Ewa Żukowska

Roy, who lives abroad, recollects his youth. Soon he receives news about his old friend's death.

A parable for the end of totalitarianism. Three protagonists - a high official, a secretary, and a border guard - representative of three generations (1948, 1968, 1988) are forced to confront their ideals and places in society through the events of one strange night.

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

Historical novel by Boleslaw Prus . The problem of the Polish population displacement from their land within the limits of the Prussian partition. Germans come to the village harassing a wealthy peasant Snail, leading to the tragedy. Slug's cottage burns, his wife dies. The peasant does not give up, defending his inheritance. He sticks on a patch of his Polish soil and protects it like a soldier his post.

Tres matemáticos polacos son los primeros en descifrar el sofisticado código Enigma utilizado por los alemanes justo antes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Construyen réplicas de las máquinas Enigma y logran llevar dos de las máquinas a los descifradores de códigos británicos y franceses antes de la invasión alemana de Polonia en 1939; piden que se reconozca su trabajo al final de la guerra. Después de la invasión, la oficina de cifrado polaca escapa y continúa su decodificación en Argelia y Francia desocupada.

The love story of Stanisław Połaniecki and the beautiful Marynia Pławicka, set in the scenery of manor houses and Warsaw from the end of the 19th century.

The story begins in March of 1968, the days of students protests. A hot- headed student protests the Dean's decision to expell a fellow student on fake accusation charges, upon which he drops out of university rather than make a compromise. He loses everything in the process: his girlfriend, housing privileges - he becomes a coal deliverer. On the job he witnesses an accident that causes death of a fellow worker. He decides to write a story, which is good and a publishing house wants to print it, but only after some corrections are made. He refuses again and the story is not printed. Finally, a story is commercialized and made into a succesful film and brings fame to the original author.

A young doctor from the lower classes is helped in his career by a rich woman. When he comes back from study in Paris he takes a job at a watering spa. He comes up against the owners when he tries to help the poor.

Polish drama from 1970 directed by Bohdan Poreba.