Released Date:
1994-04-05
Languages:
Polish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian
Countries:
Poland
Runtime:
100 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (991 Reviews)
Director:
Wladyslaw PasikowskiFranz Maurer, a compromised cop, former officer of the criminal department of the Warsaw's police, is released from prison where he was doing time for his brutality and murders. He is awaited by the New, his fellow-policeman. Franz tries to go straight starting hard work in a steel mill. Nevertheless, he must leave the factory as a criminal with an uncertain past when he doesn't join the strike organized by the workers' union. At the same time, a merciless war continues in former Yugoslavia. Wolf and William, two high rank officers, come to Poland in order to organize a network selling and smuggling arms to Yugoslavia by way of Albania. They seek experienced and loyal partners. Franz is not only amenable to the scheme, but he even draws his former partner into the deal. However, security agents are circling them like buzzards...
Released Date:
2004-02-13
Languages:
Polish
Countries:
Poland
Runtime:
102 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.3 (713 Reviews)
Director:
Ryszard ZatorskiKatarzyna Grochola (book)
Ilona Lepkowska (screenplay)
Released Date:
2007-09-21
Languages:
Polish, Russian, German
Countries:
Poland
Runtime:
121 min
IMDB Ratings:
(11791 Reviews)
Director:
Andrzej WajdaAndrzej Mularczyk (story)
Przemyslaw Nowakowski (screenplay)
Wladyslaw Pasikowski (screenplay)
Andrzej Wajda (screenplay)
On 17 September 1939, a group of Polish officers and soldiers are imprisoned by the Soviet Army on the border of Poland. Anna and her daughter Nika travel from Krakow to meet her husband and officer Andrzej and they try to convince him to leave the soldiers and escape back home. However, Andrzej refuses to leave the troop and is deported to USSR. Later the Soviet tells that the Polish officers had been massacred by the Germans in the Katyn Forest with a shot on the back of the neck. However Anna retrieves Andrzej's diary and discloses that the soldiers had been actually murdered by the Soviet Army.
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