Daniel Olbrychski

Danzig in the 1920s/1930s. Oskar Matzerath, son of a local dealer, is a most unusual boy. Equipped with... (imdb)

In 1968, a Czech doctor with an active sex life meets a woman who wants monogamy, and then the Soviet invasion further disrupts their lives. (imdb)

A tale of ruthless rise of early industrialists at the turn of the century. It takes place in Lodz, the heart of textile industry at the time... (imdb)

Wronke Prison, 1916. Social democrat Rosa Luxemburg faces a mock execution. Twenty years earlier, Rosa's political gifts are acknowledged by everyone, as she struggles for democratic government in Germany and revolution in Poland... (imdb)

Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are herded into other camps as the Allies try to devise policy to control the situation... (imdb)

Written in a sharp, ironic style, REVENGE portrays those national characteristics that in time brought on many of Poland's national tragedies. Written for the stage, Wajda has changed very little and transferred practically the entirety of the work to the screen. (culture.pl)

Set in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend. He decides to go home to his aunt and uncle for a while, but gets involved with a family of five women who had been in love with him at one time though he had apparently loved only one, who, unknown to him, has died since his departure. The women are mainly disillusioned with life or estranged from husbands while the youngest has a crush on him. (imdb)

Trough fabulous Music this movie tracks three generations of musicians and dancers from Russia, Germany, France and the USA, from before World War II through the war and the Holocaust, to the 1980s. Their lives become intertwined through the historical circumstances, and the culmination is the presence of several, including a former Nazi pianist and a French Jewish Holocaust survivor at an anti-famine concert (imdb)

In Paris, the international police force and the Russian mafia are chasing Anthony Zimmer, an intelligent man responsible for laundry of dirty money in France. Zimmer had extensive plastic surgery, and his new face and voice are completely unknown. The only means to reach Zimmer is through his beloved mistress Chiara, who is under surveillance of the police and the mobsters... (imdb)

Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament Poland's 100-year-long division of Poland under Russia, Prussia, and Austria... (imdb)

Nobel recipient Henryk Sienkiewicz wrote the trilogy on which this film was based. Set in 1668 Poland during the Turkish invasion, the film pays tribute to the noble efforts of Colonel Michal Wolodyjowski (Tadeusz Lomnicki), who organized a brave last defense against the charging Turkish army. (rottentomatoes.com)

This film is based on the masterpiece "Pan Tadeusz" written by Adam Mickiewicz, a famous Polish poet in 1830. (imdb)

La Truite opens to the unedifying sight of a glum-faced Isabelle Huppert squeezing sperm out of a dead fish. (imdb)

Our main character lands on a supposedly uninhabited strange new world, where he is instead greeted as a "hero" and treated like royalty. He soon finds out that heroism has a price: he has to commit a crime so that he may be publicly executed in a glorious ceremony. (imdb)

Set in the 9th Century...the movie depicts an exciting tale of love, betrayal, death...and action. (imdb)

Only dream 16 years old boy is hit to gang of thieves of cars, on under which hit some Maks stands. Wanting to impress the boss of gang, luxurious car steals, order on which is already from behind east.

Takes place in a prewar Poland. A tubercular young man comes to stay with his brother on a farm. He is in love with life and constantly plays 1930's music on a piano. He gets involved with his brother's problems and becomes the lover of a farm girl. The brother's dead wife may have had an affair with the hired man. His daughter will not confirm his suspicions. But the brother's death leads to his acceptance of the past, forgiving his wife's memory and making up with his little daughter. (imdb)

Joanna is in love with Andrew, the young and the poor plastic. Her father, however, wants to find a rich husband for her. Hopes that it was Andrew, but previously decided to buy all of his paintings.

This follow-up to With Fire and Sword is yet another romantic, action-packed drama woven around a stormy love affair set against the Polish-Swedish War in the 1600s. (rottentomatoes.com)

A cerebral psychological drama about a reunion between two intellectual scientist friends who have taken different paths and now try to see if they can still communicate with one another in the common language they once shared. (surrealmoviez.info)

Jim and Elise are bound to each other by an uncompromising love, excessive passion and romance, which they like to experience up to life-threatening situations. But when film director Frank Morris gets stranded in the solitude of their east-German village, things start changing for all three of them. (imdb)

In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what happened then, the truth about an affair his mother had with a young Polish prisoner of war, how the authorities came to learn of it, the lovers' arrest, and the aftermath. While his son takes Polaroid photographs, he retraces the steps of his childhood and interviews those who should remember. (imdb)

Summer of 1920 in Silesia. 7 brothers, their commanding officer Erwin (Jan Englert) and other guerrillas go to war. The youngest of the brothers, Gabryel (Olgierd Lukaszewicz) steals a German uniform and sneaks to a settlement occupied by the enemy, where he fells in love with a German nurse.

In this depressing but insightful drama, Pradera (Edward Zantara) is a young poet who decides to turn his back on society. Moving to a small village, he takes a job as a lumberjack and rents a modest room from an elderly landlady. Pradera soon realizes his new life is far less satisfying than the idyllic country life he had imagined. The evasive poet will only say he is from the North and finds making friends is his new locale difficult. (starpulse.com)

Story of Polish teenagers just before War World Second.

After she's accused of being a Russian sleeper spy, rogue CIA agent Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie) goes on the run, using every tactic, accent and disguise she knows to elude her pursuers, clear her name and protect her husband. Her supervisor, Winter (Liev Schreiber), buys her story, while counterintelligence officer Peabody (Chiwetel Ejiofor) decidedly does not and will do anything to stop her in this fast-paced, intrigue-filled spy adventure.

Alegory of the suppression of the 1919 revolution and the advent of fascism in Hungary; in the countryside, a unit of the revolutionary army spares the life of father Vargha, a fanatical priest. He comes back and leads massacres. A new force, represented by Feher, apparently avanges the people, but only to impose a different, more refined and effective kind of repression. (Francisco Baez)

Story follows a knight on his quest for a mythical harp, one which will supposedly heal the ills of his nation.

A young engineer is called back home, which he had left years before. The house is a crumbling, old mansion in which his father still works, illegally distilling vodka, much of which he drinks himself. He is alcoholic and unhappy. His sister is cynical and disturbed, had attempted suicide. His aunt is tired and sour. Their purpose to bring him there is to play on his sympathies and eventually make stay, to make him work and take care of them. He refuses and returns back to the city. (imdb)

The Battle of Warsaw sometimes referred to as the Miracle at the Vistula, was the decisive battle of the Polish-Soviet War (1918-21). The battle was fought from August 12-25, 1920 as Red Army forces commanded by M. Tukhachevsky approached the Polish capital of Warsaw and nearby Modlin Fortress. On August 16, Polish forces commanded by Józef Piłsudski counterattacked from the south. Unexpected Polish victory crippled the Bolshevik forces.

Set in the time of Napoleon wars, shows how the wars swept over the unfortunate Polish country at the beginning of the XIX-th century. Story revolves around the Polish legion under command of General Dabrowski, who then fought on Napoleon's side with the hopes of Poland's revival. (imdb)

The film is based on the 1967 novel The Master and Margarita by the Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov, although it focuses on the parts of the novel set in biblical Jerusalem, however events which have occurred in it, are transferred to the present time. So, Levi Matvei is the modern TV reporter who makes reports from Golgotha; Yeshua Ha-Nozri passes Way of the Cross on streets of Frankfurt am Main. (en.wikipedia.org)

A renowned actor, Rafal Nawrot, is invited to play the main part in a theatre production of "Romeo and Juliet" in a backwater town. Upon arriving he realizes his mistake and is packing to leave when Julia, a beautiful blonde teenager appears at his hotel room door, the starstruck emissary from a local fan club. (Polish Cinema Database)

Simple story about young student (Daniel Olbrychski) who try pass his exam. (KG)

Based on a novel by Pope John Paul II, this reverent tale focuses on a pair of married Polish couples whose children meet decades later in North America. (allrovi.com)

Imagine that you have the power to decide on people's lives. Who would you condemned, and whom he saved? In the center of Europe suddenly, without a trace, people begin to disappear. The investigation goes into the hands of Vulture (Michal Zebrowski) - a police officer who appears to be devoid of feelings. Tough, incorruptible, no obligations and favors to others. Until he meets Natasha (Anna Przybylska) - a woman other than those that he met so far. (imdb)

The Red Orchestra which was implanted right into the very heart of the nazi empire was considered the most important espionage net of World War II. (imdb)

Sequel to Io, Chiara e lo Scuro. Francesco forgets billiards because he lives with Chiara. She is a musician and she would like to become famous. Francesco is different: he found in her the reason of his life. But when she accepts a job far from home, Francesco comes back to billiards: he will meet Chiara again in Casablanca, Morocco, during a World Championship and in the magic of a mysterious bar called Ricks...

Set in the 16th century, this is a story about Ukraine's Cossack warriors and their campaign to defend their lands from the advancing Polish armies. Based on Nikolai Gogol's novel of the same name. (imdb)

Marek is a young athlete involved with too many women until the day he met Jowita, an enigmatic and beautiful woman. After meeting at a ball, they set up a date but things doesn't go his way and he still keeps obsessed about her. When they meet again, she presents herself with a different name, adding that Jowita is a friend of hers. Now that they are more involved, Marek still wonders who is Jowita. (imdb)

A well-regarded engineer in a big enterprise is hounded by trumped up attacks on his integrity when he delves too deeply into how bonuses are handled by the management. He gets into an argument with the guard, is arrested and subsequently fired. An old friend, a journalist, tries to sort things out but the victim's stubbornness and past problems with his wife lead to lossess by both. (Polish Cinema Database)

Ida Nudel, a dissident scientist, becomes frustrated with the antisemitism in her country, and decides to expatriate, but her visa is denied by the authorities.

Follows the famous physicist and chemist Marie Curie and her struggle for recognition in the male-dominated science community in early 20th century France. (imdb)

Vincent an insurance salesman of a corrupt corporation that bleeds every last dime from deceased debtors begins to rethink his stance on humanity after he meets someone who goes against the very system he has lived by for many years. (imdb)

The film tells the story of the Prussian family von Krauss living in the Puck area, as well as the love between the Kashubian boy Mateusz and the German aristocrat Marita and is set between... (imdb)

Set in 15th century Hungary, a young humanist nobleman is declared King, and ushers in an era of prosperity (www.Mubi.com).

Fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, the hero hides in a safe land of memories, where time stands still and all those dear to him are alive. (imdb)

A story about suicidal general, a minister who voluntarily locks himself inside a prison cell, and 4 pensioners, who steal the coffin with the remains of the late Croatian president (imdb.com).

"Butterflies" is a Soviet-Polish feature film (psychological detective story), filmed in 1991 by director Andrei Malyukov and based on a script by Elena Raiskaya.

An anti-authoritarian comedy based on the play The Suicide by Nikolai Erdman. This German-Finnish co-production has rarely been shown after it's release.

Maryla Rodowicz has not ceased to surprise for over half a century. During the biographical and musical journey through the artist's life, viewers will learn about the backstage of her career and will be moved by stories about great passions and love. In this documentary unique, unknown archival materials were shown, which only Telewizja Polska has. The film crew accompanied the artist for several months during her work - concerts, rehearsals and preparations.

Polish TV theatre adaptation of Goethe's play.