Katyn

On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th,...

Decalogue I

Krzysztof, a semantics professor and computer hobbyist, is raising his young son, Paweł, to look...

From a Far Country

This heroic story follows the life of Karol Wojtyla, a Polish Roman catholic who ascends the...

The Wedding

Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has...

Man of Iron

In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends disgruntled radio reporter Winkel to Gdańsk to dig...

Wherever You Are...

An Uruguayan diplomat brings his new wife with him on a business trip to Poland in the summer...

A Year of the Quiet Sun

Shortly after World War II an American soldier (Norman) and a Polish refugee (Emilia) fall in...

The Contract

Bearing traces of the old Anton Chekhov play The Wedding, The Contract is set during an...

Talking Heads 2021

The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski,...

Inventory

Difficulty of human relations in a 3-cornered tale: a neurotic woman, idealistic young man and...

A Tale of Adam Mickiewicz's 'Forefathers' Eve'

On the eve of the Day of the Dead, among mysterious old rituals of the Vilnius region, ghosts of...

Kaytek the Wizard

Kaytek, an unusually stubborn twelve-year-old, is brought up by his grandma and dad. One day,...

Popieluszko: Freedom Is Within Us

Story of life of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, the priest called "The Solidarity Chaplain", murdered...

How Far, How Near

A middle-aged man sets out on a symbolic journey through past, present, and future to learn why...

At Full Gallop

Zanussi has described the film as his most autobiographical work. A young boy in post-World War...

Budapest Tales

"Budapest Tales" is about a group of people (consisting of Szabo regular Andras Balint along...

The Maids of Wilko

Set in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of...

Weekend Stories: The Hidden Treasure

Rose, an older woman living in Paris was born in Poland as a daughter of an aristocratic family....

Panny i wdowy

A Woman's Decision

The main character is a bookkeeper, 40, who lives a quiet, uninteresting life with her husband...

The Eighth Day of the Week

After her husband's death, Hanna Szendroy, the former primadonna, portrayed by Maya Komorowska...

The Spiral

In what appears to be an inexplicable incident, a man drives up to a resort hotel in midwinter,...

The Devil's Elixirs

Young seminary student Franziskus (Benjamin Besson) has been ceremonially ordained. He wants to...

Daimler-Benz Limousine

Two brothers of German heritage live in the Polish town of Poznan. Michal is the sensitive...

Ways in the Night

Friedrich is a wealthy, handsome German soldier fighting in World War II. His unit is stationed...

Salvation

A biology professor, Adam, after several dizzy spells, enters a hospital for observation. He is...

Family Life

This intense chamber drama centers on an ambitious young industrial designer who is summoned...

Postcard from a Journey

A story of a middle-aged Jew methodically preparing himself to be shipped off to a concentration...

Behind the Wall

Jan is a young assistant professor in chemistry and a workaholic, Anna is an unsuccessful...

The Condemnation of Franciszek Klos

System

An alternately restrained and outrageous adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The System of Dr. Tarr...

Two for the Seesaw

Revisited

In this mixture of fiction and documentary Krzysztof Zanussi invites a number of Poland’s great...

The Heart and Sweetheart

A story, warm and full of humor, about Maszenka, an 11-year-old girl from an orphanage in the...

Marysia i Krasnoludki

King Błystek of the Dwarf Kingdom, wary of Winter sends his chronicler, Koszałek to search for...