Danuta Szaflarska

The story of a family spanning the 20th century.

Two brothers are trying to find out the truth from years ago. The whole town is against them.

기득권층에는 증오의 대상이었고 평민들에게는 의적이었던 야노식의 일대기. 잔혹하고 혹세무민의 시대였던 17세기 동유럽에서 압제에 대한 저항의 상징이었던 야노식의 일대기를 보여주며 비록 그는 처참하게 처형당했지만 민중에게 남았던 그의 정신을 기리기 위해 만들어진 영화.

The film is about a group of old retired theatre actors in a retirement home for actors who aim to regroup and stage Goethe's Faust.

At 40, Zosia has a happy second marriage, a well-adjusted daughter, a good career, and a comfortable home in Warsaw. But as she and her family usher in the year 2000, she wishes some things in her youth had happened differently, and she's magically transported back to 1987, when she was still married to her womanizing first husband, Darek and lived in the People's Republic of Poland.

아니엘라는 한때는 아름다웠지만 지금은 흉물스러워진 저택에서 유일한 말동무이자 친구인 충견과 함께 살고 있다. 비록 늙고 외로운 노인일지라도 자존심과 위엄을 잃지 않는 그녀는 이 퇴색한 저택과 많이 닮아 있다. 생의 화려한 순간들은 가고 죽음이 머지않은 그녀의 일상에서 아들이 가끔씩 걸어오는 안부 전화는 유일한 기쁨이자 기다림이다. 반면 자신에게서 아들을 빼앗아간 며느리나 이기적이고 철없는 손녀, 시시때때로 그녀의 정원을 넘나드는 이웃집 음악원 원생들은 그저 성가시기만 하고, 그들 역시 아니엘라를 고집 세고 괴팍한 노인네로만 여긴다. 영화의 각본은 아흔을 넘긴 폴란드 여배우 다누타 샤플라르스카를 위해 쓰여졌으며, 실제로 영화를 이끌어 가는 그녀의 힘은 나이를 초월해 놀랍기 그지없다. 고요하고 아름다운 영상 속에 삶과 죽음에 대한 성찰이 서정시처럼 그려진다.

Piotr manages to buy a splendid though dilapidated villa from the eccentric 80-year-old painter Mimi. The woman treats him like her long-lost only son whereas Piotr tries to send her away to old people's home.

The main character - a man who suffers from alcoholism - wants to change his tumultuous life. The day before Christmas Eve he receives a gift from his son - a yellow scarf. A gift is a kind of talisman he receives from loved ones, and every time he loses it. When after another banquet he falls into delirium, his ex-wife and secretary bring him to his mother. She helps him to sober up and arranges holiday celebration for two of them. She gives her son another yellow scarf, in belief that it will help him break the pernicious habit.

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.

Using the backdrop of the banality and ordinariness of everyday life in a small provincial town, the film analyses the relationship between two women friends, who struggle to find their way in post-communist Poland. The small events of their lives represent universal feelings of being trapped and lost in a new world, in contrast to the successes of the dark side of democracy - drug dealing, crime and pornography. By its very nature, the film creates a picture of provincial Poland after democracy, but its charm is in the understated relationship between the two friends and the people around them and in the mosaic structure that builds up the film piece by piece.

Following a fire at an orphanage, the kids are moved into a seniors' home. A young girl tries to befriend and cheer up an elderly man who is full of regrets at the end of his life.

A mother of three is afraid of losing her husband if he finds out she's pregnant again, so she tries to conceal it.

Two sisters, a journalist and a student, are struggling with financial problems. They decide to save their budget by stealing from wealthy men. They break into their apartments through windows in order to realize their American dream...

Even in Poland today, Gypsies are viewed with profound suspicion -- not that things are that much better for them anywhere else in Europe. In this coming-of-age drama, Mala, an ordinary Polish girl who is about thirteen years old, is just beginning to wake up to the world around her. When she hears the adults of the village making disparaging remarks about Gypsies, that's exactly what it takes to motivate her to go out and visit them. She has a rich and rewarding encounter, until the authorities come into their camp to drive them off. No one is harmed, and Mala's life has been changed for the better by her adventures.

줄거리나치 독일에 점령당한 바르샤바의 1942년을 무대로 아동문학가, 교육자로 활동하며 소아과 의사로도 더 유명한 폴란드 유태계 혈통의 야누스 코르작 박사가 설립한 고아원을 중심으로 박사의 말년을 그리고 있는 영화이며, 당시 촬영된 여러 기록 사진들을 영화의 배경으로 삽입하여 어려움속에서도 사랑하는 아이들과 생을 함께 하는 한 인간의 발자취를 그리고 있다.

The film evokes a childhood in rural Lithuania between the wars. A country boy, Tomaszek, lives on a rich estate, situated on the Polish border. He realizes that the Issa Valley he lives in is to be torn apart by internal political conflicts and unrests among the mixed population of Poles, Lithuanians, Jews and Russians. He, however, is captivated by a paradise surrounding him, the forest, and his fantasies.

Sensational psychological drama, concerning the activities of the People's Guard in Silesia, presents from the human characters and attitudes perspective story of provocation of Gestapo agents, penetrating the ranks of the Resistance.

The house of a family of five is to be demolished due to the expansion of the city. The residents who are waiting to move are surprised by the progressive paralysis of their son.

Ala is unable to settle down and often changes husbands. She introduces each newly married spouse to her mother.

Krakow in the sixties. A doctor, though not having finished his studies, earns a living providing medical advice. A former nurse enters the stage, saying she hears voices from "the other world". At first, they can exploit gullible victims without problems, but soon the authorities start to show interest in these quacks.

All the ambiance of an old-fashioned circus comes across with great clarity in this otherwise routine psychological tale about a mean-spirited mime and his effects on his colleagues. The small, traveling circus has been sliding downhill for awhile, and unless some new life is infused into its acts, its future does not look very rosy. Into this precarious situation comes a new mime with the uncanny ability to sap the confidence of his fellow performers. If he continues for long in this vein, no one will be able to believe they have any talent left at all.

An unlikely couple - a Polish concentration camp inmate and a young German girl - stick together and try to survive the RAF bombing of Dresden in February 1945.

A group of people find themselves stuck in remote train station in German-occupied Poland. A drunk German station guard there gets paranoid and sees partisans all around him, phones headquarters, and when the German soldiers arrive and search the station they find a gun. They then threaten to execute every fifth person unless someone claims it.

The first Polish post-war comedy. Witek and Krysia, a married couple, move to Warsaw and have nowhere to stay. They rent a room in a house with many other lodgers. Witek dreams of their own house and draws a sketch of their future home, marking the place where his wife will sleep with the word "treasure". The other lodgers find the draft and a frantic search for the treasure begins.

Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house.