A film set in a small Polish village in the ’60s that deals with a young girl’s awakening sexuality. Read More »
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Sprawa Gorgonowej AKA The Gorgon Case (1977) Janusz Majewski, Ewa Dalkowska, Aleksander Bardini, Mariusz Dmochowski
One of the most talked-about trials in 1930s Polish press. Read More »
Wodzirej AKA Top Dog (1978) Feliks Falk, Jerzy Stuhr, Slawa Kwasniewska, Wiktor Sadecki
An ironic look at a climber who decides to do anything Read More »
Young Forest (1934) Joseph Lejtes, Kazimierz Junosza-Stepowski, Boguslaw Samborski, Maria Bogda
In the beginning of the 20th century, Polish students are fully aware that the education system is not one Read More »
Snow White and Russian Red (2009) Xawery Zulawski, Borys Szyc, Roma Gasiorowska, Maria Strzelecka
An aggressive thug has problems with his girlfriend. Read More »
Johnnie Waterman (1993) Jan Jakub Kolski, Franciszek Pieczka, Grazyna Blecka-Kolska, Boguslaw Linda
The old man Johnnie lives a peaceful but eccentric rural life with his young wife Veronica. Read More »
Money Is Not Everything (2001) Juliusz Machulski, Marek Kondrat, Stanislawa Celinska, Sylwester Maciejewski
A 50-year old philosopher-turned-businessman wants to give up his business in the wine industry Read More »
Our Folks (1967) Sylwester Checinski, Waclaw Kowalski, Wladyslaw Hancza, Zdzislaw Karczewski
Two quarreling peasant families, who were forced to leave their lands after the war Read More »
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 »