Elżbieta Kurkowska

There is a writer who in the late 1970s managed to publish a poem in the monthly "Nowy Wyraz". It was enough to become a self-confessed writer whose name began to appear in the state media. The writer takes full advantage of his privileges - he flirts with power, sympathizes with the opposition, and collapses his studies at the same time. He is saved from going to the army by an exalted essayist whose sister is the head of the psychiatric hospital in Tworki. In a psychiatric institution, a writer meets a schizophrenic who writes a novel. After his suicide, the protagonist takes over the draft, which he publishes outside of censorship under his name, thanks to which he gains fame, fame and money. August '80 breaks out....

A morality tale that starts from answering a mysterious passenger's mobile phone left on a train, and intertwines the lives of student Bartek, who leads an immoral life, and several strangers.

Another film from the TV series "Polish Holidays", this time illustrating a holiday not entirely Polish, but already firmly rooted in the native reality - Valentine's Day. The script for it was written by Jerzy Pilch. For the famous writer, winner of the Nike Award, this is the second encounter with this cycle: earlier he wrote the script for the excellent "Yellow Scarf". His collaboration with director Janusz Majewski resulted in a story full of humor and charm, treating love with a slight wink of the eye and a touch of nostalgia. Wojciech Malajkat, who also played the main role, is a great merit.

Jerzy Stuhr wrote, directed, and starred in this drama about a man sworn to uphold the law who applies a very different moral code to himself than he does to others. As Adam Borowski, Stuhr plays a government lawyer prosecuting a variety of cases, including smuggling, theft, child abandonment, and racially motivated assault. However, Adam's own life is hardly a model by which to live. He's overextended himself financially and is trying to figure out how to avoid paying the hospital bills for his terminally ill mother. Adam is married, but he's been having an affair for some time, and, while he breaks off his relationship with his mistress, he's easily tempted into other liaisons. His wife wants to adopt a handicapped child; Adam would prefer not to have another child in the house, and he uses his influence to slow up the paperwork. And in order to reduce his tax bill, Adam has involved himself in a charitable donation scheme of dubious legality.

The film is a biblical soap-opera whose action unfolds in the Californian desert. Karen and Wes's marriage is crumbling apart - like a sandcastle. Karen can't even make love to her husband any more - the sand has managed to get everywhere. Harry, a tax collector, is a witness to this marriage falling apart. As a civil servant he hears Wes confession. However he isn't able to help him. The omnipotent eye of television glitters above the desert - that raw allegory of America where neither the white nor the black have it good. If Samuel Beckett and Joan Collins had a romance, then their child would look like this film.

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.

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...

우연한 사건의 한 인간의 삶에 엄청난 영향을 끼칠 수 있다는 이 영화의 철학적 암시는 암시의 명확성만큼이나 보편적이다. 하지만 이 영화는 영화를 특별하게 만드는 중심 인물에 대한 키에슬로브스키 감독의 진지한 접근방식을 보여준다. 1980년대와 90년대 폴란드의 상징적인 배우인 보그스와브 린다가 연기하는 주인공은 세 가지 다른 양상의 인생 속으로 내동댕이쳐진다. 하지만 주어진 상황과 무관하게 주인공은 항상 정직하고 선한 태도를 보인다. 키에슬로브스키 감독은 도덕의 상대주의를 피하고, 처한 상황에 따라 인간의 행동이 좌우되기보다는 그 인간이 가진 원래의 본성이 인간의 행동을 좌우하는 가장 중요한 요인이라는 점을 강조한다.

In the 21st century, prisoners aboard penitentiary space ships explore unknown worlds. Scope, one of the prisoners is sent on a planet though to be lifeless, until he found "Humans" on it.

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.

In the 50's a tailor drinking with his friends has an attack that requires an emegency treatment in the hospital. He has damaged kidneys. Given a second lease on life the tailor thinks that while in a coma he has communicated with the distant stars. He gives up tailoring and turns to the stars. He engages his friends in a village to build an observatory. He becomes recognized and for a time being even the authorities back him up. But then comes bitter awakening: his wife can't take his obsessions anymore and leaves him. The town council calls upon him to close his work as the first Sputnik goes into space. Then he is invited to an astronomical convention, He becomes the sensation of the conference, not however, as a amateur astronomer, but by guessing the clothing measurements of the delegates. Back home he realizes that his dream may be over, but he cannot help gazing at the sky. Written by Polish Cinema Database

The protagonist of "Passerby" is writer and filmmaker Tadeusz Konwicki. His story, which reflects the paradoxes of the 20th century history, is commented by means of fragments of his films, documentary newsreels and stage productions.

A young architect is locked up in prison. He recalls his uncompromising youth and gradual sliding into the moral swamp of compromises. He was not alone. A group of his friends, dreamers and glass house builders, accompanied him.

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.

어떤 큰 지방 도시에서 가격 급등이 파업을 촉발한다. 시위 노동자들은 지역 공산당 당사 밖에 집결하고 그 지역의 공산당 서기는 이 상황을 모면할 방법을 찾아야 한다. 이런 응급 상황을 수도인 바르샤바에 보고하지만 상부는 묵묵부답이다. 그 사이 시위는 점점 더 과격해진다. 시위 노동자들이 공산당 당사에 불을 지르기 시작하고, 공산당 서기는 현장에서 몸을 피한다.

핵으로 인한 세계의 갈등 이후 한 나라에서 과학을 통해 신인류를 만들어내려는 시도가 이뤄진다. 실험을 통해 페르나트라는 골렘이 창조되는데, 이 인조인간이 전체주의 통제 하의 국가에서 개인에 대한 자각을 갖게 된다.

An officer stationed in a remote Ukranian outpost at the end of the First World War is dying of consumption. Suffering from feverish dreams and hallucinations, he begins to collect religious art and attends seances.

Stefan Starzyński, the mayor of Warsaw, organizes life in the capital in September 1939 and lift the inhabitants' spirits via radio announcements. After the surrender, he does not use his last chance to escape.

Set in the early 1930s, a young man finds a job as a dishwasher in a hotel and quickly works his way up the ladder. Loosely based on the novel by Henryk Worcell.

The heroes of this film are hands and a violin. We won’t see the hero's face, but we’ll notice a special relationship that exists between the musician and the instrument. It resembles real love. The man is able to make the inanimate instrument a living instrument.

작은 도시의 젊은 교사가 수학여행 학생들을 인솔하고 바르샤바에 오는데, 자신을 떠나 새로운 삶을 시작하기 위해 바르샤바로 온 아내를 어떤 지하도에서 만난다. 혼자 남겨진 남편 – 젊은 교사 – 은 아내와 재결합하여 아내와 함께 지냈던 과거를 다시 되살릴 기회로 생각하지만, 불행히도 아내는 그에게 다시 돌아오고 싶어 하지 않는다. 그녀는 이미 냉소주의와 감정이 메마른 대도시의 생활에 익숙해져 이미 돌이킬 수 없게 선을 넘은 상태였기 때문이다.

A portrait of the inhabitants of Jastrzębie (a mining town in Silesia) – young men and women who came there to begin their adult lives. Jastrzębie received municipal rights in 1963, but it is still a huge construction site. Children slide down the heaps of coal, located between the blocks of flats. Young women, dressed in worker jackets, look for their husbands. The life of the inhabitants is subordinated to communicates released by the council of the mine. Working days are about queues and listening to the radio, and days off are about festivals and performances of the mining band. Boxing in the ring and fights in the streets. The directorial debut of Stanisław Manturzewski, a sociologist, journalist, and documentary filmmaker, made in collaboration with Stanisław Niedbalski, a cameraman.

1930년대 폴란드, 부유한 기업가인 비드마르는 아내 레베카와 그녀를 수술해준 의사의 사이를 의심하며 사람을 고용해 그녀의 뒤를 밟게 한다. 비드마르는 그녀를 여전히 사랑하면서도 불신의 늪에서 고통받는다. 폴란드의 작가이자 극작가인 미하우 초로민스키가 쓴 1933년의 동명 베스트셀러 소설을 원작으로 한 작품.

An official falls victim to hooligans. He recognizes one of the attackers at a party organized by his director.

This documentary explores the changing faces of the old Polish city of Lodz, and how its modernization, both physically and culturally, affects the older, more conservative residents, many of whom lived through World War II and are confused and somewhat resentful at the changes they're seeing.