Roland Głowacki

University student Anna and her boyfriend Tomek use a precious photograph to trace and unveil the complex wartime and post-war past of their parents.

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.

한정된 야간 기차 객실에 하룻밤을 함께 보내야 하는 낯선 승객들이 가득하고, 이 중 한 명은 살인자일지도 모른다는 전제가 깔려 있는 알프레드 히치콕 스타일의 영화. 카발레로비치 감독이 영화의 장르적 요소를 어떻게 뒤섞었는지 보는 것은 흥미로운 경험이다. 서스펜스가 인물들과 어떻게 결합하는지, 그리고 영화가 진행되면서 인물들 사이의 관계가 전개되는 과정을 지켜보는 것은 살인자를 찾아가는 과정을 지켜보는 것만큼이나 흥미진진하다. 이 영화에는 1950년대와 60년대 폴란드의 대표적인 배우인 즈비그니에프 스불스키가 출연하지만, 영화의 정서적인 중심에 서 있는 배우는 슬픈 눈매를 지닌 루치나 비닛츠카이다.

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.

Roza marries a promising young architect, Juliusz ; for a few months, they have a blissful life together. Then World War II breaks out and within weeks Juliusz is deported to a concentration camp. Months, and then years go by, until Roza abandons any hope that her husband might return. She meets and falls in love with another man, and tries to put her life back together, but one day, unexpectedly, Juliusz does return - a shattered, mere ghost of his former self, physically crippled and tormented by memories of the camps. First out of duty, then out of pity, Roza starts to care for him, but her feelings slowly are transformed into a kind of revulsion