Urszula Śliwińska

A psychological portrait of Ewa, a young Polish theatre actress searching for her own way in life. She plays a minor role in Jasieński's 'The Ball of Mannequins', a complete opposite of her real personality, while aspires to star as Cordelia in Shakespeare's 'King Lear'. Ewa lives on her own, occasionally visiting a famous old actress to talk about theatre, taking care of a poor neighbor, and fights her sophisticated mother rejecting the truth about her beloved father, who died an alcoholic.

War film directed by Henryk Bielski.

The action takes place in Warsaw in the second half of the 19th century. The main character is the head of the girls' school - Mrs. Emma Latter. Ms Latter is struggling with the financial problems of her institution, because the parents of the students are still in arrears with payments. In addition to professional problems, she is tormented by problems with adolescent children. All this causes Mrs. Latter to experience a mental breakdown.

Set during the German occupation of Poland during WWII. A priest in a small village meets a revolutionary who is on an assignment to kill a supposed Nazi collaborator.

Bearing traces of the old Anton Chekhov play The Wedding, The Contract is set during an "arranged" ceremony. The bride and groom barely know each other, but this matters not at all to their tradition-bound families. At the last minute, the bride balks. Only slightly nonplused, the groom's father, a status-seeking doctor, decides to go ahead with the expensive reception anyway. Polish director Krzysz Zanussi uses this scenario to stick it to capitalist corruption, and to society's destruction of the individual spirit. Leslie Caron, the one recognizable member of the cast, is outstanding as a wealthy, over-the-hill ballerina who happens to be a kleptomaniac.

Главный герой Витольд Партыки мечтает заработать денег для участия в экспедиции в Гималаи на место гибели своего отца-альпиниста. Однако в его жизни есть один постоянный фактор — его константа — это «умение» постоянно оказываться в неправильном месте в неправильное время…

The film is set toward the beginning of World War II, at a psychiatric hospital in the country. But this is an unusual hospital: there are several incurable schizophrenic cases, staff is bit strange and a writer has voluntarily entered the clinic because he is "peculiar" and a drug addict. Then, the occupying forces arrive...

In what appears to be an inexplicable incident, a man drives up to a resort hotel in midwinter, throws away his car keys, enters, and proceeds to agitate everyone he meets with his urgency -- a message he is somehow unable to communicate. Then he leaves, disappearing in the snow. Later, the people he appeared to have upset have gathered to search for him and find him frostbitten, but alive. Visiting him at the sanatorium to which he has been taken, they gradually discover what was really happening.

В летнем лагере студенты не только отдыхают, но и продолжают учиться. Юный педагог Ярослав — идеалист, полный романтических устремлений. Его старший коллега Якуб — прагматик, пропагандирующий теорию «защитных цветов», согласно которой человеку необходимо постоянно приспосабливаться к обстоятельствам. За конфликтом двух педагогов пристально наблюдают и преподаватели, и студенты. Впрочем, некоторых из них роль пассивных наблюдателей не устраивает.

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

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.

Short Drama

Франтишеку Ратману пришлось приложить немало усилий, чтобы попасть на обучение в Варшаву, на факультет физики. Именно физика, по убеждению героя, является наукой, дающей чёткие и конкретные ответы на поставленные вопросы. Со временем жизненный опыт и любовные перипетии ставят под сомнение эту уверенность. Франтишек тяжело переживает смерть друга в Татрах. В горах он знакомится с девушкой, и недолгий роман заканчивается женитьбой, поскольку молодые люди ожидают ребёнка. Обстоятельства и обязанность содержать семью заставляют Франтишека оставить обучение, устроиться на фабрику и принять участие в экспериментах неврологической клиники. Но поиски сущности бытия для главного героя на этом не заканчиваются, ведь впереди долгая жизнь….

A biology professor, Adam, after several dizzy spells, enters a hospital for observation. He is a loner and a serious-minded man, who dislikes any display of emotions. He spends three months in the hospital while being tested. After observing patients and hospital routines around him from a distance, he learns that he will need a kidney transplant. Meanwhile his personal and professional life is falling apart: he refuses his wife's offer to donate the kidney for him; the scientific problem he was working on has been solved elsewhere. In the end Adam cracks under the prolonged pressure, waiting for the sound of an ambulance bringing a moribund patient whose kidney may be used for the transplant.

Jan is a young assistant professor in chemistry and a workaholic, Anna is an unsuccessful science writer who turns to Jan for advice and human compassion, but Jan, absorbed with his career, remains immune to Anna's clumsy efforts to pierce his defenses.

Молодого инженера Вита вызывают телеграммой к больному отцу, который до войны был владельцем стеклозавода. Теперь он живет с сестрой жены и экстравагантной дочерью Беллой. Вит приезжает со своим другом Мареком. Оказывается, что отец - не болен, просто хочет, чтобы сын вернулся, и унаследовал маленькую мастерскую елочных игрушек, и занялся семьей. Однако разговор с отцом не убеждает Вита остаться. Между Мареком и Беллой происходит близость. Марек, возмущенный позицией Вита, предлагает Белле уехать, но она не решается оставить отца. Марек уезжает, вскоре после него уезжает и Вит, не пожелав даже попрощаться с отцом.