Jarema Stępowski
1925 - 2001Pożegnania
Wojciech Has
Maria Wachowiak, Tadeusz Janczar
The story takes place before World War II and centers on Pawel, a member of a conservative, middle-class family, and his love for Lidka, a taxi dancer. Social conventions and the lovers' inability to defy those forces Pawel and Lidka benefit. Times change, war breaks out, leading to Pawel sent to Auschwitz while Lidka marry his cousin. Their love has survived and conventions are no longer the issue.
Farewells
Ewa chce spać
Tadeusz Chmielewski
Barbara Lass, Stanisław Mikulski
Ewa Bonecka, a young student about to start school in a new place finds herself without a place to sleep after she is declined a room in a women-only hotel. Helped by a pleasant policeman, Piotr, she tries to find a lodging in the strange town full of thieves and petty troublemakers.
Ewa Wants to Sleep
Giuseppe in Warsaw
Stanisław Lenartowicz
Elżbieta Czyżewska, Antonio Cifariello
The Italian soldier Giuseppe Santucci, on his way home from the Russian front, during World War II (in 1943), has his machine gun stolen in Warsaw. Afraid of consequences, he stays in Warsaw and occupies a flat of the Polish girl Maria, whom he suspects of stealing weapon. Maria indeed is an active member of the Polish resistance, contrary to her brother, Staszek, a painter, who only wants a calm living. In a course of funny events, Giuseppe falls in love, and, along with Staszek, becomes a hero of the Polish resistance.
Giuseppe in Warsaw
Cień
Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Zygmunt Kęstowicz, Adolf Chronicki
A man has been found dead after having been hurled from a train. As security agents, police and a medical examiner piece together his identity, three accounts emerge: one set during World War II, one in the immediate aftermath of the war, and one in contemporary Poland.
Shadow
Nikodem Dyzma
Jan Rybkowski
Adolf Dymsza, Urszula Modrzyńska
Nikodem Dyzma is a poor dancer who comes to Warsaw to find a job. The problem is that nobody wants to hire him. One day he finds an invitation to the party with very important people and decides to attend. A small accident at the party makes him the hero of the night and becomes the beginning of his career.
Nikodem Dyzma
Trzy starty
Czesław Petelski, Stanisław Lenartowicz
Zbigniew Cybulski, Elzbieta Polkowska
Three separate short stories about young athletes who lose their chances of success. Young swimmer - because of unhappy love. Boxer because of a fight with hooligans, for which the judges will disqualify him. But the cyclist must decide for himself what is more important for him: victory or friendship.
Trzy starty
Zimowy zmierzch
Stanisław Lenartowicz
Wlodzislaw Ziembinski, Maria Kierzkowa
Rumsza, the elderly railwayman, leading a sedate life with his wife, misses his only remaining son (two older boys were killed in the war). Joziuk finally returns from the military in the first scene but with the pregnant Zosia, while Rumsza expected him to marry Celinka, the daughter of Krywka, his only friend and neighbour. The hero will not accept the new situation; he throws his son and Zosia out of his house. Celinka is distressed but she still harbours hope for Joziuk. The birth of the child changes the situation: Rumsza accepts his son's relationship but Celinka decides to leave.
Winter Twilight
Skarb kapitana Martensa
Jerzy Passendorfer
Barbara Połomska, Tadeusz Schmidt
В открытом море умирает капитан Мартенс. Перед смертью передает своему воспитаннику Павлу тетрадь, в которой записал свой морской опыт. Вокруг тетради растет атмосфера тайны. Подозревают, что в ней Мартенс описал место, где спрятаны сокровища. Доходит до кражи тетради, но во время драки она падает в море...
Skarb kapitana Martensa
Godziny nadziei
Jan Rybkowski
Zbigniew Józefowicz, Krystyna Kamieńska
In the last days of World War 2, people of various ethnic background meet in a Polish military hospital in a small German town, whereas a Nazi SS division hides in the local forests and tries to move westwards.
The Hours of Hope
