Deborah

Deborah 1995

5.00

In 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.

1995

Upstairs, Downstairs

Upstairs, Downstairs 1989

1

Based on Michał Choromański's novel. Young artist arrives at Zakopane and meets local people.

1989

Balanga

Balanga 1993

4.00

One night, a teacher is murdered. A police investigation soon leads to the deceased's true nature and two unlikely suspects.

1993

Passerby

Passerby 1984

6.00

The protagonist of "Passerby" is writer and filmmaker Tadeusz Konwicki. His story, which reflects the paradoxes of the 20th century history, is commented by means of fragments of his films, documentary newsreels and stage productions.

1984

Private Town

Private Town 1994

5.30

A town near Warsaw. A group of teenagers rules one of the courtyards: Ali, Pawik, and Małgośka, the object of both boys' fascination. A few years later, these same young people form a typical youth gang. Ali and Pawik gather around them a group of peers who have been unable to find their place in society and want to live an easy life. Robberies and thefts are their idea of a comfortable existence. A few more years pass and the gang transforms into a mafia. After the 1989 elections, it enters into deals with politicians. It also gets into a conflict with Russian gangsters.

1994

Warszawa

Warszawa 2003

4.70

On 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.

2003

Inner Life

Inner Life 1987

4.60

The life of a grumpy 40-year-old man living with his wife in a high-rise block. Every day is like the other - quarrels over dinner, taking out garbage, annoying neighbours, rides in elevators, lost socks. He hates everybody, especially his wife. Not even sexual fantasies are an escape from the hell he imposes on himself.

1987

Dotknięci

Dotknięci 1989

1

Jan weds his mentally ill wife Joanna at her insistence, but her increasing dependence on sedatives, and the clandestine extra pills supplied by Jan, their son Piotr and Jan’s friend Maria, leads to Joanna’s fatal overdose. Accused of murder, Jan endures a trial, psychiatric evaluation and deep depression before the case is dropped; only after reconciling with his children does he finally leave the clinic to return home.

1989

Death of the Kidmaker

Death of the Kidmaker 1991

1

Januszek - the town's Casanova, returns from the army. Waiting for him at home is Blada, the mother of his future child, the daughter of the head of the local security service, who arranged for the candidate to be a son-in-law to shorten his military service. Januszek, who has had many women's hearts broken on his conscience, is not eager to get married.

1991

Masquerade

Masquerade 1987

4.00

The well-known actor, Michael Barczewski, returns after a long break to the stage. He tells reporter the story of Jack Burda, a young promising actor who took his profession a bit too serious and played his own death...

1987

I Love Cinema

I Love Cinema 1988

7.00

The manager of a small provincial cinema finds her lost son, and he tries to save the movie theater.

1988

Postcard from a Journey

Postcard from a Journey 1984

5.50

A story of a middle-aged Jew methodically preparing himself to be shipped off to a concentration camp. The main character, Jacob Rosenberg, is a former industrial counselor, who is forced to work as a street cleaner. He knows what the fate is holding for him in the future, nevertheless he takes it with and implacable calmness.

1984

O rany, nic się nie stało!!!

O rany, nic się nie stało!!! 1987

1

Roberto is a young Cuban who is visiting Poland. And times are not merry - the Cuban conflict is about to begin. His stay is not successful, so Roberto returns to his country.

1987

The Last Schoolbell

The Last Schoolbell 1989

7.40

As 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.

1989

Portret podwójny

Portret podwójny 2001

1

A picture of the broken world at the end of the century. A couple of contemporary young Polish intellectuals, artistic souls. They are sensitive beyond mediocrity, hence the daily hustle and bustle is not an excuse for them to live: they want to give it a meaning and shape of their own choosing. They search for their "roots", only to find out once again that, apart from natural tenderness, they have nothing in common with their families. There is no question of rebellion, of generational strife. Today's 30-year-olds face only technical, not sentimental, obstacles; childhood memories of parents not seen every day sink in, the image of a child living apart indifferently.

2001

Sunday Pranks

Sunday Pranks 1988

5.70

A chilling tale about kids playing in a bombed-out Warsaw courtyard on the day of Stalin's death, while their parents are away at the church or a memorial procession.

1988

The School of Lovers

The School of Lovers 1988

3.00

A dramatic adaptation of Mozart's opera Così fan tutte. A man urges two bachelor friends to test their fiancées' fidelity.

1988

Chce mi się wyć

Chce mi się wyć 1989

1

Polish film directed by Jacek Skalski. A young student, expelled from university for taking part in strikes, and a middle-aged married woman, whose husband is abroad, fall madly in love during the tumultuous times of 1980s martial law.

1989

Custody

Custody 1985

4.50

A story of a young woman arrested by police on the day of her wedding for embezzlement, and promptly sentenced to life. She is already pregnant and has her baby in prison. Immediately after birth they are separated and only later Klara finds out that the child had a spine injury in an orphanage. After the years her sentence is shortened and she is released from prison on parole after 12 years.

1985

Weryfikacja

Weryfikacja 1987

1

Martial Law in Poland. Marek the journalist steals a truck and starts his quest.

1987