Jan Nowicki

Ревнивый муж, его сексуальная жена-актриса, голливудский режиссер-неряха, бесхребетный наркодилер, потерявшаяся молодая девушка, бывший зэк продавец хот-догов, студент в затруднительном положении, который выполняет странное задание и альпинист-мойщик стекол и несколько других странных персонажей. Еще недавно они не подозревали о существовании друг друга, а сегодня их судьбы странным образом переплелись. На это потребовалось каких-то одиннадцать минут.

As Poland is placed under martial law in 1981, two confidence tricksters try to evade both the police and the army. They become embroiled in a web of schemes engineered by the secret service, fellow criminals and the democratic resistance.

Jest rok 1776. Radca wiedeńskiej Kancelarii Nadwornej Henryk Klein (Mariusz Bonaszewski) otrzymuje skargę na hrabiego Jakuba Franka (Olgierd Łukaszewicz), który kilkanaście lat wcześniej został skazany za głoszenie herezji i zbiegł do Wiednia. Donos napisany został przez jego byłego wyznawcę, Jakuba Golińskiego (Andrzej Chyra). Klein dowiaduje się, że za zdradę Goliński został ukarany i obrabowany, a teraz czeka go śmierć ku przestrodze innych. Radca przeprowadza dochodzenie. Udaje mu się ustalić, że pseudomesjasz ogłosił się Bogiem, tworzy ze swoich wyznawców armię i szuka kontaktów z dworem cesarzowej Marii Teresy. Klein podejrzewa spisek, którego celem jest zamach stanu

The film is about a group of old retired theatre actors in a retirement home for actors who aim to regroup and stage Goethe's Faust.

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.

The story of male friendship, vitality and the joy of living, even after turning 60 years old. When one of the three friends is taken to hospital, the others are there for him.

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.

В 1967 году Йорген Лет снял двенадцатиминутный короткометражный фильм «Совершенный человек» (Det Perfekte Menneske), документ о поведении человека, охватывающий все наиболее важные темы, пронизывающие все творчество Йоргена Лета. В 2000 году Ларс фон Триер предложил Йоргену Лету снять вместе пять римейков этой картины, причем каждый раз Триер ставил перед ним препятствия, заставляя Лета переосмысливать сюжет и характеры персонажей фильма, сделанного в 1967 году. Притворяясь наивным антропологом, Лет пытается преодолевать хитроумные препятствия, воздвигаемые перед ним хитрым и коварным Триером. Пять раз Лету приходилось подчиняться приказам Триера, преодолевать вводимые им ограничения и запреты.

The film tells about mainly three people - Max, a bored, smart, poor University Professor of Philosophy; Ramzes, a mafia leader, cool, strong, merciless bully and Stella, Ramzes girlfriend.

The movie is inspired by writer-director Márta Mészáros' own childhood. The film is a grim reminder of horrible days under Stalinist period when several innocent people were persecuted for no fault. A good film which allow people to know how people in Europe were tortured before second world war by dictators and authoritarian regimes.

A story of a mother who had to change her profession from a teacher to a high class prostitute to make a living.

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").

"Młode wilki 1/2" to druga część historii o młodzieży, która wchodzi w życie w realiach drapieżnego kapitalizmu. Akcja toczy się w 1994 roku, kilka miesięcy przed akcją pierwszej części. "Młode wilki 1/2" nie jest filmem o przemocy i zbrodni. Jest to film o przyjaźni, lojalności i pierwszej miłości. Czasem nieporadnie, czasem ze wstydem, bohaterowie filmu odkrywają w sobie uczucia, które znali jedynie jako puste słowa Dopiero w sytuacjach ekstremalnych odkrywają ich nowy sens. Jest to także film o marzeniach i pragnieniach. Zarówno tych zwykłych, banalnych, jak szybkie samochody i ładne dziewczyny, jak i głębszych, jak chęć znalezienia swojego celu w życiu, potrzeba poznania własnej tożsamości.

Two friends recall the PRL. After serving time in jail, they took up an illegal currency exchange. Cheated by partner - they decide to take revenge. Preparations take many months, but the action ends differently than it was planned.

In this Polish-German fantasy thriller, Wroclaw lawyer Anna Bracka (Antonina Choroszy) is after top-level corruption when her lover Jerzy (Artur Zmijewski) suggests she take a bribe to lose the case. After her angry refusal, he rapes her, and she drives away into the rain, nearly hitting amnesiac Witek (Mariusz Bonaszewski) wandering in the road. She takes him to an abandoned housing project, and when his memory returns, he tells her his gun was once owned by retired military prosecutor Jan Szymanski (Jan Nowicki), Anna's father. Anna goes to her father, who remembers prosecuting and then befriending Witek during the 1949 communist takeover of Poland. Flashbacks link the idealistic young Witek, who refused to sign a false statement and betray his beliefs, to the equally idealistic Anna

The end of the 70s of the last century. A team of surveyors goes to a small provincial town. Magister ( Jan Nowicki ) and the experts accompanying him plan to build a new road in the vicinity. The geodesists' projects arouse the indignation of one of the local farmers, Biernacki ( Wiesław Gołas ). The envisaged route is to run through the land belonging to it. To save his patrimony, Biernacki is ready to pay a bribe. The dispute between the host and the surveyors is cruelly resolved in front of the party dignitaries participating in the nearby banquet. Jerzy Gruza's painting is a sharp satire of manners, criticizing social relations from the end of the Gierek era.

28 июня 1956 года коллектив Познанского завода им.Сталина начал забастовку, требуя улучшения условий труда. Сначала мероприятие происходило организованно, затем события вышли из-под контроля. В город были введены войска, в том числе 300 танков... События «Познанского Июня» зритель видит глазами двух мальчишек. Пётрек — сын одного из лидеров рабочих, а Дарек — сын офицера управления Общественной безопасности. В этот день они подружились.

An expressionist biography of Edith Stein, who converted from the Jewish faith to the Catholic one and became a Carmelite sister. She would die in a German concentration camp.

This drama follows the dilemma of a young, unwillingly pregnant wife who gives her child up for adoption by a businesswoman. Anna doesn't need another mouth to feed. She can barely afford to care for the two she already has so when she discovers that she is six weeks pregnant she readily accepts the cash offer from Terez, her tough boss at the store where she works. If she will isolate herself throughout the pregnancy, secretly bear the child and immediately allow Terez to sign for it, Anna will receive $50,000. Most of the story then focuses upon Anna's emotional processes as she evaluates her choice. Included are dream segments and shots an unborn baby in the womb.

TV movie directed by Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz.

Two sisters, a journalist and a student, are struggling with financial problems. They decide to save their budget by stealing from wealthy men. They break into their apartments through windows in order to realize their American dream...

A world of the future where society is addicted to the drug of television. Supervision sessions create a perfect illusion of reality, making it almost impossible to return to reality.

The heroes of this crime-comedy attempt to get hold of money by a funny trick. They start operating the new post-office of the housing estate a week before the official opening, pocketing the revenue themselves. The inhabitants of the estate do not understand the trick, and loads of money pour to the swindlers.

Hungary, end of World War II. Five Hungarian soldiers desert their troop which has been directed to Germany. They are escaping with the help of a stamp and unfilled travelling warrants, trying to survive until the war ends.

A documentary about Hungarian prisoners of war in the World War II

Fanny lives in the forest with her meteorologist mother. One day on her way across the forest to visit her grandmother and great grandmother, she has three encounters that will change her life forever: an apparently kind and gentle wolf, a city boy and an ornithologist who bears a striking resemblance to the father who long ago abandoned her and her mother.

Fanny lives in the forest with her meteorologist mother. One day on her way across the forest to visit her grandmother and great grandmother, she has three encounters that will change her life forever: an apparently kind and gentle wolf, a city boy and an ornithologist who bears a striking resemblance to the father who long ago abandoned her and her mother.

This story follows a young student, who is orphaned as she grows to adulthood in the shadow of the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Coming from the Communist intelligentsia, she sees her friends and family react differently. Her lover, a married factory manager, supports the patriots and later assists fellow workers in staging a strike. Meanwhile her sister and others express anger at being forced from their homes during the revolution and continue to express a hatred for the rebels afterwards. But in the end they realize that for all people, real life is not possible after the revolt and its brutal suppression by the Soviets and their collaborators.

Poet-filmmaker Jørgen Leth taps his own earliest inspirational veins by free-floating through a camera/microscope-enhanced set of poems with love as their first and final subject. For example, how a tropical island woman prepares for a meeting with her lover. The film was shot partly in the South Pacific with more than a nod to social anthropoliogist B. Malinowski's historical work The Sexual Life of Savages.

Based on Michał Choromański's novel. Young artist arrives at Zakopane and meets local people.

Вера - секретарь штаб-квартиры НАТО в Брюсселе, где решения о жизни или смерти миллионов людей принимаются за большим столом. Во время деловой поездки в США она узнаёт, что ядерные ракеты США будут размещены в Западной Европе. Ядерная угроза теперь в пределах досягаемости. Как с этим бороться? Эти знания тяжело давят на девушку, а также выставляют её любовь к британскому полковнику Шелвину в ином свете. Но нельзя спрятаться от собственных моральных норм. Вера принимает решение, и она едет с ним в Восточный Берлин...

The law student Caroline and the assistant professor Tom are husband and wife, but they keep their marriage a secret. While Caroline is afraid of annoying her mother Hella who ever since her divorce twenty years ago distrusts men in general, Tom dreads the criticism of his professor, a family law specialist who objects to the concept of marriage. By chance, Caroline gets hold of some juicy information: Her mother and the professor used to be a couple and she is their child. With almost missionary zeal she addresses herself to the task of convincing the two grown-ups to get back together. In the process, however, she steers both her academic studies and her own marriage into a crisis.

This Polish historical drama film traces the fascinating saga of a wealthy, princely Polish dynasty in years 1900-1935.

A continuation of "Diary for My Children," the film picks up in 1950, when Juli, the diarist, is 18 and determined to become a movie director.

The eponymous Zygfryd is a reclusive young circus acrobat. Professor Drawicz is overwhelmed by Zygfryd's circus act and tries to make the world of art accessible to him - with tragic consequences.

In the 21st century, prisoners aboard penitentiary space ships explore unknown worlds. Scope, one of the prisoners is sent on a planet though to be lifeless, until he found "Humans" on it.

Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People wait for the Ark to arrive and rescue them while their habitat falls apart.

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

Bulgarian prisoners of war escape from the Germans in the town of Ohrid.

A Polish guest and Finnish engineer both fall for the same mysterious woman.

Жюжи, в детстве потерявшая родителей во время репрессий в Советстком Союзе, после 1945 года возвращается на родину, в Венгрию. Там она пытается наладить свою жизнь и выстроить отношения с удочерившей её Магдой.

1894. The mortal remains of Lajos Kossuth are brought home from abroad, the railways are lined with people with their hats in hand, and among them stands the teenager Imre Tányér. 1910. The grown-up Imre undertakes the task to solve the question unsolved since 1848-49, i.e. the transformation of peasant life. He fights for the rights of his class, for justice, for human dignity in a society distorted, backward and built on inequality.

«В покере нет секретов, есть только фокусы»,- утверждает герой фильма. Знаменитый шулер, непревзойдённый мастер карточной игры, выйдя из тюрьмы, ищет себе достойного напарника. Он обучает всем тонкостям своего ремесла молодого азартного таксиста. Тот с увлечением принимается за дело и уже готов обыграть любого мошенника. Но он не подозревает, что является лишь пешкой в крупной игре, которую затеял его учитель...

Young Poland period in Kraków before WWI. Young doctor Edward comes back from Paris and meets his friends belonging to artistic bohema.

In the first half of the fifties Júlia, the weaver meets engineer Szél on a visit with "educative" purpose, who raises his three children alone in a mighty villa. Júlia is willing to take care of the adolescent children and she moves in to the villa. She falls in love with the man but he is not able to express true, deep feelings.

Anna is a stylist in Budapest. One day at a restaurant, she thinks she recognizes Marie Aubier, a 22-year-old French girl, her own daughter.

Set in 1905. The story focuses on a young and inexperienced man in a revolutionary execution squad. He does his killing job out of idealism, and for the love of a woman. The young student murders a Russian spy and is afterwards arrested by the police. Much to his surprise he is released after a session with the traitor-judge, hinting at some leaks in the organisation. Student reports his suspicions back to the organisation, but in response is given a new hit mission.

очь богатого промышленника Сильвия узнает, что у нее не может быть детей. Пытаясь сохранить семейное благополучие, она уговаривает свою подругу Ирэну за крупную сумму денег родить от ее мужа ребенка. Но Ирэна и Акош полюбили друг друга.

очь богатого промышленника Сильвия узнает, что у нее не может быть детей. Пытаясь сохранить семейное благополучие, она уговаривает свою подругу Ирэну за крупную сумму денег родить от ее мужа ребенка. Но Ирэна и Акош полюбили друг друга.

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.

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.

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.

Set before the first World War in part of Poland under Austrian occupation, the story of a young boy in primary school who later grows up to become a rebellious, poetic-minded teen in the same school when the national movement toward liberation is under way. The story of a country where church and state work together to suppress the human spirit.

On his return from America, András simply cannot find his place: he has lost his wife, friends and job, and he cannot even find his way back to his former great love. Eventually, as a surrogate father, he takes in a wild young girl (Zsuzsa Czinkóczi) and a particularly strong bond is formed between these two rootless people. Márta Mészáros’s remarkable movie starring Jan Nowicki and Anna Karina is about displacement, loneliness and attachment.

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 поисках безопасного места для жизни после преследований со стороны мужа, депрессивного и жестокого человека, Юли останавливается в женском приюте, которым руководит Мария.

Village-girl (Juli Kovács) arrives in the city to work in a factory. The works manager (János Bodnár) sets his eye on her, but at first the girl refuses his advance.

Nights and Days is a family saga of Barbara Ostrzenska-Niechcic, (played by Jadwiga Baranska) and Bogumil Niechcic, (played by Jerzy Binczycki) against the backdrop of the January Uprising of 1863 and World War I. The film is a rather straightforward and faithful adaptation of a novel by Maria Dabrowska with the same title. The plot is woven around the changing fortunes of a noble (upper-class) Niechcic family in the pre-WWI Poland. There are two main crossing threads: a social history one and an existential one. The cinematographic version is a condensation of the 12 part award winning TV serial of the same title and using the same cast and producers.

A young man named Josef visits a dilapidated Sanatorium to see his father Jakob. On his arrival, a sinister doctor informs him that his father had stopped breathing but hasn't died yet, perhaps due to Josef's arrival which may have halted time in the sanatorium. Josef undertakes a strange journey through the many rooms of the sanatorium, each which conjures worlds composed of his memories, dreams and nightmares.

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.

Ева недавно похоронила мужа, с которым прожила семь лет. Она не любила его и вышла замуж по совету матери. На выставке Ева случайно знакомится с Адамом, он остаётся у неё на ночь, но потом долго не звонит. Следом начинается сумасшедшее хитросплетение любви и измены, боли и счастья. К концу фильма герои буквально меняются местами.

Герой по имени Михал, чудом уцелевший после расправы фашистов над его матерью, женой и сыном, первоначально пытается выйти на контакт с подпольщиками, а затем оказывается одним из подопытных (неких «кормильцев вшей») в странном медицинском центре, занятом изобретением вакцины против тифа. Михал также помогает появиться на свет ребёнку встреченной молодой женщины Хелены и продолжает заботиться о ней, похожей, как две капли воды, на его погибшую жену Марту. А в итоге готов пожертвовать собой, чтобы вызволить из госпиталя принудительно помещённого туда мужа Хелены.

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 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.

Каждое столкновение шляхтичей и ордынцев - это реки крови и горы трупов. Что остается у Михала Володыевского, когда он одного за другим теряет друзей? Только любимая жена Бася и Родина.

A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.

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.

1945 год. В ходе продолжающегося наступления Красная армия очищает территорию Польши от основной массы германских войск, однако разрозненные отряды немцев всё ещё остаются на польской земле. Доктор Роде, движимый соображениями врачебной этики, отказывается эвакуироваться в Германию. Группа освобождённых польских офицеров, многие из которых пробыли в немецком лагере более пяти лет, останавливается на ночлег в пустующей городской квартире. Один из них ранен и товарищи приводят ему врача – Роде.