Anna Jaraczówna
1916 - 1979Passenger
Andrzej Munk, Witold Lesiewicz
Aleksandra Śląska, Anna Ciepielewska
A German woman on a ship returning to Europe notices a face of another woman which brings recollections from the past. She tells her husband that she had been an overseer in Auschwitz during the war, but she has actually saved a woman's life.
Passenger
Brunet wieczorową porą
Stanisław Bareja
Krzysztof Kowalewski, Wojciech Pokora
Modest editor, has shipped his wife and kids for the weekend, and is trying to relax in his house at the outskirts of Warsaw. His quiet evening is only disturbed by the accidental forecast made by a Gypsy woman, that at evening time he will murder a mysterious brunet.
Brunet Will Call
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
Ocalenie
Edward Zebrowski
Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Maja Komorowska
A biology professor, Adam, after several dizzy spells, enters a hospital for observation. He is a loner and a serious-minded man, who dislikes any display of emotions. He spends three months in the hospital while being tested. After observing patients and hospital routines around him from a distance, he learns that he will need a kidney transplant. Meanwhile his personal and professional life is falling apart: he refuses his wife's offer to donate the kidney for him; the scientific problem he was working on has been solved elsewhere. In the end Adam cracks under the prolonged pressure, waiting for the sound of an ambulance bringing a moribund patient whose kidney may be used for the transplant.
Salvation
Przejście podziemne
Krzysztof Kieślowski
Teresa Budzisz-Krzyżanowska, Andrzej Seweryn
A school teacher from a small town in Poland comes to Warsaw to see his estranged wife, a window dresser, in the hope that she will return to him rather than give him a divorce.
Pedestrian Subway
Lokis. Rekopis profesora Wittembacha
Janusz Majewski
Józef Duriasz, Edmund Fetting
A pastor studying folklore in remote parts of 19th century Lithuania is invited to stay with a young nobleman. His mother is sequestered and mad. It seems she has been attacked by a bear as a young wife and local peasants whisper the young man may be the son of a bear. A doctor, who treats the mother with old-fashioned remedies, reveals this to the pastor. Young nobleman's wife is found with a bite and the man has disappeared into the woods.
Lokis, a Manuscript of Professor Wittembach
Gdzie woda czysta i trawa zielona
Bohdan Poręba
Tadeusz Borowski, Alicja Jachiewicz
The young Kuriata takes the position of the secretary of the City Committee in Grodów, where a corrupt clique ruled for many years. Kuriata begins to introduce competent people to managerial functions, which is enthusiastically received by workers who want changes for the better.
Where the Water Is Pure and the Grass Is Green
