Sweethearts Juliusz (Roland Glowacki) and Roza (Lucyna Winnicka) meet just prior Read More »
Tag Archives: Jerzy Kawalerowicz
The Game / Gra (1969) Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Lucyna Winnicka, Gustaw Holoubek, Helena Bystrzanowska
A bourgeois married couple of 12 years are going through an existential crisis. Read More »
Cellulose / 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 »
Under the Phrygian Star AKA Pod gwiazda frygijska (1954) Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Józef Nowak, Lucyna Winnicka, Halina Przybylska
Based on the writings of Igor Newerly, Kawalerowicz’s epic chronicles the romance between Szczesny Read More »
Maddalena (1971) Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Lisa Gastoni, Eric Woofe, Ivo Garrani
A woman is desperate to find real love in a steady and secure relationship. 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 »
Quo Vadis (2001) Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Pawel Delag, Magdalena Mielcarz, Boguslaw Linda, Drama
Marcus Vinicius meets Lygia in Rome and falls in love. But she is Christian and doesn’t want anything to do with him. Read More »
Smierc prezydenta / Death of the President (1977) Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Zdzislaw Mrozewski, Marek Walczewski, Henryk Bista, Drama, History
Set at the historic moment of rebirth of Poland after World War I. The newly organized National Assembly elected Gabriel Narutowicz Read More »
Pociag / Night Train (1959) Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Lucyna Winnicka, Leon Niemczyk, Teresa Szmigielówna, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Two strangers, Jerzy (Leon Niemczyk) and Marta (Lucyna Winnicka), accidentally end up holding tickets for the same sleeping chamber on an overnight train to the Baltic Sea coast. While handsome, well dressed and rather laconic, Jerzy seems ill at ease, while Marta is not talkative and would prefer to be alone. Staszek (Zbigniew Cybulski) is a student and Marta’s spurned lover, and will not leave her alone. When the police enter the train in search of a murderer on the lam, rumors fly and everything seems to point toward one of the main characters as the culprit.
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Austeria / The Inn (1982) Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Franciszek Pieczka, Wojciech Pszoniak, Jan Szurmiej, Drama, War
Austeria takes place during the opening days of World War I, in the Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia. Tag (Franciszek Pieczka) is a Jewish innkeeper whose inn (austeria means inn in the local Polish dialect) is located near the border with Russia. War has broken out and local civilians are fleeing the advancing Russian Army, and several groups of refugees have taken shelter in Tag’s inn for the night. A group of Hassidic jews from the neighboring village arrive, followed by an Austrian baroness on and a Hungarian hussar cut off from his unit…
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