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Marcin Wrona – Demon (2015)
A bridegroom is possessed by an unquiet spirit in the midst of his own wedding celebration, in this clever take on the Jewish legend of the dybbuk....
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Wojciech Has – Osobisty pamietnik grzesznika przez niego samego spisany AKA...
Synopsis: In the 18th century, a recently deceased young man is exhumed by a gravedigger, suddenly revives, and then launches into the story of his highly eventful life. Brought up in a puritanical...
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Jerzy Skolimowski – 11 minut AKA 11 Minutes (2015)
A jealous husband out of control, his sexy actress wife, a sleazy Hollywood director, a reckless drug messenger, a disoriented young woman, an ex-con hot dog vendor, a troubled student on a mysterious...
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Jerzy Kawalerowicz – Faraon (1966)
Quote: The Walter Reade Theatre at Lincoln Center in New York City’s retrospective – History Lessons: The Films of Jerzy Kawalerowicz, 30 January to 12 February 2004, screened the major work of this...
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Agnieszka Holland – Aktorzy prowincjonalni AKA Provincial Actors (1979)
Quote: Talented Polish director Agnieszka Holland who would be better known in later years because of her films like Europa, Europa (1991) or some of her American works like Washington Square (1997),...
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Tadeusz Konwicki – Salto (1965)
Quote: In this rich and subtle dream-play, a man arrives in a small country town and demands sanctuary from an unspecified threat. But who is he, why do people remember him differently, and can he...
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Krzysztof Zanussi – Constans AKA The Constant Factor (1980)
Quote: Apart from the conscience provoking “A Short Film About Killing” I have always found Western European audiences’ adulation of the Polish director, Krzysztof Kieslowski, rather excessive, all...
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Andrzej Wajda – Czlowiek z zelaza AKA Man of Iron (1981)
Quote: Wajda’s remarkable sequel to Man of Marble welds newsreel footage of the Solidarity strike to fiction in a strong investigative drama. A disillusioned, vodka-sodden radio producer is bundled...
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Jerzy Kawalerowicz – Austeria AKA The Inn (1982)
Quote: Austeria takes place during the opening days of World War I, in the Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia. Tag (Franciszek Pieczka) is a Jewish innkeeper whose inn (austeria means inn in the...
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Andrzej Zulawski – Na srebrnym globie AKA On the Silver Globe (1987)
Quote: Polish filmmaker Andrzej Zulawski is best known for his anguished monster flick Possession, which featured Sam Neill and Isabelle Adjani as a married couple spiraling toward domestic meltdown....
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Krzysztof Kieslowski – Dekalog AKA The Decalogue (1989)
Quote: The Ten Commandments, exact and uncompromising, literally cast in stone, continues to provide a source of moral conflict in contemporary society. In the ten part epic masterpiece, Decalogue,...
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Tadeusz Konwicki – Ostatni dzien lata AKA The Last Day of Summer (1958)
Quote: There is something vaguely mythical to the manner in which Konwicki introduces his characters, both to us and to each other, lapped as much by the ethereal eeriness of the score as by the...
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Krzysztof Zanussi – Iluminacja AKA Illumination (1973)
Quote: Unanimous winner of all three main prizes at the 1973 Locarno International Film Festival, Zanussi’s landmark film is a dazzling kaleidoscope of ideas and images. Illumination explores the life...
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Jerzy Skolimowski – Walkower AKA Walkover (1965)
Quote: Jerzy Skolimowski’s second feature (and first full-length narrative) cemented his status as a one-man Polish New Wave, with the rhythms of his films influenced as much by jazz and (his own)...
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Jerzy Kawalerowicz – Pociag AKA Night Train (1959)
Quote: Two strangers, Jerzy (Leon Niemczyk) and Marta (Lucyna Winnicka), accidentally end up holding tickets for the same sleeping chamber on an overnight train to the Baltic Sea coast. While...
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Andrzej Wajda – Walesa. Czlowiek z nadziei AKA Walesa: Man of Hope (2013)
The depiction of the life of Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of Poland’s Solidarity movement, Lech Walesa, as events in the 1970s lead to a peaceful revolution. Quote: Wałęsa, an electrician at...
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Krzysztof Kieslowski – Krótki film o milosci AKA A Short Film About Love (1988)
Quote: An obscured thief breaks into a school gymnasium at night to steal a portable telescope from the science lab. On the following morning, the thief, Tomek (Olaf Lubaszenko) sets up the telescope...
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Krzysztof Kieslowski – Krótki film o zabijaniu AKA A Short Film About Killing...
Quote: Death from the very beginning — a rat decomposing in the water, a cat hanging from a railing as giggling children run off. In Krzysztof Kieslowski’s expansion of the Decalogue: Five segment...
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Krzysztof Zanussi – Obce cialo AKA Foreign Body (2014)
Synopsis: Angelo and Kasia met in Italy in a Focolari prayer group and were brought together by love and faith in God. Their relationship is interrupted by the young woman’s return to Poland and her...
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Magdalena Szymków – Mój dom AKA My House Without Me (2012)
Quote: Two women, one house. An intimate story about a Pole and a German placed by war on enemy sides and their parallel lives accidentally brought together. The film reflects on the concepts of...
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