Zbigniew Zapasiewicz

Dekalog

The Ten Commandments, exact and uncompromising, literally cast in stone, continues to provide a source of moral...

More Than Life At Stake

A series about the adventures of a Polish secret agent, Hans Kloss, who acts as a double agent in the Abwehr du...

Polskie drogi

An epic, multi-threaded story about the fate of Poles during World War II. "Czas pogardy" was shown primarily f...

Marszałek Piłsudski

Blind Chance

Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the re...

A Short Film About Killing

Jacek climbs into the taxi driven by Waldemar, tells him to drive to a remote location, then brutally strangles...

The Promised Land

In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a te...

Ziemia obiecana

Obcy musi fruwać

Berlin, 1990. At the invitation of his actor friends, who have already lived abroad for many years, Max, a Poli...

The Pigs

In good old days Franz Maurer and his partners from secret police used to live like kings. Now, they all must a...

The Maids of Wilko

Set in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend...

Doktor Murek

The story of the ups and downs of the magistrate Franciszek Murek. After losing his state job, the protagonist...

The Story of Sin

A beautiful Polish girl whose lover has gone to Rome to seek a divorce from his previous wife travels around Eu...

A Year of the Quiet Sun

Shortly after World War II an American soldier (Norman) and a Polish refugee (Emilia) fall in love. Eventually...

H.M. Deserters

Set in 1918, this World War I drama follows a group of Austro-Hungarian soldiers—Czechs, Jews, Italians, and ot...

Hope

Francis Ratay witnesses the theft of church painting "Angel with violin". The entire incident recorded by an am...

Mistrz i Małgorzata

From a Far Country

This heroic story follows the life of Karol Wojtyla, a Polish Roman catholic who ascends the throne of St. Pete...

Without Anesthesia

A famous Polish journalist presents a problem for the powers-that-be when he displays his full political skill...

Wyspy szczęśliwe

A doctor plunged into a marital crisis receives an attractive job offer.

Salvation

A biology professor, Adam enters a hospital for observation. He is a loner and a serious-minded man, who dislik...

Behind the Wall

Jan is a young assistant professor in chemistry and a workaholic, Anna is an unsuccessful science writer who tu...

Kłopotliwy gość

Strange human-shaped phenomenon appears in Piotrowski's new flat and he approaches all available institutions t...

Fever

In 1905 partitioned Poland, a bomb moves through the anarchist underground as revolutionaries prepare to strike...

Barrier

A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.

Operation Arsenal

In Nazi-occupied Warsaw, teenage scouts Alek, Rudy, and Zośka risk their lives pulling down a swastika and hois...

Imperative

Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi once more explores the dilemma of intellectualism at the expense of humanity...

Decalogue V

Jacek, an angry drifter, murders a taxi driver, brutally and without motive. His case is assigned to Piotr, an...

The Mother of the Kings

Egzekutor

Alex is a young boy who grew up without the warmth of a family home. He is lonely and lacks money. He is in lov...

Ktokolwiek wie...

A psychological portrait of a missing girl is drawn by the people who knew her, being interviewed by a journali...

The Supplement

An examination of the relationship between an indecisive medical student and his fiancee.

Passion

The last days in the life of Edward Dembowski (1822-1846), the organizer of the Kraków Uprising in 1846. The in...

Placówka

The problem of the Polish population displacement from their land within the limits of the Prussian partition....

Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease

Tomasz, a doctor, and atheist, is diagnosed with cancer. His ex-wife offers him the money for treatment in Pari...

Idol

In 1969 a young writer decides to write an essay on a well known Polish writer, who had to leave the country in...