Wojciech Siemion

Mord ohne Sühne

Carl Ballhaus

Günther Simon, Johanna Clas

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.

Birth Certificate

Stanisław Różewicz

Henryk Hryniewicz, Beata Barszczewska

Three separate stories depicting the tense everyday life during occupation, as seen through the eyes of children. In “On the Road,” the two main protagonists are lost in the September’s strife: a young boy, and a soldier transporting the valueless documents of his broken unit. In “Letter from the Concentration Camp” the story’s protagonists are young boys who help their mother during the hardships of the occupation. Their treasure is an officer uniform belonging their father who is being held in a prisoner of war camp. In “Blood Drop,” the Germans find a set of typical Aryan characteristics in this story’s protagonist – a Jewish girl, hiding in an orphanage.

Poszukiwany, poszukiwana

Stanisław Bareja

Wojciech Pokora, Jolanta Bohdal

Stanisław Maria Rochowicz, a bumbling art historian, is falsely accused of stealing a painting. The alleged thief faces five years in prison. Desperate, he decides to hide in disguise as a woman until he can paint a copy of the stolen canvas. Lacking means to live, he has to work for some time, of course, as a woman. He gets a job as a domestic helper. However, he has no luck with employers.

Zezowate szczęście

Andrzej Munk

Bogumił Kobiela, Maria Ciesielska

To convince the prison warden against releasing him, a middle-aged Polish man recounts his life, one he considers to have been characterized by exceptionally bad luck.

Eroica

Andrzej Munk

Edward Dziewoński, Barbara Połomska

Tells two tales set during WWII: A seemingly feckless and selfish man finally takes up arms in the national struggle against the Nazis. Set in a POW camp, Polish inmates cling to their hopes for an eventual escape, encouraged by the legendary escape of one of their own.

Wolna sobota

Leszek Staroń

Wojciech Siemion, Jerzy Łapiński

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.

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.

Biały niedźwiedź

Jerzy Zarzycki

Gustaw Holoubek, Stanisław Milski

A Jewish man who escapes a Nazi transport hides in a Polish ski resort town by posing for photos with tourists dressed as a polar bear.

Zamach

Jerzy Passendorfer

Bożena Kurowska, Grazyna Staniszewska

Set in the occupied Warsaw, the film tells the story of the mission carried out by the student underground resistance group to execute the hated SS General Franz Kutchera.

Přežil jsem svou smrt

Vojtěch Jasný

František Peterka, Jiří Sovák

Telling the prisoners of a death camp. Boxer Tony Majer, who got into a concentration camp for a fight with the Gestapo, remembers the murderous work in quarries, on the cruel torture of the Nazis and prison solidarity that helped him survive.

Opening Tomorrow

Janusz Morgenstern

Gustaw Holoubek, Irena Malkiewicz

A budding playwright is thrilled to find out that his play will be performed at a prestigious theater, but a series of problems pile up, along with the general feeling that opening night will be disastrous.

Ubu król

Piotr Szulkin

Jan Peszek, Katarzyna Figura

A grotesque Shakespearean tale of Ubu who comes to power in a bloody way. When his absurd reforms fail and the treasury gets empty, Ubu and his flatterers start implementing terror across the country.

Zwycięstwo

Jerzy Passendorfer

Wojciech Siemion, Janusz Bylczyński

Szpital

Janusz Majewski

Krystyna Feldman, Wiesław Michnikowski

1962’s SZPITAL (HOSPITAL) is set entirely in a claustrophobic hospital room where a male patient is confined. Throughout the film the room is invaded by a variety of strange people