Polish

  • Jacek Bromski – Sztuka kochania AKA Art of Loving (1989)

    1981-1990ComedyJacek BromskiPoland

    Sztuka Kochania is a satire about sex therapists and popular newspaper advice columnists. A young woman asks an advice columnist if her fiance is the right man for her, and should she get married to him. She follows the doctor’s advice and abruptly halts her wedding right at the altar. When the distraught woman then seeks follow up help from the doctor, we discover that even the most trusted moral advisers don’t necessarily lead perfect lives themselves, and can lack the high ideals they tell their readers to follow.Read More »

  • Leszek Dawid – Ki AKA My Name is Ki (2011)

    2011-2020DramaLeszek DawidPoland

    Quote:
    Ki is a hell of a young girl with lots of energy, guts, wit and warmth. A single mother who irritates and fascinates at the same time. She’s at the brink of having a guy at last, but is she really able not to deter him?Read More »

  • Wojciech Smarzowski – Dom zly AKA The Dark House (2009)

    2001-2010CrimeDramaPolandWojciech Smarzowski

    Quote:
    The story takes place in two parallel time planes. The first plot follows the events of one autumn night in 1978. Edward Srodon, a zootechnician, makes an accidental stopover in a farmhouse of Dziabas family in the remote area of Bieszczady Mountains. He stays for the night. The initial distrust between the guest and his hosts is quickly dispelled with moonshine and turns into a camaraderie, intimacy and even friendship. A plan of making a joint business arises, as well as passion and lust, which lead to a surprising and tragic consequences… Second plot is set on a winter day, during the Martial Law in Poland. An investigating team of Milicja Obywatelska (People’s Militia) is visiting the crime scene. Lieutenant Mroz is trying to solve the multiple murder case from four years ago. The tool he has to his disposal is the reconstruction of events with help of the chief suspect, Srodon.Read More »

  • Jerzy Hoffman – Tredowata AKA The Leper (1976)

    1971-1980DramaJerzy HoffmanPolandRomance

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    A simple governess and a wealthy aristocrat fall madly in love with each other. However, his family are prejudiced towards her and have other plans for him.Read More »

  • Krzysztof Zanussi – Stan posiadania AKA Inventory (1989)

    Drama1981-1990Krzysztof ZanussiPoland

    Synopsis:
    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 geography student. He lives with his mother Zofia, a sensitive, practicing Catholic, like her son. When he meets Julia, a depressed woman older than he, he first tries to comfort her, then invites her to stay with him and his mother. Tomek makes a trip to West Berlin to visit his well-off father. He refuses to take money from him and looks for work as a house painter. Julia ends up in a rest home for treatment, while Tomek is trying to make their relationship work.Read More »

  • Piotr Trzaskalski – Edi (2002)

    2001-2010ArthouseDramaPiotr TrzaskalskiPoland

    Best friends Edi and Jureczek earn their living as scrap-metal pickers on the streets of a big city. Our story begins when the two gangster Brothers who rule the neighborhood beat a fellow scrap picker to death. This is the Brothers’ way of enforcing payments for illegally sold alcohol. A few days later the Brothers come up with an extraordinary proposal for Edi. They want him to tutor Princess, their 17- year old sister whom they have been bringing up since the death of their parents. The Brothers choose Edi because they know about his passion – Edi is an avid reader, always keeping the books he finds in the garbage.Read More »

  • Stanislaw Rózewicz – Aniol w szafie AKA Angel in the Wardrobe (1987)

    Drama1981-1990ArthousePolandStanislaw Rózewicz

    “Angel In The Wardrobe” is a film about responsibility, towards ourselves and others. A film about conscience; about the memory, without which we are nothing. The fears and anxieties in us and around us”.

    — Stanislaw Rozewicz.Read More »

  • Andrzej Wajda – Dyrygent AKA The Conductor (1980)

    1971-1980Andrzej WajdaDramaPoland

    Quote:
    A violinist in a provincial Polish orchestra, whose husband is the director of the ensemble, on a visit to the U.S., ties up with the world-renowned symphony conductor. As it turns out, he was once in love with the violinist’s mother. The conductor, a slightly unstable hypochondriac, returns to Poland to lead the provincial orchestra. He also tries to revive an old love affair using the violinist as a surrogate of her mother. Her husband is resentful of the conductor for personal and professional reasons.Read More »

  • Anna Kazejak – Obietnica AKA The Word (2014)

    2011-2020Anna KazejakDramaPoland

    Quote:
    Lila is a schoolgirl in love whose boyfriend Janek has betrayed her with another girl. Seeking revenge, Lila puts in motion a chain of events that cannot be stopped which leads to terrifying consequences.Read More »

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