Jerzy Przybylski

The Promised Land

Andrzej Wajda

Daniel Olbrychski, Wojciech Pszoniak

The Polish film based on the book of the same name by Wladyslaw Reymont. Taking place in the nineteenth century town of Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion shown through the eyes of one Polish town.

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.

Sanatorium pod klepsydrą

Wojciech Has

Jan Nowicki, Tadeusz Kondrat

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.

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.

Koniec naszego świata

Wanda Jakubowska

Lech Skolimowski, Teresa Wicińska

Henryk Matula has flashbacks to being imprisoned in Auschwitz after he gives a lift to an American tourist who wants to see it

Lalka

Wojciech Has

Beata Tyszkiewicz, Mariusz Dmochowski

Set in the 19th century Warsaw. The indolence of aristocrats who, secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condescended to. Because of his "help" (in secret) to "the doll's" impecunious but influential father, the girl becomes aware of his affection.

Wieczne pretensje

Grzegorz Królikiewicz

Bogusz Bilewski, Franciszek Trzeciak

Franek, a petty criminal and gambler, befriends Rysio, who performs inspections of meat plants. Rysio suspects wrongdoings at the slaughterhouse. Franek, despite his age, cannot find a place in life, with nothing achieved and, what's more, still not knowing what to do.

Życie za życie. Maksymilian Kolbe

Krzysztof Zanussi

Christoph Waltz, Edward Żentara

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.

Dziewczyna z dobrego domu

Antoni Bohdziewicz

Krystyna Stypułkowska, Władysław Krasnowiecki

Instead of coming to her own engagement party, Joanna throws herself into New Year's Eve partying. Her fiancé follows her lead.

Śledztwo

Marek Piestrak

Tadeusz Borowski, Edmund Fetting

A Scotland Yard officer investigates the mysterious disappearance of a series of corpses. Based on the novel by Stanislaw Lem.

Życie raz jeszcze

Janusz Morgenstern

Andrzej Łapicki, Tadeusz Łomnicki

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.

Eminent Domain

John Irvin

Donald Sutherland, Anne Archer

A high-ranking Polish politburo member is banished from the party, and must find out why. Set in 1979 Poland before the Solidarity events.

Palec bozy

Antoni Krauze

Marian Opania, Janusz Zaorski

The main hero obsessively wants to become an actor. The would-be actor fails two entrance exams to the state acting school and has a nervous breakdown. Eventually he commits himself to the mental institution where patients are rehabilitated by doing some artwork. He refuses to paint but does some acting. He participates in a play where a lead, playing Oedipus, actually blinds himself. Out of the institution he has dreams of killing his father, but finally seems to be ready to start over again and either act without the state license or take another job.

System

Janusz Majewski

Jerzy Przybylski, Krzysztof Kalczyński

An alternately restrained and outrageous adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether” that like OKNO ZABITE DESKAMI before it was updated to the modern world. It features a young man and a lady friend driving to an insane asylum whose overseers the woman knows. Weirdness is evident before they even reach the place, in the form of a ranting maniac in a tree. More crazies are found freely wandering the grounds of the asylum, they being participants in an apparently revolutionary new system instituted by the asylum’s director. But the director seems just as nutty in his own way as the patients...

Zejście do piekła

Zbigniew Kuźmiński

Piotr Pawłowski, Witold Pyrkosz

Gdzie woda czysta i trawa zielona

Bohdan Poręba

Tadeusz Borowski, Alicja Jachiewicz

The young Kuriata takes the position of the secretary of the City Committee in Grodów, where a corrupt clique ruled for many years. Kuriata begins to introduce competent people to managerial functions, which is enthusiastically received by workers who want changes for the better.