Movies

Ewa is a young ambitious engineer who starts to work for the team of an acclaimed architect Jerzy. Gradually she becomes aware of the bizarre...

The documentary shows the work of journalists and the importance of the press in building socialism. It is an exemplary implementation of the...

Anna, a nurse, meets her wartime lover Marcel in 1951. Learning that he has been sentenced to death for his role in the Home Army, she hides him in...

Coming of age story of four girls living in the same poor district of Warsaw just before the outbreak of World War One.

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...

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

Five short stories.

Unvanquished City (Polish: Robinson warszawski, Polish: Miasto nieujarzmione) is a 1950 Polish drama film directed by Jerzy Zarzycki. It was entered...

Roksana is the editor of the heart advice section of a widely read magazine. Her problem is the handsome and loving husband Bogumił. The man was...

Reproduction of the Nuremberg trials using transcripts, made for Polish TV.

A poetic piece of reportage focusing on a convention of young shock workers in Warsaw. The climax of the event was the solemn oath of the youth of...

Follows the lives of people shortly after World War 2 as they try to adjust to their new lives. Completed in 1946, it was banned from release by the...

August 1939. After publishing an article criticizing the government, a journalist has to hide from the authorities.

Post clerk's young daughter runs away from home with a tsarist officer.

"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...

A young teacher educates the peasants and electrifies the village, which the local miller does not like.

In February 1956, after several months of construction, the largest rolling mill in Poland, the rolling mill of the Lenin Smelter, started to...

A staged documentary that started the Polish Black Series. The film takes the form of a warning against indifference to the rogue behavior of...

One of several films by the Hoffman-Skórzewski duo, made as part of the "black series" of Polish documentaries showing social problems hidden...