Jadwiga Colonna-Walewska

A psychologist is asked about a scientific consultation with a girl who attempted suicide.

September 13, 1944. On the right bank of the Vistula, a group of young people is getting ready to cross to help the fighting Warsaw. Tadeusz, a young poet with amputated legs meets Katarzyna. Two officers of the Home Army and the AL, Polish and Soviet soldiers come here. A fight ensues with the Nazis trying to get out of the encirclement. Katarzyna is raped by one of them in front of the powerless Tadeusz. . . Two boats are sinking crossing the Vistula. Tadeusz falls into the river with a wheelchair ...

Bearing 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.

Un 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.

A student who missed his final exam because of illness arrives at his professor's house to beg to be allowed to take it.

A lonely Piotr Płaksin, who makes a living from part-time jobs, lives his dreams of a trip to the Easter Islands on a self-built yacht. One day a man learns that he has become a father.

An actor visits his father in a nursing home to study his mannerisms in preparations for the role of Faust.

Dix années de la vie d’un jeune physicien dominé par sa passion philosophique de la recherche de la vérité et du sens de la vie. Ses interrogations ne reçoivent pas toujours de réponse et il se trouve de plus confronté à la menace d’une maladie de coeur.

Un groupe d'étudiants passe les vacances d'été dans un camp universitaire pour étudier la science de la linguistique. L'un des directeurs du camp, Jaroslaw, est un jeune professeur qui préfère l'approche directe et intime des étudiants. Il est opposé dans ses opinions libérales par Jakub, qui aime manipuler les gens.

A film about the life and activities of the Polish revolutionary Ludwik Waryński. In his memoirs, Ludwik returns to his student years in St. Petersburg, to Warsaw, to Krakow, where he was arrested and put on trial. After the end of the process in Krakow, Waryński leaves for Geneva, where he meets with Russian revolutionaries. In 1881, he returned to his homeland and created the first party of workers in Poland...