Disturbances in Poland
Strikes, disturbances and riots in Poland against communist regime in 1951, 1974, 1980s. "Solidarity".
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- DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiStarsBoguslaw LindaTadeusz LomnickiZbigniew ZapasiewiczWitek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.
- DirectorKazimierz KutzStarsZbigniew ZamachowskiHenryk BistaMarek KondratTomasz Siwek unexpectedly changes from an obedient communist party member into an opposition activist. And all that happens during a Solidarity rally where he was sent to spy on the protesters.
- DirectorLeslie WoodheadStarsIan HolmFrances CoxJonathan Adams
- DirectorLouis YansenStarsViveca LindforsJohn Cameron MitchellElzbieta CzyzewskaThe story of a strong-minded Polish mother, Halina Nowak who desperately wants her talented son, Jacek to have a life in the free world. On the eve of the Polish uprising, Halina, taking her teenage son with her, leaves her husband in Poland and heads for Washington D.C. where her feisty mother and sister now live. Halina, willful and fun-loving, has a gift for life as her son has a gift for music. Although educated, she braves her job as a cleaning woman at a radio station before making the grade to anchor-woman. While Halina embraces her new life to the full, Jacek is employed as a casual laborer Experiencing his first taste of school, Jacek falls in with a crowd of eccentric kids (including a far-out flirt named Mary), he crashes a car and ends up being suspended. Together, with a sense of adventure, mother and son confront a foreign culture gaining a new understanding of themselves and the country they have adopted as their own.
- DirectorAgnieszka Piotrowska
- DirectorFilip BajonStarsBoguslaw LindaGabriela KownackaMarian OpaniaIn the 1980s, a group of Polish intellectuals visit Helsinki every year to attend a symposium and then talk about politics in a Finnish sauna.
- DirectorJanusz KijowskiStarsTeresa SawickaDaniel OlbrychskiPiotr FronczewskiA well-regarded engineer in a big enterprise is hounded by trumped up attacks on his integrity when he delves too deeply into how bonuses are handled by the management. He gets into an argument with the guard, is arrested and subsequently fired. An old friend, a journalist, tries to sort things out but the victim's stubbornness and past problems with his wife lead to lossess by both.
- DirectorJerzy SkolimowskiStarsJeremy IronsEugene LipinskiJiri StanislavNowak (Irons), a Polish contractor, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak must manage the project and the men as they encounter the temptations of the West and loneliness and separation from their families. Nowak is the only one of the group who speaks English, and he uses this as a tool over his team. When the unrest in Poland leads to a military takeover, Nowak is faced with a much more difficult situation than he expected.
- DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiStarsWaclaw UlewiczLech GrzmocinskiTadeusz BartosikBased on a true events about the protests against the Polish Government that happened in Ursus and Radom on June 1976. One of the violent protest ever.
- DirectorJacek BorcuchStarsMateusz KosciukiewiczOlga FryczJakub GierszalFollows four friends in their quest to form a punk band. As workers protests sweep across the country, Janek and Staszek, the sons of a navy man, the rebellious Kazik, and the affluent Diabel gel as a band, but their disparate lives are touched by social turmoil and outside perceptions.
- DirectorJan LomnickiStarsJan EnglertKrzysztof WakulinskiMarzena TrybalaHow to make big money after the communism collapses in Poland.
- DirectorKazimierz KutzStarsJanusz GajosJerzy TrelaJerzy RadziwilowiczThe violence and high drama of this film is taken directly from recent Polish history. On December 13, 1981 national security forces swoop down on unsuspecting workers of the Wujek mine and arrest a Solidarity leader. Pushed to the limits, the miners call a massive strike, which is specifically forbidden under the martial law. A battle between the heavily armed police and the outnumbered miners ensues, and nine miners are killed.
- DirectorFilip BajonJacek BromskiRyszard BugajskiStarsKatarzyna HermanMarek KondratRobert WieckiewiczThirteen short segments made for the 25th anniversary of the Solidarity movement. Each of them tries to examine the meaning of solidarity today.
- DirectorKrzysztof ZanussiStarsSam NeillChristopher CazenoveLisa HarrowThe film is a biography of Pope John Paul II. It starts in 1926 when the boy Karol Wojtyla was celebrating Christmas with his father in Poland. Thirteen years later, Nazi Germany attacks Poland, starting World War II and invades the country while Wojtyla seeks refuge at the house of Cardinal Wyszynski. Also appearing are all the other important stations of the life of the Pope, during and after World War II.
- DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsRobert WieckiewiczAgnieszka GrochowskaIwona BielskaThe depiction of the life of Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of Poland's Solidarity movement, Lech Walesa, as events in the 1970s lead to a peaceful revolution.
- DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiStarsGrazyna SzapolowskaMaria PakulnisAleksander BardiniThe wife of the recently deceased lawyer tries to cope with grief after his loss and to keep his last case going in court.
- DirectorWaldemar KrzystekStarsFilip BobekMarcin BosakWojciech SolarzSolidarity activists prepare a bravura heist, taking out 80 mln from a union bank account just before it is blocked by communist authorities.
- DirectorRafael LewandowskiStarsBorys SzycMarian DziedzielMagdalena CzerwinskaPawel, a Polish man in his early 30s, makes a living with his father Zygmunt importing second-hand clothing from the North of France to Southern Poland. On his way back from one of regular "business trips", Pawel is shocked to discover his father's picture on the cover of a Polish tabloid newspaper. The headline "traitor" is written next to his name. Zygmunt is a genuine hero of the struggle against totalitarianism and a recognized member of the "Solidarnosc" labor movement of the 80s. But now, Zygmunt is suddenly accused by the paper of having acted as a secret informer called THE MOLE by the communist regime.
- DirectorKrzysztof ZanussiStarsJoanna SzczepkowskaMarta LipinskaAnna NehrebeckaA woman whose passport was denied under the previous Communist regime by a vindictive party secretary is given a chance to confront the woman and take revenge.
- DirectorJan Kidawa-BlonskiStarsAndrzej SewerynMagdalena BoczarskaRobert WieckiewiczA government agent enlists his girlfriend to spy on a professor.
- DirectorMagdalena LazarkiewiczStarsZbigniew SuszynskiAgnieszka KowalskaAleksander BednarzAs high school students put on a politically-engaged school play, tensions begin to rise between them and their headmaster. The conflict seems to mirror the social situation in the 1980s Poland.
- DirectorRafal WieczynskiStarsAdam WoronowiczArtur BalczynskiStanislaw BanasiukStory of life of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, the priest called "The Solidarity Chaplain", murdered by communist secret police.
- DirectorRyszard BugajskiStarsKrystyna JandaAdam FerencyJanusz GajosTonia goes out drinking. She wakes up in prison, not having a clue why she's there. She is tortured to encourage her to confess to a crime she is not aware of.
- DirectorVolker SchlöndorffStarsKatharina ThalbachDominique HorwitzAndrzej ChyraA nearly illiterate woman becomes one of the founders of Poland's Solidarity union.
- DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsJerzy RadziwilowiczKrystyna JandaMarian OpaniaA few years after the events of Man of Marble (1977), a journalist investigates Mateusz Birkut's son Maciek Tomczyk, now an activist leading a shipyard strike.
- DirectorAntoni KrauzeStarsPiotr AndruszkiewiczJustyna BartoszewiczMagdalena BochanAntoni Krauze reminds one of the darkest history of the cards with PRL. Spectacular reconstruction of the dramatic events in Gdynia, ended a brutal pacification of demonstrators by troops and militia in 1970.
- DirectorFilip BajonStarsMichal ZebrowskiTadeusz SzymkówMateusz HornungTwo teenage boys witness an anticommunist uprising in Poznan of 1956. The atmosphere and the repercussions of the revolt are experienced by everyone - from common workers to university professors.
- DirectorGiacomo BattiatoStarsPiotr AdamczykMalgorzata BelaKen DukenThe life of the pope John-Paul II, from his youth as a writer, actor, and athlete in war-torn occupied Poland to his election as Pope at the age of 58.
- DirectorAgnieszka HollandStarsChristopher LambertEd HarrisJoss AcklandA young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.