Hands Up! 1985
The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.
The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.
A film grotesque whose protagonist is a poor clerk lost in the modern world. He buys a trumpet to express his personality via music.
Two man and a woman get buried by the snow while on a cave expedition. Tensions rise between the two men, both in love with the woman as they try to find a way out.
A peasant girl is abandoned by her fiancé after she has talked her father into giving her his land as a dowry.
A little boy, craving for his father's attention, imagines a made-up "Mr. President" who looks just like his father but is caring and attentive.
Three idealists - a communist secretary, a former RAF pilot and a female political activist - need to face the hardships and accusations of postwar Stalinist years before being finally rehabilitated.
The sixth and final episode compilation of the TV series released theatrically, featuring episodes 16 and 17.
An engineer comes home from abroad to his waiting wife. After some time, his second wife, an Italian one, joins him. For a small town, such a triangle will turn out to be unacceptable, especially since the spouses live peacefully under one roof.
The Gestapo searches one of the apartments in Warsaw. It comes to a tragedy.
The first of six episode compilations of the TV show released theatrically, featuring episodes 1 and 3.
The first of four theatrically released episode compilations of the TV series, featuring episodes 1 and 2.
The fifth of the six episode compilations of the TV series released theatrically, featuring episodes 14 and 15.
The story takes place before World War II and centers on Pawel, a member of a conservative, middle-class family, and his love for Lidka, a taxi dancer. Social conventions and the lovers' inability to defy those forces Pawel and Lidka benefit. Times change, war breaks out, leading to Pawel sent to Auschwitz while Lidka marry his cousin. Their love has survived and conventions are no longer the issue.
Tragedy befalls Hanka, as her husband and father die fighting Austrian forces invading the Duchy of Warsaw in 1809.
Walkover, the autobiographical second feature by Polish enfant terrible Jerzy Skolimowski echoes the French nouvelle vague in its extraordinarily stylized tale of a prizefighter who ducks a fight to romance a beautiful blonde.
Lives of three people intersect when they meet on a holiday in Mazury.
Ewa Bonecka, a young student about to start school in a new place finds herself without a place to sleep after she is declined a room in a women-only hotel. Helped by a pleasant policeman, Piotr, she tries to find a lodging in the strange town full of thieves and petty troublemakers.
After the war, the community of mountaineers is eager to start their own sawmill. When the communist authorities come to take over the sawmill, a rebellion starts.
After returning to Poland, the painter Aleksander Gierymski encounters a lack of understanding of his works.