Released Date:
1999-02-08
Languages:
Polish, Tatar, Ukrainian, Turkish
Countries:
Poland
Runtime:
175 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (2640 Reviews)
Director:
Jerzy HoffmanJerzy Hoffman
Henryk Sienkiewicz (novel)
In 1648 a Cossack rebellion in the Ukraine threatens the sovereignty of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth over the Cossack nation. The Cossack rebellion also known as the Khmelnytsky Uprising is pitting the Cossack nation and its Crimean Tatar allies against the forces sent by the Polish king John II Casimir. Polish Colonel Michal Wolodyjowski is leading a squadron of Polish cavalry.Traitors,assassins and spies are everywhere. Against the backdrop of the uprising, a Polish knight Skrzetuski and a Cossack leader Bohun fall in love with the same young beautiful woman, Helena. Their rivalry becomes the symbol of Polish-Ukrainian struggle.
Released Date:
2003-03-28
Languages:
English, German, Russian
Countries:
France, Poland, Germany, UK
Runtime:
150 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
8.5 (439216 Reviews)
Director:
Roman PolanskiRonald Harwood (screenplay)
Wladyslaw Szpilman (book)
A brilliant pianist, a Polish Jew, witnesses the restrictions Nazis place on Jews in the Polish capital, from restricted access to the building of the Warsaw ghetto. As his family is rounded up to be shipped off to the Nazi labor camps, he escapes deportation and eludes capture by living in the ruins of Warsaw.
Released Date:
2001-11-09
Languages:
Polish
Countries:
Poland
Runtime:
130 min
IMDB Ratings:
3.5 (1227 Reviews)
Director:
Marek BrodzkiAndrzej Sapkowski (story)
Michal Szczerbic
The adventures of Geralt of Rivea, "The Witcher".
Released Date:
2003-09-19
Languages:
Polish
Countries:
Poland
Runtime:
103 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.4 (735 Reviews)
Director:
Jerzy HoffmanJèzef Hen
Jerzy Hoffman
Jèzef Ignacy Kraszewski (novel)
Polish historical action fantasy based on a novel by Jozef Ignacy Kraszewski. In 9th-century pre-Christian Poland, the rustic natives have lived peacefully for centuries, tending their land and worshipping the sun god. But when the power-hungry Prince Popiel brings in the Viking army to establish a barbarous and bloodthirsty regime of terror, it is up to one lone warrior, the famed archer Ziemowit (Michal Zebrowski), to lead a peasant uprising and put an end to the bloodshed.
Released Date:
2004-10-08
Languages:
Polish
Countries:
Poland
Runtime:
91 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (862 Reviews)
Director:
Magdalena PiekorzGenres:
DramaWojciech Kuczok (screenplay)
Wojciech Kuczok (stories)
Wiktor, who was mistreated by his father as a child, is now a tormented grown-up. He meets beautiful Tania and wants to settle down but it's not easy to get rid of childhood traumas.
Released Date:
2007-11-01
Languages:
Russian, Polish, Spanish, Italian, German, Latin
Countries:
Russia
Runtime:
144 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.7 (1665 Reviews)
Director:
Vladimir KhotinenkoThe czar of Russia has died and a power vacuum has developed. This period in the late 16th and early 17th century has been called "The Time of Troubles." There are many impostors who claim to the right to rule, but there's only one heir, the Czarina Kseniya Godunova. She has married a Polish military leader who wants to claim the Russian throne in her name so he can rule all of Russia. As the Poles move in on Moscow in an attempt to install the czarina on the throne, Andrei, a serf with a life-long infatuation of the czarina attempts to save her from her brutal Polish husband. A complicated story wrapped around mysticism and legend climaxes in a bloody battle between the Poles and the Russians for control of the empire.
Released Date:
2008-10-17
Languages:
Polish
Countries:
Poland
Runtime:
105 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (332 Reviews)
Director:
Magdalena PiekorzGenres:
DramaWojciech Kuczok
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