Cast: Edward Dziewonski

Direction Wanda Jakubowska

Cast Tatjana Gorecka · Antonina Gordon-Górecka · Barbara Drapinska · Aleksandra Slaska

Synopsis Martha Weiss, a Jew, is sent to Auschwitz concentration camp with her family. On the first day of their arrival Martha is, by a coincidence, chosen as an interpreter, but her entire family is killed.

Direction Andrzej Munk

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

Synopsis 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 a reason for fighting. His will to survive is more...

Direction Witold Giersz · Piotr Pawel Lutczyn · Richard Slapczynski

Cast Mieczyslaw Czechowicz · Edward Dziewonski · Krystyna Sienkiewicz · Wieslaw Michnikowski

Direction Janusz Majewski

Cast Josef Abrhám · Zoltán Bezerédy · Janusz Bukowski · Tadeusz Chudecki

Synopsis Set in military barracks in a small town during World War I. The soldiers herded in the barracks are 'politically suspect' mix of characters from all over of the Austro-Hungarian Empire: Czechs, Jews, and even Italians, but officers in charge...

Direction Jan Rybkowski

Cast Aleksandra Slaska · Jerzy Duszynski · Hanka Bielicka · Edward Dziewonski

Synopsis Krystyna, convinved that her husband Wiktor is having an affair and no longer cares for her, leaves him and moves to a small town in Silesia. Not having any qualifications, she only finds employment as an industrial worker. When she...

Direction Tadeusz Konwicki

Cast Anna Dymna · Maria Pakulnis · Danuta Szaflarska · Ewa Wisniewska

Direction Leonard Buczkowski

Cast Lidia Korsakówna · Tadeusz Schmidt · Adam Mikolajewski · Tadeusz Kondrat

Synopsis While visiting Warsaw, Hanka falls for a record-breaking bricklayer. Soon she returns to the city to work at construction sites and prove that women's work is not worse than that of men's.