Włodzimierz Kwaskowski

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Wózek
1

Wózek

Dec 01, 1965
A friendship grows between two prisoners when they haul a cart with provisions during the evacuation of a concentration camp. However, their friendship ends tragically.
Drama
Lekarstwo na miłość
7.3
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.
Comedy
Zaczarowany rower
1

Zaczarowany rower

Dec 25, 1955
The last stage of the Cycling Race Dookoła Polski: Kielce - Warsaw. The fate of the race is at stake: the Polish team still has a chance to win, it is not far from the leading Hungarian national team, in which great cyclist Haranda rides in the yellow jersey. Only the best Pole - Popiel - can take it from him. But he is a competitor - individualist, unruly and undisciplined ...
Action
Król Maciuś I
6

Król Maciuś I

Apr 08, 1958
A 10-year old boy becomes a king after the death of his father and tries to bring reforms to the country, with varying results
Family
Złoto
5.6

Złoto

Oct 26, 1962
The inability of a truck driver to relate to normal life after an accident for which he feels himself responsible.
Drama
Zakazane piosenki
7.4

Zakazane piosenki

Jan 08, 1947
Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house.
Music
Promień
1

Promień

Apr 26, 1984
Dr Raduski returns from abroad to his hometown. He starts a profitable business there and revives the town's cultural life. However, the tsarist government and local nobles don't take kindly to his presence and try to sabotage him.
Drama
Bicz Boży
5.5

Bicz Boży

Jul 07, 1967
A young boy sends anonymous threats to various troublemakers around town, hoping that they will report themeselves to the police and grant his older brother, a militia officer a transfer to Warsaw.
Comedy
Trójkąt Bermudzki
6.8

Trójkąt Bermudzki

Oct 17, 1988
Three old friends living in distant cities decide to help each other get rid of people who stand in their way to achieve happiness.
Drama
Republika nadziei
1

Republika nadziei

Oct 14, 1988
The image of Greater Poland in the breakthrough years 1913-1918. It tells about the fate of Polish junior high school students and their attitude towards the Prussian partitioning authorities, activity in the independence underground, and participation in the preparations for the Greater Poland Uprising.
History
Historia żółtej ciżemki
6.4
Set in the Middle Ages the film tells the story of a wonder child, the little sculptor Wawrzek, who goes to work for a great master, Wit Stwosz. The story culminates in the unveiling of Stwosz's greatest masterpiece, the Altar of St. Mary's Church in Cracow.
History
Smarkula
6

Smarkula

Jun 07, 1963
A young teenager from the provinces comes to Warsaw to find her relatives and gets herself in various trouble.
Comedy
Trzy starty
1

Trzy starty

Oct 25, 1955
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.
Drama
Jasne łany
1

Jasne łany

Dec 25, 1947
A young teacher educates the peasants and electrifies the village, which the local miller does not like.
Drama
Miasteczko
6

Miasteczko

Mar 17, 1960
A young couple wants to break free of the antagonistic nature of their home village.
Drama
Żołnierz zwycięstwa
1
Two-part biopic about General Karol Świerczewski, living embodiment of the party line, and the group of party members from his hometown fighting the fascist forces towards the socialist state of affairs.
Drama
Eva veut dormir
6.8

Eva veut dormir

Mar 17, 1958
Ewa Bonecka est arrivée dans une petite ville. Elle est étudiante. Elle est venue à cette soirée, et elle veut obtenir un appartement. Mais c'est impossible car il n'y a pas de chambres libres à l'Hôtel. Elle passe du temps dans la rue où se trouvent un grand nombre de criminels, des prostituées...
Comedy
Ciemna rzeka
5

Ciemna rzeka

Feb 18, 1974
Small Polish village straight after WWII. Young man Zenek injured and awarded with Cross of Valour during partisan fight is torn between staying loyal to his partisan comrades (continuing their fight) and his own beliefs.
Drama
Tysiąc talarów
4

Tysiąc talarów

Feb 22, 1960
An average notary finds a small fortune of coins hidden in his fireplace alongside a manuscript dating back 100 years.
Comedy
Jadą goście jadą...
7
Guests from America came to Poland, and there were three of them. One, a businessman, intends to buy the land from the battlefields in order to cash it for a profit abroad. The second is looking for a wife in his home village, highlander, and the third wants to visit his uncle's family. Will their trip be successful?
Comedy
Pożegnania
5.5

Pożegnania

Oct 13, 1958
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.
Drama
Rozstanie
6.6

Rozstanie

Mar 23, 1961
An actress visits her hometown to attend the funeral of her grandfather. She realizes that the places and people from her past differ from her cherished memories.
Drama
Matka Królów
6.2

Matka Królów

Mar 01, 1987
Made in 1982, shelved for five years. Story opens with Lucja Krol's husband under the tram. She gives birth to her fourth son on the floor of their new apartment. Neighbor Wiktor, a communist intellectual, befriends the poverty-stricken family but is soon arrested and sent to jail. During the war Lucja narrowly escapes a Nazi roundup at the black market. Her sons hold ardent Communist meetings in their apartment, with her blessing. Lucja works hard, but without complaint. After the war, Klemens is inexplicably arrested, accused by the new regime of being a collaborator. Wiktor, now a high-ranking party member, trying to defend him, himself falls into disgrace. Klemens is tortured to "confess" and dies in jail, a Communist to the end. Lucja is never told about his fate.
History
Sam pośród miasta
7

Sam pośród miasta

Dec 25, 1965
Because of having a one-day plane delay, Konrad has to spend 24 hours wandering around Warsaw, visiting old friends and meeting some new ones.
Drama
Don Gabriel
1

Don Gabriel

Sep 01, 1966
The first Polish film to discuss the failure of September 1939 Polish-German war, seen from the point of view of a university intellectual, fascinated by German culture, who decides to take active part in the conflict.
Comedy
Przygoda Stasia
1

Przygoda Stasia

Jan 01, 1970
The action takes place in the Polish countryside in the second half of the 19th century. The main character is a few months old Staś, son of the blacksmith Józef and Małgorzata, from whose perspective we see the conflict of his parents with the local organist.
Drama
Powrót wabiszczura
1

Powrót wabiszczura

Dec 18, 1989
The story of the pied piper, the German legend of the rat catcher of Hameln, retold as a punk invasion of a Polish small town.
Drama
Trzy opowieści
1

Trzy opowieści

Apr 24, 1953
The short stories showing the troubles of youth serving in the "Służba Polsce" organisation.
Action
Świadectwo urodzenia
7.3

Świadectwo urodzenia

Oct 02, 1961
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.
Drama
Baza ludzi umarłych
6.8

Baza ludzi umarłych

Aug 10, 1959
En raison du danger encouru et des conditions difficiles, les chauffeurs de transport de bois, travaillant dans les forêts du sud-est de la Pologne, vont quitter leur emploi. Un militant du parti arrive pour les faire changer d'avis.
Drama
Placówka
5

Placówka

Oct 01, 1979
The problem of the Polish population displacement from their land within the limits of the Prussian partition. Germans come to the village harassing a wealthy peasant Snail, leading to the tragedy. Slug's cottage burns, his wife dies. The peasant does not give up, defending his inheritance. He sticks on a patch of his Polish soil and protects it like a soldier his post.
Drama
Celuloza
5.6

Celuloza

Apr 27, 1954
Through the fate of the boy - whose hunger drives from his home village , and who receives a severe school of life , going through different social environments in order to become conscious , revolutionary activist - creators show a realistic panorama of conflicts in pre-WWII Poland.
Drama
Le Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse
7.9
Le jeune capitaine Alfonse Van Worden traverse les montagnes de la Sierra Morena pour se rendre à Madrid. Il fait connaissance dans une auberge de princesses maures qui lui prédisent de grands exploits. Mais il devra prouver son courage. D'après le roman éponyme de Jan Potocki.
Drama