Cinematography: Jerzy Woljcik

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Zbigniew Cybulski · Ewa Krzyzewska · Adam Pawlikowski · Bogumil Kobiela

Plot The third and last chapter of Andrzej Wajda's thematic (wartime) trilogy (coming after A Generation and Kanal), Ashes and Diamonds, a study on the political and social chaos felt at...

Direction Jerzy Kawalerowicz

Cast Jerzy Zelnik · Andrzej Girtler · Krystyna Mikolajewska · Piotr Pawlowski

Plot In this historical drama, Pharoah Ramses XIII (George Zelnik, aka Jerzy Zelnik) defies tradition when his father dies by assuming command of the military, a post usually occupied by priests....

Direction Jerzy Kawalerowicz

Cast Lucyna Winnicka · Mieczyslaw Voit · Anna Ciepielewska · Maria Chwalibog

Plot Set in the 17th century. A convent in a small town is being visited by high-ranking Catholic official trying to exorcise the nun supposedly posessed by demons. A local priest...

Direction Andrzej Munk

Cast Kazimierz Opalinski · Zygmunt Maciejewski · Zygmunt Zintel · Zygmunt Listkiewicz

Plot Man on the Tracks was one of the first films of the so-called Polish Film School and as such influenced the whole generation of young directors who participated in the...

Direction Andrzej Munk

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

Plot 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...

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 Stanislaw Rózewicz

Cast Zygmunt Hubner · Arkadiusz Bazak · Tadeusz Schmidt · Józef Nowak

Plot Westerplatte - a peninsula at the entry to Gdansk Harbour. A Polish ammunition depot in the free City Gdansk. It's crew - one infantry company and a group of civilians....

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Serge Merlin · Alina Janowska · Elzbieta Kepinska · Jan Ciecierski

Direction Branimir Tori Jankovic

Cast Zorica Miladinovic · Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic · Mija Aleksic · Mira Stupica

Plot Memory of the victims of the Kragujevac massacre is described through the events that are related to a group of boys, shoe shiners. At that time, thousands of workers refused...

Direction Stanislaw Rózewicz

Cast Mieczyslaw Hryniewicz · Maria Klejdysz · Tadeusz Cygler · Bohdan Ejmont

Plot Henryk looks back at the last year of war and reminiscences the friends from his guerrilla unit, the fighting and living in the forest, his first love and first encounters...

Direction Stanislaw Rózewicz

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

Plot 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 Janusz Morgenstern

Cast Tadeusz Lomnicki · Marek Perepeczko · Daniel Olbrychski · Barbara Brylska

Direction Stanislaw Rózewicz

Cast Jerzy Trela · Grazyna Barszczewska · Maria Czubasiewicz · Beata Paluch

Plot Soundman Jan is a respected and sensitive professional. But his internal life is shadowed by a secret from his past.

Direction Kazimierz Kutz

Cast Zofia Marcinkowska · Henryk Boukolowski · Barbara Krafftówna · Halina Mikolajska

Direction Andrzej Munk

Cast Teresa Szmigielówna · Tadeusz Janczar · Witold Pyrkosz

Direction Stanislaw Rózewicz

Cast Wienczyslaw Glinski · Barbara Horawianka · Tatiana Czechowska · Stanislaw Milski

Direction Stanislaw Rózewicz

Cast Hanna Mikuc · Maria Czubasiewicz · Barbara Dziekan · Krzysztof Gosztyla

Plot A psychological portrait of a young Polish theatre actress, searching for her own way in life. She plays a mechanical dancer in a play "Dance of the Marionette", a complete...

Direction Kazimierz Kutz

Cast Bogdan Baer · Zenon Burzynski · Halina Buyno-Loza · Adolf Chronicki

Direction Ljubisa Kozomara · Gordan Mihic

Cast Slobodan Perovic · Milan Jelic · Jelisaveta Sablic · Ana Matic

Plot A flat broke aging boxer, living on the verge of existence, associates with the equally desperate people in the city's suburbia to steal, cheat, and even kill for the money.

Direction Stanislaw Rózewicz

Cast Piotr Garlicki · Zbigniew Zapasiewicz · Boleslaw Smela · Wojciech Alaborski