Jan Ciecierski

A two-part historical film covering the years of the First World War and the post-war period up to 1919 - until the signing of the peace treaty in Versailles near Paris. An attempt to show the great and complicated process of regaining an independent existence by a nation within its own state. The screen shows characters from history textbooks: Józef Piłsudski, Ignacy Paderewski, Roman Dmowski, Wojciech Korfanty as well as representatives of the world political scene, incl. David Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, Vladimir Lenin and others.

Después de cincuenta años de exilio, un viejo y célebre director de orquesta decide regresar a su patria. Durante los ensayos tiene un enfrentamiento con el director local, hombre ambicioso y marido posesivo de una violinista, hija de la mujer de la que el exiliado estuvo enamorado en su juventud. El film presenta el enfrentamiento entre dos éticas, la del anciano enamorado del arte, y la del inescrupuloso advenedizo, capaz de utilizar cualquier medio para lograr sus fines. Entre ambos, la mujer que, inevitablemente reconoce la realidad, y actúa como desencadenante del conflicto.

Polish drama from 1970 directed by Bohdan Poreba.

Sampson is one of several Andrzej Wajda films harking back to his youth during the Nazi Occupation of Poland. Many of these concern not only the struggle between good and evil, but also between passive and impassive. The hero is a Jewish youth. He, like his family, has always been silent and undemonstrative in the face of prejudice. Now he stands up for his right to survive, and in so doing represents the fighting spirit that culminated in the 1943 Warsaw Uprising. It was originally titled Samson, but re-spelled as Sampson upon its American release to avoid confusion with a sword-and-sandal epic of the same name.

En Polonia, concluida la Segunda Guerra Mundial, la situación política y social es caótica. El idealismo cede el paso a diversas formas de anarquía y extremismo. El protagonista, un joven que milita en un grupo ultranacionalista, recibe el encargo de asesinar a un importante comunista; pero, cuando el joven encuentra el amor, en pocas horas sus certezas comienzan a convertirse en dudas.

Three women, ex-prisoners of a nazi deathcamp, decide to live together after the war.

The fate of a German found by the French peasants - a deserter from the Legion of Foreign Affairs fighting in Vietnam.

Two-part biopic about General Karol Świerczewski, living embodiment of the party line, and the group of party members from his hometown fighting the fascist forces towards the socialist state of affairs.

Fragmento clave de la biografía del gran compositor polaco Frédéric Chopin en el marco de los significativos eventos políticos ocurridos entre 1825 y 1830. Principal inspiración de su música, sus obras se vieron marcadas por las circunstancias que le rodeaban. La vida del genial artista a través de su magistral música

A war drama that tells the story of the discovery of the illegal AL printing works by the Nazis, showing the activities of the left-wing underground in the occupied capital.

The main character is a very superstitious man. On the 13th day of the month, after a very bad start to the day, he reads the newspaper and learns that he won the lottery. The unexpected happiness causing him to make a scene at work. Soon it turns out that there was an error in the newspaper and he did not win.....

The main character is a very superstitious man. On the 13th day of the month, after a very bad start to the day, he reads the newspaper and learns that he won the lottery. The unexpected happiness causing him to make a scene at work. Soon it turns out that there was an error in the newspaper and he did not win.....