Tadeusz Kondrat
1908 - 1994
Sanatorium pod klepsydrą
Wojciech Has
Jan Nowicki, Tadeusz Kondrat
A young man named Josef visits a dilapidated Sanatorium to see his father Jakob. On his arrival, a sinister doctor informs him that his father had stopped breathing but hasn't died yet, perhaps due to Josef's arrival which may have halted time in the sanatorium. Josef undertakes a strange journey through the many rooms of the sanatorium, each which conjures worlds composed of his memories, dreams and nightmares.
The Hourglass Sanatorium
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
Walkower
Jerzy Skolimowski
Jerzy Skolimowski, Aleksandra Zawieruszanka
Walkover, the autobiographical second feature by Polish enfant terrible Jerzy Skolimowski echoes the French nouvelle vague in its extraordinarily stylized tale of a prizefighter who ducks a fight to romance a beautiful blonde.
Walkover
Zbrodniarz, który ukradł zbrodnię
Janusz Majewski
Zygmunt Hübner, Barbara Brylska
A retired police captain, Siwy, tells a reporter about his latest action, carrying on his own investigation into the mysterious death of a Eve Salm, a.k.a. Princess. She was a witness in a case where the defendant pled guilty and was sentenced to eight years in prison. Siwy doubts the defendant's guilt and risks his life to apprehend the real killer.
The Criminal Who Stole a Crime
Pod gwiazda frygijska
Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Józef Nowak, Lucyna Winnicka
With the second part of his Cellulose Diptych, award-winning director Jerzy Kawalerowicz returns to protagonist Szczesny, now a full-fledged, middle-aged communist militant in pre-war Poland. Based on the writings of Igor Newerly, Kawalerowicz's epic chronicles the romance between Szczesny and the charismatic Madzia, as the ill-fated pair fall in love amid the social and political upheaval of their homeland.
Under the Phrygian Star
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.
Cellulose
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.
Adventure in Marienstadt
