Jan Nowicki

Village-girl (Juli Kovács) arrives in the city to work in a factory. The works manager (János Bodnár) sets his eye on her, but at first the girl refuses his advance. (imdb)

Set in pre- World War II era. A young man is on a strange train to see his dying father in a sanatorium. But the place is going to ruin and recalls a lot of memories from the past. He is beset by soldiers from the past, colonial black mercenaries, girls from his early life, and his parents. It is an interior adventure, with unusual atmospheric flair and extraordinary sets. (imdb)

The Story of a professional gambler denouncing the criminal uderworld in contemporary Poland. (polishmoviesonline.com)

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)

Set during the occupation of Poland during World War II. Some Polish soldiers, slaughter a woman, her son and daughter-in-law. The husband and his father escape by being in the forest. The young man decides to join the resistance but at the first meeting Gestapo kills his go-between and chase him. During his escape he gets into an apartment of a pregnant woman and helps her with the childbirth. (imdb)

This is a weird and sometimes disturbing take-off on the beloved fairy tale. In this one, the main girl is far more whiny and petulant. She has a boyfriend and she is able to communicate telepathically with the wolf. There is a sub-plot about the girl's divorced parents which doesn't really make sense and the film features a very odd development towards the end. (IMDB Comments)

Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People wait for the Ark to arrive and rescue them while their habitat falls apart. (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)

Story about gangster who wants to become Doctor of Philosophy.

The frame of the story takes place in the 1990s but most of the story is their reflection to the 1970s. Synek is a young guy just out of prison that wants to make a lot of money fast. He knows some tricks but has ambition to learn more so he teams up with an experienced conman named Eryk.

Diary for My Children is set in Hungary during the turbulent years between 1943 and 1956. Jan Nowicki plays a dual role as the factory-worker friend of revolutionary journalist Anna Polony, and as the political-prisoner father of teen-aged heroine Zsusza Czinkoczi. It is Czinkoczi's involvement with both of the men played by Nowicki, which bridges the film's time-frame. (allmovie)

A young student (Jan Nowicki) losses interest in college and goes straight ahead, searching for a "different life". His goal is: to marry a wealthy woman, live in a villa, buy a car. As a grown-up his actions a bit "weird". When he meets a women... who changes his life. (imdb)

A tourist (Jan Nowicki) arrives to a mountain shelter "Morskie Oko". His behaviour is beyond any standards. In an arogant way he behaves towards Teresa (Maja Komorowska) and other people, who tried to have a pleasant time in the shelter. On the other day, the strange man vanishes - he left the shelter, without any notice. A rescue party is organised. They will try to find him. (filmweb.pl)

The best of Andrzej Wajda's and Roman Polanski's actors are reunited after many years, in this moving story about old friends starting a new life. There are three of them - Lolek (Tadeusz Plucinski), Matka (Jan Nowicki), Maly (Zygmunt Malanowicz). They were bound by mutual dreams, love of women, and years spent together. (sfs.org.sg)

Group of retired esteemed actors plans to stage Goethe's Faust. Their work towards fulfilling the dreams breaks the routine of everyday life in Retirement Home for Actors and reveals joy of reappearing on the stage. (imdb)

Remember those days when being a conman was equal to being a con artist? In Poland, Mietek is proud to be a representative of this profession and everyone seems to have forgotten how good he used to be. Well, time to shake things up a little bit then!

"Anatomia Milosci" is an attempt to describe the most beautiful of feelings, from the first fascination to the emotional attachment.

As Poland is placed under martial law in 1981, two confidence tricksters try to evade both the police and the army. They become embroiled in a web of schemes engineered by the secret service, fellow criminals and the democratic resistance. (imdb)

First adaptation to the screen of Adam Mickiewicz's "Dziady".

A film that tells about the times of Polish indecency in the 90's, where the mob has taken over the state after communist brake down. This movie shows the real polish life, crime and poverty getting twisted with a little action (imdb)

A sequel to a cult polish action film "Młode Wilki" (1995)

Returning from America, Andras tries to renew his relationship with Anna, an old flame, but she refuses. His decision to buy a dog for companionship leads to a meeting with a little girl and a new relationship begins. (imdb)

This movie is based on the life of Saint Edith Stein. She was a German nun of Jewish descent who had converted to Catholicism. Much of her early life was spent as an outspoken academic. There, according to the movie, she feuded with Joseph Heller, a fellow professor with right-wing beliefs. In 1933, after Jews were no longer allowed to teach, she became a nun in the Spartan-like Carmelite order. (Kittyman)

Direct follow-up to "Diary for my lovers". Juli and the people who she knew throughout her life have to face the events of the 1956 failed revolution in Hungary. (imdb)

Set in 1936 in Poland. Zygfryd, a handsome, orphaned young circus acrobat with an introspective temperament, is under the protection of circus owner, Waldo, and his wife. A rich intellectual recluse, patron of the arts (and of young artists) stumbles into Zygfryd's heart- stopping act and offers him his friendship. He also opens up his cultural horizons and teaches him to consciously reflect on life. (Polish Cinema Database)

Three young friends travel round Poland and do the living acting out religious scenes and selling holy photo images at church fairs. Problems appear right after the theft of their camera.

A biographical film, based on the life of former Prime Minister of Hungary, Imre Nagy, who was executed following the failed Hungarian Revolution of 1956.