An attempt at depicting the life of a generation born and raised in communist Poland; a generation that lived through all the stages of that system and made it to democracy. Throughout his life, the film's protagonist has always tried to be active, but something always got in his way, either through an absurd coincidence, as a result of his own lack of ability, or due to the unpredictable nature of certain events in our recent history.
"No tomarás el nombre de Dios en vano": Dorota, una mujer embarazada, visita en el hospital a su esposo moribundo (Andrzej). Segundo de los diez mediometrajes realizados para la televisión por el director Krzysztof Kieslowski y el guionista Krzysztof Piesiewicz, denominados genéricamente "Decálogo". cada uno de ellos se inspira en uno de los Diez Mandamientos.
In 1969 a young writer decides to write an essay on a well known Polish writer, who had to leave the country in the 50's, later living, working and dying in exile. He slowly assembles the character and even the exterior appearances of his idol until his own identity tragically disappears.
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.
Una pareja de jóvenes se marcha en moto de un camping. Al mismo tiempo lo hace un autobús lleno de chicos. El motorista pierde accidentalmente una tienda de campaña.
