Włodzimierz Kwaskowski

The story of the pied piper, the German legend of the rat catcher of Hameln, retold as a punk invasion of a Polish small town.

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Three old friends living in distant cities decide to help each other get rid of people who stand in their way to achieve happiness.

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The image of Greater Poland in the breakthrough years 1913-1918. It tells about the fate of Polish junior high school students and their attitude towards the Prussian partitioning authorities, activity in the independence underground, and participation in the preparations for the Greater Poland Uprising.

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An ordinary man has to do constant favors for other people in order to reserve a place for himself in a queue.

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In difficult times of political and social change, a mother raises four sons alone.

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Dr Raduski returns from abroad to his hometown. He starts a profitable business there and revives the town's cultural life. However, the tsarist government and local nobles don't take kindly to his presence and try to sabotage him.

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When a delivery of coffins foreshadows a harsh winter, residents of a retirement home escape their confines and rediscover the world outside.

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Fall 1925. Six hundred officers demonstrate in front of Józef Piłsudski’s country house in Sulejówek, demanding the Marshal’s return to active political life. May 1926—a government crisis; Wincenty Witos forms a new government. Piłsudski’s move sparks clashes between supporters and opponents of the ousted government. Piłsudski appoints Kazimierz Bartel as prime minister. The beginning of the “moral reform.” Ignacy Mościcki becomes president. Summer 1930. A joint platform of opponents to the Sanacja government is formed. “Centrolew” is established.

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A group of Polish boys is opposed to a German teacher who aims to Germanise the young men.

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A film from the "Silhouettes of Polish Literature" series

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The problem of the Polish population displacement from their land within the limits of the Prussian partition. Germans come to the village harassing a wealthy peasant Snail, leading to the tragedy. Slug's cottage burns, his wife dies. The peasant does not give up, defending his inheritance. He sticks on a patch of his Polish soil and protects it like a soldier his post.

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The revue theater "Red Mill" is in crisis, the owner has no money to pay the salaries of the employees. When the bailiff hands the director an order to seize the theater's assets, an elegant gentleman engineer Fred Kampinos unexpectedly appears and offers his help.

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The protagonist of the film is Józek Mikuła, a "peasant worker" who runs a small farm with his mother and makes a living as a truck driver at a nearby cement plant. When one day he wins a million in a toto-lottery, news of his unexpected fortune spreads rapidly through the village. Józek decides to invest the money wisely: he buys more land, renovates farm buildings, brings in machinery. He has a gesture - he funds the village with a color TV, which he installs in the clubhouse. But neighbors are stung by Józek's unexpected wealth.

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A young couple decides to divorce.

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Small Polish village straight after WWII. Young man Zenek injured and awarded with Cross of Valour during partisan fight is torn between staying loyal to his partisan comrades (continuing their fight) and his own beliefs.

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The school incident of the disappearance of a watch became a pretext for the filmmakers to faithfully show an interesting social layer, to present the life of the school community, Agnieszka's conflicts with her parents and the emerging sympathy for a boy.

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A young man starts a new life in a small town near Łódź.

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Doctor Ewa Lipska, an attractive young woman just after graduation, with interesting professional prospects for the future, chooses the job of a village doctor. Brought up in a big city, she settles in the small town of Międzybórz in the Łódź Province. She is forced not only to overcome the daily difficulties resulting from medical practice in a rural health center, but also to learn to talk to people of a different mentality and gain the trust of her patients.

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The Polish Army fights to liberate Kołobrzeg from the Germans in the final months of World War 2.

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The action takes place in the Polish countryside in the second half of the 19th century. The main character is a few months old Staś, son of the blacksmith Józef and Małgorzata, from whose perspective we see the conflict of his parents with the local organist.

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A young boy sends anonymous threats to various troublemakers around town, hoping that they will report themeselves to the police and grant his older brother, a militia officer a transfer to Warsaw.

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The first Polish film to discuss the failure of September 1939 Polish-German war, seen from the point of view of a university intellectual, fascinated by German culture, who decides to take active part in the conflict.

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An architect Joanna tells her friend Halina on the telephone about her love troubles and suddenly hears a nice man's voice: "The best cure for love is another love." Then she becomes a forgers dispatcher mistaken for Honorata by telephone and decides to work out a forgers secret and the secret of her new love Andrzej.

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During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.

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Because of having a one-day plane delay, Konrad has to spend 24 hours wandering around Warsaw, visiting old friends and meeting some new ones.

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A friendship grows between two prisoners when they haul a cart with provisions during the evacuation of a concentration camp. However, their friendship ends tragically.

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Adventures of a two little girls kidnapped from their families.

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Three short segments about love, all set in Warsaw’s Civil Registry Office at the corner of Nowy Świat and Aleje Jerozolimskie, against a vivid backdrop of early 1960s city life.

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A popularity-hungry young journalist writes a sensationalist article on a supposed teen suicide club.

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A young teenager from the provinces comes to Warsaw to find her relatives and gets herself in various trouble.

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The inability of a truck driver to relate to normal life after an accident for which he feels himself responsible.

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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?

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Set in the Middle Ages the film tells the story of a wonder child, the little sculptor Wawrzek, who goes to work for a great master, Wit Stwosz. The story culminates in the unveiling of Stwosz's greatest masterpiece, the Altar of St. Mary's Church in Cracow.

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Three separate stories depicting the tense everyday life during occupation, as seen through the eyes of children. In “On the Road,” the two main protagonists are lost in the September’s strife: a young boy, and a soldier transporting the valueless documents of his broken unit. In “Letter from the Concentration Camp” the story’s protagonists are young boys who help their mother during the hardships of the occupation. Their treasure is an officer uniform belonging their father who is being held in a prisoner of war camp. In “Blood Drop,” the Germans find a set of typical Aryan characteristics in this story’s protagonist – a Jewish girl, hiding in an orphanage.

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