Jan Rybkowski
1912 - 1987Chłopi
Jan Rybkowski
Władysław Hańcza, Emilia Krakowska
In a bucolic Polish hamlet, the tense relationship between a father and son reaches a boiling point when the men lose their hearts to the same woman and vie for her affections. Based on Wladyslaw Reymont's Nobel Prize-winning book and helmed by Jan Rybkowski, this theatrical release (starring Krzystof Chamiec, Wladyslaw Hancza and Emilia Krakowska) was culled from a 13-episode miniseries that aired on Polish television in 1972.
The Peasants
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Jan Rybkowski
Andrzej Łapicki, Beata Tyszkiewicz
The story concerns a succesful writer at the height of his career. He is in a state of crisis, unable to forget the girl he had a brief affair in the 40's. At the promotion of his new book he meets her after the years and reminisces about the past, when he was on a government mission to recover a missing art treasure, a triptych. After the years the girl, now married, barely remembers the whole thing, while he re-examines the affair which he has so much romanticized.
Naprawdę wczoraj
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
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
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
Kiedy miłość była zbrodnią
Jan Rybkowski
Arkadiusz Bazak, Irena Horecka
A war drama showing the functioning of Hitler’s “racial purity” law, forbidding foreign workers from any contact with Germany. Foreigners on forced labor in Nazi Germany. Death, imprisonment or stigmatization awaited both sides for closer contacts with the Germans. A Pole, Władysław, and a widow and her daughter Linda, another Pole for an affair with a German girl, two American prisoners of war and a German woman who gave birth to a child to one of them, a German soldier who met his dream girl in a foreigner, Marice.
When Love Was a Crime
Dom na pustkowiu
Jan Rybkowski
Aleksandra Śląska, Jerzy Śliwiński
Молодая девушка, Бася, живет со своей старой тётей Казией в особняке. Несмотря на близость Варшавы, только отголоски войны достигают их. Мирная жизнь двух женщин прервана появлением «Хьюберта», загадочного мужчины, которому после побега от немцев нужно укрытие. Героини, несмотря на то, что они не принадлежат к движению сопротивления, решают позаботиться о беглеце. Постепенно любовь рождается между Басей и её неординарным гостем.
The Lonely House
