Andrzej Szenajch
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Wierna rzeka
Aug 31, 1987Set during the insurgency of 1863, the story focuses on a tragic romance between a poor gentlewoman and a rebel noble. After a bloody battle a unit of insurgents have been wiped out and only one survived, but badly wounded. He eventually finds shelter and care from a landsteward's daughter, hiding in a burned-out manor with an old servant.
Romance
Komediantka
May 04, 1987A young woman runs away from her home to the big city, gets a job in theatre and gets involved with shady characters.
Drama
Warszawa
Nov 14, 2003On an ordinary winter's day, various people from outside Warsaw come to the Polish capital city for different reasons. They all have something to deal with, and their paths eventually intertwine.
Drama
Ojciec królowej
Apr 07, 1980
Ostatni dzwonek
Oct 27, 1989As high school students put on a politically-engaged school play, tensions begin to rise between them and their headmaster. The conflict seems to mirror the social situation in the 1980s Poland.
Drama
Republika nadziei
Oct 14, 1988The 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
Idol
Oct 07, 1985In 1969 a young writer decides to write an essay on a well known Polish writer, who had to leave the country in the 50's, later living, working and dying in exile. He slowly assembles the character and even the exterior appearances of his idol until his own identity tragically disappears.
Drama
Piłkarski poker
Mar 31, 1989Laguna was once a great soccer player whose career was interrupted by an injury. He spent years climbing the ranks to become an international referee. He sees the prevailing arrangements, manipulations, and bribery around him. Now desperate, he decides to stage an extraordinary culmination of his career: he wants to create a so-called "miracle Sunday" by "printing" the final round of games - taking substantial bribes from the interested clubs and manipulating the matches so that the results align in the order he set up.
Comedy
Kontrakt
Nov 17, 1980Bearing traces of the old Anton Chekhov play The Wedding, The Contract is set during an "arranged" ceremony. The bride and groom barely know each other, but this matters not at all to their tradition-bound families. At the last minute, the bride balks. Only slightly nonplused, the groom's father, a status-seeking doctor, decides to go ahead with the expensive reception anyway. Polish director Krzysz Zanussi uses this scenario to stick it to capitalist corruption, and to society's destruction of the individual spirit. Leslie Caron, the one recognizable member of the cast, is outstanding as a wealthy, over-the-hill ballerina who happens to be a kleptomaniac.
Drama
Coupable d'innocence ou Quand la raison dort
Feb 10, 1992This sumptuously photographed period drama is set in 1791 Vienna. Maximilian Bardo, an opportunistic 18-year old Viennese man with aspirations to rise above his bourgeois upbringing, looks for a chance to shoehorn himself into the nobility. His hopes lead him to the castle of a wealthy inventor, Alexander Plant. It is here that a strange story is played out, as Maximilian, full of naive illusions and innocent ideals of what it means to be wealthy and noble, quickly loses his innocence. Falling prey to the jaded aristocrats in residence, he is cruelly initiated into their decadent games.
Drama
Sceny nocne
Mar 13, 1990Warsaw elites meet at a ball in Baron Neman's palace, where they discuss the political situation in Poland.
Drama
Aveugle
Nov 25, 2016Une interrogatrice impitoyable et athée, devenue auteure catholique rongée par le remords, veut obtenir le pardon avec l'aide d'un cardinal qu'elle a autrefois arrêté.
Drama
L'Homme de fer
Jul 27, 1981Suite de "l'Homme de marbre", l'homme de fer raconte l'épopée d'un étudiant devenu ouvrier pendant les grèves des chantiers navals de Gdansk.
Drama
Chopin. Pragnienie miłości
Mar 01, 2002La biographie du compositeur polonais de renommée mondiale Frédéric Chopin.
Drama
Spirale
Sep 21, 1978Un étrange touriste arrogant arrive au refuge de montagne Morskie Oko. Le lendemain matin, malgré le danger, il monte seul et commence la quête de lui-même.
Drama
Kanalia
Mar 15, 1992A Russian investigator is demoted after a young PPS militia escapes from Poland and vows revenge.
Action
Kamienie na szaniec
Mar 07, 2014To be defeated and not be - a victory. This is the motto that life is guided by three young friends: Alek, Sophy and Rudy. Scouts, high school graduates high school in Warsaw drifting ambitious plans for the future broken through September 1939. Entering adulthood in a very dramatic times, which puts them a choice - to survive at any cost, or to join the fighting for a free homeland, risking everything. The boys brought up in patriotic homes, shaped by the ideals of scouting, they decide to fight. They become soldiers, and although every scrape with death, they can live a full life.
War
Le Roi des Aulnes
Sep 12, 1996Le Français Abel Tiffauges est un homme naïf qui mène une vie simple en travaillant comme mécanicien. Accusé à tort d'être un pédophile, il est appelé sous les drapeaux au début de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, mais il est rapidement capturé et emmené au cœur de l'Allemagne nazie.
Drama
Jezioro Bodeńskie
Sep 05, 1986A Pole who spent time in an internment camp during the war on the Swiss-German border, visits the site many years later and recalls these days. He meets with other Poles confined in the same camp, including several women, in whose he had romantic interests.
Drama
Kazimierz Wielki
Mar 09, 1976Racławice. 1794
Jun 05, 1980The document describes the preparations and organizational problems related to the outbreak of the Kościuszko Insurrection and the initial phase of the fighting to the Battle of Racławice. He also devotes a lot of space to the peasant question.
Documentary
Zamach stanu
Apr 06, 1981Drama
Polonia Restituta
May 18, 1981A two-part historical film covering the years of the First World War and the post-war period up to 1919 - until the signing of the peace treaty in Versailles near Paris. An attempt to show the great and complicated process of regaining an independent existence by a nation within its own state. The screen shows characters from history textbooks: Józef Piłsudski, Ignacy Paderewski, Roman Dmowski, Wojciech Korfanty as well as representatives of the world political scene, incl. David Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, Vladimir Lenin and others.
Drama
Guerres de l'ombre
Sep 01, 1990Un agent spécial de la police de Hong Kong et un agent de la CIA s'associent à contrecœur pour faire tomber un grand terroriste international.
Action
Kraj świata
Mar 24, 1994
Bigda idzie!
Nov 29, 1999The film tells about the period of Polish history in the 20s of the last century, when the fragile government of the country fell, and a man of the people came to the fore. In fact, he turned out to be a cunning populist and an immoral politician, ready for any tricks for the sake of his goals.
Drama
Wirus
Oct 11, 1996Thriller
Rajska jabłoń
Apr 14, 1986Girls no more, four heroines emerge into womanhood with a more clear-eyed outlook on life.
Drama
Kornblumenblau
Oct 09, 1989Based on a true story of a Polish musician who survived the concentration camp only because he could play on the accordion the title melody.
Drama
Opadły liście z drzew
Nov 17, 1975Two years after the war, during a train trip, Henryk (20) recollects the occupation period. He passes different train stations and recollects various situations from the past: his family life, working in a garage, guerrilla warfare, the fear that accompanied him every day. He’s looking at the travellers’ faces, including the ones who have survived the war.
War
Miłość z listy przebojów
Aug 12, 1985Music
Śmierć prezydenta
Oct 10, 1977After Poland won freedom from of its long overlordship by Russia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918, it took a further four years for its National Assembly to elect Gabriel Narutowicz as its first president. Narutowicz was a professor who until his election had been living in Switzerland. Those were chaotic times, and shortly after his election, he was assassinated by right-wing fanatics. This epic Polish film chronicles the circumstances of Narutowicz's election and assassination.
History
Zaklęte rewiry
Nov 27, 1975Set in the early 1930s, a young man finds a job as a dishwasher in a hotel and quickly works his way up the ladder. Loosely based on the novel by Henryk Worcell.
Drama
Dziecinne pytania
Nov 13, 1981A young architect is locked up in prison. He recalls his uncompromising youth and gradual sliding into the moral swamp of compromises. He was not alone. A group of his friends, dreamers and glass house builders, accompanied him.
Drama
Lisowczycy
Jan 01, 1993Documentary
Chleba naszego powszedniego
Jul 14, 1974
Szpital Przemienienia
Mar 28, 1979Shortly after the beginning of World War 2 a young idealist doctor is employed in a psychiatric hospital, where his notions of proper care for the patients are challenged by staff and the German occupation.
Drama
Lawa: Opowieść o "Dziadach" Adama Mickiewicza
Nov 06, 1989On the eve of the Day of the Dead, among mysterious old rituals of the Vilnius region, ghosts of the past and present start to appear.
Drama
Sprawa hrabiego Rottera
Jul 15, 1987A teenage boy from a respectable family, Stanisław Czajkowski, dies in mysterious circumstances in a Krakow guesthouse. His brother-in-law, Count Maksymilian Rotter, married to Stanisław's older sister, Ksawera, is accused of the murder.
Crime
Cwał
Apr 01, 1996Zanussi has described the film as his most autobiographical work. A young boy in post-World War II, Communist-dominated Poland, whose father's decision to remain in Britain after the war has made his family politically-suspect with the local Party authorities, is sent by his mother to stay with an "aunt" (in reality an old family friend) in Warsaw.
Comedy
Le Pianiste
Sep 17, 2002Varsovie, au mois d’octobre 1939. Un jeune pianiste juif, Wladyslaw Szpilman, est enfermé dans le ghetto avec sa famille. Il assiste, impuissant, aux humiliations que subissent quotidiennement les siens. Grâce à une aide extérieure, il échappe de justesse à la déportation mais voit partir toute sa famille. Le jeune homme se cache alors dans les maisons vides et observe passivement les derniers habitants se révolter contre l’occupation allemande. Après avoir réussi à s’échapper miraculeusement, il se terre dans des quartiers détruits et tente de survivre, ce qui s’avère de plus en plus dur. C’est alors qu’il rencontre un nazi mélomane…
Drama
Epilog norymberski
May 07, 1971Reproduction of the Nuremberg trials using transcripts, made for Polish TV.
Drama
L'écrivain
Sep 23, 1985Un journaliste, un cambrioleur et un meurtrier sont coincés ensemble dans une cellule. Le journaliste prend des notes sur la situation car il espère les publier ensuite sous la forme d’un roman, mais il attrape le typhus et, dans son délire, ne parvient plus à distinguer la réalité de la fiction.
Drama
Wielki tydzień
Jan 01, 1995During the Nazi era, a Jewish woman on the run takes a trolley which passes near the Warsaw ghetto, where the uprising battle is taking place, and some passengers are struck by stray bullets. They take temporary refuge in an empty building, and there she has a chance meeting with her ex-fiancé. He offers to put her up--that is, hide her--for a few days. He's now married, a professional who lives in an idyllic suburb reached by a trolley that runs through the woods. His wife seems more committed to putting up the fugitive than he is. The story involves the neighbors, the building owner who avoids involvement and seeks solace in classic poetry, and the super and his suspicious wife.
Drama
Prymas. Trzy lata z tysiąca
Sep 22, 2000
Chronique des événements amoureux
Nov 24, 1986Witeck est un jeune étudiant. Il vit avec sa mère aux environs de Wilno, en Lituanie polonaise, région ou se côtoient plusieurs communautés. Brillant, il échafaude des projets d'avenir. Il ignore qu'il est a la veille de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Au hasard d'un voyage en train, il rencontre un mystérieux inconnu qui émet des doutes sur les projets du jeune homme. Peu après, Witek rencontre Alina dont il tombe amoureux. La famille de la jeune fille va tout tenter pour empêcher leur amour.
Drama
Sztuka kochania
May 22, 1989Prior to her wedding a nineteen years old Anna can't stop wondering - whether she made the right choice? So she decides to seek the advice of a well-known sexologist...
Comedy
Brunet wieczorową porą
Oct 18, 1976Modest editor, has shipped his wife and kids for the weekend, and is trying to relax in his house at the outskirts of Warsaw. His quiet evening is only disturbed by the accidental forecast made by a Gypsy woman, that at evening time he will murder a mysterious brunet.
Comedy
Wyjście awaryjne
Dec 25, 1982A provincial town in the early 1980s. Among its residents is the Kolęda family. Mrs. Kolęda is an energetic community leader, her husband, a gentle soul, takes care of raising ducks and cultivating flowers in "tunnels" at home. Their daughter, Dorota, is a pretty and unemployed young woman. The intrigue begins when the community leader finds out that she is going to become a grandmother. Fear of losing authority, scandal, and embarrassment inspires her to come up with a truly diabolical idea - they need to buy a fiancé for Dorota with a pre-arranged divorce.
Comedy
Zaproszenie
Apr 26, 1986Drama
Między ustami a brzegiem pucharu
Sep 14, 1987History
Życie za życie. Maksymilian Kolbe
Apr 01, 1991The story of catholic saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz.
Drama
Człowiek z...
Aug 27, 1993Comedy
Bilans kwartalny
Jan 21, 1975The main character is a bookkeeper, 40, who lives a quiet, uninteresting life with her husband and son of school age. She realizes that soon she won't be needed much at home as the boy grows up and the relationship with her husband crumbles. It's only when an embezzlement is discovered at the office and she stands up to her management, that she realizes life has more to offer. She meets a well-off former classmate, married to an American. Then she meets Jacek and starts contemplating possibilities of a new start. She discovers love for the first time, but turns to old ways rather than to break loose.
Drama
Prowokator
May 31, 1995Drama
Miś
May 04, 1981En route to London, Bear discovers at the border checkpoint that his passport is missing a few pages, which may prevent him from traveling to the city with the sports team he manages.
Comedy
Mistrz
Oct 07, 1966A young actor preparing for the part of Macbeth recalls his wartime memories connected with his mentor.
Drama
Les demoiselles de Wilko
Sep 04, 1979En 1929, un homme retrouve la maison où, quinze ans plus tôt il passa un été avec cinq jeunes filles.
Drama
Matka Królów
Mar 01, 1987Made 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
Pułkownik Kwiatkowski
May 10, 1996Comedy
Dotknięci
Jan 01, 1989
Wiedźmin
Nov 09, 2001A heroic fantasy based on the famous novels by Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski, "The Sword of Destiny" and "The Last Wish". This film immerses us in a world inhabited by kings and knights, princesses and sorcerers, priests and magicians, where fire-breathing dragons guard untold treasures, and human greed leads to an endless struggle for power, cruelty, bloodshed, and violence. And this world has its own superheroes - fearless witchers, people with magical powers. Their mission is to protect the human race from any misfortune. The witcher Geralt of Rivia must find the young princess Ciri, kidnapped by enemies. Only her return to the small kingdom of Cintra, which was attacked by aggressors, can restore peace and order there. The brave witcher sets off on a journey, long, distant and deadly.
Adventure
Za co?
Apr 18, 1996
Eter
Nov 30, 2018At the end of the 19th century, somewhere in the outskirts of the Russian Empire, a doctor administers a lethal overdose of ether to a young woman – the object of his desire. After getting away with his crime, he finds employment in a fortress, where he continues his experiments with ether to manage pain and manipulate human behaviour. Despite his evilness, it is not too late for his soul to be saved from eternal damnation…
History
Мольба о прощении
Jan 01, 1994Drama
Umarłem, aby żyć
Sep 08, 1984Warsaw 1941. Gestapo captures a Home Army soldier who knows the code needed to read the list of agents working in Reich. Tortured Wójcik asks the doctors for poison.
War
Gdzieśkolwiek jest, jeśliś jest
Sep 11, 1988An Uruguayan diplomat brings his new wife with him on a business trip to Poland in the summer immediately preceding the outbreak of World War II.
Drama
La Pornographie
Sep 19, 2003Deux intellectuels, un écrivain et un réalisateur, commencent à jouer à un mystérieux jeu psychologique dans un paisible manoir de campagne pendant l'occupation nazie.
History
Oszołomienie
Feb 20, 1989An actor is married to a dancer whose drug addiction drives them to desperation when World War II breaks out.
Drama
Katyn: 60 Days on the Set
Oct 05, 2009
Sous la ville
Sep 15, 2011Drama
1920 : La bataille de Varsovie
Sep 30, 2011Bigda idzie!
Nov 29, 1999The film tells about the period of Polish history in the 20s of the last century, when the fragile government of the country fell, and a man of the people came to the fore. In fact, he turned out to be a cunning populist and an immoral politician, ready for any tricks for the sake of his goals.
Drama
Lawa: Opowieść o "Dziadach" Adama Mickiewicza
Nov 06, 1989On the eve of the Day of the Dead, among mysterious old rituals of the Vilnius region, ghosts of the past and present start to appear.
Drama
Lawa: Opowieść o "Dziadach" Adama Mickiewicza
Nov 06, 1989On the eve of the Day of the Dead, among mysterious old rituals of the Vilnius region, ghosts of the past and present start to appear.
Drama
Deborah
Nov 07, 1995In a small Polish town in the summer of 1939, a married painter and a young Jewish woman begin an affair. Based on the novel by Marek Sołtysik.
Drama
Sceny nocne
Mar 13, 1990Warsaw elites meet at a ball in Baron Neman's palace, where they discuss the political situation in Poland.
Drama
Katyń
Sep 21, 2007Warsaw elites meet at a ball in Baron Neman's palace, where they discuss the political situation in Poland.
Drama
Stanislas Lem : le cosmonaute littéraire
Nov 02, 2016Warsaw elites meet at a ball in Baron Neman's palace, where they discuss the political situation in Poland.
Documentary
07 zgłoś się
Apr 26, 1987The series centres around the investigations of Police Lieutenant Sławomir Borewicz. Each episode features a different case being solved by Borewicz.
Drama
07 zgłoś się
Apr 26, 1987The series centres around the investigations of Police Lieutenant Sławomir Borewicz. Each episode features a different case being solved by Borewicz.
Drama
07 zgłoś się
Apr 26, 1987The series centres around the investigations of Police Lieutenant Sławomir Borewicz. Each episode features a different case being solved by Borewicz.
Drama
07 zgłoś się
Apr 26, 1987The series centres around the investigations of Police Lieutenant Sławomir Borewicz. Each episode features a different case being solved by Borewicz.
Drama
Panny i wdowy
Dec 09, 1992Drama
Dom
Nov 19, 2000Drama
Dom
Nov 19, 2000Drama
Dom
Nov 19, 2000Drama
Tulipan
Mar 29, 1987Crime
Wszystkie pieniądze świata
Sep 22, 1999
Kolumbowie
Sep 09, 1970
Polskie drogi
Oct 16, 1977War & Politics
Blisko, coraz bliżej
Jul 05, 1987War & Politics
Przyłbice i kaptury
Nov 23, 1986Action & Adventure
Noce i dnie
Feb 26, 1978Nights and Days is a family saga of Barbara Ostrzeńska-Niechcic, and Bogumił Niechcic, against the backdrop of the January Uprising of 1863 and World War I. The film is a rather straightforward and faithful adaptation of a novel by Maria Dąbrowska with the same title. The plot is woven around the changing fortunes of a noble (upper-class) Niechcic family in the pre-WWI Poland. There are two main crossing threads: a social history one and an existential one.
Drama
Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy
Apr 06, 1980Nikodem Dyzma immigrates from the eastern part of Poland to the capital in the hope for possibilities to make a living. He is in need, very poor and forced to look for basic food and shelter. Yet, on a day when an unexpected invitation appears, his life changes dramatically.
Comedy
Janosik
Jul 26, 1974Janosik était une série télévisée diffusée en Pologne en 1974. Il s'agit d'un célèbre hors-la-loi polonais qui, dans les légendes populaires, vole de l'argent et des biens aux riches et aide les pauvres. La série a été réalisée…
Action & Adventure
Marszałek Piłsudski
Dec 09, 2001Drama
