Direction: Andrzej Wajda

Direction Andrzej Wajda

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

Synopsis 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 the end of the WWII, follows the story of Maciek...

Direction Andrzej Wajda

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

Synopsis 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. After a last day of fighting, and of good-byes to...

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Daniel Olbrychski · Wojciech Pszoniak · Andrzej Seweryn · Bozena Dykiel

Synopsis 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 and a German, pool their money together to build a...

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Wojciech Pszoniak · Ewa Dalkowska · Teresa Budzisz-Krzyzanowska · Marzena Trybala

Synopsis A biography of Janusz Korczak, a writer, radio personality, teacher, and doctor who is best remembered for his work as the director of a Jewish orphanage in Poland during the early years of the Nazi regime.

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

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

Synopsis 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 of innocent love (Antoine et Colette) between a young man...

Direction Andrzej Wajda

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

Synopsis 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 and uncle for a while, but gets involved with a...

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Jerzy Radziwilowicz · Krystyna Janda · Tadeusz Lomnicki · Michal Tarkowski

Synopsis Student filmmaker determined to make her diploma film about a 1950s national hero, charms her way among his surviving contemporaries to uncover the truth about his achievements.

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Wojciech Pszoniak · Anne Alvaro · Roland Blanche

Synopsis Wajda directs his camera toward the social upheaval and political treachery of the French Revolution, and by doing so, draws an obvious allegory to the political situation in his native Poland in the 1980s. Depardieu is the boisterous people's champion,...

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Jerzy Radziwilowicz · Krystyna Janda · Marian Opania · Boguslaw Linda

Synopsis MAN OF IRON, Andrzej Wajda's account of the events at the Gdansk shipyard in the summer of 1980, stars Marian Opania as Winkiel, a burned-out, alcoholic journalist who's assigned to look into the activities of Maciek Tomzyk (Jerzy Radziwilowicz), the...

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Paulina Mlynarska · Piotr Wawrzynczak · Bernadetta Machela · Dariusz Dobkowski

Synopsis Set in the summer months preceding the September 1939 outbreak of World War II in Polish part of Lithuania. A young highschool lad, Witek, is hoping to pass the entrance exams to the university. His love interest is Alina, his...

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast John Gielgud · Krystyna Janda · Andrzej Seweryn · Jan Ciecierski

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Ljuba Tadic · Olivera Markovic · Kapitalina Eric · Bojan Stupica

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 Wajda

Cast Andrzej Seweryn · Emilia Krakowska · Ewa Dalkowska · Krystyna Janda

Synopsis A famous Polish journalist presents a problem for the powers-that-be when he displays his full political skill and knowledge on a television show featuring questions and answers on a world conference by a panel of journalists. His enemies take away...

Direction Andrzej Wajda

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

Synopsis 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 on a piano. He gets involved with his brother's problems...

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Tadeusz Lomnicki · Krystyna Stypulkowska · Wanda Koczeska · Kalina Jedrusik

Synopsis A young doctor is tired of being sought by women. One night he meets a young girl who all but forces herself into his room where they talk of morals and love. But he loses her when he goes out...

Direction Andrzej Wajda

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

Synopsis 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 they are herded into other camps as the Allies try...

Direction Andrzej Wajda

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

Synopsis 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 missing actor’s wife and mistress.

Direction Andrzej Wajda

Cast Boguslaw Linda · Aleksandra Justa · Bronislawa Zamachowska · Jacek Beler

Synopsis The great Polish director Andrzej Wajda returns with this passionate biopic about avant-garde artist Wladyslaw Strzeminski (brilliantly played by Polish superstar Boguslaw Linda), who battled Stalinist orthodoxy and his own physical impairments to advance his progressive ideas about art.