Franciszek Pieczka

Marcus Vinicius meets Lygia in Rome and falls in love. But she is Christian and doesn't want anything to do with him. Marcus decides to kidnap her but Ursus, her bodyguard, catches Marcus. After that, Lygia falls in love, but Marcus must go to meet Nero. After the meeting somebody told Marcus that Nero burnt Rome. Marcus decides to go back to Rome and find Lygia.

1970. After discussions and dishonest negotiations, a decision is taken as to where a large new chemical factory is to be built and Bednarz... (imdb)

Set in the 17th century. A convent in a small town is being visited by high-ranking Catholic official trying to exorcise the nun supposedly posessed by demons. A local priest have been burnt for creating this condition by sexual temptation of the nuns, especially the Mother superior who bring on the collective hysteria of the group.... (imdb)

Two old acquaintances meet by accident. Both are about to fight against tough opponents, his is a boxing fight, hers is a struggle to have her original project implemented at a large industrial facility. They both have to solve the same dilemma: whether to take on the fight, which looks to be unequal, or lose it (and - symbolically - also life) by default. (culture.pl)

When a director films, or 'takes' a shot, each is identified by having a 'slate' or 'clapperboard' with the information regarding the shot written in - what shot number it is and which take it is. What Kieslowski has done her is a little experiment of recovering the clappers and splicing them into a short film. They are all taken from his film The Scar (Blizna). Its sort or magic/anti-magic. (imdb)

Old Jakubek is a celebrated military officer who wants to die so he can be reunited with his great love, but before he can rest he must fulfill the local tradition of passing his saber to his grandson. Unfortunately, Jakubek has no grandson, as his son is unmarried and there are few prospects for marriage. When a potential bride moves into the neighborhood, the old man and his comrades engage in a little scheming and matchmaking. (www.amazon.com)

The old man Johnnie lives a peaceful but eccentric rural life with his young wife Veronica. Shortly after conceiving the child they have longed for, Johnnie discovers that he possesses previously unsuspected healing powers, and can control the elements, water in particular. He sets out to bring his magic to the wortd at large, leaving Veronica to fend for herself. (imdb)

Story about the prototype of film camera constructed by blacksmith in the half of XIX century. 100 years later it's destroyed in the fire. Young boy tries to reconstruct it against his father's will.

Kaziuk, a stubborn peasant and his pregnant wife live in a backwoods village. The village is once visited by a couple of wanderers, and strange things start to happen afterwards. A new schoolteacher is sent to the area. She stirs erotic fantasies in Kaziuk. In a stir of frustration Kaziuk cuts down a family tree - a sacrilegious act in the eyes of his family. Going a step further and using a scythe for cutting the grass instead of a sickle brings the whole village against him. (Internet Movie Database)

Pograbek is a village philosopher with an unconventional way of looking at the world. He makes his living by killing old horses, undertaking this thankless work because together with his wife he is saving money to purchase a child. This is Pograbek's personal tragedy that he is infertile.

A superhero comedy modeled on detective films and comic strip parodies, The Hydro-Riddle begins during a Warsaw heat-wave, in which the city's water supply has inexplicably vanished. Scientists and a detective desperately try to solve the mystery.

In a small mountain village in holding a Placek, is transmitted ceremony of grandmother Plackowej hundredth birthday. Shortly after the grandmother died. After the funeral, parish clerks visits Placek with the presenst for Plackowej. The possibility of receiving a watch and two thousand zlotych, makes the family lies the grandmother went to church. A few days later, it appears that the journalists will visit Plackow to do an interview with one hundred years old.

Set in 1946, the film tells a story of a Polish villager returning home after years in a concentration camp. Mateusz is an old-timer, a saddler, who finds nothing but hostility when he makes it home after years away. He is not a Jew, though the villagers brand him one and give him a hard time. They feel guilty about the death of his son at the end of the war, and don't want the father around. (imdb)

Set in the Polish Galicia in 1914, on the eve of World War I. Three nationalities are living in the area: Polish, Ukrainian and Jewish. The country inn (Austeria in Galician) is run by an old and wise Jew, Tag. The neighboring village is abandoned by the Jews, who left only few steps ahead of advancing Cossacks. Soon the inn is full of desperate Jews, there is also an Austrian baroness on the run and an Hungarian hussar cut off from his unit. (imdb)

In the fairytale village of old peasant lives Marczyk. As well Marczyk hiding proteus Morka, a man with two faces. Marczyk provide him food. Old friendships are also with the violinist Lund. This country Grajek, gazing at the pieces of painted plates, and composes beautiful music. One day Marczyk meets Glider Janka, desperate because of his short stature. Intention to dissuade her from suicide, and she lives in an old cottage. Once, when death comes Marczyk...

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)

Film set during the Silesian Uprising in the 1920's. The German owners of a mine decide that it is unprofitable and want to close it by flooding it. The miners go on strike. (imdb)

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 opens with Lucja Krol's husband under the tram. She gives birth to her fourth son on the floor of their new apartment. Neighbor Wiktor, a communist intellectual, befriends the poverty-stricken family but is soon arrested and sent to jail. During the war Lucja narrowly escapes a Nazi roundup at the black market. Her sons hold ardent Communist meetings in their apartment, with her blessing. Lucja works hard, but without complaint... (imdb)

A man who is socially inept and out of touch with the world lives with his sister in a small farmhouse. The overly sensitive man lives off his hard-working sibling, taking odd jobs as he gets them to secure his meager earnings. When he brings home a woodcutter from the forest, the sister and the newcomer fall in love.

In medieval Germany, poor and witty Till Eulenspiegel fools and cheats citizens, churchmen, and landlords. Although in most cases he uses his wit for personal well-being, he often helps the poor and weak. Eventually, he gains an influential but also dangerous position as royal fool at the court of the emperor. (imdb)

In a small town, everyone has tried to forget what happened shortly after WWII. That is, until a stranger finds a book that Jadup (Kurt Böwe) gave to the young refugee Boel (Katrin Knappe), who resettled in the town over 30 years ago. Painful memories about Boel and the post-war period begin to surface and shake up the whole town. Boel vanished back then and nobody knew why. Word spread about a rape and some tried to blame a Russian soldier. (imdb)

The action takes place in the first half of the nineteenth century in the Polish territories annexed by Russia. The main character, Marcin Borowicz began his education in high school in the cleric. There, he meets with Russification, which is initially unaware. (wiki)

Following some great catastrophic onslaught - its exact nature unknown - a number of individuals emerge from hiding and discover a dilapidated old trolley car awash on a river bank. (imdb)

Swedish national Raoul Wallenberg, newcomer to politics and international machinations, travels to German-occupied Budapest during WWII in order to effectively intervene in the fate of trapped Hungarian Jews, by providing them with safe passage to Sweden. Based on a true story. (imdb)

Story follows the adventures of a tank crew and their T-34 tank in the 1st Polish Army during World War II. (imdb)

In Nazi occupied Poland, a young priest is approached by a Polish resistance fighter who has been given orders to execute a local man accused of treason. The resistance fighter is seeking absolution and forgiveness, in advance, for killing the local man. The young priest is hesitant to grant such a request... (summary by BadCosmonaut)

A recently resurrected corpse recounts his life story, focusing on his strange relationship with a murderous alter-ego.

A young Russian aristocrat, Baron Fyodor Jeremin, volunteers to serve with a Dragon squadron to impress the girl who rejected his love. Just at this time, the 1863 insurrection explodes in Poland. He enlists to serve in the army being sent to suppress the revolt. He believes that now it's enough to defeat the Poles, become an officer and hero, get a bunch of medals, and then return and lay all of this at the feet of her beloved... (Polish Cinema Database)

This film is about the life of a family, which lived in Prague from 1968 to 1980. The father of the family comes from Ukraine and so every year someone from Ukraine to visit this family and to buy something better than is in Ukraine. As times go by, the friends of the family live in Austria. And now for change the family visit "a better life" in west Europe and they found out how it is to be something second-rate. (Petr Herudek)

The story of Catholic saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz. (imdb)

A duo of policemen under cover investigates a planned painting theft in a provincial palace museum. They have to face a murder, and a suspect is among museum workers. In addition, there are more copies of the painting revealed. (imdb)

In the 19th century Austro-Hungarian Empire, David Hersko, a Jewish shepherd, witnesses the attack of a young girl. His home is burned down and he finds shelter with the family of a Jewish logger. The loggers find the body of a young woman which they bury, going against local laws. They are charged with her murder and it is believed that they killed her as a ritual murder.