Zygmunt Konieczny

The story of a communist Security Service agent who kept Karol Wojtyła under surveillance for many years.

Чудеса — обязательное условия канонизации католического святого. В мужском монастыре, который в XVI веке дал Польше сразу троих святых, происходит нечто весьма удивительное: трое монахов начинают сладостно благоухать. Опираясь на древнее предсказание, настоятель ожидает новых чудес и новой святой троицы. Тем временем для реставрации икон сюда прибывает художница, которая горит желанием химическим путем воссоздать чудесный запах монахов.

One of the doyennes of Hungarian film deals with a dark period of national history: the Soviet regime in Hungary. She portrays it through the fate of the former prime minister and national hero, Imre Nagy. The script is based on the diary written by Imre Nagy, and the memories of his daughter, Erzsébet Nagy, as well as authentic documents and records.

As every year, the celebration of All Saints Day brings Polish families together at the graves of their loved ones. On this special day Maria, 80-year-old widow, visits the graveyard with her son, his wife and their children.

The film was made at the Polish Sculpture Center in Oransko, during sculpture workshops for deaf-blind people. The camera shows the process of creation, which is closely connected with getting to know oneself. It is accompanied by hesitation, anger and joy.

TV movie directed by Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz.

On the road wandering minstrel finds a mare, which, upholstered and sickly, is dying. He buries mare and casts a curse in the village where the animal was tortured. In the village lives Jańcio, a philosopher, a man loving life and his young wife, Weronka. Jańcio lives in harmony with God and is not expecting that he will be put to the test by him. He is convinced he has the power to make miracles. He leaves his pregnant wife, and goes to see the world, promising to return before the due date.

In the cinema "Liberty" there takes place a screening of the film " Daybreak". The screening is interrupted by an unusual event. Actors come to life on the screen, start conversations among themselves, draw the audience into them. Crowds gather around the cinema, the relevant authorities and services wonder what to do in this complicated situation. Also arriving is the censor, a man reaching his fifties, a one-time literary critic and journalist. The line between fiction and reality begins to blur...

Story of a tragic love triangle that develops between a mother daugther and a farmhand. A good-looking widow lives alone on a farm with her teenage daughter. Their neighbor occasionally helps them in the farmwork. He would have eventually married the mother, but the daughter tries to seduce him at all costs. He becomes the lover of both women, but eventually runs away leaving the mother shattered and the daughter pregnant.

During the Second World War, tens of thousands of blonde, blue-eyed Polish children were snatched from their parents and given to German families. Lebensborn was part of Hitler's plan to expand the Aryan master race within the Third Reich. Eight-year old Jerzy returns home at the end of the war to a joyful reunion with his long-lost mother and grandfather. But problems arise as he is taunted by his peers and, longing for his missing father, burns with resentment for his new communist stepfather.

The hard-working son of a dying country woman hires a stranger to take care of his mother.

По мотивам всемирно известного романа Ф. М. Достоевского, в основе которого подлинный исторический факт: убийство в Москве в 1870 году лидером «Народной расправы» студента, отошедшего от революционной деятельности. В центре сюжета — блестящий дворянин, любимец женщин Николай Ставрогин, вовлеченный в тайное общество…

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

Ewa decides to end her romance with Alek. From the mountain guesthouse they go by car to Warsaw. . . Kim, after being released early from prison, returns to his wife, Jola, who lives in a lonely house. Here he finds a man who claims he has been hired for hard work. Kim wants to find out if Mietek is not Jola's lover.

A captain and lieutenant of the Russian army are buried in the basement of the Przemysl Fortress during the First World War.

Действие фильма происходит в первые годы Второй мировой войны в гетто. Якуб Розенберг, интеллектуал-одиночка, которого немцы определили подметать улицы. Видя, что всё больше людей вокруг получают оповещение об отправке (что фактически означает смертный приговор), не разрешает, чтобы им овладел страх, тщательно готовится к своей последней дороге. Ищет подходящую одежду, разрешает себя побить в спровоцированной драке, спит на полу, поднимает тяжести. Пробует любой ценой сохранить собственное достоинство, не поддаться ни самообману, ни отчаянию. Заботясь о маленьком Давиде, сыне знакомых, старается и ему привить свою точку зрения...

The film doesn’t have any commentary. It presents pictures illustrating the history of Poland in chronological order: portraits of rulers and magnates, historical events, such as uprisings, but also balls, hunting, concerts, from the Middle Ages to the present day. In just twenty and a few minutes, the exhibition's message was captured - the heritage of the centuries and the image of the historically changing Polish identity.

A tale of medieval quest for a golden harp called "the Knight".

The film is set in a terrorizing world of the future, where technology commands the movements of individuals, supervised by the doctors, carrying out a program to improve the human race. Thus, instead of doctors creating a monster, the monsters are already there as the species of the future - but one of them is suspected by the doctors of being a human being. That is Golem in reverse.

Story of Podgaje massacre in January 1945 in which SS troop murdered captured Polish soldiers.

Barbara is a forty-year-old woman of Polish origin living in Budapest. She is a biologist, a wife and a mother. The death of her woman friend opens her eyes to the fact that she is lonely, unable to find her place.

Young former partisan recalls his war experience during a trip to the sea.

The main hero obsessively wants to become an actor. The would-be actor fails two entrance exams to the state acting school and has a nervous breakdown. Eventually he commits himself to the mental institution where patients are rehabilitated by doing some artwork. He refuses to paint but does some acting. He participates in a play where a lead, playing Oedipus, actually blinds himself. Out of the institution he has dreams of killing his father, but finally seems to be ready to start over again and either act without the state license or take another job.

The main hero obsessively wants to become an actor. The would-be actor fails two entrance exams to the state acting school and has a nervous breakdown. Eventually he commits himself to the mental institution where patients are rehabilitated by doing some artwork. He refuses to paint but does some acting. He participates in a play where a lead, playing Oedipus, actually blinds himself. Out of the institution he has dreams of killing his father, but finally seems to be ready to start over again and either act without the state license or take another job.

Poetically shown story of love, passion, loyalty, betrayal of trust, and death. Three young friends travel round Poland and do the living acting out religious scenes and selling holy photo images at church fairs. Problems appear right after the theft of their camera.

Макс — друг Анджея выбрасывается из окна собственной квартиры и появляется в виде призрака в спальне Анджея. Герой пытается понять, в чем причины последнего поступка друга. В своем путешествии по глубинам прошлого, он постоянно встречает Макса, который был всегда успешнее, сильнее и талантливее Анджея.

After the war, the community of mountaineers is eager to start their own sawmill. When the communist authorities come to take over the sawmill, a rebellion starts.

Meta, 1973. 16mm film, color, sound; running time unknown.

A village in Podhale, the time of Christmas. The then folk culture confronts the occupation of the Germans.

Действие фильма происходит в самом конце второй мировой войны, на территории освобожденного американцами немецкого концлагеря. В ожидании своей дальнейшей судьбы бывшие заключенные — поляки живут на территории бывшей казармы. Они находятся под наблюдением американских военных. Главные герои картины: молодой поэт-интеллектуал Тадеуш и его возлюбленная — Нина.

An unexpected guest shows at the door of an apartment of a working-class family, at first asking just for a glass of water.

Animated ballet etude presenting the conflict between dreams and reality.