Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz

Dworzec Gdański

Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz

Teresa Toranska, Eva Rozenbaum

Polish Jews, who were forced to leave their country in 1968, meet every year in Ashkelon. After nearly 40 years, they share their memories of exile, loss and regret, and still consider themselves Polish.

Still alive. Film o Krzysztofie Kieślowskim

Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz

Krzysztof Kieślowski, Janusz Skalski

Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz directed this insightful TV documentary (2005) tracing the Polish filmmaker's career. Former classmates reminisce about Kieslowski's happy beginnings at the Lodz film school and how his dissatisfaction with some of his early documentaries prompted the dramatic work and stylistic experimentation that led to his monumental series of films The Decalogue (1989). Wim Wenders, Agnieszka Holland, and Juliette Binoche are among the many admirers weighing in on his hard-driving work methods and preoccupation with the ephemeral. In Polish, French, and German with subtitles.

Pokolenie '89

Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz

The documentary Generation ’89 portrays the so-called Generation of the Great Change. They are the members of the first generation who lived their own adulthood in the Third Republic. Young people, currently in their thirties, most of them were sitting at school in 1989. They were born in around 1968. The system change reached them during their university studies, which allowed them to decide about their own future freely and independently. The documentary allows an inspection into the individuals of the Generation ’89, who were mature adults when entering the Third Republic. Generation ’89 shows their heroes’ success and failures, worries and fears, as well as, presents the past two decades of the Polish freedom.

Major albo rewolucja krasnoludków

Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz

The Orange Alternative was the most unusual and humorous opposition movement in the communist Poland of the 1980s. This is the story of its leaders and most memorable gigs.

Guczo. Notatki z zycia

Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz

Krzysztof Budzicz, Adam Ferency

Full of archival flavors, the story of an aristocrat cursed by his family, a man of many faces and talents living in turbulent times. Who was August Zamoyski? A lover of female beauty, an athlete, a sculptor, and a citizen of the world who draws full attention from life?

Każdy wie kto za kim stoi

Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz

The 1980s Poland was a country of empty stores and long lines of people, standing all night and day to buy virtually anything. This film takes a look at such a gigantic queue and recreates its surreal dialogues and atmosphere.

Jestem mezczyzna

Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz

A comic glimpse at the small-town politics where all the functions and privileges are in the hands of one local leader. Despite being a man, he even becomes the chairman of the Women's League.

Urzad

Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz

Bailiffs are people who collect material goods according to the court judgements. In bureaucratic communism, they become ruthless instruments of power, who sometimes resort to violence and don't care about human suffering.

Kraj swiata

Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz

Janusz Józefowicz, Piotr Kozlowski

TV movie directed by Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz.

The Last Romani in Auschwitz

Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz

Roman Kwiatkowski

The film tells the story of Roman Kwiatkowski, who founded the Association of Roma in Poland in Oświęcim in 1992. It also presents political decisions about Roma in Poland, from the resolution on the assimilation of Gypsies of May 24, 1952, to the start of a detailed record of the Roma population in the country in 1960.