An attempt at depicting the life of a generation born and raised in communist Poland; a generation that lived through all the stages of that system and made it to democracy. Throughout his life, the film's protagonist has always tried to be active, but something always got in his way, either through an absurd coincidence, as a result of his own lack of ability, or due to the unpredictable nature of certain events in our recent history.
폴란드의 변두리 마을, 간호사 안나를 사랑하는 레온은 매일 밤낮으로 그녀를 엿본다. 어느 날 밤, 그녀가 좀 더 보고 싶은 마음에 그는 남몰래 그녀의 방으로 들어가는데... 주인공 레온의 대담하면서도 불안한 심리를 침착하게 따라가는 이 작품은 1991년 이후 전업화가로 돌아섰던 감독이 17년 만에 내놓은 작품이다. 감독은 괴상하지만 헌신적인 레온의 사랑을 담담하게 묘사해 현대사회의 비정함과 고립된 인간관계를 돌아보게 한다.
In 1969 a young writer decides to write an essay on a well known Polish writer, who had to leave the country in the 50's, later living, working and dying in exile. He slowly assembles the character and even the exterior appearances of his idol until his own identity tragically disappears.
A two-part historical film covering the years of the First World War and the post-war period up to 1919 - until the signing of the peace treaty in Versailles near Paris. An attempt to show the great and complicated process of regaining an independent existence by a nation within its own state. The screen shows characters from history textbooks: Józef Piłsudski, Ignacy Paderewski, Roman Dmowski, Wojciech Korfanty as well as representatives of the world political scene, incl. David Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, Vladimir Lenin and others.
During the Swedish invasion of Poland, the brave warrior Andrzej Kmicic, considered a traitor to the nation, fights for a country, redemption and love across the 17th-century Polish territories.
A young couple leave a lake campsite on motorbike at the same time as a bus full of youths. The boy accidently loses a tent along the road which is picked up by those in the bus who offer a trade of the tent for his girl.
