Janusz Ziejewski

Birth Certificate

Stanisław Różewicz

Henryk Hryniewicz, Beata Barszczewska

Three separate stories depicting the tense everyday life during occupation, as seen through the eyes of children. In “On the Road,” the two main protagonists are lost in the September’s strife: a young boy, and a soldier transporting the valueless documents of his broken unit. In “Letter from the Concentration Camp” the story’s protagonists are young boys who help their mother during the hardships of the occupation. Their treasure is an officer uniform belonging their father who is being held in a prisoner of war camp. In “Blood Drop,” the Germans find a set of typical Aryan characteristics in this story’s protagonist – a Jewish girl, hiding in an orphanage.

Ósmy dzień tygodnia

Aleksander Ford

Sonja Ziemann, Zbigniew Cybulski

Zbigniew Cybulski and Sonja Ziemann play lovers struggling to find happiness and privacy in overcrowded Warsaw. The movie shows an honest picture of life in a war-damaged city, contrasting the characters' difficulties with their dreams of a better life. It was banned in Poland in 1958 and would not been seen anywhere until its European release one year later.

Dom bez okien

Stanisław Jędryka

Wiesław Gołas, Danuta Szaflarska

All the ambiance of an old-fashioned circus comes across with great clarity in this otherwise routine psychological tale about a mean-spirited mime and his effects on his colleagues. The small, traveling circus has been sliding downhill for awhile, and unless some new life is infused into its acts, its future does not look very rosy. Into this precarious situation comes a new mime with the uncanny ability to sap the confidence of his fellow performers. If he continues for long in this vein, no one will be able to believe they have any talent left at all.

Knights of the Teutonic Order

Aleksander Ford

Urszula Modrzyńska, Andrzej Szalawski

A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. He falls in love with a beautiful woman and pledges an oath to bring her "three trophies" from the Teutonic Knights.

Piątka z ulicy Barskiej

Aleksander Ford

Aleksandra Śląska, Tadeusz Janczar

In war-ravaged Warsaw, five juvenile delinquents are given probation for stealing, to rehabilitate themselves, but remain under the influence of their profiteer-boss.

Zew morza

Henryk Szaro

Maria Malicka, Jerzy Marr

The son of a miller, following his call, flees to the sea, but after several years he returns to his family and to his childhood romance, Hanka.

Spotkanie ze szpiegiem

Jan Batory

Beata Tyszkiewicz, Katarzyna Łaniewska

A thriller about Polish Intelligence Service working on detecting a net of foreign spies.

Celuloza

Jerzy Kawalerowicz

Józef Nowak, Stanisław Milski

Through the fate of the boy - whose hunger drives from his home village , and who receives a severe school of life , going through different social environments in order to become conscious , revolutionary activist - creators show a realistic panorama of conflicts in pre-WWII Poland.

Barbara Radziwiłłówna

Józef Lejtes

Jadwiga Smosarska, Jan Kurnakowicz

Przygoda na Mariensztacie

Leonard Buczkowski

Lidia Korsakówna, Tadeusz Schmidt

While visiting Warsaw, Hanka falls for a record-breaking bricklayer. Soon she returns to the city to work at construction sites and prove that women's work is not worse than that of men's.

Autobus odjeżdża 6.20

Jan Rybkowski

Aleksandra Śląska, Jerzy Duszyński

Wystrzał

Jerzy Antczak

Ignacy Gogolewski, Iwa Młodnicka

Study of a man obsessively seeking revenge.

Pierwsze dni

Jan Rybkowski

Jan Ciecierski, Hanka Bielicka

Действие фильма происходит в Островце Свентокшиском. Старый мастер спасает от гитлеровцев ценные для металлургического завода машины. Об укрытии знает только сторож Плева.Завод в конце концов удаётся запустить, а Плева остаётся на нём сначала рабочим, а позже мастером.

Kariera

Jan Koecher

Jan Świderski, Adam Mularczyk

Karwowski, son of a pre-war colonel, is transferred from the West to Poland with the task of assembling a spy and diversion network. The task seems to be easy. However, after landing in Poland, it turns out that nobody wants to cooperate with him. Karwowski's "100% reliable" contacts with potential collaborators turn out to be completely outdated.

Jak rozpętałem drugą wojnę światową: Cz.1 - Ucieczka

Tadeusz Chmielewski

Marian Kociniak, Emil Karewicz

On the night of August 31, 1939, Dolas, from a platoon reinforcing a train station on the German border, falls asleep in a train car and unknowingly crosses into Germany. The moment he shoots a German, who he thinks is a saboteur, the German invasion of Poland begins, and Dolas is convinced it was his fault. He is taken to Stalag POW camp, the first destination in his odyssey around Europe.