Two quarreling peasant families, who were forced to leave their lands after the war Read More »
Tag Archives: Poland
Camera Buff (1979) Krzysztof Kieslowski, Jerzy Stuhr, Malgorzata Zabkowska, Ewa Pokas
Filip buys an eight-millimetre movie camera when his first child is born. Read More »
Winter Twilight (1957) Stanislaw Lenartowicz, Wlodzislaw Ziembinski, Maria Kierzkowa, Zygmunt Zintel
Rumsza, the elderly railwayman, leading a sedate life with his wife Read More »
To Kill This Love (1972) Janusz Morgenstern, Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak, Andrzej Malec, Wladyslaw Kowalski
The young couple love each other. The boy is in constant work which will fit him Read More »
Strike (2006) Volker Schlöndorff, Katharina Thalbach, Dominique Horwitz, Andrzej Chyra
A nearly illiterate woman becomes one of the founders of Poland’s Solidarity union. Read More »
The Mother of Kings (1987) Janusz Zaorski, Magda Teresa Wójcik, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Franciszek Pieczka
Made in 1982, shelved for five years. Story opens with Lucja Krol’s husband under the tram. Read More »
In an Old Manor House or The Independence of Triangles (1984) Andrzej Kotkowski, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Grazyna Szapolowska, Gustaw Holoubek
In a country house at the turn of a century live a family of eccentrics. Read More »
Symmetry (2003) Konrad Niewolski, Arkadiusz Detmer, Andrzej Chyra, Janusz Bukowski
A man falsely accused of assaulting an old woman tries to adapt to his new life in prison. 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 »
History of Cinema in Popielawy (1998) Jan Jakub Kolski, Krzysztof Majchrzak, Bartosz Opania, Grazyna Blecka-Kolska
“Historia kina w Popielawach” is a bucolic familiar tale, full of irony and heavily intertwined with the invention of the motion picture. Read More »
Man on the Tracks (1957) Andrzej Munk, Kazimierz Opalinski, Zygmunt Maciejewski, Zygmunt Zintel
In 1950, at night, a passenger train kills a man on the tracks. He is Orzechowski, an engineer since 1914. Read More »
Passenger (1963) Andrzej Munk, Witold Lesiewicz, Aleksandra Slaska, Anna Ciepielewska, Jan Kreczmar
The last film of Andrzej Munk, who died in a crash during the filming. Read More »
Aftermath (2012) Wladyslaw Pasikowski, Maciej Stuhr, Ireneusz Czop, Zbigniew Zamachowski
A Polish man who returns home after the death of his father unearths a secret about the now-deceased Jewish residents of his village. Read More »
The Death of Captain Pilecki (2006) Ryszard Bugajski, Marek Probosz, Marek Kalita, Andrzej Niemirski
Captain Witold Pilecki was a Polish intelligence officer during WWII who volunteered for a Polish resistance operation Read More »
Hardkor Disko (2014) Krzysztof Skonieczny, Marcin Kowalczyk, Jasmina Polak, Agnieszka Wosinska
A contemporary, multi-faceted metropolis. Nouveau-riche parents and their hedonist, live-in-the-moment children Read More »