Young people living in Poland in the late 1960s had to face difficult times and make tough choices. Read More »
Tag Archives: Poland
It’s Spring, Sergeant AKA Wiosna, panie sierzancie (1974) Tadeusz Chmielewski, Józef Nowak, Malgorzata Pritulak, Tadeusz Fijewski
While their beloved policeman prepares for exams, small town’s people Read More »
The Deluge AKA Potop (1974) Jerzy Hoffman, Daniel Olbrychski, Malgorzata Braunek, Tadeusz Lomnicki
During the 1655 war between Protestant Sweden and Catholic Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Read More »
All Soul’s Day AKA Zaduszki (1961) Tadeusz Konwicki, Ewa Krzyzewska, Edmund Fetting, Elzbieta Czyzewska
A pair of lovers go off to a small hotel in a little town. The memories of war, however, intrude on their idyll. Read More »
Big Animal AKA 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 AKA 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 AKA 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 AKA 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 AKA 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 AKA 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 AKA 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 AKA 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 AKA 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 »