Cast: Ignacy Machowski

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Zbigniew Cybulski · Ewa Krzyzewska · Adam Pawlikowski · Bogumil Kobiela

Plot The third and last chapter of Andrzej Wajda's thematic (wartime) trilogy (coming after A Generation and Kanal), Ashes and Diamonds, a study on the political and social chaos felt at...

Direction Jerzy Kawalerowicz

Cast Lucyna Winnicka · Leon Niemczyk · Teresa Szmigielówna · Zbigniew Cybulski

Plot Originally titled Pociag, this Polish Hitchcock homage stars Lucyna Winnicka and Leon Niemczyk. A mysterious young man (Niemczyk), claiming to be a doctor, boards the night train. Overcrowded conditions compels...

Direction Andrzej Munk

Cast Edward Dziewonski · Barbara Polomska · Ignacy Machowski · Leon Niemczyk

Plot Two sketches covering episodes from the World War II. In the first novel, "Scherzo alla polacca", a shrewd son, trying to preserve his skin, ultimately becomes a hero and finds...

Direction Kurt Maetzig

Cast Yoko Tani · Oldrick Lukes · Ignacy Machowski · Julius Ongewe

Plot While mankind lives in peace, scientists pick up a threatening message coming from Venus. An international spaceship is sent to this planet to clear the matter. The crew, composed of...

Direction Tadeusz Konwicki

Cast Gustaw Holoubek · Jolanta Pietek-Górecka · Artur Zmijewski · Teresa Budzisz-Krzyzanowska

Plot In 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.

Direction Ryszard Ber

Cast Jerzy Radziwilowicz · Bozena Adamek · Adam Ferency · Janusz Michalowski

Plot The trials and tribulations of an ordinary peasant Szymon Pietruszka, who has always strived for a better life far away from his village, but who ultimately needs to reconcile with...

Direction Leonard Buczkowski

Cast Aleksander Sewruk · Roland Glowacki · Andrzej Herder · Zbigniew Filus

Direction Jerzy Kawalerowicz

Cast Zygmunt Kestowicz · Adolf Chronicki · Emil Karewicz · Ignacy Machowski

Plot The plot consists of a Rashōmon-like investigation into the life of a man found dead after having been hurled from a train. As security agents, policemen and a medical examiner...

Direction Janusz Nasfeter

Cast Ewa Krzyzewska · Zbigniew Cybulski · Edmund Fetting · Piotr Pawlowski

Direction Jan Batory

Cast Beata Tyszkiewicz · Katarzyna Laniewska · Ignacy Machowski · Stanislaw Mikulski

Plot On the Koszalin coast, secret agent Bernard is about to land information on the deployment of Polish missile bases.

Direction Andrzej Konic · Janusz Morgenstern

Cast Stanislaw Mikulski · Emil Karewicz · Bronislaw Pawlik · Seweryn Butrym

Plot Stanislaw Kolicki is an spy, who operate as Hans Kloss in Nazi Abwehra during the second world war.

Direction Krzysztof Zanussi

Cast Leslie Caron · Maja Komorowska · Tadeusz Lomnicki · Magdalena Jarosz

Plot The events take place in a villa of a wealthy doctor on the occasion of the family wedding. The young couple agreed on their vows before the civil authorities but...