Mirosław Baka

Pawlak and Kargul – the protagonists of the cult-favourite trilogy “Our Folks” – had been neighbours in a village in Podolia before they ended up in the Recovered Territories. Even then, it was one explosive neighbourhood… “Our Folks: The Beginning” is a colourful story of small spites and major milestones in life. The unique characters are shown against the backdrop of big historical events, taking the audience on a riveting, sentimental and humorous journey.

Un premio de lotería acarrea graves consecuencias para una pareja casada cuando empiezan a tramar planes para matar al otro y quedarse con todo el dinero del premio.

1945, Zofia Szablewska, a repatriate from the East, arrives in the former Breslau, now Wroclaw. He lives in a former German villa - the House under the Two Eagles. Zofia's roommate is Jan Liski, an officer of the Security Office who raises his stepson, Kazio, alone. Zofia uses the Red Cross to search for her husband Antoni and son Zbyszek, with whom she lost contact during the war. The commemorative clock left by the Germans brings back memories of her native Kresy, the Nowosiolo estate and the beginning of her love with the Polish settler - Antoni.

Cuenta la historia de una campesina, Jagna, obligada a casarse con un granjero rico y mucho mayor, Boryna, a pesar de que ella está enamorada de su hijo, Antek. Con el tiempo, Jagna se convierte en objeto de envidia y odio de los aldeanos, y tiene que luchar para preservar su independencia. Ambientada en la campiña polaca en la cúspide de los siglos XIX y XX, los giros dramáticos de la historia se relacionan con los cambios de estación, el trabajo duro en el campo y las fiestas tradicionales locales. La novela de Wladyslaw Reymont será llevada a la pantalla con una animación de pinturas realistas y pre-impresionistas al estilo de la pintura polaca del siglo XIX.

La relación entre un periodista famoso y una sencilla profesora empieza a hacer aguas cuando un trabajo se interpone en su nueva vida juntos.

Marysia quiere celebrar las fiestas con su hijo. Krzysztof planea pedirle matrimonio a su novia. Pero una confusión en la entrega de regalos arruina sus planes y deben unirse.

The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talking Heads (1980). The director asked his interlocutors seemingly simple questions, such as “Who are you?” and “What do you want?”.

Un periodista famoso y mujeriego duda de las decisiones que ha tomado en la vida cuando se enamora de una modelo misteriosa que lleva una doble vida.

After 25 years, Franz Maurer gets out of from prison and came into a new Poland, where nothing is the same as he remembered. Who and what is waiting for a man who has done nothing for the last quarter century? How will he find himself in a world where old principles, roles and loyalty have ceased to apply? We'll find out this when the fate brings Franz and "New" back together. Their meeting will change everything.

Durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, se desarrolla una historia de amor entre Józek, Ola y Tadek. Józek es un desertor del ejército zarista que se une a la emergente Legión Polaca, Ola es un agente de inteligencia de la Primera Brigada y Tadek es miembro del Equipo de Tiro. Los tres no vacilan en combatir, sabiendo que solo pueden realizar sus sueños en una Polonia libre. La película se centra en el viaje de la Legión desde 1914 hasta 1916, desde la salida de Oleandry hasta la Batalla de Kosciuchnowka.

Basada en la historia real del héroe de guerra polaco Jan Nowak-Jeziorañski, que se convirtió en "El mensajero de Varsovia". Perseguido por varios servicios secretos del Eje del Mal, Jan sale de Polonia con destino a Londres con el objetivo de llevar una información que podría cambiar el futuro de Polonia.

Stories of three women struggling with alcohol. Dorota is a great prosecutor. Using her immunity, she tries to avoid responsibility for her offenses committed under the influence of alcohol. Her husband, a famous politician, helps her keep the problem secret and rescues her from many troubles but he slowly loses patience. A respected children surgeon Teresa has lost her family due to drinking problem, all she is left with is her job at the hospital where she is the main doctor. The situation goes out of control when the woman comes drunk to the hospital. A student, Magda, likes to party hard and because she is a good student and has a great job, no-one opposes that. At one moment, the girl loses control. A tragedy happens.

Because of trouble at school, 16-year old Isabell's single mum persuades her to take part in a self-knowledge seminar in the Sudeten Mountains. What begins as an unusual holiday adventure in an esoteric group, changes when one of the participants has a mental breakdown and disappears. Has the young woman left or is she the victim of a crime? Isabell is alarmed and begins to investigate the seminar and the other members. Her enquiries are met with a wall of silence. When the mutilated body of the woman who disappeared turns up, Isabell's stay at the wildly romantic resort becomes a nightmare.

When a troubled boy gets caught hiding in a drab man's house, he must finally confront the tumultuous experiences that led him to run away.

Maciek is no longer a boy, but has not yet become a man. He wants to satisfy the ambitions of his father, and - as everyone in the family - be a butcher. But he is too sensitive to make an animal suffer. The boy directs all his warm feelings towards an old, neglected orchard - the only memory of his mother - and discovers his supernatural abilities.

Polonia, 1970. Firmemente decidido a luchar contra la tiranía soviética y a evitar la destrucción del mundo, el oficial de alto rango del ejército polaco Ryszard Kukliński toma una grave decisión que pondrá en peligro su vida, a su familia y el destino de toda una nación.

Run Boy Run is the true story of Jurek, an eight-year-old boy, who escapes from the Warsaw ghetto, then manages to survive in the woods and working as a farmhand, disguising himself as a Polish orphan. He encounters people who will betray him for a reward, who will beat him up or try to kill him, and he meets those, who will do and risk almost everything to help him. Jurek’s resilience is put to the ultimate test, when an accident cripples him, making it harder to find work. But he struggles on against all odds. Eventually the Russians reach his area and Jurek even finds a family where he could stay. Yet he is betrayed again, and a young man from a Jewish orphanage forcefully tries to bring Jurek back to his people and his faith.

El prestigioso director ganador del Oscar Andrzej Wajda ("Katyn") dirige un impecable biopic sobre una de las personalidades más controvertidas y carismáticas del siglo XX: Lech Walesa, líder del Sindicato de la Solidaridad, premio Nobel de la Paz en 1983 y primer presidente de Polonia tras el comunismo. Un film indispensable y de gran valor histórico. La vida del ganador del Premio Nobel de la Paz y fundador del movimiento de Solidaridad de Polonia, Lech Walesa, a medida que los eventos de 1970 llevan a una revolución. Su increíble metamorfosis desde un simple trabajador, centrado en sus tareas del día a día, a un líder carismático. Este controvertido personaje, no exento de defectos, ayudó a millones de personas a liberar sus sueños de libertad, consiguiendo transformaciones más allá de la imaginación de cualquiera de la época.

La película nos sitúa en la épica primera batalla de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. La Batalla de Westerplatte, que comenzó el 01 de septiembre 1939 que sera siempre recordado como la que anunció el inicio de la Segunda Guerra Mundial en Europa. Durante una semana, menos de 200 soldados polacos lucharon contra el intenso bombardeo alemán y en el proceso llegaron a simbolizar el poder de resistencia. Como ruge la violencia, una batalla compleja de naturaleza más personal juega entre dos comandantes polacos sobre cómo llevar mejor a sus hombres. En medio del feroz combate los oficiales polacos deberán responderse la siguiente pregunta....deberían morir hasta el último soldado o rendirse?

Imagine that you have the power to decide on people's lives. Who would you condemned, and whom he saved? In the center of Europe suddenly, without a trace, people begin to disappear. The investigation goes into the hands of Vulture (Michal Zebrowski) - a police officer who appears to be devoid of feelings. Tough, incorruptible, no obligations and favors to others. Until he meets Natasha (Anna Przybylska) - a woman other than those that he met so far. Vulture begins a dangerous game with the enemy ahead of him is still a step. Discovers a world in which people are leading a double life. For the first time, logical thinking will drive him into a trap with no way out. Suddenly, the hunter turned into animals. Balancing on the border between passion and reason, the world of logic and clever manipulation, you will have to answer the question: is there anything more important than life?

Morgue worker starts talking to the dead.

A movie about the power of thousands, the courage of hundreds and friendship of a few, thanks to whom a change of fate of millions became possible. Poland, lower Silesia, the beginning of a very cold winter 1981. After a series of entrapments by the security service a confrontation between the opposition and the communists seems to be inevitable. Just before the proclamation of martial law a group of young solidarity activists decide to play va banque and organize a rash action to take out 80 million of the union money from one of the Wroclaw’s banks before the account is blocked. Security service officers follow their steps. It’s the beginning of a gripping tournament in which also priests and curb dealers will play their parts. Each side has aces up their sleeve.

Anniken travels to Poland to look for her father Marek Konkol. In her search a darkness begins to creep back and Anniken has to face a hurtful truth she has repressed for too long.. a truth that holds the key for her father's disappearance.

For fear of the breakup of his family, Paweł takes his loved ones to Croatia.

El doctor Artur Planck (Joseph Fiennes), su esposa Clara (Neve McIntosh) y sus dos hijas van en búsqueda de un refugio huyendo de la persecución de los nazis tras el asalto a Polonia. Cuando logran refugiarse en la casa de una viuda local y en medio de los horrores de la guerra que les rodea, un triángulo de amor imposible irrumpe cuando Emily se enamora de Artur.

Though she only knows his first name and that he ‘works in coal’, Molly, a young Irish woman, travels to a small Polish town to find the man with whom she had a memorable one-night stand several months before. Armed with nothing more than a postcard and her own tenacity, she sets about finding her past lover, despite her landlord’s admonishments that all the coal mines closed years ago.

This is the story of Sylvia, who looses her stepchildren on a shopping trip in Poland. For fear of loosing her husband's love, too, she is unable to tell him what has happened and returns home, pretending anything is fine. When realising the missing of his children, the father starts a desperate retrieval. He is ready to give up anything in order to find them. Sylvia supports him in any way; she tries to comfort him and takes care of his hope's vulnerable flame. For the first time he really needs her. While the children are trying their best to get home, the police fails in detecting their whereabouts. When a very vague trace leads to Poland, the parents hit the road to find their children on their own.

In the mid-1960s, a respected surgeon dreams of leaving Poland to see his wife and daughter in England. To get the money for his escape, he needs to consider taking part in a bank robbery.

Sharkey, part of the sinister world of child trade, picks up Vlado, an orphan of war, dreaming of freedom and a better life. They embark upon a strange and enlightening journey through war torn Bosnia. As they struggle to get out of the country and fight to stay alive, they find a special love and compassion from which emerges their ultimate moral and spiritual redemption.

Alex and Andre are two hit men who face death and violence every day but also understand the gentleness of love. They would like to start a new life, but their involvement in the criminal underground is too deep. Alex and Andre move about in a world of expensive hotels, cars and discothèques frequented by drug dealers and thieves who would double-cross you as soon as look at you.

One of the best Polish comedies of the late 1990s, "Boys Don't Cry" is a satirical look at the gangsters of Poland and some teens who accidentally get involved with them.

Entertaining movie about the early days of Polish stock exchange in the beginning of 80's. Young TV reporter is sucked into the inferno of easy money, deception, crime, sex and drugs. Sometimes like Kieslowski's moral tales, sometimes like Pasikowski's brutal fables, even sometimes like "Once upon a time in America". Fantastic creations of Baka as Maks and Majchrzak as Rekin /the Shark/ - evil incarnated.

Andre, an assassin working on behalf of French government goes to Poland to kill Polish businessman Muran.

A detachment of the Polish IFOR forces in Bosnia is led by Major Keller, who is being investigated for insubordination during a patrol in Srebrenica. The investigation is to be led by two arriving officers - Lieutenant Czacki and Major Kusz who will also replace Keller as CO. When the camp's RTO receives a communication from a downed Norwegian chopper, Keller ignores his standing orders and leads a platoon to rescue the crew.

It is July 1995. Kuba Mitura and his little daughter, Zuza, come to a great concert organised by Jurek Owsiak. Kuba tells the girl the story of his youth. It is 1988. The nineteen-year-old Kuba is a rebellious boy with two-coloured hair. He does not study or work. He lives with his father, a retired military man, bitter and apodictic and with his aunt. One day Kuba meets Diana, a beautiful and eccentric woman, a dozen or so years older than him, a person from the "hostile world". However, the two of them become friends. The father throws Cuba out of the house when he introduces Diana as his fiancée. Soon Diana and Cuba get married to a "hippie", but the military policemen, who have been sent by the father, take Cuba away. In the army, Cuba is doing absurd exercises under the watchful eye of Corporal Kos trying to raise him. The father takes the oath and Diana, who confesses to Cuba that she is pregnant and wants to give birth. But Cuba does not want to become a father.

Małe prowincjonalne miasteczko koło Warszawy rządzone jest przez lokalną mafię. Brutalne napady, zuchwałe kradzieże są na porządku dziennym. Trwa walka między Pawlikiem i Alim o szefostwo. Kto jest na czyich usługach i kto dyktuje reguły gry?

Early 90's. The political and economic landscape of Poland, Russia and Germany is changing. Both good and bad sides of freedom are revealed. The mafia is becoming more and more bold, operating without obstacles across borders. One of the more lucrative "businesses" is the trade in luxury cars, stolen in Germany and transferred to Russia by Russia.

A Polish Resistance fighter who survived the Nazi years cannot accept the new Communist power.

A man who leads a lonely existence with his young daughter accidentally gets involved with a robbery before a manhunt ensues.

OSTKREUZ tells the episodic story of 15-year-old Elfie, who literally and metaphorically inhabits a no-man’s-land between the two Germanies shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The film deploys a neorealist aesthetic to reinforce the difficulties confronting the girl, and by inference, Germany.

Orlanda is a person between male and female. Their profession is diseuse, a performer who entertains with songs and speeches in the German tradition of the 20's and 30's. To escape from loneliness, as well as to play with taboos, Orlanda decides to marry their friend Elizabeth. On a concert tour in Warsaw, which also serves as a honeymoon, both the newlyweds fall in love with a young Polish man.

Old friends come to the reunion of alumni, for whom the meeting after many years is an opportunity for memories, but also comparisons of who have been most successful in their lives.

Polish film directed by Jacek Skalski. A young student, expelled from university for taking part in strikes, and a middle-aged married woman, whose husband is abroad, fall madly in love during the tumultuous times of 1980s martial law.

"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.

A man migrates from Poland over Germany into the US.

Varsovia. Un taxista está lavando su coche. Jacek, un joven campesino de mirada turbia, vaga por la ciudad. Piotr, un estudiante de derecho, se prepara para hacer su último examen. Sus destinos se cruzan cuando Jacek coge un taxi para ir a los suburbios de la ciudad, donde asesina brutalmente al taxista golpeándolo con una piedra.