Andrzej Łapicki

Mistrz

Jerzy Antczak

Janusz Warnecki, Zbigniew Cybulski

A young actor preparing for the part of Macbeth recalls his wartime memories connected with his mentor.

The 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.

A Cure for Love

Jan Batory

Kalina Jędrusik, Krystyna Sienkiewicz

An architect Joanna tells her friend Halina on the telephone about her love troubles and suddenly hears a nice man's voice: "The best cure for love is another love." Then she becomes a forgers dispatcher mistaken for Honorata by telephone and decides to work out a forgers secret and the secret of her new love Andrzej.

Young Girls of Wilko

Andrzej Wajda

Daniel Olbrychski, Anna Seniuk

Set in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend. He decides to go home to his aunt and uncle for a while, but gets involved with a family of five women who had been in love with him at one time though he had apparently loved only one, who, unknown to him, has died since his departure. The women are mainly disillusioned with life or estranged from husbands while the youngest has a crush on him.

Dancing w kwaterze Hitlera

Jan Batory

Maja Wodecka, Andrzej Łapicki

Salto

Tadeusz Konwicki

Zbigniew Cybulski, Jerzy Block

A man jumps off a moving train and goes to a small town to face its inhabitants, who seem familiar, but odd.

How Far, How Near

Tadeusz Konwicki

Andrzej Łapicki, Gustaw Holoubek

A middle-aged man sets out on a symbolic journey through past, present, and future to learn why an old friend committed suicide, and learns much about his own life along the way.

The Gorgon Case

Janusz Majewski

Ewa Dałkowska, Aleksander Bardini

In 1931, just before the New Year, in a house of architect Henryk Zaremba scream rips the night. The daughter of Zaremba is found killed in her bedroom, obviously killed with a pickaxe. The police arrives and starts the investigation. Rita Gorgonova, the governess of the girl and also lover of Zaremba becomes the main suspect. Film based on real events - investigation and court trials of the most famous pre-war Polish murder case. Despite being historically accurate the movie is both involving and entertaining since the case was simple on the surface, but very complicated in details.

The Wedding

Andrzej Wajda

Marek Walczewski, Izabela Olszewska

Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament Poland's 100-year-long division under Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The bridegroom, a painter friend, and a journalist each in turn is confronted with spectres of Polish past. In the end a call to arms is called but turns out to be a hoax.

Powrót

Jerzy Passendorfer

Andrzej Łapicki, Alina Janowska

Долго живший в Париже, Седой приехал в Варшаву, где когда-то воевал. Все изменилось в городе, другими стали люди, улицы и дома. Ничего не узнает Седой: Варшава живет сегодняшним днем, а он в прошлом. Седой решает, что в этом новом городе для него нет места, и возвращается в Париж.

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.

Wszystko na sprzedaż

Andrzej Wajda

Beata Tyszkiewicz, Elżbieta Czyżewska

Wajda's homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, the "Polish James Dean" who starred in the director's ASHES AND DIAMONDS and died young. The movie follows the tribulations of a director attempting to make a movie with a Cybulski-like star who never shows up.

Spotkanie w 'Bajce'

Jan Rybkowski

Aleksandra Śląska, Gustaw Holoubek

"A Meeting in Bajka" tells a seemingly banal story of a marital triangle which bristles with intrigues and psychological nuances as a man, his wife and her lover rendezvous at the Bajce cafe.

Sposób bycia

Jan Rybkowski

Andrzej Łapicki, Lucyna Winnicka

A forty-year old man, destroyed physically and mentally by life experiences recounts his life.

Pilatus und andere - Ein Film für Karfreitag

Andrzej Wajda

Wojciech Pszoniak, Jan Kreczmar

The trial of Yeshua Ha-Notsri is led by prosecutor Pontius Pilate who believes in the innocence of the accused but is forced to sentence him to death. This biblical story is set in present-day Germany.

Spóznieni przechodnie

Gustaw Holoubek, Jerzy Antczak

Kalina Jędrusik, Beata Tyszkiewicz

Five short stories.