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A grotesque Shakespearean tale of Ubu who comes to power in a bloody way. When his absurd reforms fail and the treasury gets empty, Ubu and his flatterers start implementing terror across the country.

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.

A journalist from "Gazeta Wyborcza" recalls his investigative reports and the consequences he suffered while trying to reveal the truth.

Magda, a novice director, makes a film about the behavior of young people in extreme situations - specifically, in a correctional home.

A young writer in 1939 Warsaw faces the conflict of acting his age or relapsing into childhood during the brink of World War II. Based on the famous novel Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz.

The story of catholic saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz.

The main character is Bogna, a thirty year old woman lost in her surrounding reality and unhappy in her private life. After her husband departs for a foreign scholarship, Bogna learns that her mother died. The trip to her hometown for the funeral becomes a voyage in time, during which she relives the memories of her idyllic childhood.

2차대전중 나치 치하에서 살아남기 위해 출생을 가장해야 했던 유태인 소년의 실제 있었던 생존기를 치밀하게 그려낸 작품이다. 평범한 소년 솔로몬(마르코 호르슈나이더)은 독일의 유태인 탄압으로 가족과 함께 폴란드로 이주한다. 하지만 독일군이 폴란드까지 밀고 들어오자 솔리와 형만이 안전한 곳으로 피난을 간다. 피난 도중 어린 솔로몬은 형을 놓치고 홀로 남게 된다. 이때부터 솔로몬의 생존을 위한 노력이 시작된다. 소련령 고아원에 들어간 솔로몬은 "스탈린"을 외침으로써 살아남고 독일군에게 잡혔을 때는 독일인으로 위장하여 인정을 받는다. 훌륭한 독일 군인으로 청년나치학교에 보내진 솔로몬은 그 안에서도 두각을 보이는 학생으로 활동한다. 하지만 솔로몬은 유태인이고 유태인을 죽이는 훈련을 거듭하는 나치학생들 속에서 솔로몬은 갈등을 겪게 된다. 그 와중에 연합군과 독일군 전투에 배치된 솔로몬은 연합군에게 항복한다. 연합군이 유태인이라는 솔로몬의 말을 믿어주지 않아 죽게 되었을 때 그곳에서 잃어버렸던 형을 만나 살아남게 된다.

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 esteemed transplantologist is the victim of a conspiracy of his colleagues, as a result of which his brain is transplanted into a pig.

Based on a true story of a Polish musician who survived the concentration camp only because he could play on the accordion the title melody.

택시 기사인 자누시는 크리스마스 이브를 맞아 가족들과 함께 성탄 예배를 드리러 간다. 그런데 자누시는 예배당에서 몇 년 전 바람을 피웠던 상대인 에바를 만나고, 자누시에게 어떤 부탁을 한다.

도서관 지하실에는 난쟁이 왕국이 있다. 이들을 지배하는 사람은 대령이라고 불리우는 독재자로서 그는 철통같은 비밀경찰을 손아귀에 쥐고, 난쟁이들에게는 증산을 강요하면서, 자신은 소위 킹사이즈라고 불리는 인간세계에 나가, 난쟁이들에게는 존재하지 않는 여자를 즐기고 있다. 난쟁이가 인간처럼 커지기 위해서는 "킹사이즈"라는 특수약물을 필요로 한다. 이 약은 난쟁이 세계의 몇몇 과학자들의 손으로 조제되지만, 이들조차 각자 자신이 만들어내는 성분만을 파악하고 있을뿐 전체적인 배합은 하지 못하고 있었다. 대령은 자신이 킹사이즈로 변해야할때 이 약물을 쓰는 것이외에 난쟁이 세계의 과학적인 진보를 파악하기 위해, 혹은 인간세계의 물자를 구입하기 위해 난쟁이 중의 엘리트를 인간세계로 파견할 때 킹사이즈 약물을 사용하여 난쟁이를 인간의 크기로 확대하곤 하였다. 주인공 올로도 인간세계의 문물을 난쟁이 세계에 도입하라는 명령과 함께 킹사이즈로 확대된 인간이다. 인간세계에서 인간들의 생활을 경험해본 올로는, 특히 여자를 품에 안아본 후로는 난쟁이 세계로 돌아가지 않겠다는 결심을 하게 된다. 올로는, 함께 확대되어진 과학자 "아담"으로 하여금 독자적으로 킹사이즈의 개발에 착수하도록 요청하고 오랜 연구 끝에 아담은 약물 배합에 성공하게 된다. 하지만 그 약물을 올로에게 전하는 과정에서 난쟁이 세계의 비밀경찰에게 습격을 받고 체포되어 다시 난쟁이 세계로 끌려간다. 인간 세계에 혼자 남겨진 올로는 아담이 체포되기 전에 빼돌린 킹사이즈를 전해 받은 알리스를 찾아가 이야기를 나누던중 알리스 또한 난쟁이의 후예라는 사실을 알게된다. 알리스의 아버지도 난쟁이였으나 대령의 독재에 반대한다는 이유로 도끼로 변화시켜 버렸다는 것이다. 올로는 알리스의 안내로 대령의 독재에 항거하는 비밀조직을 만난다. 이들은 난쟁이 세계로 쳐들어가 대령을 없애고 모든 난쟁이들에게, 난쟁이로 남든지 킹사이즈가 되던지 스스로 판단하도록 자유를 준다. 모든 것이 끝나고 알리스와 함께 영원한 킹사이즈가 된 올로가 행복에 겨워하는

A Polish thriller. Central story is a duel between criminal-on- the-run (Linda) and the cop (Machalica) who put him behind the bars the first time around.

A sequel to "Vabank" (1981), introduces the same characters entangled in a duel between a former safecracker and a crooked bank manager.

Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People wait for the Ark to arrive and rescue them while their habitat falls apart.

International Critics’ Week - Cannes Festival 1985

A captain and lieutenant of the Russian army are buried in the basement of the Przemysl Fortress during the First World War.

A well-known professor of medicine finding himself at the threshold of autumn of his life, takes stock of his achievements and experiences. "In the end it ends with what has been known for a long time: that conscious life without a fixed worldview is not life, but torment, horror. - wrote Anton Chekhov in one of his letters summarizing "An Uninteresting Story". The protagonist, Professor Nikolai Stepanovich, is a character characteristic of Chekhov's entire oeuvre - a Russian intellectual from the late nineteenth century, depressed by boredom and a sense of his own uselessness and the meaninglessness of his existence.

A young doctor has been assigned to a hospital in the provinces, in the lakes district of northern Poland. The area is a playground with hunting lodges for the priviledged, the local politicians cover up any leaks to the public. The doctor discovers a case of drunken driving but is silenced by blackmail in the court. He tries to fight back but has a love affair with the unfaithful wife of the town's Mayor.

Two brothers of German heritage live in the Polish town of Poznan. Michal is the sensitive brother who likes literature, Andrzej is the daredevil with no intellectual bent, and between the two of them, they steal the German consul's Daimler-Benz limousine, on a lark. When they are caught by the police, the German consul unexpectedly forgives them their prank -- but in the meantime, the episode has put the brothers in touch with a Nazi underground group who want to prepare the way for the pending German invasion (set to occur within a matter of days). Andrej helps the group kill the German consul and then they blame the death on the Poles -- giving the Germans an excuse to cross the border. Not only the consul, but "artistic" types like Michal are also killed for the same reasons. After these murders, Michal realizes his brother is no better than the group he joined, and decides to set his own course in the face of the rising threat of invasion.

October 1934. Poland. Famous bank robber Kwinto decided to quit his dangerous criminal job, but after his friend's death, he changed his mind and organized a burglary of famous and well protected bank which belonged to his former partner in crime, backstabbing and double-crossing Kramer. Kwinto designs a clever plan not to only rob the Kramer's bank but to make it look like Kramer himself did it.

Film opens on December 18, 1999, just a few days before the dawn of the new century. A local reporter, Iron Idem, announces that the Martians have landed. Shortly after that his program loses its independence: he is given the script telling the crowds how to welcome the invaders.

Historical novel by Boleslaw Prus . The problem of the Polish population displacement from their land within the limits of the Prussian partition. Germans come to the village harassing a wealthy peasant Snail, leading to the tragedy. Slug's cottage burns, his wife dies. The peasant does not give up, defending his inheritance. He sticks on a patch of his Polish soil and protects it like a soldier his post.