Gustaw Lutkiewicz

The Quack

Jerzy Hoffman

Jerzy Bińczycki, Anna Dymna

A famous surgeon is beaten by drunken bullies, loses his memory and cannot recollect who he was before. He gets to a village, lives in a not so well to do family and becomes the Quack - he slowly regains his talent for medicine and saves the lives of several village patients.

The Saragossa Manuscript

Wojciech Has

Zbigniew Cybulski, Iga Cembrzyńska

During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.

Nights and Days

Jerzy Antczak

Jadwiga Barańska, Jerzy Bińczycki

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.

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.

Der Aufenthalt

Frank Beyer

Sylvester Groth, Fred Düren

In the fall of 1945, nineteen year-old Mark Niebuhr, is accused of murder and is jailed as a prisoner of war in Warsaw, Poland. He maintains his claim of innocence throughout long periods of solitary confinement. When Mark is placed among a group of Polish criminals, he becomes the target of their aggression. Later, Mark experiences true hell in a communal cell with fanatical German war criminals. Turning Point is based on actual events from Hermann Kant's novel of the same name.

Colonel Wolodyjowski

Jerzy Hoffman

Tadeusz Łomnicki, Magdalena Zawadzka

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.

Ewa chce spać

Tadeusz Chmielewski

Barbara Lass, Stanisław Mikulski

Ewa Bonecka, a young student about to start school in a new place finds herself without a place to sleep after she is declined a room in a women-only hotel. Helped by a pleasant policeman, Piotr, she tries to find a lodging in the strange town full of thieves and petty troublemakers.

Bokser

Julian Dziedzina

Daniel Olbrychski, Tadeusz Kalinowski

Young boxer studies with a kind, knowing manager, grooming him for the Olympics. He fights the lead boxer, has a brief fling, and gets jailed for beating up a group he feels laughed at him during the drunken spree. But he is rehabilitated and gets a crack at the Olympics where he wins.

Konsul

Mirosław Bork

Piotr Fronczewski, Maria Pakulnis

After a con-man is released from prison, he gradually gets back to his old tricks, but his cons grow ever more elaborate and travel steadily up the ladder of society until he has local politicians and important government ministers involved in his schemes.

Nowy

Jerzy Ziarnik

Damian Damięcki, Bogdan Baer

The People from the Train

Kazimierz Kutz

Janina Traczykówna, Andrzej May

A group of people find themselves stuck in remote train station in German-occupied Poland. A drunk German station guard there gets paranoid and sees partisans all around him, phones headquarters, and when the German soldiers arrive and search the station they find a gun. They then threaten to execute every fifth person unless someone claims it.

With Fire and Sword

Jerzy Hoffman

Izabella Scorupco, Alexandr Domogarov

In the mid-17th century, Poland was the largest, most democratic, and most tolerant country in Europe. However, a tragic civil war brought about the gradual decline of the once glorious republic...

Awans

Janusz Zaorski

Marian Opania, Gustaw Lutkiewicz

After getting a university degree, Marek Grzyb comes back to his village and does his best to persuade its inhabitants to modernize their surroundings

Prawdziwy koniec wielkiej wojny

Jerzy Kawalerowicz

Lucyna Winnicka, Roland Głowacki

Roza marries a promising young architect, Juliusz ; for a few months, they have a blissful life together. Then World War II breaks out and within weeks Juliusz is deported to a concentration camp. Months, and then years go by, until Roza abandons any hope that her husband might return. She meets and falls in love with another man, and tries to put her life back together, but one day, unexpectedly, Juliusz does return - a shattered, mere ghost of his former self, physically crippled and tormented by memories of the camps. First out of duty, then out of pity, Roza starts to care for him, but her feelings slowly are transformed into a kind of revulsion

Pierwszy dzień wolności

Aleksander Ford

Tadeusz Łomnicki, Beata Tyszkiewicz

Freed Polish soldiers are trapped in a small town in Germany during the last days of World War II. After a doctor's daughter is raped by a concentration camp worker, the Poles allow her and her father to stay in the house that is their temporary quarters. While waiting to be repatriated, the war-weary group is forced to fight some German soldiers who invade the town. The war brings out conflicting emotions of the Poles who find themselves trapped in the house and once again under fire from the enemy.

Nie zaznasz spokoju

Mieczysław Waśkowski

Krzysztof Janczar, Joanna Pacula

After leaving prison, Tolek plans to get revenge on his former girlfriend.