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Barbara Sass – Pajeczarki AKA The Spider Women (1993)
Quote:Two sisters, a journalist and a student, are struggling with financial problems. They decide to save their budget by stealing from wealthy men. They break into their apartments through windows...
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Andrzej Kotkowski – Obywatel Piszczyk AKA Citizen Piszczyk (1988)
Quote:Born unlucky, a victim of the errors and distortions of Stalinism, he is released in 1956. He meets a politically feverish woman, her influential parents, and finally becomes the father of her...
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Tadeusz Makarczynski – Suita warszawska AKA Warsaw Suite (1946)
Quote:A film suite divided into three parts showing successively the defeat of Warsaw, the gradual awakening of the capital and the first post-war Warsaw spring. The film has no commentary, only...
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Tadeusz Makarczynski – Do redakcji nadszedl list AKA A Letter at the...
Quote:The documentary shows the work of journalists and the importance of the press in building socialism. It is an exemplary implementation of the socialist-realist convention imposed on Polish...
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Krzysztof Zanussi – Suplement AKA The Supplement (2002)
Quote:Young people, a medical student and a wardrobe maker are trying to be together. The boy hesitates about what his vocation is. He will go through various initiations before deciding whether to...
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Andrzej Wajda – Pierscionek z orlem w koronie AKA The Crowned-Eagle Ring (1992)
Quote:A young commander of Warsaw Uprising tries to continue his activity under conditions of Soviet occupation. He makes contact with an insurgent from the People’s Army, now the head of the regional...
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Tomasz Dominik, Piotr Rozbicki – Warszawa 88-89 AKA Warsaw 88-89 (1989)
Quote:In the film Warsaw 88-89 we observe the city on the eve of the coming changes, captured on VHS tape. Tomasz Dominik and Piotr Rozbicki capture interesting, distinctive details – an unusual...
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Aleksander Ford – Pierwszy dzien wolnosci AKA The First Day of Freedom (1964)
The First Day of Freedom (Polish: Pierwszy dzień wolności) is a 1964 Polish drama film directed by Aleksander Ford. It was entered into the 1965 Cannes Film Festival. Quote:Freed Polish soldiers are...
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Malgorzata Szumowska & Michal Englert – Sniegu juz nigdy nie bedzie AKA Never...
On a gray, foggy morning outside a large Polish city, Zhenia (Alec Utgoff), a masseur from the East, enters the lives of the wealthy residents of a gated community. Using hypnotic, almost magical...
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Andrzej Wajda – Samson (1961)
Nominated for the Golden Lion in 1961 at the venice Film festival “Samson” is the story of a Jew, Jakub Gold (Serge Merlin), at the polytechnic university in Warsaw imprisoned and sentenced to 10...
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Janusz Morgenstern – Ambulans AKA The Ambulance (1961)
Quote:“Ambulance” is a less than 10-minute etude with metaphorical overtones. The film opens with Hitler’s off-screen speech about the necessity of destroying the Jewish race. The appeal ends with the...
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Janusz Majewski – Opus jazz (1963)
Quote:A rehearsal of the Andrzej Kurylewicz quintet is underway in the radio recording studio. The lineup includes: Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski, Andrzej Dąbrowski, Wojciech Karolak, Roman Dylag. A...
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Andrzej Wajda – Lotna (1959)
Poland, during the World War. Lotna is a magnificent specimen of Arabian horse, thepride of her owner, too old to actually ride her but to whom she remains faithfulnevertheless. The Polish cavalry...
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Juliusz Machulski – Seksmisja AKA Sexmission (1984)
Two scientists are placed in hibernation and should be awaken after three years. But when they wake up, it turns out that it has been fifty years, and they are the only two males in a new, underground...
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Jan Rybkowski – Kiedy milosc byla zbrodnia AKA When Love Was a Crime (1968)
Quote: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. Death, imprisonment or...
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Jan Jakub Kolski – Ladny dzien aka A Nice Day (1988)
A pristine transport-stream recording of Jan Jakub Kolski’s beautiful early short film, Ładny dzień. Whilst his subsequent works are enjoyable, none have the same visual brilliance found here. One...
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Krzysztof Kieslowski – Szpital AKA Hospital (1977)
Quote:In 1976 Kieslowski produced Hospital, the 1977 winner of the Festival of ShortFilms in Krakow. The film deals with Warsaw orthopaedic surgeons who are portrayed working long, 32-hour shifts. The...
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Bohdan Kosinski – Narodziny Solidarnosci AKA The Birth of Solidarity (1981)
Quote:A film showing the social mood and tensions in the period between the end of the strikes in August 1980 and the registration of the Solidarity Trade Union in November 1980. The film won awards,...
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Wojciech Has – Petla AKA The Noose (1958)
The visualization of a day in the life of an alcoholic, teeming with images of anxiety and Kafkaesque paranoia. Adapted from Marek Hlasko’s novel The First Step in the Clouds, THE NOOSE is movie as...
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Miroslaw Bork – Konsul AKA The Consul (1989)
A con man (Piotr Fronczewski) gets out of jail and is soon up to his old tricks. He starts small, but his grifts quickly grow more elaborate and far-reaching, until he’s entangled all manner of local...
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