Anna Romantowska

La tragedia se encuentra con la comedia en siete historias sobre cómo nuestro mundo entero puede colapsar en cualquier momento.

Young couple living in the old house suddenly discover an elevator which takes them directly to year 1939.

A decades-old diary found at a construction site reveals the harrowing account of a professor in hiding during the early days of the Warsaw Uprising.

There is a writer who in the late 1970s managed to publish a poem in the monthly "Nowy Wyraz". It was enough to become a self-confessed writer whose name began to appear in the state media. The writer takes full advantage of his privileges - he flirts with power, sympathizes with the opposition, and collapses his studies at the same time. He is saved from going to the army by an exalted essayist whose sister is the head of the psychiatric hospital in Tworki. In a psychiatric institution, a writer meets a schizophrenic who writes a novel. After his suicide, the protagonist takes over the draft, which he publishes outside of censorship under his name, thanks to which he gains fame, fame and money. August '80 breaks out....

Valerio Mastandrea is Franz, a night bus driver on the airport route who owes a lot of money from poker debts. He's stumbled upon by the variously named Leila, a thief who has accidentally become wrapped up in a secretive blackmail deal involving the President. As the film unfolds, a secret war between factions of the Security Services, a series of confusions among the various criminal fraternities whose activites have been touched upon by the deal, and Leila's past all complicate the situation.

Jajo to zaniedbany chłopak z rozbitej rodziny. Wzorem życiowego sukcesu jest dla niego "profesja" złodzieja samochodów w elitarnym gangu Maksa. Przed złodziejską karierą przestrzega bohatera właściciel warsztatu samochodowego, w którym on pracuje. Jajo, chcąc zdobyć respekt Maksa, kradnie wspaniałego jaguara, czym jednak niechcący naraża się gangsterowi.

1991, farewell in Budapest. Mária remembers the past in tears. Her husband, Tibor, a chemist and a target of the KGB, left their apartment one evening to fetch some cigarettes only to be found drowned in the shallow Lake Balaton the following day. Their son, Peter, a student in Western-Europe, was found dead on the Danube embankment.

In this cynical comedy, an renowned, out-of-work, unpublished “underground” writer from formerly Communist Poland is driven to unusually desperate measures in order to get his work published. Stan has been living in the attic apartment of his ex-wife’s home, which he shares with a journalist friend. One day, he has an accident which convinces his ex-wife and her current husband that he's suicidal, and they hastily contact a media representative to see if some sort of publicity can't be arranged so that Stan’s work can be published and they can benefit, if not from the money, then from their association with him. The organization they contact says that they will be happy to publish his writings, if he will commit suicide live, on television, in St. Peter’s square, while the Pope is delivering an address.

Durísimo retrato de la opresión política. Krystyna Janda encarna a una actriz de cabaret que mantiene relaciones con altos oficiales militares. Esos encuentros la hacen sospechosa y la policía secreta la encarcela. Mediante una interrogación brutal, se convencen de que el breve encuentro entre la actriz y un comandante del ejército ha fomentado un complot contra el gobierno. A lo largo de la película se muestran a los extremos que llegan los interrogadores para extraer lo que creen que es la verdad... Prohibida inmediatamente tras su estreno en Polonia, la película fue lanzada internacionalmente en 1990 en el Festival de Cannes, donde Janda logró el premio a la mejor actriz. (FILMAFFINITY)

Prior to her wedding a nineteen years old Anna can't stop wondering - whether she made the right choice? So she decides to seek the advice of a well-known sexologist...

A Polish thriller. Central story is a duel between criminal-on- the-run (Linda) and the cop (Machalica) who put him behind the bars the first time around.

After the death of a respected academician, who in his private life was a tyrant and a phony, the family awaits arrival of a prodigal son to begin the ceremony. However, the deceased has prepared a vengeance for his disappointing sons...

A woman just out of prison gets a job in a nursing home and tries, unsuccessfully, to put her life back together.

A story of a female production manager in a garment factory discovering that an award is being given to the wrong person on purpose. She stands up the injustice. Her best friend backs her up instead of the cultprit, the man she is living with. Later, the former production manager becomes a mayor in a resort town, where she in turn practices malfasance and is caught in the act by her friend.