Cast: Daniel Olbrychski

Direction Yuri Ozerov

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

Plot 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

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 Volker Schlöndorff

Cast David Bennent · Mario Adorf · Angela Winkler · Daniel Olbrychski

Plot Danzig in the 1920s/1930s. Oskar Matzerath, son of a local dealer, is a most unusual boy. Equipped with full intellect right from his birth he decides at his third birthday...

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Daniel Olbrychski · Anna Seniuk · Maja Komorowska · Stanislawa Celinska

Plot Set in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend. He decides to go home to his aunt...

Direction Krzysztof Kieślowski

Cast Daniel Olbrychski · Maria Pakulnis · Joanna Szczepkowska · Artur Barcis

Plot "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy." Janusz is a taxi driver. It's Christmas Eve, and he honours the (Polish) traditions for this (holy) day: he gives presents to...

Direction Claude Lelouch

Cast Geraldine Chaplin · Fanny Ardant · Sharon Stone · Valérie Quennessen

Direction Margarethe von Trotta

Cast Barbara Sukowa · Daniel Olbrychski · Otto Sander · Adelheid Arndt

Plot After years of political agitation, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Leo Jogiches form a revolutionary German party, the Spartacists.

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Daniel Olbrychski · Boguslaw Kierc · Piotr Wysocki · Beata Tyszkiewicz

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Daniel Olbrychski · Emilia Krakowska · Olgierd Lukaszewicz · Marek Perepeczko

Plot Takes place in a prewar Poland. A tubercular young man comes to stay with his brother on a farm. He is in love with life and constantly plays 1930's music...

Direction Philip Kaufman

Cast Daniel Day-Lewis · Juliette Binoche · Lena Olin · Stellan Skarsgard

Plot Based on the acclaimed novel by Milan Kundera, Kaufman’s film explores the highly active love life of a charming Czech surgeon (Day-Lewis) against the backdrop of the Prague Spring of...

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Daniel Olbrychski · Stanislawa Celinska · Aleksander Bardini · Zygmunt Malanowicz

Plot Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then...

Direction Jerzy Hoffman

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

Plot 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...

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Beata Tyszkiewicz · Elzbieta Czyzewska · Andrzej Lapicki · Daniel Olbrychski

Plot The disappearance of the leading actor from the film’s set worries its director Andrzej. He embarks on a journey to look out for the actor with a young actor and...

Direction Richard Dembo

Cast Michel Piccoli · Alexandre Arbatt · Liv Ullmann · Leslie Caron

Plot The story of two very different men competing in the World Chess Championship Games. One is a 52-year-old Soviet Jew who holds the title, and the other is a 35-year-old...

Direction Krzysztof Zanussi

Cast Daniel Olbrychski · Jan Kreczmar · Halina Mikolajska · Maja Komorowska

Plot A young engineer is called back home, which he had left years before. The house is a crumbling, old mansion in which his father still works, illegally distilling vodka, much...

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Hanna Schygulla · Piotr Lysak · Armin Mueller-Stahl · Ralf Wolter

Plot In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover...

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Marek Walczewski · Izabella Olszewska · Daniel Olbrychski · Ewa Zietek

Plot Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a...

Direction Jerzy Hoffman

Cast Izabella Scorupco · Aleksandr Domogarov · Michał Żebrowski · Krzystof Kowalewski

Plot In the mid17th century, at the start of the film's action, Poland was the largest, the most democratic, and the most tolerant country in Europe. However, the tragic civil war...

Direction Nikita Mikhalkov

Cast Julia Ormond · Oleg Menshikov · Richard Harris · Aleksei Petrenko

Plot Richard Harris stars as a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Julia Ormond...

Direction Joseph Losey

Cast Isabelle Huppert · Jean-Pierre Cassel · Jeanne Moreau · Daniel Olbrychski

Plot Frederique (Huppert) leaves her family's small-town trout farm to embark on an journey taking her to Japan and into the arms of a man. Irritations concerning her actions and present...