Maja Komorowska

Kaytek, an unusually stubborn twelve-year-old, is brought up by his grandma and dad. One day, the troublemaker discovers that he’s got supernatural powers, which completely take over his life.

The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talking Heads (1980). The director asked his interlocutors seemingly simple questions, such as “Who are you?” and “What do you want?”.

A story, warm and full of humor, about Maszenka, an 11-year-old girl from an orphanage in the Bieszczady Mountains who loves ballet. The first stage on her road to fulfilling her dream is the entrance exam to the ballet school in Gdansk. To make it there in time, she escapes from the orphanage, taking newly hired educator Kordula with her. They travel all the way across Poland, hiding from the police and meeting people who help them in need.

In this mixture of fiction and documentary Krzysztof Zanussi invites a number of Poland’s great actors—Maja Komorowowska, Daniel Olbrychski, and Jan Nowicki—to "revisit" characters they played in the director's earlier works.

Story of life of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, the priest called "The Solidarity Chaplain", murdered by communist secret police.

Фильм начинается 17 сентября 1939 года и заканчивается осенью 1945. В фильме четыре главных линии. Это судьбы четырех польских офицеров и, в первую очередь, судьбы их родственников, которые не знают правды, но догадываются о ней. Это фильм о женщинах, которые ждут, не верят в смерть, надеются.

After her husband's death, Hanna Szendroy, the former primadonna, portrayed by Maya Komorowska is caught in the claws of the real estate mafia. She looses her lavish home and ends up homeless at the Keleti train station. When she returns to her house, now full of homeless people moved in by the real estate mafia, an unexpected relationship brings hope into her life again.

Rose, an older woman living in Paris was born in Poland as a daughter of an aristocratic family. Her family house is now an impoverished home for the elderly.

Польша. Начало 50-ых годов. Десятилетний Хуберт, отец которого находится в эмиграции в Лондоне, приезжает из провинции в Варшаву к тётке Идалии. Тётка — эксцентричная особа и противница нового строя. Она помогает мальчику, когда у него возникают серьёзные проблемы в школе. Хуберт узнаёт, что у тётки два паспорта и она играет две разные роли: партийной и беспартийной гражданки коммунистического государства. Тётка работает на почте, но её страсть — верховая езда. Она старается увлечь ею и племянника. Преодолевая всяческие препятствия, она с группой энтузиастов приобретает табун лошадей, и в конце ей удаётся вырастить прекрасную скаковую лошадь.

In the eve of the Day of the Dead, among mysterious old rituals of the Vilnius region, ghosts of the past and present start to appear.

Difficulty of human relations in a 3-cornered tale: a neurotic woman, idealistic young man and his mother. Tomek is a clean-cut, high-minded geography student. He lives with his mother Zofia, a sensitive, practicing Catholic, like her son. When he meets Julia, a depressed woman older than he, he first tries to comfort her, then invites her to stay with him and his mother. Tomek makes a trip to West Berlin to visit his well-off father. He refuses to take money from him and looks for work as a house painter. Julia ends up in a rest home for treatment, while Tomek is trying to make their relationship work.

Профессор университета доверяет непогрешимости компьютера и обучает своего сына работать на нем. Стремясь испытать новую пару коньков, профессор с сыном консультируются с компьютером, чтобы вычислить безопасность толщины льда на соседнем водоеме. Неожиданное таяние приводит к непредвиденным и трагическим последствиям...

An Uruguayan diplomat brings his new wife with him on a business trip to Poland in the summer immediately preceding the outbreak of World War II.

Действие разворачивается после окончания Второй мировой войны. Полька Эмилия живет вместе с больной матерью. Случайная встреча с американским офицером Норманом, занимающимся расследованием в Польше преступлений, совершенных в годы войны, его поддержка и забота затронули ее душу и сердце. Норман предлагает Эмилии и ее матери тайно покинуть страну. Но Эмилия как истинная католичка решает пожертвовать собой и своим личным счастьем...

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...

Two brothers of German heritage live in the Polish town of Poznan. Michal is the sensitive brother who likes literature, Andrzej is the daredevil with no intellectual bent, and between the two of them, they steal the German consul's Daimler-Benz limousine, on a lark. When they are caught by the police, the German consul unexpectedly forgives them their prank -- but in the meantime, the episode has put the brothers in touch with a Nazi underground group who want to prepare the way for the pending German invasion (set to occur within a matter of days). Andrej helps the group kill the German consul and then they blame the death on the Poles -- giving the Germans an excuse to cross the border. Not only the consul, but "artistic" types like Michal are also killed for the same reasons. After these murders, Michal realizes his brother is no better than the group he joined, and decides to set his own course in the face of the rising threat of invasion.

This heroic story follows the life of Karol Wojtyla, a Polish Roman catholic who ascends the throne of St. Peter as Pope John Paul II. As a young boy, Karol is a bright and talented student. Archbishop Sapieha recognizes the very special, moving qualities Karol possesses and encourages him to consider the priesthood. Although determined to study Polish literature, Karol turns to the church; he is ordained and studies in Italy, France, and Belgium. Torn by fear and repression in post-Stalin Eastern Europe, Karol becomes a poisonous thorn in the communists' side. His deer reverence and commitment return him to Poland as Pope John Paul II.

Варшава 1980-х годов. Коммунистическая партия отправляет журналиста Винкеля провести грязную кампанию против бастующих работников в Гданьске. Главной целью Винкеля становится активист Томчик…

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.

Friedrich is a wealthy, handsome German soldier fighting in World War II. His unit is stationed in Poland and occupies the estate of Countess Elzbieta. Forced to remain in her presence, Friedrich begins to pursue Elzbieta out of boredom.

Действие психологической драмы происходит в предвоенной Польше. Главный ее герой — молодой человек Виктор Рубен, который из-за внутреннего опустошения оказывается не в состоянии помочь сестрам — подругам своей юности, задыхающимся в провинциальной глуши города Вилько, нравственно гибнущим на его глазах.

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.

"Budapest Tales" is about a group of people (consisting of Szabo regular Andras Balint along with Ildiko Bansagi and Karoly Kovacs) who find a broken down tram while trying to go to the city. The people band together and try to get the tram back on the train tracks and head towards the city. Along this journey the passengers encounter many people who join them on the tram. What started out as only a handful of people has now turned into a small village. As the people travel on to the city each person takes on certain roles and through the course of time these roles will change. Some people fall in love, others out of love, and a few even die. But life goes on. The people keep the tram going hoping to reach Budapest.

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.

A wealthy German family is divided by the immorality of Nazi Germany, circa 1944. Former professional colleague, Joachim Peters, escapes from a Nazi concentration camp, and seeks refuge with his friends, the Sonnenbruchs. Torn between their duty as German citizens, and their greater humanitarian sensibilities, the family is divided in how to deal with Joachim's presence.

Young seminary student Franziskus (Benjamin Besson) has been ceremonially ordained. He wants to escape the harshness and injustice of the world and devote himself to the service of God in the quiet seclusion of a monastery. He is also hoping to forget the beautiful lady Aurelie (Jaroslava Schallerová), whose life he saved in a flooded brook and with whom he spent an amorous night. He knows that her father would never allow her to marry him. But the devil dressed in a monk's habit and under the name Viktorin (Andrzej Kopiczynski) intervenes in Franziskus's destiny and attempts to lead him astray. To do so he first uses the diabolical elixirs kept at the monastery as a rare relic. When the young monk gets expelled from the monastery, Viktorin prepares another trap with the help of Aurelie's stepmother Euphemie (Milena Dvorská).

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.

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.

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.

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.

An alternately restrained and outrageous adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether” that like OKNO ZABITE DESKAMI before it was updated to the modern world. It features a young man and a lady friend driving to an insane asylum whose overseers the woman knows. Weirdness is evident before they even reach the place, in the form of a ranting maniac in a tree. More crazies are found freely wandering the grounds of the asylum, they being participants in an apparently revolutionary new system instituted by the asylum’s director. But the director seems just as nutty in his own way as the patients...

An old professor and his student go mountain climbing together.