Lucek (Andrzej Chyra) is a shrewd but soulless debt collector who callously Read More »
Tag Archives: Poland
Lullaby AKA Kolysanka (2010) Juliusz Machulski, Robert Wieckiewicz, Malgorzata Buczkowska, Janusz Chabior
Black comedy. A weird family named Makarewicz moves into a house recently abandoned by owner Read More »
Ga, Ga – Glory To The Heroes AKA Ga, Ga – Chwala bohaterom (1986) Piotr Szulkin, Daniel Olbrychski, Jerzy Stuhr, Katarzyna Figura
Our main character lands on a supposedly uninhabited strange new world Read More »
Squint Your Eyes AKA Zmruz oczy (2002) Andrzej Jakimowski, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Olga Prószynska, Rafal Guzniczak
The story of a spirited ten-year-old girl who has run away from her proudly affluent parents in town Read More »
33 Scenes from Life AKA 33 sceny z zycia (2008) Malgorzata Szumowska, Julia Jentsch, Peter Gantzler, Maciej Stuhr
A successful artist, married to a famous composer, must suddenly deal with a number of crises Read More »
30 Door Key AKA Ferdydurke (1991) Jerzy Skolimowski, Iain Glen, Robert Stephens, Crispin Glover
A young writer in 1939 Warsaw faces the conflict of acting his age or relapsing Read More »
The Game AKA Gra (1969) Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Lucyna Winnicka, Gustaw Holoubek, Helena Bystrzanowska
A bourgeois married couple of 12 years are going through an existential crisis. Read More »
Horizontal Landscape AKA Pejzaz horyzontalny (1978) Janusz Kidawa, Mieczyslaw Hryniewicz, Jaroslaw Kopaczewski, Wieslaw Wójcik
After the construction foreman is fired in Communist-era Poland Read More »
Crows AKA Wrony (1994) Dorota Kedzierzawska, Karolina Ostrozna, Katarzyna Szczepanik, Malgorzata Hajewska
A thin child of about 10, nicknamed “Crow” because she mimics the bird, has no friends Read More »
Jack Strong (2014) Wladyslaw Pasikowski, Marcin Dorocinski, Maja Ostaszewska, Patrick Wilson
This gripping spy thriller tells the true story of a man who dares to challenge the Soviet empire. Read More »
In a Moment of Passion (1993) Zbigniew Kaminski, Chase Masterson, Vivian Schilling, Julie Araskog
An aspiring actress falls for her leading man and passion ignites. Read More »
Medium (1985) Jacek Koprowicz, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Michal Bajor, Jerzy Zelnik
In the early 1930s the parapsychologist Wagner uses his telepathic sister to psychically uncover the presence of a nearby medium. Read More »
It’s a Free World… (2007) Ken Loach, Kierston Wareing, Juliet Ellis, Leslaw Zurek
Angie gets the sack from a recruitment agency for bad behaviour in public. Read More »
Cellulose AKA Celuloza (1954) Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Józef Nowak, Stanislaw Milski, Zbigniew Skowronski
A common worker tells a communist activist the story of his turbulent life Read More »
Nastasya AKA Nastazja (1994) Andrzej Wajda, Tamasaburô Bandô, Toshiyuki Nagashima
Andrzej Wajda’s Japanese-language film based on the last chapter of Dostoevsky’s Idiot Read More »