Released Date:
1970-11-10
Languages:
Polish
Countries:
Poland
Runtime:
99 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (424 Reviews)
Director:
Andrzej WajdaGenres:
DramaJaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz (short story)
Andrzej Wajda
Takes place in a prewar Poland. A tubercular young man comes to stay with his brother on a farm. He is in love with life and constantly plays 1930's music on a piano. He gets involved with his brother's problems and also becomes the lover of a simpleminded farm girl. The brother's dead wife may have had an affair with the hired man who is to marry the farm girl. His daughter will not confirm his suspicions. But the brother's death leads to his acceptance of the past, forgiving his wife's memory and making up with his little daughter.
Released Date:
1975-06-03
Languages:
Polish, French, Russian, German, Italian
Countries:
Poland
Runtime:
130 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.3 (295 Reviews)
Director:
Walerian BorowczykGenres:
DramaStefan Zeromski (novel)
Walerian Borowczyk (scenario)
The teenage girl is first seen confessing and warned about having any impure thoughts or feelings. Her family has boarders and one day a young man moves in and they fall in love. He is trying to get a divorce but is denied by local church people. They live together after he is wounded in a duel, and then he takes off for Rome to get a divorce. She has a child and drowns it. She hears that he has been imprisoned in Rome so she goes there only to find out that he has been released. In her wanderings through France and Germany she finds out that her lover has married a rich woman and has went back to Poland. She gets involved with two con men who use her to trap the nobleman. She kills him when they are making love then she runs off and sinks into prostitution back in the old country. She is helped by an utopian rich man but the con men reappear, trying to use her as a lead to her old lover. She tries to warn him and is killed.
Released Date:
1984-05-14
Languages:
Polish
Countries:
Poland
Runtime:
120 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.8 (7501 Reviews)
Director:
Juliusz MachulskiJuliusz Machulski (screenplay)
Pavel Hajnè
Jolanta Hartwig
Two scientists are chosen as guinea pigs for a time experiment: they are placed in hibernation and should be brought back to life after three years. In the meantime, however, the World War III breaks out and life have been wiped out of the surface of the Earth. When they wake up, it turns out that not only 50 years have passed but also that they are the only living specimens of the male sex in a new, underground society composed exclusively of women. Max used to be woman-chaser so he finds himself in heaven. Albert, on the other hand, forgot all about love and sex as a serious scientist, but is willing to learn. So are the Amazons, who after a kiss turn into pliant kittens. The Council of Women is going to decide their fate, so they are trying to win more time.
Released Date:
1989-12-10
Languages:
Polish
Countries:
Poland, West Germany
Runtime:
572 min
IMDB Ratings:
9.2 (10958 Reviews)
Genres:
DramaThis is a series of ten shorts created for Polish Television, with plots loosely based upon the Ten Commandments, directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski. Two of these, Dekalog 5 and 6, are shorter cuts from the feature-length films--Krotki film o zabijaniu (A Short Film About Killing) and Krotki film o milosci (A Short Film About Love), respectively. They deal with the emotional turmoil suffered by humanity, when instinctual acts and societal morality conflict.
Released Date:
2009-04-17
Languages:
Polish, Russian, German
Countries:
Poland
Runtime:
125 min
IMDB Ratings:
(442 Reviews)
Director:
Ryszard BugajskiRyszard Bugajski
Krzysztof Lukaszewicz
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