Henryk Staszewski

A stranger shows up in an American town, promising a reward for the person who once helped him out of trouble.

The action takes place in the second half of the 19th century in a small Californian town in the Wild West. Hans, a German émigré, opens a shop on one of the streets. To his annoyance, his fellow countryman, young and beautiful Lora, sets up a shop on the opposite side. There is fierce competition. Lora decides to take Hans to court. However, unfamiliar with German, the judge mistakenly marries them.

Twin brothers, Jacek and Placek, are the town's troublemakers. They're lazy, greedy and also cruel. They despise hard work, so they cook up a plan to make easy money that would make them rich for the rest of their lives: steal the moon and sell it. They set on a journey to find a place where the moon would be low enough for them to steal. Before they leave, they take the last loaf of bread from their poor hardworking mother. After numerous adventures the boys manage to catch the moon in a fishing net. But it is only the beginning of their troubles.

Two strangers, Jerzy and Marta, accidentally end up holding tickets for the same sleeping chamber on an overnight train to the Baltic Sea coast. Also on board is Marta's spurned lover, who will not leave her alone. When the police enter the train in search of a murderer on the lam, rumors fly and everything seems to point toward one of the main characters as the culprit.

Anatol Kowalski is an old man who works in a bank and loves his old-fashioned hat. One day the hat gets lost and Anatol decides to buy a new one.

Diver Antoni Barnat is falsely accused of causing an accident underwater that almost led to his fellow diver's death. Interestingly enough, they are both in love with the same girl, Teresa.

ナチ支配下のポーランド。石炭を盗むのが生業の若者が、仲間を独軍の機銃掃射で失い、自分も傷ついたところを工員の青年に助けられる。彼を通じて抵抗運動の女性闘士を知った若者は彼女に恋するが、やがて彼女にも悲劇が訪れる……。脇役で出演もしているポランスキーをして“この作品でポーランド映画のすべてが始まった”と言わしめた、ワイダの長編処女作。後に「地下水道」「灰とダイヤモンド」と続く“抵抗三部作”の最初の作品。まだ演出には生硬な所があるが、感情を一気に衝撃的なラストまで高めていく剛腕は彼ならではのものだ。

With the second part of his Cellulose Diptych, award-winning director Jerzy Kawalerowicz returns to protagonist Szczesny, now a full-fledged, middle-aged communist militant in pre-war Poland. Based on the writings of Igor Newerly, Kawalerowicz's epic chronicles the romance between Szczesny and the charismatic Madzia, as the ill-fated pair fall in love amid the social and political upheaval of their homeland.

A social drama that depicts a conflict between a young factory collective and a sympathetic but backward old specialist.