Andrzej Mularczyk

Pawlak and Kargul – the protagonists of the cult-favourite trilogy “Our Folks” – had been neighbours in a village in Podolia before they ended up in the Recovered Territories. Even then, it was one explosive neighbourhood… “Our Folks: The Beginning” is a colourful story of small spites and major milestones in life. The unique characters are shown against the backdrop of big historical events, taking the audience on a riveting, sentimental and humorous journey.

Pawlak and Kargul – the protagonists of the cult-favourite trilogy “Our Folks” – had been neighbours in a village in Podolia before they ended up in the Recovered Territories. Even then, it was one explosive neighbourhood… “Our Folks: The Beginning” is a colourful story of small spites and major milestones in life. The unique characters are shown against the backdrop of big historical events, taking the audience on a riveting, sentimental and humorous journey.

Wladyslaw Strzeminski (Boguslaw Linda), é um artista de vanguarda polonês que superou todas as dificuldades impostas pelas suas deficiências físicas - ele não possuía uma perna e um braço - e também o ódio, a indiferença e a crueldade dispensados pelas autoridades de seu país para se tornar um dos artistas mais reverenciados do século vinte, uma verdadeira força da natureza que batalhou com todas as forças para construir seu progressista e genial programa artístico.

O polonês Andrzej Wajda descreve o famoso e triste massacre de Katyn. Meses depois da invasão nazista na Polônia, em 1939, aproximadamente 22 mil prisioneiros de guerra poloneses são mortos pela polícia secreta soviética nas florestas da cidade de Katyn.

Two young boys living in a small town in the east of Poland try to survive the war by working as projectionists in a local cinema. They provide entertainment to Poles, Germans and Russians alike.

The love story of Stanisław Połaniecki and the beautiful Marynia Pławicka, set in the scenery of manor houses and Warsaw from the end of the 19th century.

Pawlak and Kargul - neighbors, frenemies, and grandfathers to Ania- both receive invitation to America from Pawlak's brother- John. All three of them travel to Chicago, where they discover John has passed away, and they arrived just in time for his funeral. But first- they need to find his illegitimate daughter. Set in late 70's story of two, charming, Polish villagers' adventures in Chicago is a third installment of Pawlak and Kargul adventures.

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.

25-year-old Anna works in the laboratory of the Lodz textile factory. She lives with her mother and recently married husband. Her life collapses when a stranger appears, looking for a daughter who has disappeared during the war.

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

The reminiscences of a Russian pilot, shot down over Poland during the war, of his first great love there.