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Noruega, início do século 20. Na Ilha de Bastoy existe um reformatório para jovens delinquentes. No entanto, em vez de reabilitar os meninos, os guardas e o diretor abusam mental e fisicamente deles, os usando como mão de obra barata. Earling, de 17 anos, chega a instituição com um plano: escapar da ilha. Após um trágico incidente, ele lidera a rebelião dos meninos de Bastoy. Mas terá de descobrir: até onde ele está disposto a ir pela liberdade?
Production Design
A young, charismatic priest John, his time missionary in Africa, every day helping Warsaw young people addicted to drugs. Unconventional methods, which are used in pastoral work, raise many doubts about his superiors. Surprisingly, however, his life undergoes a sudden transformation when routine testing finds out that he is HIV positive.
Production Design
Após um pedido de sua mãe doente, Kaisa (Lena Headey)viaja para a Noruega para encontrar o pai alcoólatra, que não vê há muitos anos. Será uma tortuosa viagem em que pai e filha precisarão superar suas mágoas e ressentimentos.
Production Design
The story of six Polish emigrants living in New York City, who try to live their American Dream and cope with the realities of the Big Apple.
Production Design
Anos 1920. Larsen, um jovem aspirante a poeta que vive em Oslo, capital norueguesa, decide largar a namorada para passar um ano de solidão no frio da Groelândia. Mas lá chegando ele se depara com um bruto marinheiro e um jovem cientista. Isolados, os três alimentam uma relação de amor e ódio.
Art Direction
A petty crook, in search of the proverbial pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, hopes to cash in by befriending the heir to a huge fortune.
Production Design
In Stalinist Poland, cabaret singer Tonia decides to spend the evening drinking with a group of friends. The next morning, she awakes to find that, for reasons unknown to her, she has been jailed as a political prisoner. As prison officials interrogate, torture and humiliate her, she fights for survival and to maintain her innocence by refusing to sign a false confession. As her years of imprisonment pass, her relationship with her captors grows more complicated.
Production Design
An Uruguayan diplomat brings his new wife with him on a business trip to Poland in the summer immediately preceding the outbreak of World War II.
Art Direction
A comedy. The story follows a young scientist in the contemporary world, who actually came from the world of dwarves, thanks to a magic potion, held by the Big Eater, ruler of the dwarves. The dwarf kingdom, Shuflandia, exists in a cellar of a library, and only the most obedient get the chance to grow to king size and inhabit the larger world. Once there, nobody wants to return to Shuflandia. Also, there are no women in Shuflandia.
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A comedy. The story follows a young scientist in the contemporary world, who actually came from the world of dwarves, thanks to a magic potion, held by the Big Eater, ruler of the dwarves. The dwarf kingdom, Shuflandia, exists in a cellar of a library, and only the most obedient get the chance to grow to king size and inhabit the larger world. Once there, nobody wants to return to Shuflandia. Also, there are no women in Shuflandia.
Production Design
Set in the summer months preceding the September 1939 outbreak of World War II in Polish part of Lithuania. A young highschool lad, Witek, is hoping to pass the entrance exams to the university. His love interest is Alina, his high-school colleague.
Production Design
Shortly after World War II an American soldier (Norman) and a Polish refugee (Emilia) fall in love. Eventually he will return to the U.S. and both expect that she will soon follow him with her mother. Emilia's mother is sick, but will recover with the right medicine. But the mother, and not Emilia, knows that there will only be one ticket...
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Dois cientistas poloneses, Max (Jerzy Stuhr) e Albert (Olgierd Łukaszewicz), se submetem, em 1991, ao primeiro experimento de hibernação humana. Em vez de serem despertados após 3 anos, como planejado, eles acordam no ano de 2044, em um mundo pós-nuclear. Nessa nova realidade, os humanos refugiaram-se em instalações subterrâneas e, como resultado da sujeição a um tipo específico de radiação, todos os homens morreram. As mulheres se reproduzem através da partenogênese, vivendo em uma sociedade feminista totalitária, onde o Women League apparatchiks ensina que as mulheres sofreram na mão dos homens até que esses foram extirpados do mundo. O filme é uma sátira ao devaneio feminista e foi escolhido como melhor filme polonês dos últimos 30 anos em uma pesquisa de 2005 realizada pelas revistas Cinema, Esensja e Stopklatka. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
Production Design
The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.
Production Design
This heroic story follows the life of Karol Wojtyla, a Polish Roman catholic who ascends the throne of St. Peter as Pope John Paul II. As a young boy, Karol is a bright and talented student. Archbishop Sapieha recognizes the very special, moving qualities Karol possesses and encourages him to consider the priesthood. Although determined to study Polish literature, Karol turns to the church; he is ordained and studies in Italy, France, and Belgium. Torn by fear and repression in post-Stalin Eastern Europe, Karol becomes a poisonous thorn in the communists' side. His deer reverence and commitment return him to Poland as Pope John Paul II.
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Set in 1905. The story focuses on a young and inexperienced man in a revolutionary execution squad. He does his killing job out of idealism, and for the love of a woman. The young student murders a Russian spy and is afterwards arrested by the police. Much to his surprise he is released after a session with the traitor-judge, hinting at some leaks in the organisation. Student reports his suspicions back to the organisation, but in response is given a new hit mission.
Production Design
A young factory worker takes up on boxing as a way to find himself and advance his chances for the future. But the difficulties of sorting himself out in the crooked boxing environment hold him back in the beginning, until he arrives for tournament in Chicago, where he can prove himself. In the end, he wins over his Yank opponent, an amateur below his ranking, and is back in the factory.
Production Design
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.
Assistant Production Design
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.
