Hands Up!

Hands Up! 1985

5.80

The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.

1985

Bugler's Monologue

Bugler's Monologue 1965

1

A film grotesque whose protagonist is a poor clerk lost in the modern world. He buys a trumpet to express his personality via music.

1965

Zuzanna i chłopcy

Zuzanna i chłopcy 1961

4.00

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.

1961

Wiano

Wiano 1964

1

A peasant girl is abandoned by her fiancé after she has talked her father into giving her his land as a dowry.

1964

Visit of a President

Visit of a President 1961

1

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.

1961

Back to Life Again

Back to Life Again 1965

5.00

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.

1965

Adam's Two Ribs

Adam's Two Ribs 1964

7.00

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.

1964

Farewells

Farewells 1958

5.50

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.

1958

Wedding Night

Wedding Night 1959

5.00

Tragedy befalls Hanka, as her husband and father die fighting Austrian forces invading the Duchy of Warsaw in 1809.

1959

Walkover

Walkover 1965

6.10

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.

1965

Ewa Wants to Sleep

Ewa Wants to Sleep 1958

6.80

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.

1958

The Sun Rises Once a Day

The Sun Rises Once a Day 1972

5.50

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.

1972

Mansarda

Mansarda 1963

1

After returning to Poland, the painter Aleksander Gierymski encounters a lack of understanding of his works.

1963