Set in the early 1930s, a young man finds a job as a dishwasher in a hotel and quickly works his way up the ladder. Read More »
Tag Archives: Poland
Partings (1961) Wojciech Has, Lidia Wysocka, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Gustaw Holoubek
A middle-aged actress comes back to her hometown for her grandfather’s funeral after many years of absence. Read More »
The Magnate (1987) Filip Bajon, Jan Nowicki, Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Jan Englert
Film traces the fascinating saga of princely Polish dynasty in years 1900-1935. Read More »
Knights of the Teutonic Order (1960) Aleksander Ford, Urszula Modrzynska, Grazyna Staniszewska, Andrzej Szalawski
A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. Read More »
Faraon (1966) Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Jerzy Zelnik, Wieslawa Mazurkiewicz, Barbara Brylska
The story, based on actual historic events, concerns an invented ruler Ramses XIII (Jerzy Zelnick) Read More »
Quiet Is the Night (1978) Tadeusz Chmielewski, Antonina Barczewska, Henryk Bista, Jerzy Bonczak
A psychological detective story about a police hunt for the murderer of young boys. Read More »
A Boring Story (1982) Wojciech Has, Marek Bargielowski, Wladyslaw Dewoyno, Ewa Frackiewicz
A professor of medicine, known and recognized, through a serious personal crisis. Read More »
Forefathers (1989) Tadeusz Konwicki, Gustaw Holoubek, Jolanta Pietek-Górecka, Artur Zmijewski
In the eve of the Day of the Dead, among mysterious old rituals of the Vilnius region, ghosts of the past and present start to appear. Read More »
Field of Dogs (2014) Lech Majewski, Michael Tatarek, Elzbieta Okupska, Jacenty Jedrusik
Father ploughs a supermarket with oxen, the plough ripping the tiles. A forest full of dead and Niagara falling onto a cathedral altar. Read More »
Man of Iron (1981) Andrzej Wajda, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Krystyna Janda, Marian Opania
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 »
Edi (2002) Piotr Trzaskalski, Henryk Golebiewski, Jacek Braciak, Jacek Lenartowicz
The film tells a story of two scrap pickers – the title hero Edi and his friend Jureczek. Read More »
Yiddle With His Fiddle (1936) Joseph Green, Jan Nowina-Przybylski, Molly Picon, Max Bozyk, Leon Liebgold, Comedy, Musical, Romance
This is the timeless folk humor about a guy and his daughter that, penniless, decide to become travel musicians. Read More »
Prisoner of Rio (1988) Lech Majewski, Steven Berkoff, Paul Freeman, Peter Firth, Biography, Drama, Thriller
In 1981, Ronald Biggs was kidnapped by agents from Scotland Yard from his Brazilian hideout for his participation in the 1964 British train robbery. Read More »
Hi, Tereska (2001) Robert Glinski, Aleksandra Gietner, Karolina Sobczak, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Drama
Teenager Tereska comes from poor family and has to face difficult world and mean people around her. Read More »
Gold Dreams (1962) Wojciech Has, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Krzysztof Chamiec, Barbara Krafftówna, Drama
The inability of a truck driver to relate to normal life after an accident for which he feels himself responsible. Read More »