Zbigniew Grusznic

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.

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.

Jerzy and Zofia are offered a job in Africa. A married couple is faced with the dilemma of leaving or taking care of the man's mother and her sister.

Un célèbre journaliste polonais présente un problème pour les pouvoirs en place lorsqu'il affiche ses compétences et ses connaissances politiques dans une émission de télévision présentant des questions et réponses lors d'une conférence mondiale par un panel de journalistes. Ses ennemis lui enlèvent ses privilèges quand il est absent. Le choc d'être «indésirable» correspond à une déception plus profonde dans sa vie privée: sa femme a une liaison avec un jeune rival jaloux, et après 15 ans de mariage et deux filles veux divorcer.