Adam Perzyk

An epic, multi-threaded story about the fate of Poles during World War II. "Czas pogardy" was shown primarily from the perspective of two main characters - Lieutenant Władysław Niwiński and Leon Kuraś - a petty crook, but not without heroic traits. The authors of the series sought to show, in particular, everyday life under Nazi occupation in Poland.

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Andrzej Wajda's English-language film of a novella by Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, aka Joseph Conrad, about a young man in his first command as a sea captain. A series of crises prove incredibly difficult for his new authority, for the sea is curiously becalmed and the crew is weakened by feverish malaria. When the first mate's fear convinces many that the ship is haunted and cursed by the malevolent spirit of the previous captain, the young man must cope with their superstition as well as the conspicuous absence of much-needed medicine.

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During the Swedish invasion of Poland, the brave warrior Andrzej Kmicic, considered a traitor to the nation, fights for a country, redemption and love across the 17th-century Polish territories.

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A car mechanic takes a hitchhiker.

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After moving from the countryside to the city, an old man cannot find himself in the new reality.

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The subject of the film is the problem of the migration of young people from the countryside to the cities in search of an easier life. The meeting of the whole family - whose paths have diverged a long time ago - with the sick father and a long conversation with him determine the final decision of the film's protagonist, Janek: he will return to where he comes from, to the countryside, to his fatherland.

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The professor loses his wallet. Thinking that he has fallen prey to a thief, he takes it from the man whom he suspects of theft.

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Stefan Pulman, a lonely Varsovian, spends his vacation every year in a quiet guesthouse. He makes very real marriage plans. The object of his sighs is beautiful Susanna.

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A young engineer borrows a suitcase from a friend, not knowing it countains ten thousand dollars inside. Soon after the friend dies in a car crash, and a lighter found at the scene might be key to solving the case.

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University student Anna and her boyfriend Tomek use a precious photograph to trace and unveil the complex wartime and post-war past of their parents.

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A young Russian officer finds himself in a rundown town and seeks shelter in an abandoned hut while waiting for help.

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A young man looking for work in Warsaw has to overcome many hurdles in the world of bureaucracy to finally get employed.

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At the annual car race in Monte Carlo the Polish team consists of driver Piotr and his pilot Jan. They compete with other teams as well as with one another - for the feelings of one woman.

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The strain of German persecution causes a mental breakdown in a young Jew, which prompts his wife to take desperate measures.

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The third of six episode compilations of the TV series released theatrically, featuring episodes 5 and 7.

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During World War 2 a doctor, patiently waiting for the liberation and unwilling to engage in the struggle against the Nazis is forced at a gunpoint by a Polish Resistance soldier to attend to the members of her squad.

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A series about the adventures of a Polish secret agent, Hans Kloss, who acts as a double agent in the Abwehr during Second World War in occupied Poland.

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Ja gorę! tells the story of a Pogorzelski nobleman who settles in a ruined castle in Samsonów, determined to restore it, only to be haunted by the ghost of its former owner. A parody of gothic horror literature and cinema, the short is based on a tale by Henryk Rzewuski and was produced as part of the Polish television series Opowieści niezwykłe (1967–1968).

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Polish musical comedy. The film focuses on two friends who spend their vacation in the beautiful countryside of Mazury. They buy a very nice car (Syrenka), but in order to pay for it the men need to start working as solicitors for a notable art impresario named Koszajtis. Soon they get thrown right in the middle of a hilarious war between two rivaling music-and-dance groups.

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In November of 1939, the British consulate in Norway receives documents saying that the Nazis are conducting secret rocket research in Peenemünde. But the British doubt the authenticity of the so called "Oslo report". Thus, the Germans continue their experiments unimpeded. At the same time, resistance groups from France, England, Poland, and Germany try to find and to sabotage the secret Nazi research base. When the first "V 2" rocket is successfully launched, the Allied commanders finally become interested in the "Oslo report".

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A bank robbery conducted by Polish Underground members goes awry and the brother-in-law of the group's leader, Paweł gets arrested. Now Paweł must choose between helping his loved ones and staying loyal to the underground.

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A promising but hot-headed young. boxer studies with a kind, knowing manager, grooming him for the Olympics.

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A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.

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A troublemaker returns to his home village, reigniting friendship with his former teacher and looking to atone for his wrongdoings.

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A psychological portrait of a missing girl is drawn by the people who knew her, being interviewed by a journalist helping in the search.

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A bus crashes and its passengers find themeselves in the afterlife, which they find has the not only the same set of rules as Earth, but also the same bureaucratic chaos.

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During the war, a nurse finds footwear belonging to a Soviet soldier. The discovery haunts her.

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A young poet is hired to boost the morale of water pump workers.

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A daughter of a furniture seller helps her father’s business by promising a marriage to the customers.

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A prosecutor takes up a post in a small town where he has to deal with corruption and murder.

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The cook prepares the soldier's favourite dish. The soldiers learn that the products come from the Majdanek camp.

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To secure their team's success, dedicated football fans (Boleslaw Plotnicki, Mieczyslaw Czechowicz) plot to kidnap their opponents' star player (Andrzej Kopiczynski).

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Three stories about life problems, each rooted in contemporary reality through newspaper reports and a “Polityka” magazine survey, crafted by documentarians Jerzy Hoffman and Edward Skórzewski.

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A shy Warsaw university student is in love with a girl who pays no attention to him. Change comes after her intimate love letters are read publicly at a party.

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Freed Polish soldiers are trapped in a small town in Germany during the last days of World War II. After a doctor's daughter is raped by a concentration camp worker, the Poles allow her and her father to stay in the house that is their temporary quarters. While waiting to be repatriated, the war-weary group is forced to fight some German soldiers who invade the town. The war brings out conflicting emotions of the Poles who find themselves trapped in the house and once again under fire from the enemy.

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