Dominika Ostalowska

The film is based on the last years in the life of Rafal Wojaczek, a self-destructive Polish poet who attained legendary status when he committed suicide at the age of twenty-six. (BFI.org.uk)

WARSAW is a film with many storylines, all of which play out during a single day in winter. The main characters are linked through the city in which they find themselves. They also share the fact that they all come from the provinces. Each of them has different plans and objectives upon arriving in the capital.

Four stories of love: yearned-for, betrayed, found. In the confessional, a priest is confronted for the first time by his eleven-year-old daughter (and seeks advice from his mother); a married colonel in the Polish Army is reunited with an old lover; a convict is jilted by his wife but has the last word; a professor of literature must decide how to react to a lackluster student who declares she is in love with him.

Another Holocaust film - or is it? A young painter and his wife are dying to have a baby. One of them is infertile. In the meantime the war breaks out and Regina, a Jewish widow, enters their house...

How to conceive when you cannot conceive? Ask your friends.

Turn-of-the-century Hungary. Two young brothers, neglected by their cold and uncaring mother, descend deeper and deeper into psychosis, with tragic consequences. (imdb)

St. Petersburg, late nineteenth century. An aging man watches over his young wife's body. He is trying to find out the reasons for her suicide and resembles the story of his marriage. (Wikipedia.org)