Cast: Franciszek Pieczka

Direction Yuri Ozerov

Cast Jan Englert · Fritz Diez · Barbara Brylska · Daniel Olbrychski

Synopsis A five-part WWII epic centered on the victories of the Russian army.

Direction Andrzej Wajda

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

Synopsis 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 and a German, pool their money together to build a...

Direction Witold Leszczynski

Cast Krzysztof Majchrzak · Anna Seniuk · Joanna Sienkiewicz · Jerzy Block

Synopsis Kaziuk, a stubborn peasant and his pregnant wife live in a backwood village. The village is once visited by a couple of wanderers, and strange things start to happen afterwards. A new schoolteacher is sent to the area. She stirs...

Direction Jerzy Skolimowski

Cast Jerzy Skolimowski · Aleksandra Zawieruszanka · Krzysztof Chamiec · Andrzej Herder

Synopsis Two old acquaintances meet by accident. Both are about to fight against tough opponents, his is a boxing fight, hers is a struggle to have her original project implemented at a large industrial facility. They both have to solve the...

Direction Jerzy Hoffman

Cast Daniel Olbrychski · Malgorzata Braunek · Tadeusz Lomnicki · Kazimierz Wichniarz

Synopsis Set during the 17th-century Polish-Swedish war and based on a novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz, Deluge follows the romance between a violent soldier and the young woman who tries to tame him.

Direction Krzysztof Kieślowski

Cast Franciszek Pieczka · Mariusz Dmochowski · Jerzy Stuhr · Jan Skotnicki

Synopsis Poland, 1970. After discussions and dishonest negotiations, a decision is taken as to where a large new chemical factory is to be built and Bednarz, an honest Party man, is put in charge of the construction. He used to live...

Direction Jerzy Kawalerowicz

Cast Franciszek Pieczka · Wojciech Pszoniak · Jan Szurmiej · Ewa Domanska

Synopsis Set in the Polish Galicia in 1914, on the eve of World War I. Three nationalities are living in the area: Polish, Ukrainian and Jewish. The country inn (Austeria in Galician) is run by an old and wise Jew, Tag....

Direction Witold Leszczynski

Cast Franciszek Pieczka · Anna Milewska · Wirgiliusz Gryn · Aleksander Fogiel

Synopsis A man who is socially inept and out of touch with the world lives with his sister in a small farmhouse. The overly sensitive man lives off his hard-working sibling, taking odd jobs as he gets them to secure his...

Direction Jerzy Kawalerowicz

Cast Pawel Delag · Magdalena Mielcarz · Boguslaw Linda · Michal Bajor

Synopsis Marcus Vinicius meets Lygia in Rome and falls in love. But she is Christian and doesn't want anything to do with him. Marcus decides to kidnap her but Ursus, her bodyguard, catches Marcus. After that, Lygia falls in love, but...

Direction Konrad Nalecki · Andrzej Czekalski

Cast Janusz Gajos · Franciszek Pieczka · Wlodzimierz Press · Malgorzata Niemirska

Direction Janusz Majewski

Cast Krystyna Feldman · Wanda Jakubinska · Kalina Jedrusik · Czeslaw Kalinowski

Synopsis 1962’s SZPITAL (HOSPITAL) is set entirely in a claustrophobic hospital room where a male patient is confined. Throughout the film the room is invaded by a variety of strange people who at times even appear in bed with the guy....

Direction Kazimierz Kutz

Cast Lucja Kowolik · Olgierd Lukaszewicz · Jan Englert · Franciszek Pieczka

Synopsis Film set during the Silesian Uprising in the 1920's. The German owners of a mine decide that it is unprofitable and want to close it by flooding it. The miners go on strike.

Direction Kazimierz Kutz

Cast Marta Straszna · Augustyn Halotta · Ewa Wisniewska · Franciszek Pieczka

Synopsis The crusty hero, Habryka, is an old miner who has won many worker medals and is now retired with his youngest son and latter's family living with him. To build new apartment buildings, the old houses are being bought out,...

Direction Stanislaw Rózewicz

Cast Jerzy Binczycki · Helena Dabrowska · Mieczyslaw Grabka · Andrzej Nardelli

Direction Milan Steindler

Cast Ivana Chýlková · Franciszek Pieczka · Alena Vránová · Tereza Brodská

Synopsis This film is about life of a family, which lived in Prague since since 1968 to 1980. Father of the family comes from Ukraine and so every year someone from Ukraine to visit this family and to buy something more...

Direction István Szabó

Cast Ági Mészáros · Maja Komorowska · Franciszek Pieczka · András Bálint

Synopsis A group of people finds a broken down tram while trying to go to the city. The people band together and try to get the tram back on the train tracks and head towards the city. Along this journey the...

Direction Stanislaw Rózewicz

Cast Jerzy Radziwilowicz · Franciszek Pieczka · Piotr Bajor · Ryszarda Hanin

Synopsis During the Nazi occupation a young priest tries hard to prevent the execution of a local farmer, accused of treason, by a resistance fighter.

Direction Jan Jakub Kolski

Cast Mariusz Saniternik · Grazyna Blecka-Kolska · Franciszek Pieczka · Elzbieta Debska

Synopsis Pograbek is a village philosopher with an unconventional way of looking at the world. He makes his living by killing old horses, undertaking this thankless work because together with his wife he is saving money to purchase a child. This...

Direction Rainer Simon

Cast Kurt Böwe · Katrin Knappe · Gudrun Ritter · Timo Jakob

Synopsis In a small town, everyone has tried to forget what happened shortly after WWII. That is, until a stranger finds a book that Jadup (Kurt Böwe) gave to the young refugee Boel (Katrin Knappe), who resettled in the town over...

Direction Jan Jakub Kolski

Cast Krzysztof Majchrzak · Bartosz Opania · Grazyna Blecka-Kolska · Franciszek Pieczka