Andrzej Łapicki

In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An...

Follows the lives of people shortly after World War 2 as they try to adjust to their new lives. Completed in 1946, it was banned from release by the...

Roksana is the editor of the heart advice section of a widely read magazine. Her problem is the handsome and loving husband Bogumił. The man was...

Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house.

One of several films by the Hoffman-Skórzewski duo, made as part of the "black series" of Polish documentaries showing social problems hidden...

Five short stories.

This heroic story follows the life of Karol Wojtyla, a Polish Roman catholic who ascends the throne of St. Peter as Pope John Paul II. As a young...

An architect Joanna tells her friend Halina on the telephone about her love troubles and suddenly hears a nice man's voice: "The best cure for love...

A young teacher educates the peasants and electrifies the village, which the local miller does not like.

A propaganda piece of reportage from the first Polish Nationwide Art Exhibition that was held in the National Museum in Warsaw in 1950....

The documentary shows the work of journalists and the importance of the press in building socialism. It is an exemplary implementation of the...

Two-part biopic about General Karol Świerczewski, living embodiment of the party line, and the group of party members from his hometown fighting...

Over a decade after the almost total wartime destruction, Warsaw still looks bruised and battered. Ruined houses are nevertheless inhabited which can...

Lives of three people intersect when they meet on a holiday in Mazury.

A mysterious man takes a writer back to the 19th century, where they meet Death.

The Polish Army fights to liberate Kołobrzeg from the Germans in the final months of World War 2.

Two militia officers are assigned to a museum in an undercover assignment to protect a valuable painting from an international group of art thieves.

Unvanquished City (Polish: Robinson warszawski, Polish: Miasto nieujarzmione) is a 1950 Polish drama film directed by Jerzy Zarzycki. It was entered...

In February 1956, after several months of construction, the largest rolling mill in Poland, the rolling mill of the Lenin Smelter, started to...

A middle-aged man sets out on a symbolic journey through past, present, and future to learn why an old friend committed suicide, and learns much...

A spy barely makes it out of a police ambush and goes on the run, taking a young woman with him along the way.

The wealthy Lord Artur Savile learns from a palm reader that he's destined to become a murderer. Obsessed with the prophecy, he decides to commit the...

On the eve of the Day of the Dead, among mysterious old rituals of the Vilnius region, ghosts of the past and present start to appear.

A documentary about the hard work of railwaymen transporting coke from Tarnowskie Góry to Szczecin Iron works. They’re doing their best...

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

Coming of age story of four girls living in the same poor district of Warsaw just before the outbreak of World War One.

During the Civil War, two soldiers fighting on opposite sides meet.

Wacław Urbin joins an exclusive club, learning the secrets of its members.

August 1939. After publishing an article criticizing the government, a journalist has to hide from the authorities.

A man returns to his homeland after war-forced emigration. He meets his ex-wife, who has changed much due to war traumas.

Five interpretations of Hamlet's monologue.

A grand and patriotic tale of Poland's struggle for freedom just before Napoleon's war with Russia. Written in poetic style by Adam Mickiewicz, this...

Wajda's homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, the "Polish James Dean" who starred in the director's ASHES AND DIAMONDS and died young. The movie follows the...

This film describes the Second World Congress of Peace Defenders, held in Warsaw on November 16-22, 1950. Sheffield, an industrial city in England,...

Anna, a nurse, meets her wartime lover Marcel in 1951. Learning that he has been sentenced to death for his role in the Home Army, she hides him in...

A treasure of Polish culture. A concert film that presents the performance of Mazowsze Song and Dance Ensemble recorded at its headquarters –...

A staging of William Shakespeare's tragedy, directed in 1969 by Andrzej Wajda. The roles of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are played by Tadeusz...

A staged documentary that started the Polish Black Series. The film takes the form of a warning against indifference to the rogue behavior of...

Three comedy-horror TV movies released together theatrically.

Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by...

A man jumps off a moving train and goes to a small town to face its inhabitants, who seem familiar, but odd.

The four sequences in the film cover four days in a life of young Warsaw lad in September 1938, 1939, 1943 and 1944. In the first sequence Jurek...

Three idealists - a communist secretary, a former RAF pilot and a female political activist - need to face the hardships and accusations of postwar...

Difficulty of human relations in a 3-cornered tale: a neurotic woman, idealistic young man and his mother. Tomek is a clean-cut, high-minded...

An Uruguayan diplomat brings his new wife with him on a business trip to Poland in the summer immediately preceding the outbreak of World War II.

The story concerns a succesful writer at the height of his career. He is in a state of crisis, unable to forget the girl he had a brief affair in the...

The young and beautiful wife of a prominent diplomat complains of boredom. To change her monotonous life, she has an affair, through which she gets...

The trial of Yeshua Ha-Notsri is led by prosecutor Pontius Pilate who believes in the innocence of the accused but is forced to sentence him to...

Set in the 19th century Warsaw. The indolence of aristocrats who, secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks,...

Post clerk's young daughter runs away from home with a tsarist officer.

In 1931, just before the New Year, in a house of architect Henryk Zaremba scream rips the night. The daughter of Zaremba is found killed in her...

This documentary describes the process of building and the first days of the combine and the city of Nowa Huta. Andrzej Munk realizes the postulates...

Ewa is a young ambitious engineer who starts to work for the team of an acclaimed architect Jerzy. Gradually she becomes aware of the bizarre...

In 1930s, a doctor has an affair with the wife of a wealthy industrialist in Poland.

This film criticizes various types of vandalism and behavior that is socially harmful: people spitting on the street, housewives wasting water,...

Short TV film upon the story of Ludwik Niemojski of the same title, which was a part of his "Incredible Stories". It tells about Bartolomeo,...

A young actor preparing for the part of Macbeth recalls his wartime memories connected with his mentor.

Set in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend. He decides to go home to his aunt...

A Warsaw writer, Wacław Kisielecki, returning from Rome, has his car break down somewhere late in the evening on a country road, so he and his...

A social drama that depicts a conflict between a young factory collective and a sympathetic but backward old specialist.

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

An unlikely couple - a Polish concentration camp inmate and a young German girl - stick together and try to survive the RAF bombing of Dresden in...

"A Meeting in Bajka" tells a seemingly banal story of a marital triangle which bristles with intrigues and psychological nuances as a man, his wife...

A forty-year old man, destroyed physically and mentally by life experiences recounts his life.

A former World War 2 resistance fighter returns to Poland to reconnect with his old comrades, but finds out they have moved on with their lives and...

The protagonist of this documentary is Gdańsk and its history. The story begins on the shore of the Baltic Sea, in a Pomeranian town on the...

In 1955, the team of the Polish Film Chronicle documented life in communist Vietnam for almost half a year. There was an opportunity to do so, as...

A poetic piece of reportage focusing on a convention of young shock workers in Warsaw. The climax of the event was the solemn oath of the youth of...