Cast: Krystyna Janda

Direction Krzysztof Kieślowski

Cast Artur Barcis · Olgierd Lukaszewicz · Olaf Lubaszenko · Piotr Machalica

Synopsis TV Mini-Series (1989-1990). 10 Episodes. Originally made for Polish television, 'Dekalog' focuses on the residents of a housing complex in late-Communist Poland, whose lives become subtly intertwined as they face emotional dilemmas that are at once deeply personal and universally...

Direction Krzysztof Kieślowski

Cast Miroslaw Baka · Krzysztof Globisz · Jan Tesarz · Zbigniew Zapasiewicz

Synopsis A youth randomly, and brutally, murders a taxi-driver. Piotr has just passed his law exams and been admitted to the bar. He is to defend Jacek, the young murderer. There is no evidence for the defence and no apparent motive....

Direction Ryszard Bugajski

Cast Krystyna Janda · Adam Ferency · Janusz Gajos · Agnieszka Holland

Synopsis Tonia 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.

Direction Krzysztof Kieślowski

Cast Krystyna Janda · Aleksander Bardini · Olgierd Lukaszewicz · Artur Barcis

Synopsis "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain". An elderly doctor is approached by a woman with a complicated request. Her husband is gravely ill and may die, and she is pregnant by someone else....

Direction István Szabó

Cast Klaus Maria Brandauer · Ildikó Bánsági · Rolf Hoppe · Krystyna Janda

Synopsis In MEPHISTO, an ambitious and talented actor (Klaus Maria Brandauer) on the verge of success marries the daughter of an important official in pre-World War II Germany in order to further his career. As the Nazi influence grows, he discards...

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Jerzy Radziwilowicz · Krystyna Janda · Tadeusz Lomnicki · Michal Tarkowski

Synopsis Student filmmaker determined to make her diploma film about a 1950s national hero, charms her way among his surviving contemporaries to uncover the truth about his achievements.

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Jerzy Radziwilowicz · Krystyna Janda · Marian Opania · Boguslaw Linda

Synopsis MAN OF IRON, Andrzej Wajda's account of the events at the Gdansk shipyard in the summer of 1980, stars Marian Opania as Winkiel, a burned-out, alcoholic journalist who's assigned to look into the activities of Maciek Tomzyk (Jerzy Radziwilowicz), the...

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast John Gielgud · Krystyna Janda · Andrzej Seweryn · Jan Ciecierski

Direction Krzysztof Zanussi

Cast Zbigniew Zapasiewicz · Krystyna Janda · Tadeusz Bradecki · Monika Krzywkowska

Synopsis A cynical doctor, who is dying of cancer, would like to know the meaning of his life. He has to fight for it or just get ready for death.

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Andrzej Seweryn · Emilia Krakowska · Ewa Dalkowska · Krystyna Janda

Synopsis A famous Polish journalist presents a problem for the powers-that-be when he displays his full political skill and knowledge on a television show featuring questions and answers on a world conference by a panel of journalists. His enemies take away...

Direction Piotr Szulkin

Cast Jerzy Stuhr · Krystyna Janda · Kalina Jedrusik · Mariusz Dmochowski

Synopsis Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People wait for the Ark to arrive and rescue them while their...

Direction Yves Boisset

Cast Lino Ventura · Michel Piccoli · Bruno Cremer · Bernard Fresson

Direction Andrzej Zulawski

Cast Andrzej Seweryn · Jerzy Trela · Grazyna Dylag · Waldemar Kownacki

Synopsis A small group of cosmic explorers, including a woman, leaves Earth to find freedom and start a new civilization. They do not realize that within themselves they carry the end of their own dream. The making of this film in...

Direction Borys Lankosz

Cast Agata Buzek · Marcin Dorocinski · Krystyna Janda · Anna Polony

Synopsis A story about women, set in the present and in 1950s Warsaw. The main character is Sabina, a quiet, shy woman who has just turned thirty. Clearly, she lacks a man in her life. Her mother knows all about it...

Direction Piotr Szulkin

Cast Henryk Bak · Mariusz Dmochowski · Wieslaw Drzewicz · Krystyna Janda

Synopsis The film is set in a terrorizing world of the future, where technology commands the movements of individuals, supervised by the doctors, carrying out a program to improve the human race. Thus, instead of doctors creating a monster, the monsters...

Direction Piotr Szulkin

Cast Roman Wilhelmi · Krystyna Janda · Mariusz Dmochowski · Jerzy Stuhr

Synopsis Film opens on December 18, 1999, just a few days before the dawn of the new century. A local reporter, Iron Idem, announces that the Martians have landed. Shortly after that his program loses its independence: he is given the...

Direction Jacek Borcuch

Cast Krystyna Janda · Antonio Catania · Lorenzo de Moor · Robin Renucci

Synopsis Maria Linde, a free-spirited, Jewish Polish Nobel Prize winner, lives in Tuscany surrounded by warmth and chaos in her family’s villa. A loving mother and grandmother, she also fosters a secret flirtation with the much younger Egyptian man who runs...

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Krystyna Janda · Pawel Szajda · Jan Englert · Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak

Synopsis On one level, Andrzej Wajda’s film tells a story of Marta, a middle-aged woman married to a small town doctor. Marta searches for happiness in the arms of a much younger man, Bogus. Their relationship is as innocent and fresh...

Direction Maciej Kawulski

Cast Tomasz Wlosok · Aleks Kurdzielewicz · Antoni Królikowski · Agnieszka Grochowska

Synopsis A mysterious woman recounts the rise and fall of Nikodem "Nikos" Skotarczak, one of the biggest gangsters in Poland's history.

Direction Yves Angelo

Cast Fabrice Luchini · André Dussollier · Marie Gillain · Redjep Mitrovitsa

Synopsis Set in Europe during WWI, a doctor and lawyer have converted a musty old mansion into a ritzy hotel and health spa. The chateau is inhabited by an eccentric collection of characters from whom the proprietors go to great lengths...