Franciszek Pieczka

The Deluge Redivivus is a new remastered cut of the original Polish “The Deluge” from 1974 that was released for the film's 40th anniversary in 2014.

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.

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.

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.

Bartłomiej, community elder and orator, must choose an appropriate successor, but finds difficulty in the aftermath of a local girl's tragic hit-and-run death. A community's pain reverberates through fractured relationships and the burden of funereal responsibility.

Действие фильма происходит во времена римского императора Нерона, 63-66 гг. н. э. Именно в это время появляются первые исторические свидетельства распространения христианства, связанные с пребыванием в Риме и мученической смертью апостолов Петра и Павла. На троне Нерон — убийца, комедиант, поджигатель. Показана трагедия первых христиан, обвиненных в поджоге Рима, 64 г. н. э. Их распинали на крестах, обливали горящей смолой, бросали в клетки к диким животным, превращали в «живые факелы».

The story is narrated by ten-year old Staszek, who writes in his diary about his school-friend Jozef. Jozef comes from a family of blacksmiths, all of whom bear the name Jozef. Since he is the sixth consecutive son to be called Jozef, he is nicknamed Szustek (meaning "sixth one").

В небольшой польской деревне живут четверо старых друзей, служивших когда-то кавалеристами в Легионах Пилсудского. Живут себе, поживают, вспоминая дела минувших дней и давно пропитые награды за отвагу, полученные от самого Коменданта. Только самый старший из них, Якубек, бережно хранит свою — саблю. С ней он и просит друзей похоронить его и серьёзно готовится к переходу в мир иной. Но Апостол Пётр не пускает героя трёх войн в Рай с саблей, а сам Комендант, вышедший на шум, приказывает ему повернуть назад, напомнив о присяге — перед смертью передать саблю внуку, в честь священной традиции польских легионеров. Но вот беда — внуков у Якубека нет, потому что его единственный сын, ботаник, интересуется не женщинами, а только учёбой и выведением гигантских сливогруш, в надежде побить рекорды Мичурина и Лысенко и высадить морозостойкие саженцы на Северном полюсе. Поэтому четыре кавалериста берут на себя задачу женить ничего не подозревающего Янечка, даже против его воли.

This film is about life of a family, which lived in Prague since since 1968 to 1980. Father of the family comes from Ukraine and so every year someone from Ukraine to visit this family and to buy something more better than is in Ukraine. As the times go by, the friens of family live in Austria. And now for change the family visit "a better life" in west Europe and they found out how it is to be something second-rate.

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.

Panoramic view of a resort town in the summer of 1930. In seventeen episodes we get a glimpse at the microcosm of its colourful inhabitants and visitors, Poles and Jews, the high society and the desperately poor.

Bronek Pekosinski lives in Zamosc, Poland. He is probably 83 years old. He has no family and does not really know who he is. Everything about his life is fictitious: symbolic is the date of birth - the day World War II broke out, as well as his surname - after PKOS, an abbreviation of a charitable institution, and the place of birth - the Nazi concentration camp, from where his mother threw him over a barbed wire fence. Even his friends and guardians turned out to be false. Only his loneliness and his hump seem to be authentic. Two great powers have vied for young Bronek's soul: Roman-Catholic church and a totalitarian state. He fell into alcoholism. Partially paralyzed as the effect of cerebral hemorrhage, he is fired with an ambition of acquiring a mastery in a game of chess.

Pograbek is a village philosopher with an unconventional way of looking at things. He is planning on buying a child since he cannot have one due to his infertility. However, the woman that promised him one has changed her mind, and now the provincial gigolo is trying to make his wife pregnant.

A young Russian aristocrat, Baron Fyodor Jeremin, volunteers to serve with a Dragon squadron to impress the girl who rejected his love. Just at this time the 1863 insurrection explodes in Poland. He enlists to serve in the army being sent to suppress the revolt. He believes that now it's enough to defeat the Poles, become an officer and hero, get a bunch of medals, and then return and lay all of this at the feet of her beloved. However, the "little Polish war" looks completely different to the way that young Jeremin imagined it to be. In course of time, he learns to be on the wrong side. But there is no escape - he must kill or he will be killed. What's more, he falls in love with a beautiful Polish girl...

A surrealist tale set in the East German village of Stalina.

The story of catholic saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz.

Swedish account of Raoul Wallenberg, the man responsible for the largest rescue of Jews during World War II.

In the 19th century Austro-Hungarian Empire, David Hersko, a Jewish shepherd, witnesses the attack of a young girl. His home is burned down and he finds shelter with the family of a Jewish logger. The loggers find the body of a young woman which they bury, going against local laws. They are charged with her murder and it is believed that they killed her as a ritual murder.

Set in 1946, the film tells a story of a Polish villager returning home after years in a concentration camp. Mateusz is an old-timer, a saddler, who finds nothing but hostility when he makes it home after years away. He is not a Jew, though the villagers brand him one and give him a hard time. They feel guilty about the death of his son at the end of the war, and don't want the father around. In the background: beginnings of the Communist regime in Poland.

A father and his sons want to catch a man who steals their apples.

In a small town, everyone has tried to forget what happened shortly after WWII. That is, until a stranger finds a book that Jadup (Kurt Böwe) gave to the young refugee Boel (Katrin Knappe), who resettled in the town over 30 years ago. Painful memories about Boel and the post-war period begin to surface and shake up the whole town. Boel vanished back then and nobody knew why. Word spread about a rape and some tried to blame a Russian soldier. Jadup, the town's respected and popular mayor, remembers, though, how he mistrusted Boel and did not help her through this difficult time; HE didn't even notice THAT Boel loved him. Jadup's confrontation with the past gives him a new, critical view of his current situation and surroundings.

The 1930s. An investigetion after founding a dead body on the street of Cracow.

A woodsman find and abandoned child in the forest and raises him as his son. When the child reaches 10, the woodsman suddenly goes blind. The kid is determined to help his "father" and answers a mysterious call. He must seek the Spirit of Darkness and defeat him if the woodsman is to see again. During his search for the Spirit he encounters a friendly monster who helps the boy in his quest. They are able to survive every dangerous test on their way and the final confrontation.

Made in 1982, shelved for five years. Story opens with Lucja Krol's husband under the tram. She gives birth to her fourth son on the floor of their new apartment. Neighbor Wiktor, a communist intellectual, befriends the poverty-stricken family but is soon arrested and sent to jail. During the war Lucja narrowly escapes a Nazi roundup at the black market. Her sons hold ardent Communist meetings in their apartment, with her blessing. Lucja works hard, but without complaint. After the war, Klemens is inexplicably arrested, accused by the new regime of being a collaborator. Wiktor, now a high-ranking party member, trying to defend him, himself falls into disgrace. Klemens is tortured to "confess" and dies in jail, a Communist to the end. Lucja is never told about his fate.

Based on an 18th Century novel by James Hogg. Tells the story of a young man whose memories, recounted after death, are supposed to be a series of wrong moral choices ending up with him killing himself.

A young, idealistic poet, turns his back on civilization and goes to small, backwood village, rents a bed in the house of an old woman, and decides to make his living as a lumberjack. Soon he realizes that the world around him is far from perfect.

A UFO lands at night in a typical Masovian village. The villagers feel honored and want to be as hospitable as possible for the unexpected alien guests.

The film depicts three days in the life of a state farm director, during which he celebrates his 40th birthday. He was adopted by four godfathers who have helped him throughout his life and have reached positions of prominence themselves. He makes a mistake at work turning away some foreigh investors and is required to cover the losses, but even his godfathers are unable to help him. He regains affection of his son instead.

During the USSR's rule over Poland, highlander Józef Placek and his family have to convince the government that his late mother is, in fact, alive. If successful, they will be able to pocket the gifts that have been issued to her for reaching the ripe old age of 100, thus inspiring his neighbor's, Kadela's, jealousy.

Coming of age story of four girls living in the same poor district of Warsaw just before the outbreak of World War One.

Set during the insurgency of 1863, the story focuses on a tragic romance between a poor gentlewoman and a rebel noble. After a bloody battle a unit of insurgents have been wiped out and only one survived, but badly wounded. He eventually finds shelter and care from a landsteward's daughter, hiding in a burned-out manor with an old servant.

During a pogrom in Poland on the eve of World War I, a group of Jews seek refuge from the Cossacks. The fugitives hide out in a rural inn, terrified that they may be given away at any moment.

Drama about historical figure Barbara Radziwiłł, her romance with King Sigismund II August, her death and her posthumous return to Vilnius.

Kaziuk, a stubborn peasant and his pregnant wife live in a backwood village, unaffected by the civilization. The village is once visited by a couple of wanderers, and strange things start to happen afterward. A new schoolteacher is sent to the area. She stirs erotic fantasies in Kaziuk. In a stir of frustration Kaziuk cuts down a family tree - a sacrilegious act in the eyes of his family. Going a step further and using a scythe for cutting the rye instead of a sickle brings the whole village against him.

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.

While studying in Moscow, the GDR resident Christiane falls in love with Hatem, a fellow student from Syria. The two become a couple and even have a child together. When their study draws to an end, Christiane and Hatem have to decide if they want to share their future together. After Hatem explains to Christiane that as a woman she will not be able to work in Syria, Christiane suggests moving to the GDR together. For Hatem, however, this is out of the question, since he considers it a betrayal of his country. Thus, the two young people are forced to go separate ways.

The document describes the preparations and organizational problems related to the outbreak of the Kościuszko Insurrection and the initial phase of the fighting to the Battle of Racławice. He also devotes a lot of space to the peasant question.

The crusty hero, Habryka, is an old miner who has won many worker medals and is now retired with his youngest son and latter's family living with him. To build new apartment buildings, the old houses are being bought out, the residents given apartments in the new houses, and being cleared away. But Habryka refuses to sell.

The crusty hero, Habryka, is an old miner who has won many worker medals and is now retired with his youngest son and latter's family living with him. To build new apartment buildings, the old houses are being bought out, the residents given apartments in the new houses, and being cleared away. But Habryka refuses to sell.

Historical novel by Boleslaw Prus . The problem of the Polish population displacement from their land within the limits of the Prussian partition. Germans come to the village harassing a wealthy peasant Snail, leading to the tragedy. Slug's cottage burns, his wife dies. The peasant does not give up, defending his inheritance. He sticks on a patch of his Polish soil and protects it like a soldier his post.

Фильм рассказывает о еврейском юноше, взрослеющем в нацистском Берлине. В фильме раскрываются темы борьбы за самоидентичность и борьбы за выживание, бывшие актуальными для евреев, особенно молодых, в охваченной войной Европе.

A film about the life and activities of the Polish revolutionary Ludwik Waryński. In his memoirs, Ludwik returns to his student years in St. Petersburg, to Warsaw, to Krakow, where he was arrested and put on trial. After the end of the process in Krakow, Waryński leaves for Geneva, where he meets with Russian revolutionaries. In 1881, he returned to his homeland and created the first party of workers in Poland...

A middle-aged man's doubts about himself transform themselves into paranoia about his younger wife's behavior in this psychological thriller. The husband plants listening devices around their apartment and eventually drives the heretofore innocent woman into the arms of one of his co-workers.

"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.

Беднаш, честный партийный чиновник, ответственен за строительство нового химкомбината. Он и его жена полагают, что их цель — создание предприятия, в котором будет удобно работать, однако их альтруистические усилия вступают в резкое противоречие с теми, кто больше всего заинтересован в собственных сиюминутных интересах.

A short making-of from the set of Kieslowski's feature film "Blizna", which uses a lot the word "Action!" and the slate.

In medieval Germany, poor and witty Till Eulenspiegel fools and cheats citizens, churchmen, and landlords. Although in most cases he uses his wit for personal well-being, he often helps the poor and weak. Eventually, he gains an influential but also dangerous position as royal fool at the court of the emperor.

Трое молодых людей, выпускник коммерческого училища польский шляхтич Кароль Боровецкий, еврейский биржевой маклер Мориц Вельт и немецкий коммерсант Макс Баум, решают организовать собственное дело — построить самую крупную в городе ткацкую фабрику…

Историческая эпопея Генрика Сенкевича, охватывающая события XVII века войны Речи Посполитой со шведами. Сложно складываются отношения главных героев Анджея Кмитица и Оленьки Биллевич. Волею судьбы Кмитиц связан клятвою с отступником Гетманом. Он оказывается в стане врагов и вынужден воевать против своих. Друзья считают его предателем, Оленька отказывается от него, а шведы прославляют. На долю Анджея выпадают тяжелые душевные и физические страдания. Но ценою своих ран, плена, героических подвигов ему удается возвратить себе родину, любимую и друзей. Вторая часть Трилогии Сенкевича.

972 год от Рождества Христова. Перед решающей битвой с саксами, князя племени Полян сражает загадочная лихорадка. Ведьма-знахарка выносит ему свой приговор: князь обретет здравие и одержит победу, только примирившись с духом своего покойного отца. В ночь перед битвой вождь должен вновь пережить свои первые подвиги и роковые ошибки, кровавые поединки и предательство союзников, побороть свои страхи. Получит ли князь благословение предков, чтобы стать первым правителем Польского государства и вписать свои свершения в летопись Европы? Судьба уготовила ему испытание, достойное великого героя своего народа!

Small Polish village straight after WWII. Young man Zenek injured and awarded with Cross of Valour during partisan fight is torn between staying loyal to his partisan comrades (continuing their fight) and his own beliefs.

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.

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.

Film set during the Silesian Uprising in the 1920's. The German owners of a mine decide that it is unprofitable and want to close it by flooding it. The miners go on strike.

Warsaw is mysteriously running out of water during the summer heat wave. This mystery can only be solved by a Polish superhero known as As.

An ambitious, enthusiastic young geologist is entangled in bureaucratic red tape when he tries to drill for oil. Frustrated with the situation, he torches an abandoned mill, ignores his girlfriend, and fights with his friends who do not share his exuberance about the project.

University student Anna and her boyfriend Tomek use a precious photograph to trace and unveil the complex wartime and post-war past of their parents.

A man who is socially inept and out of touch with the world lives with his sister in a small farmhouse. The overly sensitive man lives off his hard-working sibling, taking odd jobs as he gets them to secure his meager earnings. When he brings home a woodcutter from the forest, the sister and the newcomer fall in love. Terrified over a life without his sister, the man can't cope and decides to kill himself. This depressing tale of alienation, doubt and uncertainty was the Polish entry at the Cannes Film Festival in 1968.

The drifter has a name - Lenny Jacobsen" - An outsider is chased to his death. The case remains uncertain, while what otherwise interests at best incidentally, the sensitivities of the victims and the perpetrators, to seemingly trivial expressions, gestures, sentences becomes the main thing.

A group of workers builds a bridge near a large dam. They get drunk with a visiting reporter, who falls into the river and disappears.

Международная шайка воров намерена увезти из провинциального музея знаменитую картину и продать ее коллекционеру в Южную Америку. Об этом становится известно польской милиции. Капитан Берент и Катажина Рогальска, которым поручено дело, должны увезти в Варшаву подлинник картины, а на ее место повесить копию…

The cook prepares the soldier's favourite dish. The soldiers learn that the products come from the Majdanek camp.

Walkover, the autobiographical second feature by Polish enfant terrible Jerzy Skolimowski echoes the French nouvelle vague in its extraordinarily stylized tale of a prizefighter who ducks a fight to romance a beautiful blonde.

Three idealists - a communist secretary, a former RAF pilot and a female political activist - need to face the hardships and accusations of postwar Stalinist years before being finally rehabilitated.

По роману Яна Потоцкого. Во времена Наполеоновских войн молодой офицер находит рукопись, относящуюся к истории его дедушки, капитана гвардии испанского короля Альфонса Ван Вордена. Альфонс - человек чести и закалки, ищет короткую дорогу через дикие горы Сьерра-Морена. В гостинице Вента Кемада он встречает двух мавританских принцесс. Они называют его кузеном, потомоком могущественного рода Гомелесов, говорят, что он избран для великих целей и соблазняют его. На следующий день он просыпается возле виселицы на которой висят два трупа. Затем он встречает священника-отшельника и пастуха. Каждый рассказывает ему по истории. На следующий день он опять просыпается возле виселицы. Его приключения продолжаются. Он чудом избегает инквизиции и слышит массу разных историй, в основном о любви. В конце концов он возвращается в Вента Кемада, где его ждут принцессы с потрясающими новостями...

Главный герой фильма - врач "Скорой помощи" Анджей Сенницкий, которого после бурной супружеской ссоры покидает жена. Анджей скрывает от коллег причину, по которой он остался в городе во время отпуска. Во время визита к больному он знакомится с молодой девушкой по имени Гражина, с которой завязываются близкие отношения. Между тем жена, бунт которой оказался кратковременным, неожиданно возвращается к Анджею. Он вовремя понял, что любит жену, а увлечение Гражиной мимолетно, и он, порвав с ней, примиряется с женой.

Действие фильма происходит в западной Польше, на землях, которые долгие годы оккупировала Германия, а после войны они были возвращены польскому народу. Сюда приезжают переселенцы из других районов страны. Хотя польское правительство делает все, чтобы помочь этим людям, но положение осложняется тем, что спрятавшиеся в лесах банды польских фашистов всячески мешают организации новой жизни. Поэтому для капитана Совинського и его батальона война еще не окончена, а изменилась только ее форма и методы.

По мотивам новелл Станислава Выгодского и воспоминаниям Марии Каминской, Мариана Нашковского, Павле Зеленца о борьбе коммунистов-подпольщиков в Польше в 1938-1939 годы. Павел, рабочий деятель из Заглембя, был осужден на восемь лет тюремного заключения. Подозревает в предательстве своего друга Стефана. В сентябре 1939 года Павел убегает из тюрьмы, воюет на фронте, потом действует в конспирации. Когда арестовывают его жену, снова подозрение падает на Стефана. Только трагическая, героическая гибель Стефана убеждает Павла в невиновности друга...

1962’s SZPITAL (HOSPITAL) is set entirely in a claustrophobic hospital room where a male patient is confined. Throughout the film the room is invaded by a variety of strange people

A pair of lovers go off to a small hotel in a little town. The memories of war, however, intrude on their idyll. The girl and boy relive certain wartime experiences in flashback. She was a communist who drove a boy loving her to give himself up.

Последние дни войны. Отряд 2-й армии Войска Польского готовится форсировать реку Ниса. Его командир, полковник Чапран, подготавливает солдат к очень рискованной операции. В завязвшемся споре он бъет по лицу своего заместителя, хорунжего Шумибора. Тот представляет рапорт прокурору, капитану Хырному, и вызывает своего командира на дуэль. Хырный старается замять дело. Но вскоре до Хырного доходит рапорт полковника Чапрана на рядового Анклевича, который не выполнил приказа во время атаки. Прокурор старается остановить ненужное кровопролитие и сгладить конфликты….

Немолодой священник отец Юзеф держит путь в женский монастырь, где ему предстоит изгонять демонов, искушающих обитательниц монастыря, а более всего — настоятельницу мать Иоанну. Однако чем больше отец Юзеф общается с матерью Иоанной, тем яснее он понимает, что и сам оказался во власти демонов.

Вторая мировая война. Главный герой Стах, простой варшавский парень, живущий за счёт воровства. Наконец он находит легальную работу в столярной мастерской. Там знакомится с коммунистами и вступает а Народную гвардию. Вместе с поколением других молодых патриотов борется с оккупантами...