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Tag Archives: Poland
The Magnate / Magnat (1987) Filip Bajon, Jan Nowicki, Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Jan Englert
Film traces the fascinating saga of princely Polish dynasty in years 1900-1935. Read More »
She-Shaman / Szamanka (1996) Andrzej Zulawski, Boguslaw Linda, Iwona Petry, Piotr Machalica
Classmates called her “Italian” … She is extremely beautiful and radiates a certain primitive, dangerous sexuality Read More »
Issa Valley / Dolina Issy (1982) Tadeusz Konwicki, Anna Dymna, Maria Pakulnis, Danuta Szaflarska
The film evokes a childhood in rural Lithuania between the wars. Read More »
Europa Europa (1990) Agnieszka Holland, Solomon Perel, Marco Hofschneider, René Hofschneider
A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan Read More »
Katyn (2007) Andrzej Wajda, Andrzej Chyra, Maja Ostaszewska, Artur Zmijewski
When the Soviet Union on 17 September 1939 invades Poland, Anna Aleksandrowna leaves her home in Krakow Read More »
Quiet Is the Night AKA Wsród nocnej ciszy (1978) Tadeusz Chmielewski, Antonina Barczewska, Henryk Bista, Jerzy Bonczak
A psychological detective story about a police hunt for the murderer of young boys. Read More »
Hi, Tereska AKA Czesc Tereska (2001) Robert Glinski, Aleksandra Gietner, Karolina Sobczak, Zbigniew Zamachowski
Teenager Tereska comes from poor family and has to face difficult world and mean people around her. Read More »
The Mighty Angel AKA Pod mocnym aniolem (2014) Wojciech Smarzowski, Robert Wieckiewicz, Julia Kijowska, Adam Woronowicz
Jerzy is a writer and a chronic alcoholic. We meet him at the point when he believes that he can beat his addiction. Read More »
From a Far Country (1981) Krzysztof Zanussi, Sam Neill, Christopher Cazenove, Lisa Harrow
The film is a biography of Pope John Paul II. It starts in 1926 when the boy Karol Wojtyla was celebrating Christmas with his father in Poland. Read More »