Talking Heads

Talking Heads 1980

7.80

People of different age, profession and social status answer two simple questions: who they are and what they want from life.

1980

Railway Station

Railway Station 1980

4.80

Kieslowski’s later film Dworzec (Station, 1980) portrays the atmosphere at Central Station in Warsaw after the rush hour.

1980

Hospital

Hospital 1977

6.20

24 hours in the life of a hospital from the point of view of the doctors and nurses.

1977

House

House 1958

5.20

An experimental short film by Walerian Borowczyk and Jan Lenica.

1958

From a Night Porter's Point of View

From a Night Porter's Point of View 1979

7.00

At the time of the Polish social regime, a security officer is promoted to work at a prison yard. Introducing concurrently with the narrator; he speaks of himself, his thoughts, his point of view.

1979

Wizyta

Wizyta 1972

1

An official falls victim to hooligans. He recognizes one of the attackers at a party organized by his director.

1972

I Don't Know

I Don't Know 1977

4.60

The confession of a man who was the director of a factory in Lower Silesia. "He was a Party member but opposed to the Mafia-like organization of Party members which was active in that factory and region. Those people were stealing and debiting the factory account. He didn’t realize that people higher up were involved in the affair. And they finished him off.’ (Krzysztof Kieslowski)

1977

Kareta

Kareta 1973

1

A nobleman and his servant have many misadventures together.

1973

Factory

Factory 1971

5.60

A documentary revolving around the Polish situation on an industrial level at the tail-end of the 1960s: it alternates between stark images at a metallurgic foundry and a board-room meeting among the various executives involved in its management.

1971

The Musicians

The Musicians 1960

5.80

An orchestra of working-class musicians rehearses in this short film, honored at the 1960 Venice Film Festival and among the favorite films of director Krzysztof Kieslowski who mentored under this documentary's director.

1960

Workers '80

Workers '80 1982

1

Documentary about the beginning of Solidarnosc.

1982

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae 1975

6.90

A communist party control committee interrogates a worker and party activist who is to be excluded from the party.

1975

Nowy pracownik

Nowy pracownik 1966

1

A new employee has to deal with the horrors of bureaucracy in this satirical short poking fun at the insititutions of the Polish People's Republic.

1966

The Great Give-Away

The Great Give-Away 1993

4.90

Partly thriller, partly dark comedy, the tagline of this film announce that any resemblance to real-life characters and situations were completely intentional. This had the audience guessing who the main characters were supposed to represent: those biznismeni and post-socialist yuppies who after 1989 teamed up with their former enemies to exploit Poland ruthlessly.

1993

Refrain

Refrain 1972

6.20

One of the first documentary films of Krzysztof Kieslowski. It is a story about everyday life funeral in the 70s

1972

Among Men

Among Men 1960

5.60

Impressionistic study of the fate of a stray dog, trying to avoid the results of human indifference and cruelty.

1960

A Walk in the Old City of Warsaw

A Walk in the Old City of Warsaw 1958

6.00

Little heroine, a music school student, wanders through the backstreets of Warsaw's Old Town and discovers a world to which others have no access. It is a world of extraordinariness and beauty of sounds. And these are sounds that are the most important thing for the girl – the hubbub of children, the sounds of the street, the puffing of a tractor, the tuning of an organ, the sweeping of a broom and the sound of jets flying overhead.

1958