Cast: Kazimierz Opalinski

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Daniel Olbrychski · Wojciech Pszoniak · Andrzej Seweryn · Bozena Dykiel

Plot At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe working conditions. Three young friends, a Pole, a Jew...

Direction Andrzej Munk

Cast Kazimierz Opalinski · Zygmunt Maciejewski · Zygmunt Zintel · Zygmunt Listkiewicz

Plot Man on the Tracks was one of the first films of the so-called Polish Film School and as such influenced the whole generation of young directors who participated in the...

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 Andrzej Konic

Cast Leonard Pietraszak · Ryszard Pietruski · Edmund Fetting · Anna Seniuk

Plot Poland in the 17th century. Two army officers stands up to the ruling aristocracy and end up in prison.

Direction Stanislaw Lenartowicz · Janusz Majewski · Ewa Petelska · Czeslaw Petelski

Cast Leon Niemczyk · Magdalena Zawadzka · Bronislaw Pawlik · Wojciech Szymanski

Plot Christopher Lee hosts this horror anthology series from Poland with stories from various classic authors.

Direction Tadeusz Konwicki

Cast Ewa Krzyzewska · Edmund Fetting · Elzbieta Czyzewska · Beata Tyszkiewicz

Plot A pair of lovers go off to a small hotel in a little town. The memories of war, however, intrude on their idyll. The girl and boy relive certain wartime...

Direction Mieczyslaw Krawicz

Cast Adolf Dymsza · Aleksander Zabczynski · Ina Benita · Józef Orwid

Plot Due to a misunderstanding, a hairdresser and a world known hockey player end up switching their jobs.

Direction Bohdan Poreba

Cast Kazimierz Opalinski · Wladyslaw Kowalski · Ryszard Pietruski · Elzbieta Kepinska

Plot During the last days of WWII, an old railroad worker and his assistant guide a train liaded with explosives to the Western front. The journey is a perilous trek through...

Direction Jerzy Hoffman · Edward Skórzewski

Cast Irena Orska · Tadeusz Fijewski · Anna Ciepielewska · Ewa Wisniewska

Plot Three separate episodes, which are all based on magazine articles, centred on portraying the reality of living in 1960s Poland.

Direction Aleksander Ford · Jerzy Zarzycki

Cast Ina Benita · Jerzy Pichelski · Stanislawa Wysocka · Kazimierz Opalinski

Plot A look at the lives of people who work on the barges and boats flowing across the Vistula River.