Soundtrack: Janusz Hajdun

Direction Zbigniew Rybczynski

Direction Piotr Dumala

Plot Crime and Punishment is a story of crime and love which hovers at all times between dreams and reality. Based on Dostoyevsky's novel of the same name, Dumala said of...

Direction Mitko Panov

Cast Jaroslaw Dunaj · Krzysztof Franio · Monika Mozer

Plot The most famous photo taken in the Warsaw Ghetto--of a child with raised hands--becomes a fictional story about escape.

Direction Piotr Dumala

Direction Piotr Dumala

Plot A man, peacefully asleep, suddenly disintegrates into his component parts. His limbs leave the bed to crawl around the apartment, but one leg chooses freedom and escapes. The errant leg...

Direction Zbigniew Rybczynski

Plot A TV goes spinning in Media (1980), a sweet vignette where a man stuck in a Moviola plays around with a balloon whose movements are followed by a similarly lighter-than-air...

Direction Zbigniew Rybczynski

Plot While the protagonist falls asleep at a signpost, the world turns literally upside-down and then bounces back, with only the signpost turned around.

Direction Zbigniew Rybczynski

Direction Piotr Dumala

Direction Piotr Dumala

Direction Wojciech Wiszniewski

Cast Jan Himilsbach · Adolf Hitler · Józef Pilsudski · Joseph Stalin

Plot The film is reminiscent of "Gosciminska (uploaded here: link ) by virtue of both analogy and a reversal. Both films are based on a written text - a colloquially worded...

Direction Grzegorz Królikiewicz

Cast Franciszek Trzeciak · Beata Tyszkiewicz · Czeslaw Przybyla · Tadeusz Lomnicki

Plot "The Dancing Hawk" refers to the son of a peasant who senses he can climb to the job in troubled times by playing his cards right. His slavery to work...

Direction Grzegorz Królikiewicz

Cast Wladyslaw Dewoyno · Krystyna Feldman · Wieslaw Golas · Robert Herubin

Plot A grotesque fairy tale of fantasies in a 21-year old's mind. First he confessess to a priest about killing his aunt. Then he is sending parcels from the post office....

Direction Wojciech Wiszniewski

Cast Wanda Gosciminska

Plot A film about a leader of socialist labour. This time, however, a protagonist is a female weaver from Lodz. As opposed to a film about Bugdol (see here:link ), which...

Direction Wojciech Wiszniewski

Plot This extraordinary picture does not fit into any genre. It is a freak of nature, a acinematic oddity like no other. It took considerable bravery and imaginatio, or perhaps a...

Direction Hieronim Neumann

Direction Wojciech Wiszniewski

Cast Andrzej Mellin · Malgorzata Pritulak · Wanda Luczycka · Elzbieta Gorzycka

Plot The film was banned in Poland for seven years due to realistic depiction of the life in the suburbs of Lódz as well as portraying in it local authorities, who...

Direction Gerald Kargl · Zbigniew Rybczynski · Bogdan Dziworski

Cast Franz Klammer

Plot Documentary about Franz Klammer, who won the gold medal in the decline in the Winter Olympics in Innsbruck in 1976.

Direction Hieronim Neumann

Plot Ingenious and logistically extraordinary experimental work from Hieronim Neumann, fracturing the image into four quarters and then scattering and recombining the fragments over the course of the film. Reminiscent of...

Direction Grzegorz Królikiewicz

Cast Jerzy Block · Aleksander Czajczynski · Irena Ladosiówna · Anna Nieborowska

Plot Based on a pre-war murder case of the Malisz couple. They end up committing a petty robbery and a sordid murder. He is an illustrator who is not used by...