
Young people living in Poland in the late 1960s had to face difficult times and make tough choices. Read More »
Tag Archives: Poland
Big Animal / Duze zwierze (2000) Jerzy Stuhr, Anna Dymna, Dominika Bednarczyk

Left behind by a circus, a camel wanders to the house of a simple middle-aged couple. Read More »
Killer / Kiler (1997) Juliusz Machulski, Cezary Pazura, Malgorzata Kozuchowska, Jerzy Stuhr

An innocent cab driver Jurek Kiler is mistaken for a contract killer and imprisoned. Read More »
Hubal (1973) Bohdan Poreba, Ryszard Filipski, Malgorzata Potocka, Tadeusz Janczar

Based on a true story. After Poland is overrun by Axis forces in 1939 Read More »
Konopielka (1982) Witold Leszczynski, Krzysztof Majchrzak, Anna Seniuk, Joanna Sienkiewicz

Kaziuk, a stubborn peasant and his pregnant wife live in a backwood village, unaffected by the civilization. Read More »
Foreign Body / Obce cialo (2014) Krzysztof Zanussi, Riccardo Leonelli, Agnieszka Grochowska, Agata Buzek

Angelo and Kasia met in Italy in the Focolare Movement where their love Read More »
Warsaw: Year 5703 / Warszawa. Année 5703 (1992) Janusz Kijowski, Lambert Wilson, Hanna Schygulla, Julie Delpy

In the winter of 1943 two young Jews, Alek and Fryda, escape, via sewer tunnels Read More »
The Last Stage / Ostatni etap (1948) Wanda Jakubowska, Tatjana Gorecka, Antonina Gordon-Górecka, Barbara Drapinska

Martha Weiss, a Jew, is sent to Auschwitz concentration camp with her family. Read More »
Based on a True Story / D’après une histoire vraie (2017) Roman Polanski, Emmanuelle Seigner, Eva Green, Vincent Perez

Basking in the tremendous success of her debut autobiographical novel dedicated Read More »
Escape from the ‘Liberty’ Cinema / Ucieczka z kina ‘Wolnosc’ (1990) Wojciech Marczewski, Janusz Gajos, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Teresa Marczewska

The film is set just before Poland’s communist regime came to an end, and the central character is a provincial censor (Janusz Gajos) Read More »