The lives of several one room tenants in Warsaw’s Old Town. All the young roommates – a poet, a student Read More »
Tag Archives: Wojciech Has
Write and Fight AKA Pismak (1985) Wojciech Has, Wojciech Wysocki, Gustaw Holoubek, Janusz Michalowski
Set during the World War I in a prison cell. A newspaper satirist, a safecracker and a clerical murderer have been loaded Read More »
How to Be Loved AKA Jak byc kochana (1963) Wojciech Has, Barbara Krafftówna, Zbigniew Cybulski, Artur Mlodnicki
An actress travels from Warsaw to Paris and during the trip reflects on the last few years of her life. Read More »
Gold Dreams AKA Zloto (1962) Wojciech Has, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Krzysztof Chamiec, Barbara Krafftówna
The inability of a truck driver to relate to normal life after an accident for which he feels himself responsible. Read More »
Farewells AKA Pozegnania (1958) Wojciech Has, Maria Wachowiak, Tadeusz Janczar, Gustaw Holoubek
The story takes place before World War II and centers on Pawel, a member of a conservative, middle-class family Read More »
Memoirs of a Sinne (1986) Wojciech Has, Piotr Bajor, Maciej Kozlowski, Janusz Michalowski
The 18th century tale of a youngster whose memories, recounted after death Read More »
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 »
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 »
The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober (1988) Wojciech Has, Rafal Wieczynski, Michael Lonsdale, Adrianna Biedrzynska, Drama
A dream-like odyssey of a young man across plague-ridden 16th century Germany. Read More »
Lalka / The Doll (1968) Wojciech Has, Mariusz Dmochowski, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Tadeusz Fijewski, Drama, Romance
Set in the 19th century Warsaw. The indolence of aristocrats who, secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. Read More »
Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie / The Saragossa Manuscript (1965) Wojciech Has, Zbigniew Cybulski, Iga Cembrzynska, Elzbieta Czyzewska, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Upon finding a book that relates his grandfather’s story, an officer ventures through Spain meeting a wide array of characters, most of whom have a story of their own to tell.
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Sanatorium pod klepsydra / The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973) Wojciech Has, Jan Nowicki, Tadeusz Kondrat, Irena Orska, Drama, Fantasy
The film depicts its protagonist, Joseph (Jan Nowicki), traveling through a dream-like world, taking a dilapidated train to visit his dying father in a sanatorium. When he arrives at the hospital, he finds the entire facility is going to ruin and no one seems to be in charge, or even caring for the patients. Time appears to behave in unpredictable ways, reanimating the past in an elaborate artificial caprice.
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Osobisty pamietnik grzesznika przez niego samego spisany / Memoirs of a Sinner (1986) Wojciech Has, Piotr Bajor, Maciej Kozlowski, Janusz Michalowski, Drama
The 18th century tale of a youngster whose memories, recounted after death, are a long series of wrong moral choices ending up with his killing his evil alter-ego, that is committing suicide.
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Szyfry / The Codes (1966) Wojciech Has, Jan Kreczmar, Zbigniew Cybulski, Ignacy Gogolewski, Drama
A father searches for his son, who has been missing since WW II, in post-war Poland. In his quest for the truth about his son, the father is forced to contemplate the elusive and coded nature of truth itself.
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