaged boat to Singapore Read More »

This story begins in 1870 at a little town somewhere in Russia. It processed the real “Nyecsajev story”. Read More »

At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles Read More »

In 1976, a young woman in Krakow is making her diploma film, looking behind the scenes at the life of a 1950s bricklayer Read More »

Set in the late ’20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend. Read More »

A worker becomes a “man of iron” forged by experience, a son comes to terms with his father, a couple fall in love Read More »

In what might be termed Russo-Shakespearean noir, a ruthless woman’s adulterous affair with a drifter sets in motion a chain-reaction of murder and deception in a remote village in 19th Century Mtsensk. Read More »

Action opens in November of 1793, with Danton returning to Paris from his country retreat upon learning that the Committee for Public Safety, under Robespierre’s incitement Read More »

A famous Polish journalist presents a problem for the powers-that-be when he displays his full political skill and knowledge on a television show featuring questions and answers on a world conference by a panel of journalists. Read More »

A winter day at a Polish castle, half owned by a fatalistic notary and half by a volcanic old soldier’s niece. Read More »

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, a generation of youth comes of age. Stach and his friends start with spontaneous acts of defiance, which can prove deadly, but have no organized purpose. Read More »

Account of the last days of life of the legendary Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his heroic dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war. Read More »