In the winter of 1943 two young Jews, Alek and Fryda, escape, via sewer tunnels Read More »
Tag Archives: Poland
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 »
The Taste of the Black Earth / Sól ziemi czarnej (1970) Kazimierz Kutz, Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Jan Englert, Jerzy Binczycki
During the 1920 Silesian uprising, seven brothers take part Read More »
Hotel Pacific / Zaklete rewiry (1975) Janusz Majewski, Marek Kondrat, Roman Wilhelmi, Roman Skamene
Set in the early 1930s, a young man finds a job as a dishwasher in a hotel and quickly works his way up the ladder. Read More »
Jovita / Jowita (1967) Janusz Morgenstern, Daniel Olbrychski, Barbara Lass, Kalina Jedrusik
Marek is a young athlete involved with too many women until the day he met Jowita, an enigmatic and beautiful woman. Read More »
A Woman Alone / Kobieta samotna (1987) Agnieszka Holland, Maria Chwalibóg, Boguslaw Linda, Pawel Witczak
A story of a middle-aged woman, Irena, living alone on the outskirts of Wroclaw with her 8-year old son. Read More »
1939: Battle of Westerplatte / Tajemnica Westerplatte (2013) Pawel Chochlew, Michal Zebrowski, Robert Zoledziewski, Jan Englert
On the morning of September 1, 1939, the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein fired Read More »
Where are you going, Aida? / Quo vadis, Aida? (2020) Jasmila Zbanic, Jasna Djuricic, Izudin Bajrovic, Boris Ler
Bosnia, July 1995. Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. Read More »