Cinematography: Jerzy Lipman

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Teresa Izewska · Tadeusz Janczar · Wienczyslaw Glinski · Zofia Lindorf

Plot September, 1944. It’s the 56th day of Warsaw’s uprising against the Nazis. The third Platoon of the Resistance is down to 43 heroic men and women, and they’re penned in....

Direction François Truffaut · Renzo Rossellini · Shintaro Ishihara · Marcel Ophüls

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Marie-France Pisier · Rosy Varte · Cristina Gaioni

Plot Several internationally known directors contributed to this generally adept and compelling series of five brief vignettes on love and its many ramifications. François Truffaut starts things off with a story...

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Leon Niemczyk · Jolanta Umecka · Zygmunt Malanowicz

Plot An attractive young woman, Christine, takes the wheel of a car belonging to her partner Andrzej, a sports columnist. While he criticizes her driving skills, a reckless student leaps out...

Direction Andrzej Wajda

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

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Tadeusz Lomnicki · Urszula Modrzynska · Tadeusz Janczar · Janusz Paluszkiewicz

Direction Andrzej Munk

Cast Bogumil Kobiela · Maria Ciesielska · Helena Dabrowska · Barbara Lass

Plot The story is an odyssey of a little man through Poland of 1930 to 1950. It shows his attempts to cope with a changing world which seems to have no...

Direction Jerzy Passendorfer

Cast Bozena Kurowska · Grazyna Staniszewska · Zbigniew Cynkutis · Andrzej Kostenko

Plot Answer to Violence is a wartime thriller based on the famous assassination of Nazi war criminal Franz Kutschera, the SS and Police Commander for the District of Warsaw, by the...

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Jerzy Pichelski · Adam Pawlikowski · Jerzy Moes · Mieczyslaw Loza

Plot Poland, during the World War. Lotna is a magnificent specimen of Arabian horse, the pride of her owner, too old to actually ride her but to whom she remains faithful...

Direction Samuel Fuller

Cast Glenn Corbett · Christa Lang · Anton Diffring · Eric P. Caspar

Plot An American private eye is shot dead in Germany by an international extortion gang, and his partner arrives to seek revenge.

Direction Claude Chabrol · Jean-Luc Godard · Ugo Gregoretti · Hiromichi Horikawa

Cast Mie Hama · Jan Teulings · Gabriella Giorgelli · Guido Guiseppone

Plot Four swindle stories, taking place successively in Tokyo - Japan (Les cinq bienfaiteurs de Fumiko), Amsterdam - The Netherlands (La riviere de diamants), Italie (La feuille de route), and Paris...

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Direction Jerzy Hoffman · Edward Skórzewski

Cast Gustaw Holoubek · Zofia Mrozowska · Hanna Skarzanka · Wieslaw Golas

Plot At the end of World War Two, Polish people move to the western lands vacated by Germans. But some ruthless profiteers pose as government representatives and intend to make off...

Direction Jerzy Hoffman · Edward Skórzewski

Cast Gustaw Holoubek · Wieslaw Michnikowski · Hanka Bielicka · Magdalena Celówna-Janikowska

Plot A criminal mastermind responsible for a failed robbery and an accidental petty conman meet inside a prison carriage. Soon they are both going to hear the court verdict.

Direction Konrad Nalecki · Ewa Petelska · Czeslaw Petelski

Cast Marian Rulka · Zygmunt Listkiewicz · Adam Kwiatkowski · Ignacy Gogolewski

Direction Jerzy Kawalerowicz

Cast Lucyna Winnicka · Roland Glowacki · Andrzej Szalawski · Janina Sokolowska

Direction Jerzy Passendorfer

Cast Barbara Soltysik · Aleksandr Belyavsky · Anatoli Golik · Janusz Bukowski

Direction Aleksander Ford

Cast Sonja Ziemann · Zbigniew Cybulski · Barbara Polomska · Ilse Steppat

Plot A young couple in love hopes to have some privacy but the widespread housing problems don't allow them to find any place to stay.

Direction Bernhard Wicki

Cast Helmut Qualtinger · Agnes Fink · Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic · Evelyn Opela

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Plot Documentary about nightly routine of two workers.

Direction Janusz Morgenstern

Cast Zbigniew Józefowicz · Leopold Rene Nowak · Marek Sniatkiewicz · Boguslaw Sochnacki

Plot Van pulls up to group of children standing on a vast pavement of some kind, surrounded by nothing but a wire fence. Man in SS uniform connects the van's exhaust...