Nikodem Dyzma

Nikodem Dyzma 1956

4.70

Nikodem Dyzma is a poor dancer who comes to Warsaw to find a job. The problem is that nobody wants to hire him. One day he finds an invitation to the party with very important people and decides to attend. A small accident at the party makes him the hero of the night and becomes the beginning of his career.

1956

Dziś w nocy umrze miasto

Dziś w nocy umrze miasto 1961

7.00

An unlikely couple - a Polish concentration camp inmate and a young German girl - stick together and try to survive the RAF bombing of Dresden in February 1945.

1961

Their Everyday Life

Their Everyday Life 1963

4.00

After a violent quarrel, Nitka leaves her husband Andrzej. He meets a young girl with whom he is getting closer and closer.

1963

Birth Certificate

Birth Certificate 1961

7.30

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.

1961

Nafta

Nafta 1961

5.00

Szymek, a young man at clash with his home village takes up a job as a geologist and marries a girl whose parents dissaprove of him.

1961

Wife for an Australian

Wife for an Australian 1964

6.30

A Polish-born Australian businessman arrives in Poland to find a wife for himself.

1964

Wolves' Echoes

Wolves' Echoes 1968

7.00

A lonely Border Guard officer, with a girl and a former villain, has to face a local corrupt Militia commandant and his people in wild Bieszczady Mountains in the Polish East.

1968

Hell and Heaven

Hell and Heaven 1966

6.00

A bus crashes and its passengers find themeselves in the afterlife, which they find has the not only the same set of rules as Earth, but also the same bureaucratic chaos.

1966

Westerplatte Resists

Westerplatte Resists 1967

6.80

Westerplatte is a small peninsula at the entry to the Gdańsk Harbour. Before World War II, it functioned as a Polish ammunition depot in the Free City of Danzig. Its crew consisted of one infantry company and a group of civilians, 182 people in total. It was the only Polish guard-post at the mouth of the Vistula River, with as little as five sentries, one field cannon, two anti-armour guns and four mortars. The first shots of World War II were fired there. This film tells the story of Westerplatte's courageous defenders.

1967

The Ashes

The Ashes 1965

6.50

Set in the time of Napoleon wars, shows how the wars swept over the unfortunate Polish country at the beginning of the XIX-th century. Story revolves around the Polish legion under command of General Dabrowski, who then fought on Napoleon's side with the hopes of Poland's revival.

1965

When Love Was a Crime

When Love Was a Crime 1968

1

A war drama showing the functioning of Hitler’s “racial purity” law, forbidding foreign workers from any contact with Germany. Foreigners on forced labor in Nazi Germany.

1968

Wniebowstąpienie

Wniebowstąpienie 1969

5.00

The strain of German persecution causes a mental breakdown in a young Jew, which prompts his wife to take desperate measures.

1969

Return to Earth

Return to Earth 1967

6.50

After the war, Stefan cannot go back to a normal life.

1967

The Killer Leaves a Trace

The Killer Leaves a Trace 1967

6.00

In the last days of WW2, Polish military looks for the murderer of prosecutor responsible for storing Gestapo files.

1967

The Touch of the Night

The Touch of the Night 1962

5.70

Roman Jacenko, a local photographer tries to turn his fortunes around and rob a bank transport.

1962

Place on Earth

Place on Earth 1960

1

A teenager finds himself torn after the death of his mother and falls on the wrong side of the law.

1960

Free City

Free City 1958

6.80

The heroic struggle of Polish post office workers in Gdańsk on the first day of World War II.

1958

Korn's Password

Korn's Password 1968

6.00

An intelligence agent's murder bring upon a national investigation into a spy organisation called Korn.

1968