Stefan Matyjaszkiewicz

A film about the life and activities of the Polish revolutionary Ludwik Waryński. In his memoirs, Ludwik returns to his student years in St. Petersburg, to Warsaw, to Krakow, where he was arrested and put on trial. After the end of the process in Krakow, Waryński leaves for Geneva, where he meets with Russian revolutionaries. In 1881, he returned to his homeland and created the first party of workers in Poland...

Poland's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1973

A pastor studying folklore in remote parts of 19th century Lithuania is invited to stay with a young nobleman. His mother is sequestered and mad. It seems she has been attacked by a bear as a young wife and local peasants whisper the young man may be the son of a bear. A doctor, who treats the mother with old-fashioned remedies, reveals this to the pastor. Young nobleman's wife is found with a bite and the man has disappeared into the woods.

Two talented physicists used to work together in the frontline of academy in scientific discovery. One of them, Jan, gave everything up and went to a small, snowy village, to become a metereologist. The other one, Marek, who had a famous scientific career, doesn't understand why Jan is wasting his potential living a simple life, and tries to get him back to the big city. Clash of two attitudes, characters, ideas about the meaning of existence.

In 1969’s WENUS Z ILLE (VENUS D’ILLE) Majewski returned to the work of Prosper Merimee, specifically his 1835 story “Venus d’Ille,” about an accursed statue (a story that was subsequently filmed by Mario and Lamberto Bava in 1979). Said statue, fashioned in the guise of an anguished woman, is seen in a remote inn, having been recently interred from the ground. The occasion is a wedding attended by the protagonist, an unassuming man who becomes caught up in a bizarre nightmare when the groom unthinkingly sticks his wedding ring on a finger of the statue--and can’t get it off!

Set in the 19th century Warsaw. The indolence of aristocrats who, secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condescended to. Because of his "help" (in secret) to "the doll's" impecunious but influential father, the girl becomes aware of his affection.

Two quarreling peasant families, who were forced to leave their lands after the war, are settled by accident on two neighboring farms.

The former owner, a German, shows up on a farm belonging to the Poles settled there.

A famous Polish conductor meets a young Polish student in Czechoslovakia and pretends to be Czech to impress her.

A man's surreal search for a woman named Eva on Christmas Eve.

A daughter of a furniture seller helps her father’s business by promising a marriage to the customers.

An actress travels from Warsaw to Paris and during the trip reflects on the last few years of her life. It goes back to the German occupation and her hiding of a fellow actor who has supposedly killed a collaborator.

The inability of a truck driver to relate to normal life after an accident for which he feels himself responsible.

In the last days of the war an old train driver and his young assistant carry weapons to Polish soldiers on the western front.

An actress visits her hometown to attend the funeral of her grandfather. She realizes that the places and people from her past differ from her cherished memories.

A subjective adaptation of a well-known autobiographical novel by Zbigniew Unilowski (screenplay by Wojciech Jerzy Has with dialogues by Stanislaw Dygat). The adventures of the tenants of a sublet room in a Warsaw townhouse inhabited mostly by students and novice writers, presented against the social context of the 1930s.

A Jewish man who escapes a Nazi transport hides in a Polish ski resort town by posing for photos with tourists dressed as a polar bear.

A Jewish man who escapes a Nazi transport hides in a Polish ski resort town by posing for photos with tourists dressed as a polar bear.

Ewa Bonecka veio para uma pequena cidade. Ela é estudante. Chegou à noite, e deseja arranjar onde ficar. Mas é impossível porque não há quartos disponíveis no hotel. Tem de passar o tempo na rua, onde há um monte de criminosos, prostitutas. Há perigos por todos os lados, mas ela não sabia disso.

1942. A cidade de Varsóvia sofre a ocupação alemã. Os jovens poloneses começam a participar do movimento de resistência. O herói desta saga entra na luta, a pedido da jovem por quem se apaixonara. Junto a essa história de amor, Wajda mostra a coragem e o sacrifício dos conterrâneos, num dos mais difíceis períodos da história de seu país. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)

A documentary about the night life in a city. While some sleep, others work.