Ewa Bonecka, a young student about to start school in a new place finds herself without a place to sleep after she is declined a room in a women-only...

Anatol Kowalski is an old man who works in a bank and loves his old-fashioned hat. One day the hat gets lost and Anatol decides to buy a new one.

Three separate stories depicting the tense everyday life during occupation, as seen through the eyes of children. In “On the Road,” the two main...

Rumsza, the elderly railwayman, leading a sedate life with his wife, misses his only remaining son (two older boys were killed in the war). Joziuk...

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

Mąż swojej żony (English: Husband of His Wife) is a Polish comedy from 1960 directed by Stanisław Bareja. The story of a newly married couple,...

Three separate short stories about young athletes who lose their chances of success. Young swimmer - because of unhappy love. Boxer because of a...

Stanisław Maria Rochowicz, a bumbling art historian, is falsely accused of stealing a painting. The alleged thief faces five years in prison....

Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko fights for the right to stage his opera "Halka".

Four stories showing the various facets of love.

Set in military barracks in a small town during World War I. The soldiers herded in the barracks are 'politically suspect' mix of characters from all...

Two friends make a bet. One of them - an A student and a computer genius Marcin - under the terms of the dispute must be received five days of...

To convince the prison warden against releasing him, a middle-aged Polish man recounts his life, one he considers to have been characterized by...

Poland, during World War II. Martha Weiss, a Jewish woman, arrives at the Auschwitz extermination camp with her family. She is assigned the role of...

A mysterious Mania appears in Warsaw. The girl, together with the other children, experiences amazing adventures.

Growing-up village boy Marcin Debik feels bored of existence in his native place and not interested in realizing his father's ideas for living there...

An engineer comes home from abroad to his waiting wife. After some time, his second wife, an Italian one, joins him. For a small town, such a...

A reclusive lighthouse worker accepts the offer to swap jobs with a police inspector for a while, just to help him catch Teston, the so-called...

Follows the lives of people shortly after World War 2 as they try to adjust to their new lives. Completed in 1946, it was banned from release by the...

A 10-year old boy becomes a king after the death of his father and tries to bring reforms to the country, with varying results

After returning to Poland, the painter Aleksander Gierymski encounters a lack of understanding of his works.

A young teacher educates the peasants and electrifies the village, which the local miller does not like.

In 1946, a former resistance fighter starts working as a forester in a small town in Masuria. The local people don't trust him, robberies are common...

A smart teenager Adam Cisowski is asked by his teacher to help him solve the mysterious case of robbed house doors in his mansion.

Unvanquished City (Polish: Robinson warszawski, Polish: Miasto nieujarzmione) is a 1950 Polish drama film directed by Jerzy Zarzycki. It was entered...

A pianist from Poland visits a town in West Germany and starts to remember details about her life during the war.

Historical panorama of the history of Silesia, from the period of the uprisings to the present day, shown through the fate of five miners....

Three stories centered around sports.

The Gestapo searches one of the apartments in Warsaw. It comes to a tragedy.

Tadeusz Krzakoski (Krzysztof Kowalewski), the director of a failing state-owned company, is married with problems. His mistress, the daughter of a...