Kazimierz Dejunowicz

Kanal

Andrzej Wajda

Teresa Iżewska, Tadeusz Janczar

During the last few days of the Warsaw Uprising following World War II, a modest group of Resistance members remains. The band must take refuge in the sewers under the orders of leader Zadra, but it's only a matter of time before they will have to emerge. However, when they try, they are met only with intense hostility from the Nazis. Despite their attempts stay resolute through immense mental strain, it becomes increasingly apparent that they may be doomed.

Skarb

Leonard Buczkowski

Jadwiga Chojnacka, Wanda Jakubińska

The first Polish post-war comedy. Witek and Krysia, a married couple, move to Warsaw and have nowhere to stay. They rent a room in a house with many other lodgers. Witek dreams of their own house and draws a sketch of their future home, marking the place where his wife will sleep with the word "treasure". The other lodgers find the draft and a frantic search for the treasure begins.

Mój stary

Janusz Nasfeter

Adolf Dymsza, Krystyna Lubienska

A boy awaits the return of his long-absent emigre father but is disappointed when they finally meet.

Powrót

Jerzy Passendorfer

Andrzej Łapicki, Alina Janowska

Долго живший в Париже, Седой приехал в Варшаву, где когда-то воевал. Все изменилось в городе, другими стали люди, улицы и дома. Ничего не узнает Седой: Варшава живет сегодняшним днем, а он в прошлом. Седой решает, что в этом новом городе для него нет места, и возвращается в Париж.

Harmonia

Wojciech Has

Tadeusz Owczarek, Kazimierz Dejunowicz

The fiction debut of Wojciech J. Has. Very simple and touching story about a boy who dreams about buying an accordion. The movie was never distributed

Cafe Pod Minogą

Bronislaw Brok

Adolf Dymsza, Bolesław Płotnicki

Comic stories of Varsovians living under the Nazi occupation and struggling with the enemy.

Ocalenie

Edward Zebrowski

Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Maja Komorowska

A biology professor, Adam, after several dizzy spells, enters a hospital for observation. He is a loner and a serious-minded man, who dislikes any display of emotions. He spends three months in the hospital while being tested. After observing patients and hospital routines around him from a distance, he learns that he will need a kidney transplant. Meanwhile his personal and professional life is falling apart: he refuses his wife's offer to donate the kidney for him; the scientific problem he was working on has been solved elsewhere. In the end Adam cracks under the prolonged pressure, waiting for the sound of an ambulance bringing a moribund patient whose kidney may be used for the transplant.

Inspekcja pana Anatola

Jan Rybkowski

Tadeusz Fijewski, Barbara Połomska

Dotknięcie nocy

Stanisław Bareja

Jerzy Kozakiewicz, Elżbieta Kępińska

Film inspired by true events. Roman Jacenko, a small village local photographer, lives in a shabby garret, which serves also as his lab and studio. He loves Beata, nice clerk in a nearby bank. Having often observed established procedures of money transport to and from the bank, and having received some information unawarely revealed by Beata, he decided to rob the car with cash.

Wyrok

Jerzy Passendorfer

Wienczysław Gliński, Lidia Korsakówna

Film starring Wienczyslaw Glinski, Lidia Korsakówna and Grzegorz Roman

Historia jednego myśliwca

Hubert Drapella

Bogusz Bilewski, Włodzimierz Skoczylas

О судьбе одного польского летчика, воевавшего против гитлеровцев на стороне англичан. Подбитый над территорией Франции поручик Стефан Заремба был подобран французскими патриотами. С риском для жизни французский врач оперировал его. За летчиком заботливо ухаживали и помогли ему вернуться в Англию.

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Wanda Łuczycka, Magdalena Zawadzka

Middle-aged woman tries to cope with the passage of time and aging, as seen by her daughter.