Edward Skórzewski

Gangsters and Philantropists

Edward Skórzewski, Jerzy Hoffman

Gustaw Holoubek, Jacek Hahn

The movie consists of two satirical novels based on the same idea: both the "gangsters" and "philanthropists" end up in the courtroom.

The Law and the Fist

Edward Skórzewski, Jerzy Hoffman

Gustaw Holoubek, Zofia Mrozowska

At the end of World War Two, Polish people move to the western lands vacated by Germans. But some ruthless profiteers pose as government representatives and intend to make off with loot from a deserted town they took over. One honest man stands up against them because he believes these goods belong to the people.

Pamiątka z Kalwarii

Edward Skórzewski, Jerzy Hoffman

The document shows the staging of the Catholic Mystery of the Passion, which takes place every year in Kalwaria Zebrzydowska.

Dzieci Oskarzaja

Edward Skórzewski, Jerzy Hoffman

Andrzej Łapicki

One of several films by the Hoffman-Skórzewski duo, made as part of the "black series" of Polish documentaries showing social problems hidden from viewers behind the façade of socialist realist productions until the mid-1950s. The subject of the film are the effects of alcoholism, whose innocent victims are children.

Tips for Today

Edward Skórzewski, Jerzy Hoffman

Włodzimierz Kmicik

A look at the horse races at the famous track in Sluzewiec, Warsaw.

Sopot 1957

Edward Skórzewski, Jerzy Hoffman

Jerzy Wasowski

Documentary Short by Jerzy Hoffman and Edward Skórzewski

Czy jestes wsród nich?

Edward Skórzewski, Jerzy Hoffman

Mariusz Dmochowski, Andrzej Łapicki

This film criticizes various types of vandalism and behavior that is socially harmful: people spitting on the street, housewives wasting water, teenagers destroying sockets, passengers storming buses without paying attention to others, pedestrians devastating greenery in the city. Are you one of them?

Dwa oblicza Boga

Edward Skórzewski, Jerzy Hoffman

A document about a religious sect founded in Silesia in the 1950s - the Holy See of God and the Lamb of the Apostles in Spirit and Truth, Alpha and Omega, The Beginning and the End, an informal Christian denomination whose members consider themselves to be advocates of peace and universal union.

Uwaga, chuligani!

Edward Skórzewski, Jerzy Hoffman

Andrzej Łapicki, Roman Wilhelmi

A staged documentary that started the Polish Black Series. The film takes the form of a warning against indifference to the rogue behavior of hooligan groups and their pernicious effect on young people flowing into the cities.