Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.
In 1976, a young woman in Krakow is making her diploma film, looking behind the scenes at the life of a 1950s bricklayer, Birkut, who was briefly a proletariat hero, at how that heroism was...
During the 1655 war between Protestant Sweden and Catholic Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth some Polish-Lithuanian nobles side with Swedish king Charles X Gustav while others side with the Polish king Jan Kazimierz.
In 1668 Polish colonel Michael Wolodyjowski, who recently retired to a monastery, is recalled to active duty and takes charge of Poland's eastern frontier defenses against invading Tatar hordes and Ottoman armies.
A young doctor is tired of being sought by women. One night he meets a young girl who all but forces herself into his room where they talk of morals and love. But he loses her when he goes ...
A rebellious student wants to get total independence and overcome all the barriers in his life: of money, age, status, cults and conventions. However, he meets a girl with completely different ideals.
Censored by the Polish authorities, this film was reedited and new footage added. It begins with a sci-fi motif: abstract images and electronic music take the viewer from ruins of Lebanon ...
After a long absence, Adas Miauczynski visits his family house and spends one evening with his eccentric ritual-driven parents.
Bronka is a lame country girl and a daughter of a well-off local party activist. She is seduced by handsome Staszek who is more interested in her father's land than in Bronka herself. When Staszek cheats on Bronka, the tragedy pursues.
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.
History of two soldiers during last days of World War II
The story deals with the famous incident that occurred in schoolroom of Wrzesnia, near Prussian-Russian border of partitioned Poland, in 1901. The issue is the teaching of religion in ...
The events are set in Poznan, in late summer of 1939, at the onset of German invasion on Poland. It is a family tale involving two teen-age brothers of German descent, each of them taking ...