Jerzy Oblamski
2021The Promised Land
Andrzej Wajda
Daniel Olbrychski, Wojciech Pszoniak
The Polish film based on the book of the same name by Wladyslaw Reymont. Taking place in the nineteenth century town of Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion shown through the eyes of one Polish town.
The Promised Land
Wśród nocnej ciszy
Tadeusz Chmielewski
Tomasz Zaliwski, Piotr Łysak
A psychological detective story about a police hunt for the murderer of young boys. The police comissioner ends up tracing the clues to his own home, where he has an adolescent son he has not been able to communicate with.
Quiet Is the Night
Krajobraz po bitwie
Andrzej Wajda
Daniel Olbrychski, Stanisława Celińska
Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are herded into other camps as the Allies try to devise policy to control the situation. A young poet who cannot quite find himself in this new situation, meets a headstrong Jewish young girl who wants him to run off with her, to the West. He cannot cope with her growing demands for affection, while still harboring the hatred for the Germans and disdain for his fellow men who quickly revert to petty enmities.
Landscape After Battle
The Birch Wood
Andrzej Wajda
Daniel Olbrychski, Olgierd Łukaszewicz
Takes place in a prewar Poland. A tubercular young man comes to stay with his brother on a farm. He is in love with life and constantly plays 1930's music on a piano. He gets involved with his brother's problems and also becomes the lover of a simpleminded farm girl. The brother's dead wife may have had an affair with the hired man who is to marry the farm girl. His daughter will not confirm his suspicions. But the brother's death leads to his acceptance of the past, forgiving his wife's memory and making up with his little daughter.
The Birch Wood
Gniazdo
Jan Rybkowski
Wojciech Pszoniak, Marek Bargiełowski
Told in flashback as Mieszko lies feverish in his bed just before the Battle of Cedynia, Gniazdo recounts how the revered leader extended Poland's borders, formed an alliance with Emperor Otto I, and ultimately strengthened his country's autonomy by achieving victory during that crucial battle in the year 972.
The Nest
Obrazki z życia
Barbara Sass-Zdort, Andrzej Kotkowski
Bogdan Baer, Bożena Dykiel
Seven different stories tell us about interesting court cases from Poland. First tells us about romance, second about a young wannabe actress, third about a girl who escapes home with a music band, fourth about a divorce, fifth about a quarrel between two girls concerning a man, sixth about stolen soaps, seventh about a false writer.
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