Leon Niemczyk

A stranger shows up in an American town, promising a reward for the person who once helped him out of trouble.

A retro '70s vision of the future, IN THE DUST OF THE STARS was made by the DEFA film studio. A radio signal attracts a team of astronauts to a...

Dwaj multi-instrumentaliści, Broda i Redaktorek, po kilku latach muzykowania w Finlandii wracają promem do kraju objętego stanem...

On their way to an afternoon on the lake, husband and wife Andrzej and Krystyna nearly run over a young hitchhiker. Inviting the young man onto the...

Two fairies, Terencja and Felicja are in posession of the Lucky Rain Boots, which they intend to give to the most deserving person in the city of...

A boy paralyzed as a child grows into an athletic man. The colossal strength that allowed him to become a fit man will prove to be his undoing....

The finder of a suitcase stolen in 1939 from the French embassy in Warsaw tries to reach its owner.

A Polish lieutenant from the Royal Air Force comes home with his British wife and faces political persecution.

The last stage of the Cycling Race Dookoła Polski: Kielce - Warsaw. The fate of the race is at stake: the Polish team still has a chance to win,...

Four stories showing the various facets of love.

Thirty years after the war, Anna, a journalist from Germany, leaves for her native village in Lower Silesia, which she had to leave with her family...

A day before the beginning of the Second World War, a young resident of Bydgoszcz falls in love with a German teenager.

Film about the famous Battle of Vienna and the events surrounding it.

In November of 1939, the British consulate in Norway receives documents saying that the Nazis are conducting secret rocket research in...

A grotesque Shakespearean tale of Ubu who comes to power in a bloody way. When his absurd reforms fail and the treasury gets empty, Ubu and his...

Michał Kopera has an accident at work. His relatives visiting him at the hospital are more interested in his account than in his health.

A taxi driver decides to take part in a robbery to earn money for the treatment of his sick wife.

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

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...

Former Master Mariner Klimecki works an unassuming job in a small port near the Baltic Sea, hiding his identity from the world, which makes him...

The footloose ennui of Poland’s postwar generation is captured to perfection in this jazzy chronicle of a draft-dodger’s final day of...

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

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...

Released from prison after five years, con-artist Szu is sent packing by his young wife; he heads for the town of Lutyn where he runs a con and...

Tom arrives in a strange city, where he meets casino owners who are hiding a secret.

A 12-year-old boy and his father embark on a fishing trip where the boy hopes to get to know his father better. When a young woman leaves her...

Polish schoolboy Janek, and Russian girl Tanya are traveling by a plane which ended up in the hands of a gang of drug dealers headed by ex Nazi...

The world has been ravaged by nuclear war. The planet is frozen and radiation kills anyone or anything that ventures outside of 'The Dome'. Soft is a...

Two friends recall the PRL. After serving time in jail, they took up an illegal currency exchange. Cheated by partner - they decide to take revenge....

Story of 11-year old Tadeusz, a prisoner in a children's concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.

A working-class son who became orphaned in the war is brought up by his foster father to become an upright citizen. Now, after graduating from a...

Dr. Gisa Tonius, a physicist in her thirties who has a nearly adult stepdaughter, cherishes the desire to have her own child. Suddenly, a big...

By a twist of fate, a Warsaw crook becomes a translator at a reunion of high school graduates in a small town. There he learns about a treasure...

A grotesque fairy tale of fantasies in a 21-year old's mind. First he confesses to a priest about killing his aunt. Then he is sending parcels from...

An industrialist's wife announces that she is leaving him, but returns shortly after and tells him that she will only stay with him for appearances....

The horse Karino is born during winter and when his mother dies, a young woman starts to care for the helpless foal. Their adventures together are...

Piotr is a freelancing journalist in early 1980's Poland. One day, he comes across a curious case of a woman's death during work and the workplace's...

The young speedway rider wants to represent the country in the world championship. However, the coaches choose another player.

After being transferred to a new position, the young doctor becomes the target of harassment by her colleagues.

As every year, the celebration of All Saints Day brings Polish families together at the graves of their loved ones. On this special day Maria,...

Three vignettes showing a marriage crisis and a subsequent divorce.

Retired Sypniewski stands before a bizarre task - he must drown kittens.

A 40-minute German film from 1980.

A young PhD student is trying to get 34 dogs for his research.

Jan, the café pianist, comes from the countryside. The talented boy was taken care of by an old organist. Jan then studied at the...

Dr Raduski returns from abroad to his hometown. He starts a profitable business there and revives the town's cultural life. However, the tsarist...

Józef comes to his hometown on the anniversary of the murder of his father - a peasant activist, and explores the circumstances of his death.

Chevalier de Charentes goes to Poland on a double mission.

The story is of an engineer in conflict with his superior. He won't go along with the ususal corruption and conformity. He is left to himself amid...

The action of the film takes place in the 17th century. Piotr Wolski returns to the country and is appointed juridic governor. A man tries to rule...

The film is set in 1956 in India. John Tokarski has an affair with the beautiful Margit . He is close to abandonment of wive and children, who were...

Nikodem Dyzma is a poor dancer who comes to Warsaw to find a job. The problem is that nobody wants to hire him. One day he finds an invitation to the...

A story of two young people - Marcin and Renata, who one day meet on the train when Marcin tries to steal money from Renata.

In the villa of the party dignitary, the fates of Stanisław, his son's friends, Zbyszek, a worker leaving the army, and the head of the thieves'...

From the popular series of Polish books by Kornel Makuszynski comes this charming comedy following the misadventures of Ewa, who tries to right the...

The story of a sold football match and a conflict between a father - a football referee and his son.

Professor Borusiewicz receives a high state decoration, while family and friends await him at home.

A group of Polish boys is opposed to a German teacher who aims to Germanise the young men.

Scope is a prisoner on a behemoth space station and is chosen, like all his fellow prisoners, to 'volunteer' for the exploration of far-away planets....

A communist journalist from Prague is sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp.

The film tells the trials and tribulations of marriage Kosińskich, which breaks down as a result of his wife travel to work abroad in Amsterdam....

After the death of the director of the Polish company "Gont", the competition for his position begins. It is attended by the chief accountant Joachim...

A young man, attacked by thugs, seeks shelter in a random apartment block.

Franciszek Mazur is a famous actor. One day, while returning from a holiday in the countryside, a serious accident occurs. Mazur's wife is seriously...

Adventures of a two little girls kidnapped from their families.

After the war, Stefan cannot go back to a normal life.

Three old friends living in distant cities decide to help each other get rid of people who stand in their way to achieve happiness.

A radio journalist is having a heart attack. This event becomes a pretext to summarize life.

It's Christmas, and children at an orphanage in Maliszewo receive a computer that was given to them by another orphan who used to live there many...

This film is a sequel to Munk's Zezowate Szczescie and it's much the same, only more so. The film begins in a cinema, where the last scenes of...

The image of Greater Poland in the breakthrough years 1913-1918. It tells about the fate of Polish junior high school students and their attitude...

Screen One movie that is a continuation of Andrew Davies' brilliant series A Very Peculiar Practice. Dr. Daker feels finally settled in his life in...

Main character, Rysiek, tries to live through dangerous times of war-torn and later stalinist Poland.

The authorities in favor of the Nazis are trying to restore order in a small town in Silesia. Their actions are fiercely resisted by a small group of...

Based on a true story of a Polish musician who survived the concentration camp only because he could play on the accordion the title melody.

A London agent is sent to Poland to obtain information about Wehrmacht officers reluctant to Hitler. He is hiding in the forester's lodge with a...

A little devil appears in a small town, seemingly terrorising its inhabitants, but actually turns out to be a friendly creature when it helps a...

The 1980s. Jan Bard, Polish intellectual and writer, leaves for West Berlin. He is working on another novel here. In Germany, he meets his old love...

Warsaw elites meet at a ball in Baron Neman's palace, where they discuss the political situation in Poland.

Thanks to the powers of magic, Adaś Niezgódka is transported to the fairy tale land of Mr. Blot – the protagonist of Jan...

Christmas is an occasion for four friends to summarize the previous year of their lives.

The second part of adventures of Mr. Blot and the students of his magic school.

In 1943, a drunk cook is mistaken for a secret agent and sent on a special mission from London to Nazi-occupied Poland.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski returns to Poland. A journalist who is supposed to describe his arrival is called to the editorial office.

A couple of Warsaw actors come to a small town to play in a play staged there. When one of them disappears, the theater director begins a private...

One of the passengers on a ship carrying Poles on a cruise in December 1981 is a dissident high school teacher sent abroad by Solidarity. He is...

A Russian investigator is demoted after a young PPS militia escapes from Poland and vows revenge.

Podczas "zimy stulecia" na dworcu w Koluszkach zniecierpliwieni pasażerowie oczekują na przybycie pociągu....

Two workers, bored with their current situation, decide to rob a famous movie director.

At the beginning of the 19th century, white settlers regularly make and break treaties with the Native American inhabitants to gain possession of...

A satire on the life of a family stuck in a small flat space, performing mundane activities.

Two noblemen from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania clash because one refuses to free his servant - a girl. The second joins a peasant revolt and takes...

Ryszard Ochódzki receives a special assignment for UB - infiltrating the "Solidarity" party branch in Suwałki. His arriving there...

Charles sits for hours in a wardrobe in a rented room on the attic, looking back on his whole life. He was brought up by a single mother who loved...

Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all his relatives have been sent to the concentration camp....

A young boy finds out that the video game his father had just bought him takes place not only on the computer screen, but also in real life, as two...

Professor Damrot and the children come to a land that is not on the maps. At the same time, the little witch is given a task to protect this place...

An aspiring actress falls for her leading man and passion ignites. When a series of murders haunts the estate where the actors are filming, her...

A young man, to ensure that he will pass the high school maturity test convinces his girlfriend to help him steal the answer sheets.

A TV movie based on the television series "Złotopolscy", concerning a Christmas Eve for the familes of Złotopolscy.

Sonia is pregnant with her lover Mirek. Alfred, an elderly Swiss businessman, married to Sonia, does not like the situation. He orders two tough guys...

In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no...

A movie director and a TV CEO set out to make a movie about the decline of the human race and civilization.

The story of famous Hungarian doctor Ignaz Semmelweis.

A young teacher and a conservative mayor fight over influence in a village in Western Poland, all while falling in love with each other.

A small-time racketeer Stefek evades mob bosses by passing himself off as a mentally unstable cleptomaniac and laying low in an asylum. The racketeer...

In the rugged mountain gorges and ravines of southeastern Poland, a new boss and his wife become a catalyst for violence.

Polish-born Russian subject Cezary Baryka comes of age during a tumultous period of ten years from 1914 to 1924, during which he witnesses...

The story of Ulzana, an Apache chief who has reached a rapprochement with the local Mexican population and generously extends it to whites who travel...

A smart teenager Adam Cisowski is asked by his teacher to help him solve the mysterious case of robbed house doors in his mansion.

Walkover, the autobiographical second feature by Polish enfant terrible Jerzy Skolimowski echoes the French nouvelle vague in its extraordinarily...

A captain and lieutenant of the Russian army are buried in the basement of the Przemysl Fortress during the First World War.

Lavish romantic melodrama, obsessively concerned with sex. Maryska's husband is off to war. He soon is reported missing, and she does not protest...

A biography of Nicholas Copernicus covering 50 years of the astronomer's life - from his studies in Europe to his theological work all the way to the...

Tells two tales set during WWII: A seemingly feckless and selfish man finally takes up arms in the national struggle against the Nazis. Set in a POW...

The life and reign of Polish king Casimir III The Great.

A quarry worker falls in love with a practicing doctor.

Two artists conduct philosophical disputes about practicing art.

A young designer is tormented by remorse after a viaduct of his design collapses.

A movie director finds himself in a mid-life crisis

A chance meeting at a dinner table reveals the culprit of an old thought-to-be-solved murder.

In the winter of 1943 two young Jews, Alek and Fryda, escape, via sewer tunnels, from the atrocities underway in Warsaw ghetto. Alek, entrusted with...

A brave little girl along side her sidekick chicken, a robot and a soldier go on a adventure in a stop-motion fantasy land to overthrow the evil...

War film directed by Henryk Bielski.

The film depicts three days in the life of a state farm director, during which he celebrates his 40th birthday. He was adopted by four godfathers who...

Fall 1944. A wounded Polish officer, Ryszard, is brought to the Allied field hospital. He notices another soldier on the table - also a Pole - a...

After a ten-year absence, Severino returns to his tribe, the Manzeneros, who live on the edge of the Argentinian Andes. The reason for his visit is...

A carmelite monk travels through 17th century Poland and experiences various mishaps along the way.

A journalist from "Gazeta Wyborcza" recalls his investigative reports and the consequences he suffered while trying to reveal the truth.

During a trip, middle aged couple realises how disappointing their marriage is.

The esteemed transplantologist is the victim of a conspiracy of his colleagues, as a result of which his brain is transplanted into a pig.

After a con-man is released from prison, he gradually gets back to his old tricks, but his cons grow ever more elaborate and travel steadily up the...

Dragon is a bloody dictator, who kills every opponent. People live hopelessly, until Lancelot comes to save the beautiful Elsa. Lancelot can only...

Zypcio is an idealistic heir to a large brewery in Poland. In the face of Chinese invasion threatening Eastern Europe, he is corrupted by the...

Two strangers, Jerzy and Marta, accidentally end up holding tickets for the same sleeping chamber on an overnight train to the Baltic Sea coast. Also...

An actor returns to Poland after 12 very unsuccessful years in the United States only to find himself entangled in a noirish situation reminiscent of...

Captain Roman Markowski is a sailor. One day, after returning from the sea, his ex-wife calls him. It turns out that their son has disappeared. It...

Beginning of WWII. Zinaida, a Russian woman, is taken prisoner by the Germans and sent to Auschwitz concentration camp together with several other...

The year is 1998 and the world is in an ecological cataclysm: there is shortage of water, environment is polluted and being outside brings high...

During the Swedish invasion of Poland, the brave warrior Andrzej Kmicic, considered a traitor to the nation, fights for a country, redemption and...

A young scientist is kidnapped and taken to a mysterious house in which his former professor is conducting experiments to shrink people.

The movie is about the fate of Polish soldier named Kaleń who fought with UPA in 1946.The film recounts the exploits of the Polish soldier...

A television staging of the 1941 Brecht play, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.

The owner of an ice cream parlor in a coastal town is murdered. The investigation is conducted by platoon leader Rogowski, but soon he is joined by...

A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. He falls in...

Three Polish TV movies packed together and released theatrically

Based on a short story by Andrzej Mencwel. Somewhere in Poland, spring 1980. Julian S. is an intelligent young man with a lot of interests. After...

Based on actual events in 1982, the film recreates a hostage-taking in Switzerland. Four men storm the Polish embassy: a criminal, a crazed killer, a...

The story of the pied piper, the German legend of the rat catcher of Hameln, retold as a punk invasion of a Polish small town.

Three comedy-horror TV movies released together theatrically.

Beauty Zosia is a “hunter” by nature: she very professionally captivates rich men, draws money from them, and then throws deceived fans...

An alchemist, Sendivius, comes to court, and transmutes base metal into gold.

Tsarevich Alexei was one of the smartest people in the state. His father Peter hoped that he would take his place, but Alexei tried with all his...

Young man frustrated with his life and pointless job becomes one of the suspects in serial killer investigation, but he suspects someone else...

The third of six episode compilations of the TV series released theatrically, featuring episodes 5 and 7.

A spy thriller set in 1943 when the Polish Resistance was killing SS- officers and collaborators in Lublin and Zamosc. Polish hitman romances with...

A young Janka leads a band of kids in 1920's Poland, experiencing many adventures and witnessing technological innnovations along the way. The second...

The first of six episode compilations of the TV show released theatrically, featuring episodes 1 and 3.

Two youngsters vacationing at the Black Sea sneak onto a mysterious ship and spy the peculiar activities of a treasure-seeking crew. They are...

Based upon a true story, the movie centers on the German communist Robert, a "Kapo" in a concentration camp. When some Polish children are brought to...

Set in 1989, story of a man beat up by two ex-policemen and left to die in a dump. Marek survives after the brain surgery that leaves him amnesiac....

In 1848 Poland, Kacper Wosinski is cursed by his wife Maryna on her deathbed. Her evil spirit then haunts him in the form of a she-wolf.

Story about the young Balthazar thrown from one remarkable event to the other. On his way through a plague hit the landscape, he meets the...

A bunch of unemployed and unqualified workers are hired to unload a few railway wagons. Because of the low wages, the manager needs to encourage the...

Two old friends meet at a mountain shelter and recall their university years. Midroń and Świdrycki are mature, intelligent men,...

In a small village in West Prussia in the 1870s, Germans, Poles, Gypsies and Jews live together as neighbors. One night Johann, a German mill-owner,...

East German film about the history of Red Orchestra, a real life German pro-Soviet spy ring created after the rise of Hitler that turned into a...

The Countess Cosel is based on the true story of the beautiful Anna Constantia of Brockdorff, a German noblewoman who became a mistress of Augustus...

Following a fire at an orphanage, the kids are moved into a seniors' home. A young girl tries to befriend and cheer up an elderly man who is full of...

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...

On Christmas Eve, a little girl falls asleep after a party at her home and dreams herself (or does she?) into a fantastic world where toys become...

A flamboyant comedy about love, work and money—revealing that the "planned" economy produced some unconventional entrepreneurial methods.

Film by Veiczi.

The philosopher Democritus has a toothache, so a dentist from ancient Abdera sets off for his house. En route, he gets into a fight with a donkey...

After discussions with Schwartz, a producer from the West, screenwriter Stefan comes back to Poland. Everybody reminds him of his previous success:...

Vienna, 1813-1819: Beethoven (played by Donatas Banionis) is at the peak of his fame. Orchestras all over the world play his music, but he lives...

A little boy, craving for his father's attention, imagines a made-up "Mr. President" who looks just like his father but is caring and attentive.

The kid Kolyo dreams of traveling. One day he meets Bim-Bam who introduces himself as a writer and great traveler. The two build a cabin in a...

Two young people share their lives and homes for two years.

An ordinary man has to do constant favors for other people in order to reserve a place for himself in a queue.

The communist and resistance fighter Lorenz Reger, who after the war put all his efforts in the creation of a socialist German state, learns that he...

Suse works as a truck driver on a major construction site. The young woman has a hard life behind her. She was foundling, was raised by farmers....

Lydia Kowalenko is fired from the pharmaceutical company where she has worked for many years because she refused to help cover up the use of a...

A reconstruction of the capture of Polish serial killer Zdzisław Marchwicki – the Vampire from Zagłębie.

In 1903, Jan Anskath and his half-brother Martin are living in Rajgorod at the border between Russia and Prussia – Jan on the Russian, Martin...

A young boy sends anonymous threats to various troublemakers around town, hoping that they will report themeselves to the police and grant his older...

Etnographers travelling through the Amazon jungle find an enclosed colony ran by former Nazi Germany officials.

A group of workers builds a bridge near a large dam. They get drunk with a visiting reporter, who falls into the river and disappears.

A new transport base employee rises up against corruption in the workplace.

Polish sappers try to prevent Wehrwolf soldiers from blowing up a chemical factory.

The problem of the Polish population displacement from their land within the limits of the Prussian partition. Germans come to the village harassing...

Polish and German soldiers stuck in a Research Station in Greenland must overcome their differences and survive the unforgiving conditions.

Anna, a young and beautiful woman, takes lonely walks along the beach, when one day she attracts the attention of Jan, a film director.

The first Polish film to discuss the failure of September 1939 Polish-German war, seen from the point of view of a university intellectual,...

A young aspiring violinist unwittingly becomes involved with a criminal gang.

A man believes his wife is cheating on him.

A young couple arrives to the palace, where years ago the Countess Julia, She-Wolf was terrorising its inhabitants. Soon the ghost of the Countess...

The trio of adventurous pals, a man who is a scientist, a fine lady and a former military pilot are in the Tibetian jungles looking for some...

Two friends from army meet in a harbour and start to reminisce about their adventures.

The film tells about mainly three people - Max, a bored, smart, poor University Professor of Philosophy; Ramzes, a mafia leader, cool, strong,...

A Bulgarian spy movie

During their holiday in Kraków, a young worker and a student are asked if their love, despite different views on life, will endure.

South America at the beginning of the 1980s. A man is on the run from a group of armed pursuers. He does not manage to escape and is shot down...

Trini avenges the torture of his uncle by a landowner’s son. Trini and his fellow peons destroy the landowner’s home and overpower his...

It was the reign of Louis XV and, in 1750, France was at war all the time, and the people, suffocated by taxes, liked their beloved Louis less and...

A young boy fantasizes his way to school into a battle between cowboys and Indians, where the bad guys want to steal some gold medals. Real events...

The merchant's daughter Constanze, begs her father to ask a lion for a favor. Her father approaches the lion who agrees to his request with one...

In the 50's a tailor drinking with his friends has an attack that requires an emegency treatment in the hospital. He has damaged kidneys. Given a...

In the last days of World War 2, people of various ethnic background meet in a Polish military hospital in a small German town, whereas a Nazi SS...

International Critics’ Week - Cannes Festival 1985

A Chicago cop goes to Poland to get the hoods who killed his brother. When he finds out they belong to the local outfit of the Russian mob, he takes...

Film by Rainer Bär.

TV series based on William Thackeray's novel.

Three separate short stories about young athletes who lose their chances of success. Young swimmer - because of unhappy love. Boxer because of a...

Set in 1952, the story follows events around the "Peace Run", a propaganda 3-day marathon for peace. The winner is to be presented with a new...

After a violent quarrel, Nitka leaves her husband Andrzej. He meets a young girl with whom he is getting closer and closer.

Abel Hradscheck, the owner of an inn in the Oderbruch country, faces financial ruin. For this state of affairs, Ursula, his wife and former actress,...

"Deserter's Gold", the sequel to the very popular "The Deserters", is a rich war comedy, skipping humorously around the more serious dangers of a...