Screenplay: Jerzy Stefan Stawinski

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 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 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 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 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 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 Aleksander Ford

Cast Urszula Modrzynska · Grazyna Staniszewska · Andrzej Szalawski · Henryk Borowski

Plot A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. He falls in love with a...

Direction Jerzy Stefan Stawinski

Cast Andrzej Kozak · Krystyna Konarska · Zbigniew Cybulski · Janina Kaluska-Szydlowska

Plot A shy student falls in love and is involved in a kidnapping plot.

Direction Michal Kwiecinski

Cast Mateusz Damiecki · Antoni Pawlicki · Jakub Wesolowski · Anna Gzyra

Plot Just as three high-school graduates get to the brink of adulthood, the outbreak of World War Two destroys all their dreams and plans forever.

Direction Helena Amiradzibi-Stawinska · Jerzy Stefan Stawinski

Cast Jadwiga Andrzejewska · Ryszard Barycz · Krzysztof Chamiec · Zbigniew Cybulski

Plot A man’s surreal search for a woman named Eva on Christmas Eve.

Direction Nelo Risi

Cast Geraldine Chaplin · Federico Scrobogna · Nino Castelnuovo · Aca Gavric

Direction Andrzej Munk

Cast Teresa Szmigielówna · Tadeusz Janczar · Witold Pyrkosz

Direction Jan Lomnicki

Cast Magdalena Wollejko · Ryszard Gajewski · Miroslaw Konarowski · Cezary Morawski

Direction Jerzy Stefan Stawinski

Cast Marta Lipinska · Wladyslaw Kowalski · Teresa Tuszynska · Zbigniew Dobrzynski

Plot Three segments about three Warsaw couples about to get married.

Direction Andrzej Kotkowski

Cast Andrzej Blumenfeld · Zygmunt Fok · Kazimierz Kaczor · Irena Kownas