Elżbieta Starostecka
2021Nights 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.
Nights and Days
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.
The Doll
Przypadek Pekosińskiego
Grzegorz Królikiewicz
Bronek Pekosinski, Jan Prochyra
Bronek Pekosinski lives in Zamosc, Poland. He is probably 83 years old. He has no family and does not really know who he is. Everything about his life is fictitious: symbolic is the date of birth - the day World War II broke out, as well as his surname - after PKOS, an abbreviation of a charitable institution, and the place of birth - the Nazi concentration camp, from where his mother threw him over a barbed wire fence. Even his friends and guardians turned out to be false. Only his loneliness and his hump seem to be authentic. Two great powers have vied for young Bronek's soul: Roman-Catholic church and a totalitarian state. He fell into alcoholism. Partially paralyzed as the effect of cerebral hemorrhage, he is fired with an ambition of acquiring a mastery in a game of chess.
The Case of Bronek Pekosinski
Rzeczpospolita babska
Hieronim Przybył
Aleksandra Zawieruszanka, Zofia Merle
1945 год. Демобилизованные бойцы женского подразделения решают и в мирной жизни сохранить военный порядок. Та же цель, как оказалось, и у мужчин из соседнего подразделения. Соперничая из-за одной усадьбы, обе стороны поклялись впредь не интересоваться противоположным полом...
Rzeczpospolita babska
Prom
Jerzy Afanasjew
Wojciech Siemion, Ryszard Ronczewski
1945. A packed ferry drifts down the Vistula after its tow rope snaps. Nobody but Kros, a policeman, notices, and he must organize a rescue before the ferry drifts into the Bay of Gdansk, which is still full of mines.
Ferry
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.
How I Unleashed World War II, Part I: The Escape
