The protagonists of the first stories are Tom and Alina. We are getting ready for the wedding. He comes to the Registry Office from work. Read More »
Tag Archives: Poland
Spirala / Spiral (1978) Krzysztof Zanussi, Jan Nowicki, Maja Komorowska, Zofia Kucówna, Drama
In what appears to be an inexplicable incident, a man drives up to a resort hotel in midwinter, throws away his car keys, enters Read More »
Park (2016) Sofia Exarchou, Dimitris Kitsos, Dimitra Vlagopoulou, Thomas Bo Larsen, Drama
Young love blossoms amongst a group of Athenian teenagers during a boisterous summertime idyll, in the raw, romantic and anarchic feature debut from Greek New Wave director Sofia Exarchou. Read More »
Between Two Fires (2010) Agnieszka Lukasiak, Magdalena Poplawska, Simon Kassianides, Kamila Nowysz, Drama, Romance, Thriller
A young mother with her daughter escapes child trafficking in their home country Belarus just to end up in a refugee camp in northern Sweden. Read More »
Spokój / The Calm (1980) Krzysztof Kieslowski, Jerzy Stuhr, Izabella Olszewska, Jerzy Trela, Drama
Filmed in 1976 and shelved for five years. A young man in his twenties leaves prison after a three-year sentence. Read More »
Personel (1975) Krzysztof Kieslowski, Juliusz Machulski, Irena Lorentowicz, Wlodzimierz Borunski, Drama
Romek, an idealistc 19-year-old boy, takes a job as a tailor in the costume department of a Warsaw theater company where his new colleague Read More »
Krótki dzien pracy / Short Working Day (1981) Krzysztof Kieslowski, Tadeusz Bartosik, Zbigniew Bielski, Leon Charewicz, Drama
Based on reportage of the 1976 strike in Radom, which ended with the regional Party Committee headquarters set aflame, Kieslowski’s made-for-TV hybrid film merges archival materials with a dramatization of organized opposition during a single day of conflict. Read More »
Wkreceni (2014) Piotr Weresniak, Piotr Adamczyk, Bartosz Opania, Pawel Domagala, Comedy
Three car factory workers from Silesia, who have just lost their jobs, go to Warsaw to have a fun weekend. On their way there, however, they are mistaken for foreign businessmen.
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Jestem / I Am (2005) Dorota Kedzierzawska, Piotr Jagielski, Agnieszka Nagórzycka, Edyta Jungowska, Drama
An eleven-year-old (Piotr Jagielski) escapes from an orphanage and returns to his hometown where the other kids call him “Mongrel” and his young alcoholic mother (Edyta Jungowska) kicks him out again. Undaunted, he sets up quarters of his own in an abandoned barge.
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Plac Zbawiciela / Saviour Square (2006) Joanna Kos-Krauze, Krzysztof Krauze, Jowita Budnik, Arkadiusz Janiczek, Ewa Wencel, Drama
Beata and Bartek are a young married couple with two children. As they keep waiting for the key to their own Warsaw apartment, they are living temporarily with Bartek’s overbearing mother near Warsaw’s Saviour Square.
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