Wojciech Pszoniak

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)

Account of the last days of life of the legendary Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his heroic dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war... (imdb)

Action opens in November of 1793, with Danton returning to Paris from his country retreat upon learning that the Committee for Public Safety, under Robespierre's incitement, has begun a series of massive executions, The Terror. Confident in the peoples' support, Danton clashes with his former ally, but calculating Robespierre soon rounds up Danton and his followers, tries them before a revolutionary tribunal and dipatches them to the guillotine. (imdb)

Strike is based on the true story of a remarkable and little known figure who was integral in beginning the Solidarity movement and setting Poland on the course to democracy. It is a touching tribute to a true overlooked hero, a woman who undergoes an important awakening -- the realization of an ordinary person who simply looks around her and distinguishes right from wrong. (Laemmle/Zeller Films)

In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers the woman, Rosa, and hides her in his cellar... (imdb)

Written by Kieslowski's co-scripter for the colours trilogy, Krzysztof Piesiewicz and part of his latest trilogy, "Faith, Hope, and Love," Hope is director Mucha's fascinating and thoughtful debut feature following his popular documentary Absolut Warhola. When a well-respected art historian steals an invaluable painting from a church, righteous and fanatic Francis records the crime on video to blackmail him. However, the young man is not interested in money but demands that painting is returned. (iksv.org/)

The story of two very different men competing in the World Chess Championship Games. One is a 52-year-old Soviet Jew who has been a chess master for the past 12 years, and the other is a 35-year-old genius who defected to the West several years earlier. (Wikipedia)

During the Prussian army's invasion to Poland in 1793, a young Polish nobleman Jakub is saved from the imprisonment by a stranger who wants in return to obtain a list of Jakub's fellow conspirators. Following his mysterious saviour across the country, Jakub sees the overall chaos and moral corruption including his father's death and his girlfriend's betrayal. Being apparently demented by what he has seen, he commits a number of seemingly motiveless and gory killings. (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)

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

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.

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)

The true story of General Smyslovsky and the anti-Communist 1st Russian National Army receiving shelter in Liechtenstein in 1945 and successfully resisting Soviet pressure to be returned for execution in the USSR. (imdb)

Based on a true story. In December 1931 a teenage daughter of an engineer has been brutally murdered. The accused is Rita Gorgonowa, her nanny, but also the father's concubine. It will be the most notorious trial in Poland in the 1930s.

The film deals with the clandestine Olympiade held in a German POW camp during WW II, housing many Poles, but also French and Brits. A spit and a Polish-German lieutenant is added to the staff of a prison camp. He sees a Pole, the acknowledged leader of the Polish prisoners, against whom he had competed during the Berlin Olympics in 1936. He asks the Pole to train with him but is refused; the Pole points out that he is a prisoner and nothing more... (Polish Cinema Database)

Franky, an unemployed actor, is carried away by his manager Arsène, in a stolen car for what seems to be an appointment with Franky's idolized director above the Arctic Circle. (imdb)

A man goes to trial for failing to prevent his seriously ill brother from committing suicide. (FILMAFFINITY)

Set at the turn of the century it presents a story of a famous Polish athlete, Zbyszko Cyganiewicz. It begins in a small town where a traveling circus attracts a shy boy into a phony wrestling game to please the crowds. The youth, however, takes his strength seriously, eventually defeating a name wrestler in a fair match. Angered circus manager fires him; he leaves happily due to two wrestler brothers who were harassing him. (Polish Cinema Database)

A young doctor at a rural mental hospital struggles to uphold humane standards and deal with the staff, including aloof doctors, an eccentric poet, and a cynic with whom he falls in love. Their troubled sanctuary then faces even harder decisions—and a real dystopia—with the arrival of the Nazis. (mubi.com)