Lucjan Czerny

Giza and her husband Erwin struggle to make ends meet in their Silesian mining-town home after Erwin loses his job and faces humiliating demands at the employment office. When Giza befriends the well-off Monika, she’s offered work at a nightclub - first cleaning, then a shocking ultimatum: turn to prostitution or leave.

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What would it be like to step inside a great work of art, have it come alive around you, and even observe the artist as he sketches the very reality you are experiencing? From Lech Majewski, one of Poland's most acclaimed filmmakers, The Mill and the Cross is a cinematic re-staging of Pieter Bruegel's masterpiece "Procession to Calvary," presented alongside the story of its creation.

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Kant-Pol or the Republic of Kantians. This is a country where fraud in every respect is the order of the day. A CEO who has his office in a tasza, a musician who can't play without a floppy disk, and a driver who drives on left documents after a deadbeat. Young people who are dangerous. The police can't do anything on their own. Silesia is a broken vessel...

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The story of three former miners who escape to a nearby bar during Sunday mass. Over a beer, they reminisce about past events: adventures with the mining office, with two mine directors, with the Sunday party deed. They also reminisce about a fatal accident "at the bottom" and a breakdown of the machinery supplying the mines with electricity.

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A commune built around the pursuit of spiritual perfection through the occult begins to see its prophecies come true.

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