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- Through the eyes of a strong-willed woman comes the remarkable story of Irena Gut, and the triumphs of the human spirit over devastating tragedy, as she risked her life to save a generation of Jews from the atrocities of the Holocaust.
- Jan Sienkiewicz, a writer and lecturer who was expelled from university, takes a job at a Warsaw high school. Under his care comes the school's famous class of rebellious and knowledge-resistant outcasts. IIB are students from hell, and their future seems doomed. But Sienkiewicz, armed with literature, enthusiasm and a lot of unconventional ideas, will challenge the group doomed to exclusion. Will he be able to tame her and save her? A story about friendship, love, school madness and that everyone deserves another chance.
- Amidst a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia, middle-aged Aris finds himself enrolled in a recovery program designed to help unclaimed patients build new identities.
- Monte Cassino film follows Jedrek, a Russian ex-gulag orphan joining Allied II Corps. His meeting Pola, a nurse, transforms him as they experience the Battle of Monte Cassino, crucial for the Italian campaign and Jedrek's destiny.
- Film about the lead up to the Polish uprising against German occupation at the end of the Second World War.
- The mid-20th century in communist Poland. Adam lives with his mother, who is persecuted by the state security service. Adam's father fought in World War II as a pilot, defending Britain, and has not been heard from since. It's not clear if he stayed in England or returned and is hiding to avoid persecution. Packages and postcards arrive from him, but Adam, who has never seen his father, suspects someone else is sending them. At school he keeps dreaming that his father will one day land in the sports field at his school in his Spitfire, raising dust from which he will emerge alive, heroic and magnificent. One day, as the boy is watching Jean-Luc Godard's "Contempt" at the cinema, he is transported to the young Brigitte Bardot's dressing room and her world of film and music stars. Maestro Majewski's latest film, based on his novel "Pilgrimage to the Tomb of Brigitte Bardot the Wonderful", in which he settles accounts with his youth, childhood, and all that Poland meant to him.
- Edward Popielski, a detective of extraordinary intellect and physical strength but tormented by epileptic visions that help him in his investigations, is specially appointed by the gods to avenge crimes in the city of Lviv in 1930s Poland.
- A universal story about entering adulthood in difficult times, growing up to the community. The great history is the background for the love story unfolding in the foreground: Józek, a deserter from the tsarists army who joins the emerging Legions, an intelligence agent for the I Brigade and Women's Leage member - Ola, and Tadek, her fiancee, a member of Shooting Team. Apart from fictitious characters whose stories were modeled on the biographies of real legionnaires, many historical figures appear in the film. Among them: Brigadier Józef Pilsudski, Lieutenant Stanislaw Kaszubski, pseud. "King" and many others. The film focuses on the Legion's combat trail from1914-1916, from the departure from Oleandry to the battle of Kosciuchnowka and show the most dramatic cards of the legionary epic, including the famous attack of uhlans at Rokitna - one of the most spectacular scenes in the film.
- Andreas arrives on a remote Greek island to sell a plot of land inherited from his uncle. But who would buy a barren, rocky field with a stone hut? In order to sell the plot Andreas has to pay off a debt his uncle ran up with Yiannis, a local farmer. But Andreas has no money. Stuck in the valley, he waits every morning for Yiannis' granddaughter, Lena, to bring him bread and cheese. He falls in love with her. A good reason to work on Yiannis' field to pay back the money. Andreas starts to feel settled there. At this point he does not sense the danger hanging over the valley and the nearby village. An experience of death and misfortune will soon open his eyes to the fragility of this small world.
- The film shows a possible version of events in the life of Captain Witold Pilecki. The film has biographical features. The presented version of events was not possible to present during the Polish People's Republic (PRL), i.e. in the years 1944-1989. The main character is interrogated and tortured in the prison on Rakowiecka Street in Warsaw by officers of the Security Office of the Polish People's Republic. During the interrogation, the captain talks about his activities during World War II, an important topic is his stay in the Konzentrationslager Auschwitz concentration camp. The film shows the situation during the war and after the official end of World War II in 1945. After 1945, Poland was a Soviet dictatorship. People like Witold Pilecki, who was a hero fighting for Poland's freedom (dangerous to the USSR dictatorship), should have been defamed and murdered according to the law. Comrade Cyrankiewicz and other comrades from Moscow could not let public opinion that Pilecki was, among others, organizer of the resistance movement in KL Auschwitz. The film shows that, according to the official, only correct opinion of the communist party, Comrade Cyrankiewicz led the resistance movement in the Nazi death camp. After torture and a scheduled trial, the hero is sentenced to death. He was murdered in 25 May 1948. The film shows, among other things, KL Auschwitz through the eyes of a Polish prisoner, an officer. The Warsaw Uprising, the security torture chambers.
- Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski's story sets the stage for the dramatic rise of Pope John Paul II and the fall of communism in Europe. Who is this prophetic man who battled evil and saw a son of Poland rising?
- The series is about a group of conspirators fighting against Tsarism at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The main character is young Józef Pilsudski and his closest friends - later prime ministers and presidents. The action takes place in Vilnius, St. Petersburg, Lódz, Warsaw and Krakow. The series is sensational and adventure. It begins with the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in St. Petersburg in 1881, and ends with an attack on a train in Bezdany in Vilnius in 1908, made by Pilsudski and his title fighters.
- Eryk and Karolka are a couple of dreamers. After leaving prison, in order not to run into conflict with the law again, they decide to start a new and problem-free life in the bosom of nature. However, it is difficult for them to find their way in a new, although beautiful, situation. Eryk also wants happiness for his little daughter Dzesika. He kidnaps her from her grandfather and together with Karolka they set off on an adventurous journey through Poland. Things become more complicated when Karolka falls seriously ill. The only salvation for her will be expensive treatment, for which they obviously have no money. Eryk and little Dzesika take matters into their own hands and organize a bank robbery. Then all you have to do is steal the patient from the hospital. With love and for love.
- The film is inspired by true events and follows Michal Król, a resident of a provincial town. After a tragic accident caused by government negligence, Król decides to enter politics and run for mayor...
- The year 1901, a psychiatric hospital in the Russian partition. One of the patients is a political prisoner - Józef Pilsudski (Borys Szyc). The Polish underground independence movement is preparing their mission to rescue the famous activist. Pilsudski is freed, but he will not get back his idyll family life that he once knew. Uncertain years are coming, marked by revolutionary events, violence and betrayal. Pilsudski must find a way to man oeuvre on the boggy ground - between the conservative passivity of the Polish Socialist Party and the aggression against the invaders, resulting in retaliation. The year 1914 is coming, and the chance for restoring an independent country, independent Poland, is now or never.
- The story about the magical world of children's imagination, growing up and improving the world lightly reflects the most important treasures of Janusz Korczak's philosophy: every child should be loved, respected for their boundaries and allowed to dream. I guess every child wants to have magical powers. What if this dream comes true? Kajtek, a teenage boy with an exceptionally rebellious temperament, grows up with his father and grandmother. The class prankster one day discovers supernatural abilities. An unusual talent combined with the boy's unruly character mean big problems not only for the school, but also for the entire city. Magical powers take control over Kajtek's life, and from now on he deals with both the disliked teachers and the entire school community, gaining sympathy and fame among his peers. The situation begins to get complicated when the forces of good and evil begin to compete for the boy with magical abilities. Which way will the young wizard go?
- The principal photography of the Polish-Hungarian film SAINT by Sebastian Buttny is taking place in Poznan and Gniezno. The action of the film takes place in the 80's, Poland. Andrzej Baran, a Citizens' Militia lieutenant, is assigned to the most difficult case he has ever had to face in his career. Nobody seems to want him to solve the mystery .
- Waldi and his three sisters live in an old villa outside the city, and in the basement are their hundred-year-old parents, who died a few years ago. The whole family enjoys breakfast together and the warmth of home until Waldi discovers supernatural powers. Then unexpected guests involve the family in a top-secret plan, forcing the deceased parents to activate their connections in the afterlife. The film alternately becomes a crime story, a melodrama, a western, and continues to be a comedy of the absurd - which inevitably leads to the end of the world. But are you sure?
- Grodno, an Eastern borderland of pre-war Poland. On September 1, 1939, German planes bombard the city. One of the bomb hits the school of Leos, Ewelina and Tadek. Their world of innocent and care-free childhood, playing and first loves ends literally and figuratively. Leos is 12. He is a Jewish boy fascinated with the Polish independence movement tradition. On September 17, 1939, according to the Soviet and German pact the Red Army invades Poland and plans to capture Grodno. The city begins a hopeless fight against the occupants. The small troops are supported by civilians, mainly schoolchildren. The children and adolescents are the ones who heroically defend the city and fall victims of exceptional cruelty of the occupants.
- The film shows an obscure episode from the life of a Stalinist criminal - Colonel of the Office of Public Security, Julia Brystiger. Her nickname was "Bloody Luna" because during interrogations she tortured prisoners with extreme cruelty. At the beginning of 1960s she appeared in Laski near Warsaw, in the Institute for the Blind, where the Primate of Poland, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, was also a frequent visitor. His imprisonment in the years 1953-1956 was supervised by none other than Julia Brystiger herself. During the difficult and tempestuous conversation with the Primate, Julia Brystiger rejects the communist ideology, asks for her crimes to be forgiven and for help in finding God...
- The story begins in the summer of 1997, just before the arrival of the famous 12-meter flood wave flooding Wroclaw. - The residents of the "Home under Two Eagles" are grandma Zofia Szablewska, a woman full of energy, warmth and humor, her daughter Helena, a cool perfectionist, and Marianna, Zofia's beloved granddaughter, returning with her fiancé from a scholarship in the USA. The family drama begins when a flood wave floods the house, and at the same time grandma Zofia ends up in the hospital due to a stroke. An unfortunate coincidence leads Marianna to discover post-German traces in a house destroyed by the element, thanks to which she finds the diary of the first owner of "Home under Two Eagles", Lisa Weber. Marianna's learning of the history written on the cards takes the action of the series to 1918. In subsequent episodes, viewers will learn about the life of the then inhabitants of the tenement house and their neighbors.
- The main character, Wiola, is a contestant on the makeover show Friday's Foxes. Wanting a "new and better life", she agrees to undergo a series of plastic surgeries at the TV station's expense. We also meet the women in Wiola's family: her grandmother, who is always measuring up to a sister no one has ever seen and who might not even exist; her mother, who is involuntarily jealous of her daughters; and the two sisters, locked in sibling rivalry. Wiola's metamorphosis jolts the other characters out of their everyday stupor, revealing their hidden weaknesses and obsessions. Some of their trauma is connected to Wiola's absent father who left the family decades ago.The film looks at how people's identity is constructed out of the distorted projections of their loved ones and shaped by clichéd expectations. It speaks of the need to go beyond one-size-fits-all visions of happiness.Defying convention and blending the surreal with the absurd, Beauty is a story about the instinctive need to be yourself.
- In times of war, the most endangered species was the man. Under the Nazis' noses, about 300 people, mainly Jews, found shelter at the Warsaw Zoo during the Second World War.
- Marta and Marek is a young couple unable to become biological parents. They start an adoption procedure that will put their love for each other to the test.
- In winter 2018, a team led by Krzysztof Wielicki, a Polish veteran Himalayas climber, challenges the K2. The camera follows the tension until the end and shows the struggles of those who are suffering from bad weather and injury. The director gives weight to this documentary by choosing a serious and direct cinema style to fully highlight the efforts of the team led by Wielicki and the ghastliness of winter in the Himalayas.
- During the Polish-Bolshevik War, a mysterious report arrives at the Polish camp for urgent delivery across enemy lines. It's up to the viewer, an American fighter pilot, and a team of Polish heroes to deliver the vital dispatch.
- The film begins in 1942 in the Borderlands. Strong and independent Eliza gave birth to Stach's child without marriage. Now, together with the baby, he sets off to look for his beloved, sent to work in the Third Reich. Eliza is a village teacher, an idealist, and her beloved Stach is a village brawler. Eliza finds Stach in Frankfurt and decides to bind her fate with that of her child's father. Eliza and Stach start working on the farm in Germany, they are hungry and humiliated. Eliza is constantly fighting for dignity, for the child's life - and, most difficult of all, for the love of Stach, who initially considered their relationship to be a fleeting affair. Now, in the heat of war, the two of them really get to know each other, and the bond between them changes over time.
- A dynamic and full of punk energy story based on life of one of the most original and interesting contemporary artist, the performer, Oskar Dawicki (playing himself). The main theme of his art is the search for an answer to the question of whether. Oskar Dawicki exists at all. The trade mark of his performances is his blue shining jacket.
- Peaceful protests in Minsk are pacified by the police after a Belarusian oppositionist is beaten to death. The journalists of independent Belarusian television are the only ones to broadcast the course of events from the windows of one of the nearby blocks. When they are tracked by a police drone, they have little time to make a decision - continue the relationship or take care of safety? Which turns out to be more important - truth or freedom? A film inspired by real events. (Wajda School promotional materials) The film uses excerpts from the broadcast of Katerina Andreeva and Daria Chultsova from the Change Square and the Belsat Studio broadcast on November 15, 2020.
- The plot of the film is based on two parallel stories about two women (Anna and Em) that seem to be unbound in any way. But as the story goes, it occures that even though the two women do not meet, they are strongly connected not only in real life but in the spiritual realm. They are both lonely, they live their inner lives and eventually their paths cross but in a very unusual way. It changes the young woman, Em and brings her to a new attitude towards life.
- A biographical story of the youth of Anna Henryka Pustowójtówna, a heroine of the January Uprising, adjutant of the dictator Marian Langiewicz, a legendary freedom fighter in Europe at that time.
- An intimate psychological drama set in a self-service laundry open 24 hours a day. "Interest" operates rather poorly, who needs a laundry open at night? Therefore, the girl who works there only at night treats the laundry more as a place that guarantees her a free place to stay than as a place to earn money. And yet one night two strange customers arrive: first an older man, then a young boy. The meetings and ongoing conversations are accompanied by an aura of mystery hidden by each of the characters, each of them apparently has a reason not to tell the whole truth. Slowly, from previously hidden secrets and easy lies, more and more truth emerges, which, although painful, is necessary for purification.