Jerzy Stuhr

A lovely, small film that exposes greed and pettiness while celebrating the most beautiful human themes: love, friendship and tolerance. (Milestone Films)

Second of a trilogy of films dealing with contemporary French society shows a man dealing with a Polish immigrant whose wife wants to divorce him because he can't perform in bed (imdb)

Ten television drama films, each one based on one of the Ten Commandments. (imdb)

Filip buys an 8mm movie camera when his first child is born. Because it's the first camera in town,... (imdb)

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)

Two scientists are chosen as guinea pigs to be put into hibernation for three years. During that time, however, World War III occurs. When they wake up, not only has 50 years passed, but they are also the only living males in a new, underground society composed exclusively of women.

The movie is about a man who is accused of murder with no real evidence except for his name, which happens to be Jurek Kiler. He gets himself into a much deeper situation throughout the movie... (IMDB Comments)

Jura Kiler (see the prequel to this movie, "Kiler") has become a VIP - sponsoring the Polish government, playing tennis with the President, and stuff. He must oversee a transfer of a substantial amount of gold. However, in his past activities, he has made enemies. Mighty ones. And thus Jura Kiler's next adventure begins as he has to face attempts at kidnapping, assassinations, and problems in his love life... (imdb)

A comedy. The story follows a young scientist in the contemporaryworld, who actually came from the world of dwarves, thanks to a magic potion, held by the Big Eater, ruler of the dwarves. The dwarf kingdom, Shuflandia, exists in a cellar of a library, and only the most obedient get the chance to grow to king size and inhabit the larger world. Once there, nobody wants to return to Shuflandia. Also, there are no women in Shuflandia. (imdb)

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)

A man, after having abandoned his family to live in a monastery, goes back into the world after 17 years. (imdb)

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.

Story of four people in Sopot in 1933, mysteriously brought together to an old villa to reenact a murder ritual that took place 36 years earlier. (imdb)

Film opens on December 18, 1999, just a few days before the dawn of the new century. A local reporter, Iron Idem, announces that the Martians have landed. Shortly after that his program loses its independence: he is given the script telling the crowds how to welcome the invaders. Then the chaos breaks out: the Martians and police mistreat the populace; things become violent. (imdb)

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)

Czarek - small fraud and false healer, found himself in real troubles. He has tu run away from mafia's revenge. Information about recruitment to new "reality show" is a real stroke of faith for him. That is how Czarek, together with nine other candidates lands in specially built house - TV studio on solitary, wild island on a lake. The game starts, first alliances, conflicts and romances form between participants. (polskiefilmy.com)

An ironic look at a climber who decides to do anything, including throwing mud at his best friend, to get a job he thinks will launch him into a better career.

Young boy about name Cygan runs away from prison, though it to end of term in prison became him seven days only just. It soon becomes acquainted with minor Agata, the daughter of an influential. Young they have fallen in love on first moment. Girl's father is afraid, that daughter's whims can weigh on his political career.

Head of the factory is looking for ten men to work. The truck takes them to the place. It appears, however, that the work is very heavy, and the Tariff does not allow employees to pay decent wages.

Hero - Adam Borowski is the prosecutor. We meet him at the hearing against a student, accused of smuggling computers. Adam sings in a boys' and men's choir, which is preparing to leave for Britain. Oles is most excited about - a man for whom singing is a form of therapy in the psychiatric. On the way to test Adam entered the small hotel, which meets with his mistress. Decides to break the yearlong relationship.

Growing up Tomek is fascinated by its beautiful, single mother. Anna tries to keep family and home with the award of distinguished music lessons. Together with them, lives Rose, alone and childless friend of Anne.

19-years old Alice finds out that she is adopted. She is looking for her biological mother. Alice meets her, but she is unfulfilled singer, alcoholic, unstable emotionally. Daughter tries to help her. The other mother wants to rebuilt relationship with Alice.

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)

It is a story of love, suspicion, and principles--that go beyond mere individuals. It is a story of reconciliation. (imdb)

It's a story about a man, Mikolaj, who is about to get married and the events leading up to his wedding. It is also a story about Poland, and struggles the country has had to go through in the years following the collapse of Communism. (imdb)

Mistyfikacja is an attempt at a new look at the mysterious death of Witkiewicz in 1939.

Filmed in 1976 and shelved for five years. A young man in his twenties leaves prison after a three-year sentence. He wants to start a new life in a place where he is not known and dreams only of a job, a wife and a family. He succeeds partially in fulfilling these dreams, but then runs into a conflict on a construction job between the corrupt boss and fellow workers secretly planning a strike. He becomes a pawn in one camp while remaining true to his ideals in the other. (imdb)

Set in 1933 and based on the case of Jan and Maria Malisz, Grzegorz Królikiewicz's debut feature is a highly evocative exploration of poverty, desperation and crime.

A story centered on the relationship between the newly elected Pope and his therapist. (imdb)

A sequel to Andrzej Munk's "Zezowate Szczescie" ("Bad Luck") from 1960. Here Piszczyk's character is played by Jerzy Stuhr.

The film begins with the protagonist's tragic accident that happens before his entering television building and that is coincidentally connected to the visit of the President of Poland in the building. After this, the action takes place in the hospital room where our protagonist is being brought back to life. (imdb)

Follow up of the "Top Dog" (Wodzirej). Jerzy Stuhr reappears as Ludwik Danielak, smooth-talking hustler with a spreading waistline. He got sacked from his tv job in 1981 and now he is ready for comeback. His idea is the program called "Hero of the Year". His first star is to be Zbigniew Tataj (Mieczyslaw Franaszek), a quiet storekeeper, who saved an apartment building by alerting people about the gas leak. Danielak takes Tataj on a nationwide tour. (Polish Cinema Database)

The Prohibition years. Chicago bootleggers suffer losses due to their betrayal by one Mick Nich - Mikita Nichiporuk. The mob decides to execute the traitor, who escaped to Odessa, USSR, and organized his own bootleg business there. The hitman, Pollack, arrives in Odessa, and realizes how hard it is to make the hit here, as compared to a civilized country like USA. (imdb)

Polish Legends about courage, strength, ambition, empathy, cleverness, pride. About Us.

The story of Mary of Nazareth, the mother of Jesus Christ. (imdb)

Directorial debut from Jerzy Stuhr. A academic teacher seeks for a lover for his swedish friend.

A man struggling under the crushing weight of debt must work as a tax collector to pay off his creditors. (imdb)

Documentary tracing the career of Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski.

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 movie director struggles with his relationship with his family, and with his latest movie, about the impact on the Italian Communist Party of the USSR invasion of Hungary in 1956. (imdb)