Wojciech Pilarski

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.

Ulica Graniczna

Aleksander Ford

Maria Broniewska, Jerzy Leszczyński

The story of Polish and Jewish families living side by side in one Warsaw street. Everything changes once and for all with the Nazi invasion.

Wezwanie

Wojciech Solarz

Hanna Skarżanka, Bolesław Płotnicki

A young farm boy spends his days dreaming and making totem-pole like sculptures out of wood. His brother is a go-getter: studies agricultural engineering, comes back with diploma to marry the pretty girl next door. The dreamer graces puts his sculptures around, invoking anger of his father and ridicule of the peasants who find him useless. During the brother's wedding he sets his totems ablaze. He makes a pass at his new sister-in-law, but returns to his own reveries. In the end he hears a call to bring a log out of the marshes, but during the escapade sinks into the bog.

Short Working Day

Krzysztof Kieślowski

Wacław Ulewicz, Mirosław Siedler

A dramatisation of the workers' protests in June 1976 in Radom, seen from the perspective of the local Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party. [Produced in 1981, but not commercially released until 1996.]

Zwycięstwo

Jerzy Passendorfer

Wojciech Siemion, Janusz Bylczyński

Panienka z okienka

Maria Kaniewska

Pola Raksa, Jadwiga Chojnacka

Adventures of a two little girls kidnapped from their families.

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.

Kierunek Berlin

Jerzy Passendorfer

Wojciech Siemion, Jan Bielawski

Gromada

Jerzy Kawalerowicz

Ludwik Benoit, Marian Lupa

The struggle between poor villagers, who are eager to build a co-operative mill and a cultural centre, and the village wealthy men - the miller and the kulaks - who are desperate to stop the farmers.

Miasto nieujarzmione - Robinson warszawski

Jerzy Zarzycki

Igor Śmiałowski, Jan Kurnakowicz

Unvanquished City (Polish: Robinson warszawski, Polish: Miasto nieujarzmione) is a 1950 Polish drama film directed by Jerzy Zarzycki. It was entered into the 1951 Cannes Film Festival.

Podhale w ogniu

Henryk Hechtkopf, Jan Batory

Janusz Bylczyński, Stanisław Milski

1650 год. Молодой шляхтич Александр Костка Наперский едет в Пцимь на встречу с Радоцким, пользующимся авторитетом среди местного крестьянского населения. В корчме Наперский становится свидетелем истязания крестьянина и встаёт на его защиту, чем восстанавливает против себя местную шляхту. В Пциме Наперский рассказывает крестьянам о восстании Хмельницкого, которое вспыхнуло на Украине. Уговаривает крестьян также поднять бунт в Подгалье и прогнать шляхту. Крестьяне поддаются его уговорам и начинают мятеж. Повстанцы добиваются успеха и занимают замок в Чорштыне. В течение нескольких дней восстание охватило всю область Подгалье, а затем и другие регионы. Вскоре войска, собранные краковским епископом П. Гембицким, начинают подавление бунта и осаду замка...

Ostatnie dni

Jerzy Passendorfer

Wojciech Siemion, Bogusław Antczak

Niedziela sprawiedliwości

Jerzy Passendorfer

Magdalena Zawadzka, Krzysztof Chamiec

Dwie godziny

Stanisław Wohl, Józef Wyszomirski

Barbara Fijewska, Irena Krasnowiecka

Follows the lives of people shortly after World War 2 as they try to adjust to their new lives. Completed in 1946, it was banned from release by the communist government of Poland until 1957 in edited form.