Władysław Kowalski

Rainer Dulsky, a professor of psychiatry from Switzerland, comes to Melania, the granddaughter of Mrs. Dulska. He feels he’s got something in common with the tenement house in which the Dulski family live... Melania, a film director, intrigued by her family history joins Rainer in his research. Their discoveries will take them back to the past full of secrets that were meant to stay hidden forever. The Dulski family have much on their conscience...

Janusz no es un hombre fácil de sorprender. Como juez de instrucción debe realizar precisas investigaciones, analizando la escena del crimen minuciosamente. A pesar de las situaciones extremas ante las que se encuentra, trabaja duro. Demasiado duro quizá. Sin embargo, cuando se enfrenta a su hija anoréxica Olga, todavía de luto por su madre, se siente impotente. Temiendo que pueda suicidarse, la interna en una clínica donde Ana, una psicóloga, lleva a cabo sus funciones. Años más tarde, Anna perderá a su bebé y se aislará junto a su perro en un edificio de pisos fuertemente aislados donde conjurará a los espíritus que se comunican con los vivos desde el más allá.

37-year-old Marta gets married and wants to have a baby. But her toxic relationship with overbearing mother complicates her life in many ways.

Basada en hechos reales, cuenta la historia del cirujano Zbigniew Religa, quien hizo el primer trasplante de corazón exitoso en Polonia en los años 80 en contra de la opinión de sus colegas y luchando por sacar adelante su propia clínica. Religa, al atreverse a trasplantar un corazón humano, rompió barreras morales, culturales y religiosas.

Lazowski, an expelled university student, investigates the supposed suicide of the famous artist Witkacy and tries to prove that the artist is in fact still alive.

Inspirada en hechos reales, en Polonia, a mediados de los 60, gira en torno a un triángulo amoroso entre un escritor, una agente secreto. (FILMAFFINITY)

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....

Jerzy Popieluszko es un sacerdote polaco que decide apoyar la huelga obrera de una fábrica de fundición de su ciudad. El carisma que desprende y su poder de atracción ponen en alerta al gobierno comunista que decide poner en marcha su maquinaria represiva contra el líder religioso.

El 1 de septiembre de 1939, la Alemania nazi invade Polonia, dando principio a la Segunda Guerra Mundial. El 17 de septiembre, el Ejército Rojo soviético cruza la frontera. El ejército polaco, incapaz de luchar en dos frentes, es derrotado. Miles de hombres polacos, tanto militares como funcionarios gubernamentales, son capturados por los invasores. Su destino solo será conocido varios años después.

Desarrollada en un futuro cercano, Avalon es un juego de guerra de realidad virtual e ilegal que se ha convertido en la obsesión de una desilusionada juventud. Ash, nuestra heroína, es una guerrera clase A que busca finalizar el juego así como, subir al nivel clase A especial.Su única posibilidad, está en encontrar un fantasma que la puede subir al nivel de clase A especial. Sin embargo, su encuentro con el fantasma puede llevarla a un eterno estado vegetal, riesgo que Ash decide afrontar.La película trascurre en una Polonia mermada por la crisis económica. Un ambiente decadente y opresivo, matizado con secuencias con escasos diálogos y una fantástica banda sonora, hacen del mundo creado en Ávalon una película atractiva de ver, escuchar y sentir.

The film takes place in two spaces of time. Modern history tells the story of a passing relationship crisis doctor James with her teacher Maria. During the night shift, Jacob is trying to calm the boy. Experiencing a shock that pushes him into the inner journey in time past, in the regions of childhood, to the genesis of his fears and frustrations. The second story waged simultaneously with the first takes place in the nineteenth century, in a nobleman's manor where Maria takes care of the ailing heiress Elizabeth. Elizabeth's daughter, Zofia, is expecting a baby. — Polish Wikipedia

Lituania, 1812. Polonia está tachada del mapa de Europa. Dos grandes familias se enfrentan entre sí: los Soplica, aliados de los rusos, y los Horeszko, defensores de la independencia polaca. Tras veinte años de conflicto, Jacek Soplica ha matado al último señor de la casa de los Horeszko, que le había negado la mano de su hija. Para reparar su terrible falta, Jacek adopta la identidad de un monje bernardino y se encarga de la educación de Sophie, descendiente de los Horeszko. Su objetivo es desposarla con su hijo Tadeusz, quien acaba de regresar tras finalizar sus estudios. Pero en junio de 1812, Napoleón Bonaparte, en su avance hacia Moscú, franquea el Niemen. Entonces Tadeusz decide unirse al ejército, frustrando así los planes matrimoniales que su padre tenía para él.

Set in Polish high school in the year 1969, a story about a group of first year students who are trying to get through the year by finding a way around an eccentric history teacher.

In a small Polish town in the summer of 1939, a married painter and a young Jewish woman begin an affair. Based on the novel by Marek Sołtysik.

In the beginning of the Second World War, Germans, Austrians and persons without nationality living in France are sent to the concentration camp of Les Milles by France government. Commander Charles Perrochon is the responsible for this camp and he promises to the leaders of the prisoners to protect them from the Nazis. When France is invaded by the Germans, Commander Perronchon will disobey orders and his superiors trying to save these men. He gets a train, a ship and money from USA to send about eight hundred of these prisoners to the safety of Casablanca, in Marrocos.

A film based on a simple situation: several men talk in the sauna.

In the winter of 1943 two young Jews, Alek and Fryda, escape, via sewer tunnels, from the atrocities underway in Warsaw ghetto. Alek, entrusted with undeveloped photos of the horrors within, makes his way to a supposedly safe apartment only to find it occupied by Germans. Another tenant, a pole Stephania, abruptly offers to shelter him in her spacious apartment. She comforts him and they make love that very night. Stefania is uncommonly generous and willing to jeopardize her own safety by hiding a Jew. She even goes to a nearby church and rescues Fryda. But Fryda is ungrateful and proceeds to sabotage the trio's safety in insidious ways.

Weronika vive en Polonia y tiene una brillante carrera como cantante, pero padece una grave dolencia cardíaca. En Francia, a más de mil kilómetros, vive Véronique, otra joven idéntica que guarda muchas similitudes vitales con ella, como su enfermedad y su gran pasión por la música. Ambas, a pesar de la distancia y de no tener aparentemente ninguna relación, son capaces de sentir que no están solas.

In the cinema "Liberty" there takes place a screening of the film " Daybreak". The screening is interrupted by an unusual event. Actors come to life on the screen, start conversations among themselves, draw the audience into them. Crowds gather around the cinema, the relevant authorities and services wonder what to do in this complicated situation. Also arriving is the censor, a man reaching his fifties, a one-time literary critic and journalist. The line between fiction and reality begins to blur...

The Master and Margarita (Mistrz i Małgorzata) is a four-part Polish television production based on the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov.

The Master and Margarita (Mistrz i Małgorzata) is a four-part Polish television production based on the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov.

"No robarás": Ania, que tiene seis años, es hija de Majka, pero ha crecido creyendo que su madre es Ewa, la madre de Majka, es decir, su abuela. Séptimo de los diez mediometrajes que constituyen el llamado "Decálogo" y que están inspirados en los Diez Mandamientos (Kieslowski los llama "mandamientos sin moral").

An actor is married to a dancer whose drug addiction drives them to desperation when World War II breaks out.

Story of four people in Sopot in 1933, mysteriously brought together to an old villa to reenact a murder that took place 36 years earlier

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.

In the 50's a tailor drinking with his friends has an attack that requires an emegency treatment in the hospital. He has damaged kidneys. Given a second lease on life the tailor thinks that while in a coma he has communicated with the distant stars. He gives up tailoring and turns to the stars. He engages his friends in a village to build an observatory. He becomes recognized and for a time being even the authorities back him up. But then comes bitter awakening: his wife can't take his obsessions anymore and leaves him. The town council calls upon him to close his work as the first Sputnik goes into space. Then he is invited to an astronomical convention, He becomes the sensation of the conference, not however, as a amateur astronomer, but by guessing the clothing measurements of the delegates. Back home he realizes that his dream may be over, but he cannot help gazing at the sky. Written by Polish Cinema Database

In 2059 scientists manage to revive two people after 80 years of suspended animation - a boy Marek Torlewski and a dictator Muanty, who quickly becomes a serious threat to humanity. Synteza is an adaptation of a novel by Maciej Wojtyszko.

A story of a middle-aged Jew methodically preparing himself to be shipped off to a concentration camp. The main character, Jacob Rosenberg, is a former industrial counselor, who is forced to work as a street cleaner. He knows what the fate is holding for him in the future, nevertheless he takes it with and implacable calmness.

A boy comes of age under an oppressive, cruel socialist government and watches as it slowly but surely distorts his family, his school and even his own thoughts.

A story of a dropout out of a succesful career and a loving family. He goes to a local railroad station, then checks into a hotel and refuses to leave despite visits by a psychiatrist and his own son. He watches people daily at the station. A tv reporter is trying to come up with a story which would help him to save his job. He likes to chase women and the dropout's wife is one of his targets. He gets interested in the story of her husband and tries to make a program about mysterious individual. Once the tv crew arrives to the scene, the subject tries to hide and ends up on the roof of the station, where he catches a glimpse of sunshine - the "smaller sky" - before stepping onto a glass roof and falling to his death.

Set in 1905. The story focuses on a young and inexperienced man in a revolutionary execution squad. He does his killing job out of idealism, and for the love of a woman. The young student murders a Russian spy and is afterwards arrested by the police. Much to his surprise he is released after a session with the traitor-judge, hinting at some leaks in the organisation. Student reports his suspicions back to the organisation, but in response is given a new hit mission.

Ewa is a reporter. Using her feminine charms and other means she is trying to become a journalist on a Warsaw weekly popular magazine. She hopes to become political interviewer of personalities and state leaders. On her way up the ladder she trips over one of her own shoestrings and falls short of the goal she has been pursuing so fanatically.

Most important events of November Uprising in Poland.

The film is set toward the beginning of World War II, at a psychiatric hospital in the country. But this is an unusual hospital: there are several incurable schizophrenic cases, staff is bit strange and a writer has voluntarily entered the clinic because he is "peculiar" and a drug addict. Then, the occupying forces arrive...

Two men go to Warsaw to sell Christmas trees and meet old friends.

Rafał is suspected of killing a turtle that fell out of the balcony.

The young couple love each other. The boy is in constant work which will fit him, and in the end becomes a petty thief who cannot pay his debts anymore and decides to steal from homes where he pays scheduled visits to lonely housewifes. The girl works a nurse but is too sensitive in extreme cases. Running parallel to their story is a metaphor involving a castaway on a junkyard, who tries every means possible to get rid of the dog which becomes attached to him. In the end he attaches sticks of dynamite to the dog, but he breaks loose and the explosion wipes them both.

Holidays spent by a couple in love are disrupted by the appearance of a stranger.

Officers of the 5th Horse Rifle Regiment of the 1st Armored Division go to Brussels, where they meet Joachim Lelewel. To verify the story, the press officer of the division goes to Brussels.

In the last days of WW2, Polish military looks for the murderer of prosecutor responsible for storing Gestapo files.

Un platillo volador llegó a la Tierra y está oculto bajo una carpa de circo. Cuatro personas, que representan diferentes personalidades humanas, fueron elegidas por un avanzada raza alienígena hiper-dimensional, con un control total sobre el espacio y el tiempo, a través de su intermediario en la Tierra, Luisa, para convertirse en esencialmente muestras de laboratorio para un programa de investigación sobre las formas primitivas de la conciencia.

Three short segments about love.

The inability of a truck driver to relate to normal life after an accident for which he feels himself responsible.

A segment of “Love at Twenty” tells the story of a man who rescued a child from a polar bear attack.

Cinco episodios sobre el amor, dirigidos por conocidos directores. François Truffaut, en "Antoine et Colette", trata de un inocente amor entre un joven y una mujer madura. Renzo Rossellini sigue las andanzas de dos mujeres que comparten un amante. Shintaro Ishihara ofrece un violento retrato de un joven perturbado que se convierte en asesino de mujeres. El episodio de Marcel Ophüls (hijo del gran Max Ophüls) se centra en un periodista que, tras un breve encuentro, deja a una mujer embarazada y tendrá que afrontar su responsabilidade como padre. El episodio dirigido por el polaco Andrzej Wajda habla de un joven soldado cuyas hazañas provocan la admiración de una mujer.

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.

In the last days of the war an old train driver and his young assistant carry weapons to Polish soldiers on the western front.

An actress visits her hometown to attend the funeral of her grandfather. She realizes that the places and people from her past differ from her cherished memories.

Jacek is a handsome, charming young Pole who belongs to a drama company. One day, in the streets of Gdansk, he meets Marguerite, a beautiful, charming French girl. He falls for her but the young lady is whimsical...