Cinematography: Wladyslaw Forbert

Direction Wojciech Has · Stanislaw Rózewicz

Direction Stanislaw Rózewicz

Cast Bronislaw Dardzinski · Wlodzislaw Ziembinski · Kazimierz Wichniarz · Stanislaw Jasiukiewicz

Plot The heroic struggle of Polish post office workers in Gdansk on the first day of World War II.

Direction Jerzy Bossak · Waclaw Kazmierczak

Plot Without any commentary, we can witness the severe flooding that struck Poland in the spring of 1947.

Direction Aleksander Ford

Plot A documentary record shot on the 24th and 25th July 1944 of the concentration camp in Majdanek. Comparable to Resnais' Nuit et bruillard, it's filled with images of such staggering...

Direction Aleksander Ford

Cast Gunther Malzacher · Elzbieta Czyzewska · Peter Steen · Vera Tschechowa

Plot Based on Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel, this is the story of life as a political prisoner behind the walls of a Stalinist labor camp.

Direction Joris Ivens

Direction Jerzy Kawalerowicz

Cast Józef Nowak · Stanislaw Milski · Zbigniew Skowronski · Teresa Szmigielówna

Plot Master filmmaker Jerzy Kawalerowicz made his solo directorial debut with this uncompromising drama based on an Igor Newerly novel. Celuloza follows the inner journey of a peasant's son, who becomes...

Direction Stanislaw Rózewicz

Cast Kazimierz Rudzki · Wanda Luczycka · Tatiana Czechowska · Danuta Szaflarska

Plot Four victims of a quack medium find life on earth unsatisfactory in one way or another, and try to find concolation in ptent medicines or the voices from another world,...

Direction Jerzy Bossak · Joris Ivens

Direction Jerzy Hoffman · Edward Skórzewski

Cast Irena Orska · Tadeusz Fijewski · Anna Ciepielewska · Ewa Wisniewska

Plot Three separate episodes, which are all based on magazine articles, centred on portraying the reality of living in 1960s Poland.

Direction Halina Bielinska

Cast Wienczyslaw Glinski · Barbara Wrzesinska · Elzbieta Zagubien · Leon Niemczyk