Maja Komorowska

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

Genre: History

Cast: Adam Woronowicz

Shortly after World War II an American soldier (Norman) and a Polish refugee (Emilia) fall in love. Eventually he will return to the U.S. and both...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Maja Komorowska

A middle-aged man sets out on a symbolic journey through past, present, and future to learn why an old friend committed suicide, and learns much...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andrzej Łapicki

Difficulty of human relations in a 3-cornered tale: a neurotic woman, idealistic young man and his mother. Tomek is a clean-cut, high-minded...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Krystyna Janda

"Budapest Tales" is about a group of people (consisting of Szabo regular Andras Balint along with Ildiko Bansagi and Karoly Kovacs) who find a broken...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ági Mészáros

Krzysztof, a semantics professor and computer hobbyist, is raising his young son, Paweł, to look to science for answers, while Irena, Paweł’s...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Henryk Baranowski

Young seminary student Franziskus (Benjamin Besson) has been ceremonially ordained. He wants to escape the harshness and injustice of the world and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Benjamin Besson

In this mixture of fiction and documentary Krzysztof Zanussi invites a number of Poland’s great actors—Maja Komorowowska, Daniel...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maja Komorowska

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maja Komorowska

A biology professor, Adam enters a hospital for observation. He is a loner and a serious-minded man, who dislikes any display of emotions. He spends...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Zbigniew Zapasiewicz

A story, warm and full of humor, about Maszenka, an 11-year-old girl from an orphanage in the Bieszczady Mountains who loves ballet. The first stage...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marcin Dorociński

Set in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend. He decides to go home to his aunt...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Daniel Olbrychski

Jan is a young assistant professor in chemistry and a workaholic, Anna is an unsuccessful science writer who turns to Jan for advice and human...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Zbigniew Zapasiewicz

The main character is a bookkeeper, 40, who lives a quiet, uninteresting life with her husband and son of school age. She realizes that soon she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maja Komorowska

Friedrich is a wealthy, handsome German soldier fighting in World War II. His unit is stationed in Poland and occupies the estate of Countess...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mathieu Carrière

In what appears to be an inexplicable incident, a man drives up to a resort hotel in midwinter, throws away his car keys, enters, and proceeds to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jan Nowicki

Bearing traces of the old Anton Chekhov play The Wedding, The Contract is set during an "arranged" ceremony. The bride and groom barely know each...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maja Komorowska

On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the Soviet Red Army crosses the border. The Polish...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andrzej Chyra

Zanussi has described the film as his most autobiographical work. A young boy in post-World War II, Communist-dominated Poland, whose father's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maja Komorowska

Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marek Walczewski

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Mirosław Baka

An Uruguayan diplomat brings his new wife with him on a business trip to Poland in the summer immediately preceding the outbreak of World War II.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Julian Sands

This intense chamber drama centers on an ambitious young industrial designer who is summoned home to help his father and sister. Both the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maja Komorowska

An old professor and his student go mountain climbing together.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maja Komorowska

After her husband's death, Hanna Szendroy, the former primadonna, is caught in the claws of the real estate mafia. She looses her lavish home and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Judit Hernádi

Rose, an older woman living in Paris was born in Poland as a daughter of an aristocratic family. Her family house is now an impoverished home for the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maja Komorowska

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maja Komorowska

A story of a middle-aged Jew methodically preparing himself to be shipped off to a concentration camp. The main character, Jacob Rosenberg, is a...

Genre: History

Cast: Władysław Kowalski

An alternately restrained and outrageous adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether” that like...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Jerzy Przybylski

On the eve of the Day of the Dead, among mysterious old rituals of the Vilnius region, ghosts of the past and present start to appear.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gustaw Holoubek

A wealthy German family is divided by the immorality of Nazi Germany, circa 1944. Former professional colleague, Joachim Peters, escapes from a Nazi...

Genre:

Cast: Andrzej Seweryn

The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talking Heads (1980). The director asked his...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Irène Jacob

Two brothers of German heritage live in the Polish town of Poznan. Michal is the sensitive brother who likes literature, Andrzej is the daredevil...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michał Bajor

This heroic story follows the life of Karol Wojtyla, a Polish Roman catholic who ascends the throne of St. Peter as Pope John Paul II. As a young...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sam Neill

In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends disgruntled radio reporter Winkel to Gdańsk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers - particularly on...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jerzy Radziwiłowicz

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

Genre: Animation

Cast: Małgorzata Piekarska

Genre: Romance

Cast: Zbigniew Zapasiewicz

Kaytek, an unusually stubborn twelve-year-old, is brought up by his grandma and dad. One day, the troublemaker discovers that he’s got...

Genre: Family

Cast: Eryk Biedunkiewicz

Genre: Animation

Cast: Julia Lewenfisz-Górka