Halina Sieńska

Bearing traces of the old Anton Chekhov play The Wedding, The Contract is set during an "arranged" ceremony. The bride and groom barely know each other, but this matters not at all to their tradition-bound families. At the last minute, the bride balks. Only slightly nonplused, the groom's father, a status-seeking doctor, decides to go ahead with the expensive reception anyway. Polish director Krzysz Zanussi uses this scenario to stick it to capitalist corruption, and to society's destruction of the individual spirit. Leslie Caron, the one recognizable member of the cast, is outstanding as a wealthy, over-the-hill ballerina who happens to be a kleptomaniac.

Two young men from a town near Lodz attack and rob a taxi driver, hoping he will have a lot of cash. Wanted by the Militia, they run away through Poland.

Short Drama

Krzysztof Zanussi's groundbreaking film chronicles a decade in the life of a young physics student whose absolute faith in the primacy of rationality and science is shaken by tragedy and affairs of the heart.

This intense chamber drama centers on an ambitious young industrial designer who is summoned home to help his father and sister. Both the aristocratic family he fled in shame and scorn, and their dilapidated country estate, bathed in an oppressively nostalgic light, prove ultimately inescapable.

WWII. Zyga, one of the Resistance soldiers in Kraków (Poland), is arrested by Gestapo. Soon later with new arrestings comes out that Germans must have received some new informations. Zyga is suspected to become an informator.

A man jumps off a moving train and goes to a small town to face its inhabitants, who seem familiar, but odd.

A pair of lovers go off to a small hotel in a little town. The memories of war, however, intrude on their idyll. The girl and boy relive certain wartime experiences in flashback. She was a communist who drove a boy loving her to give himself up.

A quarry worker falls in love with a practicing doctor.

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...

Based on a true story of Polish submarine "Orzel" (The Eagle): September 1939, "Orzel" is coming to Estonian neutral harbor in Tallin. Under pressure from Germany Estonians have intern the ship. Commander Grabinski decides to escape to England through the Baltic Sea, without any maps that has been confiscated and with only small amount of fuel on board.

第二次世界大戦末期、ポーランド。反ソ派テロリストのマチェック（チブルスキー）は、ソ連から来た共産地区委員長暗殺の指令を受ける。しかし、誤って別の男二人を殺してしまう。「世代」「地下水道」に続くワイダの戦争三部作。モノクロの画面の中、虫けらのように儚く消えてゆく青年の命。その空しい死に様は、観る者を絶句させずにはおかない。

'４４年、ソ連軍の進軍近しと判断したロンドンの亡命政府の指令で敢行されたワルシャワ蜂起。しかし２０万もの犠牲を出す壊滅的打撃を受け、レジスタンスたちは地下水道へと逃げ込む。物語は、ほぼ全編、その地下水道の中で出口のない、あるいはあっても出られない緊迫感を持って繰り広げられる。語られる人間ドラマもさることながら、その状況こそが当時のポーランドの姿そのものの暗示であった。脚本のスタビンスキーの実体験に基づく、衝撃的な青春の物語。'５７年カンヌで審査員特別賞に輝いた。

The last stage of the Cycling Race Dookoła Polski: Kielce - Warsaw. The fate of the race is at stake: the Polish team still has a chance to win, it is not far from the leading Hungarian national team, in which great cyclist Haranda rides in the yellow jersey. Only the best Pole - Popiel - can take it from him. But he is a competitor - individualist, unruly and undisciplined ...

Imperialist spies try to disrupt and stop production in a large steelworks.