System 1981

An alternately restrained and outrageous adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether” updated to the modern world.

Nuremberg Epilogue 1971

Reproduction of the Nuremberg trials using transcripts, made for Polish TV.

Pan Dodek 1971

A cinematic ode to actor Adolf Dymsza, one of the biggest stars of pre-war Polish cinema. The film combines footage from Dymsza's new movies and contextualises in the frame story of Mr. Dodek, a retired actor who recounts his past exploits while trying to earn an allotment for a plot of land.

Wniebowstąpienie 1969

The strain of German persecution causes a mental breakdown in a young Jew, which prompts his wife to take desperate measures.

Father 1967

A young boy must go to school with his father.

Wystrzał 1966

Study of a man obsessively seeking revenge.

Interrupted Flight 1964

The reminiscences of a Russian pilot, shot down over Poland during the war, of his first great love there.

Weekendy 1963

An intimate psychological drama consisting of two separate stories, the heroes of which represent the attitudes of young people, which were rarely manifested in the early 1960s.

The Boxer and Death 1963

Concentration camp commander Kraft finds out that prisoner Kominek is a former professional boxer. Overnight, the prisoner is made Kraft's exercise partner and unwillingly rises to a privileged position at the camp. His anger over the death of his friend and co-prisoner leads to open revolt. The film brings a new view of human degradation during fascism by a tragic story of one man whose only chance for survival is to accept the rules of an unequal game.

Rodzina Milcarków 1962

The fate of a working-class family during the third Silesian Uprising.

The Impossible Goodbye 1962

All the ambiance of an old-fashioned circus comes across with great clarity in this otherwise routine psychological tale about a mean-spirited mime and his effects on his colleagues. The small, traveling circus has been sliding downhill for awhile, and unless some new life is infused into its acts, its future does not look very rosy. Into this precarious situation comes a new mime with the uncanny ability to sap the confidence of his fellow performers. If he continues for long in this vein, no one will be able to believe they have any talent left at all.

Komedianty 1962

Two travelling actors break from their troupe and with help of friends and family start their own act, experiencing serious success.

Farewells 1958

The story takes place before World War II and centers on Pawel, a member of a conservative, middle-class family, and his love for Lidka, a taxi dancer. Social conventions and the lovers' inability to defy those forces Pawel and Lidka benefit. Times change, war breaks out, leading to Pawel sent to Auschwitz while Lidka marry his cousin. Their love has survived and conventions are no longer the issue.

Król Maciuś I 1958

A 10-year old boy becomes a king after the death of his father and tries to bring reforms to the country, with varying results

Uczta Baltazara 1954

Engineer Andrzej Uriaszewicz returns to Poland in order to smuggle a valuable painting out of the country.

Sprawa do załatwienia 1953

A series of misfortunes plagues a journalist and his new friend.

Black Diamonds 1939

Antek policmajster 1935

A wanted Pole arrives in Tsarist Russia and assumes the identity of a Police Chief.