Barbara Wrzesińska

Anything can happen during Christmas Eve. Mel has to face new professional challenges and adapt to the new standards prevailing at work. Then Karina and Stephan plan to introduce serious changes in raising children. They decide to change their approach and apply somewhat sophisticated educational methods. A new woman will step in between Karolina and Filip, and the past will be reminded of Rudolf.

Martial law. Three women at the festive table await the return of Witek, with whom they have had no contact for ten days.

The fearless soldier, Marcin Kabat, returns to his hometown from a long war.

A psychologist is asked about a scientific consultation with a girl who attempted suicide.

Dagny Juell was the doctors daughter who left Kongsvinger for Berlin to study music, and became famous painter Edvard Munchs mistress and model. Than she ran into August Strindberg. They had a brief affair but after a couple of weeks Dagny left him for Stanisław Przybyszewski.

Set at the end of the XIX-th century. Madame Dulska is the sole and absolute ruler of her house in Cracow. She is ruthless, greedy and oversensitive of the reputation of her family. To protect his son from temptations she overlooks the affair he is having with the maid. Young Dulski first wants to marry the girl, but then yields to his mother demands and turns his interest to a cousin. Everything returns to normal: his father has his habitaul visits to a brothel, his son to a cabaret and Madame Dulska safeguards her reign.

The main character is a bookkeeper, 40, who lives a quiet, uninteresting life with her husband and son of school age. She realizes that soon she won't be needed much at home as the boy grows up and the relationship with her husband crumbles. It's only when an embezzlement is discovered at the office and she stands up to her management, that she realizes life has more to offer. She meets a well-off former classmate, married to an American. Then she meets Jacek and starts contemplating possibilities of a new start. She discovers love for the first time, but turns to old ways rather than to break loose.

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

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

Краков, конец XIX века. Представители всех сословий Польши, разделенной между Австро-Венгрией, Германией и Россией, собираются в деревне на празднование мезальянса: молодой поэт женится на простой крестьянской девушке. Посреди веселья происходит классовое столкновение, вызванное изрядным подпитием и разрыванием рубах на груди. Действо переходит в гротеск, начинается фантасмагория и явь смешивается со сном. После выяснения отношений в духе "ты меня уважаешь?" и очередных возлияний все примиряются и встречают рассвет. Экранизация культовой польской пьесы Станислава Выспяньского. Первый фильм о славянских свадьбах и похоронах, породивший целую традицию от Кустурицы до Лунгина.

Директор крупного предприятия пан Кшиштоф — очень занятой человек. Он вечно спешит и живет на бегу. Каждая минута жизни — час пик. Раз в неделю встреча с любовницей, молодой секретаршей. На жену и дочь времени не хватает. Некогда остановиться и задуматься: зачем все это?... Но неожиданно пришлось остановиться. Резкие боли в желудке и страшный приговор врача — рак. Все становится ненужным. Начинается долгое прощание с жизнью. Видения прошлого проносятся перед глазами. Все подлости, что были совершены в жизни, преданные друзья, растоптанная любовь. Вокруг одна ложь... Много ли добра можно сделать перед лицом смерти?

The young couple love each other. The boy is in constant work which will fit him, and in the end becomes a petty thief who cannot pay his debts anymore and decides to steal from homes where he pays scheduled visits to lonely housewifes. The girl works a nurse but is too sensitive in extreme cases. Running parallel to their story is a metaphor involving a castaway on a junkyard, who tries every means possible to get rid of the dog which becomes attached to him. In the end he attaches sticks of dynamite to the dog, but he breaks loose and the explosion wipes them both.

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.

Михал после отбытия тюремного заключения устраивается на работу на транспортную базу, где выступает против воровства и мошенничества. Но его поддерживает только диспетчер Ядвига...

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.

On Christmas Eve, a little girl falls asleep after a party at her home and dreams herself (or does she?) into a fantastic world where toys become larger than life. Her beloved Nutcracker comes to life and defends her from the Mouse King, then is turned into a Prince after Marie saves his life.

К концу 18 века, Польское государство оказывается под властью сразу трех стран — России, Австрии и Пруссии. Последняя надежда свободолюбивых поляков — французская армия, под чьи знамена добровольно встают герои фильма. Однако участие в наполеоновских походах приводит не к долгожданной независимости и объединению Польши, а к позорному созданию вассального Варшавского герцогства. Судьбы героев исторической драмы так же трагичны, как и судьба, их родины.

Экстравагантный работник архива, хобби которого коллекционирование карточек с анкетными данными, бесследно исчезает. Тщательно проведенное органами безопасности расследование приводит к неожиданным результатам. Человек не вызывавший поначалу никаких подозрений оказывается опасным шпионом. К тому же совершившим серию убийств и из-за боязни разоблачения уже готовым покинуть страну с секретными документами по дипломатическому паспорту.

По новелле Казимежа Благия о судьбе старого шкипера Куявы, который всю жизнь водил баржи по Висле.