Wiesław Dymny

The main characters are the same two quarreling peasant families introduced in "Sami swoi" (Our Folks). The action of the film starts 18 years later. The old quarrels have been forgotten, but new problems keep popping up. They have no successors to inherit the farms. They invent a tricky and clever plan. The young granddaughter is to take over both of the farms after her marriage. Both Kargul and Pawlak have no rest until they carry out the plan. In the end, after numerous adventures and obstacles their cunning intrigue is fulfilled - the young marry and the land remains in the family's hands.

1944. Three wounded officers from both sides of political conflict meet in the hospital where the staff is politically divided too.

A bunch of unemployed and unqualified workers are hired to unload a few railway wagons. Because of the low wages, the manager needs to encourage the workers in some other way.

Growing-up village boy Marcin Debik feels bored of existence in his native place and not interested in realizing his father's ideas for living there for ever and making business there. He dreams of living in a big town, making career there and, above all, having foreign automobile, preferably big one and of American make. His determination strengthens after he had accidentally attended some rich society's party for a while. Having finally decided to take his fate in his own hands, he takes leave of his family, his girl and departs for Lublin, the town where his uncle Lukasz runs own photographic studio.

After the war, the community of mountaineers is eager to start their own sawmill. When the communist authorities come to take over the sawmill, a rebellion starts.

A young journalist from Warsaw goes to a small town of Kamienica to prepare a report on a motorcycle gang.

20세기 초, 당시 바이마르 공화국의 영토에 속한 실레지아에는 오랜 기간 폴란드의 정체성을 지켜온 노동자들이 살아왔다. 이들은 1919년부터 21년까지 세 번의 봉기를 일으켰고, 결국 실레지아 북부 지역은 폴란드의 영토가 되었다. <검은 대지의 소금>은 실레지아 봉기를 배경으로 한 카지미에시 쿠츠의 3부작 중 첫 번째 작품으로, 봉기에 참여한 일곱 형제의 이야기를 그린다. 긴 호흡으로 그린 전쟁의 사실적인 모습이 인상적인 작품.

Wajda's homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, the "Polish James Dean" who starred in the director's ASHES AND DIAMONDS and died young. The movie follows the tribulations of a director attempting to make a movie with a Cybulski-like star who never shows up.

A group of workers builds a bridge near a large dam. They get drunk with a visiting reporter, who falls into the river and disappears.

A group of workers builds a bridge near a large dam. They get drunk with a visiting reporter, who falls into the river and disappears.

Two zootechnics students, Jacek and Marek, come to the Bieszczady (it's the Polish "Wild West"). Looking for a holiday adventure and income, they become "cowboys" on local cattle grazing. Instead of the expected romantic adventures and the male, hard life, their boredom is becoming their share. Only when Jacek gets a stallion Szaga, things take a different turn.