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Family Life AKA Zycie rodzinne (1971) Krzysztof Zanussi, Daniel Olbrychski, Jan Kreczmar, Halina Mikolajska
A young engineer is called back home, which he had left years before. 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 »
Inventory AKA Stan posiadania (1989) Krzysztof Zanussi, Krystyna Janda, Artur Zmijewski, Maja Komorowska
Difficulty of human relations in a 3-cornered tale: a neurotic woman, idealistic young man and his mother. Read More »
Without Love AKA Bez milosci (1980) Barbara Sass, Dorota Stalinska, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Zdzislaw Wardejn
Ewa is so desperate to become a well-known journalist that she Read More »
Alchemik (1989) Jacek Koprowicz, Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Michal Bajor, Joanna Szczepkowska
An alchemist, Sendivius, comes to court, and transmutes base metal into gold. Read More »
The Deserters AKA C.K. Dezerterzy (1986) Janusz Majewski, Marek Kondrat, Zoltán Bezerédy, Wiktor Zborowski
In 1918, a group of soldiers of various nationalities conspires to desert the imperial Austro-Hungarian army. Read More »
Vinci (2004) Juliusz Machulski, Robert Wieckiewicz, Józef Paleczka, Borys Szyc
After several years of serving his sentence, Cuma – a notorious art thief is released Read More »
At Full Gallop AKA Cwal (1996) Krzysztof Zanussi, Maja Komorowska, Bartosz Obuchowicz, Karolina Wajda
In the early 1950s, a 10-year-old boy moves to Warsaw to stay with his bourgeois aunt. Read More »
Ancient Tale: When the Sun Was God AKA Stara basn. Kiedy slonce bylo bogiem (2003) Jerzy Hoffman, Michal Zebrowski, Marina Aleksandrova, Malgorzata Foremniak
Polish historical action fantasy based on a novel by Jozef Ignacy Kraszewski. Read More »
Everything for Sale AKA Wszystko na sprzedaz (1969) Andrzej Wajda, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Elzbieta Czyzewska, Andrzej Lapicki
The disappearance of the leading actor from the film’s set worries its director Andrzej. Read More »
The Artillery Sergeant Kalen AKA Ogniomistrz Kalen (1961) Ewa Petelska, Czeslaw Petelski, Wieslaw Golas, Zofia Slaboszowska, Leon Niemczyk
Set in the closing days of World War II, film recounts the adventures of a Polish soldier Read More »
To Siberia AKA Na Sybir (1930) Henryk Szaro, Adam Brodzisz, Jadwiga Smosarska, Mieczyslaw Frenkiel
A rebel fights against the early 20th century occupation of Poland by the Russian Czar, and is sentenced to Siberia. Read More »
March Caresses AKA Marcowe migdaly (1990) Radoslaw Piwowarski, Monika Bolly, Stanislaw Brudny, Magdalena Curyk
Young people living in Poland in the late 1960s had to face difficult times and make tough choices. Read More »
It’s Spring, Sergeant AKA Wiosna, panie sierzancie (1974) Tadeusz Chmielewski, Józef Nowak, Malgorzata Pritulak, Tadeusz Fijewski
While their beloved policeman prepares for exams, small town’s people Read More »