The Promised Land 1975
In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion is shown through the eyes of one Polish town.
In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion is shown through the eyes of one Polish town.
A well-known professor of medicine finding himself at the threshold of autumn of his life, takes stock of his achievements and experiences. "In the end it ends with what has been known for a long time: that conscious life without a fixed worldview is not life, but torment, horror. - wrote Anton Chekhov in one of his letters summarizing "An Uninteresting Story". The protagonist, Professor Nikolai Stepanovich, is a character characteristic of Chekhov's entire oeuvre - a Russian intellectual from the late nineteenth century, depressed by boredom and a sense of his own uselessness and the meaninglessness of his existence.
Lavish romantic melodrama, obsessively concerned with sex. Maryska's husband is off to war. He soon is reported missing, and she does not protest much when is seduced by the husband's friend, a seedy professor with sickly wife and other mistresses on the side. However, the love of Maryska's life turns out to be a shy 17-year old, son of friends with whom she goes to stay.
Guests from America came to Poland, and there were three of them. One, a businessman, intends to buy the land from the battlefields in order to cash it for a profit abroad. The second is looking for a wife in his home village, highlander, and the third wants to visit his uncle's family. Will their trip be successful?
Young Frederic Chopin comes of age during a tumultous time in Polish history.
A simple governess and a wealthy aristocrat fall madly in love with each other. However, his family are prejudiced towards her and have other plans for him.
The owner of an ice cream parlor in a coastal town is murdered. The investigation is conducted by platoon leader Rogowski, but soon he is joined by Lieutenant Joanna Szczęsna from the voivodeship headquarters.
A young journalist is arrested for freethinking ideas and placed in a cell with a famous safe-breaker and a former cleric, who murdered his mistress' husband.
On the way to Warsaw after a crude oil fraud in southern Poland, conman Adam Deren meets singer Liza. He decides to invest his money in a venture deemed to be a failure - a small cabaret where Liza could perform.
Romek is a boy whom nobody wants and who cannot find love in anyone. His mother has no interest in him at all. The boy gets under the influence of enterprising Janusz. This one teaches him to steal. During the first attempt, he is caught and puts in a juvenile court. The mother decides to take the opportunity to put him in an orphanage.
In war-ravaged Warsaw, five juvenile delinquents are given probation for stealing, to rehabilitate themselves, but remain under the influence of their profiteer-boss.
Three separate short stories about young athletes who lose their chances of success. Young swimmer - because of unhappy love. Boxer because of a fight with hooligans, for which the judges will disqualify him. But the cyclist must decide for himself what is more important for him: victory or friendship.
A Russian investigator is demoted after a young PPS militia escapes from Poland and vows revenge.
Professor Borusiewicz receives a high state decoration, while family and friends await him at home.
Two fairies, Terencja and Felicja are in posession of the Lucky Rain Boots, which they intend to give to the most deserving person in the city of Kraków. However, they consistently fall into the wrong hands, creating a multitude of absurd and comedic situations.
A descendant of a noble family takes the side of the proletariat, fighting against the mistreatment of factory owners and the oppresion from the Tsar during the 1905 revolution.
Story about the young Balthazar thrown from one remarkable event to the other. On his way through a plague hit the landscape, he meets the Kabbalists, priests - and himself.
Communist Szczęsny juggles between his revolutionary activities and love to a fellow party member Madzia in this sequel to "Cellulose".
A series of misfortunes plagues a journalist and his new friend.
While visiting Warsaw, Hanka falls for a record-breaking bricklayer. She returns to the city to work at construction sites and prove that women can work as hard as men