Based on true events, the movie tells the story of two men who want to start a scooter business but don't have the required collateral for a bank loan. Then one of them runs into a former flat neighbour who offers to lend them the money. The guy turns out to be a thug and starts to extort them. Their life goes downhill from there.
"No matarás": En una Varsovia gris, vacía, pobre y triste, Jacek, un joven sin perspectivas ni futuro, asesina brutalmente a un taxista. Quinto de los diez mediometrajes, cuyo nombre genérico es "decálogo", realizados para la televisión por el director Krzysztof Kieslowski y el guionista Krzysztof Piesiewicz. Cada uno de ellos se inspira en uno de los Diez Mandamientos. Este episodio es una versión de la película "No matarás", de 1988, realizada por el mismo equipo.
"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.
A Polish writer is arrested by the Nazis in 1942 and sent to the notorious Pawiak prison in Warsaw. He will spend the next 111 days fighting for survival.
The protagonist of "Passerby" is writer and filmmaker Tadeusz Konwicki. His story, which reflects the paradoxes of the 20th century history, is commented by means of fragments of his films, documentary newsreels and stage productions.
A film about the life and activities of the Polish revolutionary Ludwik Waryński. In his memoirs, Ludwik returns to his student years in St. Petersburg, to Warsaw, to Krakow, where he was arrested and put on trial. After the end of the process in Krakow, Waryński leaves for Geneva, where he meets with Russian revolutionaries. In 1881, he returned to his homeland and created the first party of workers in Poland...
