Zbigniew Zapasiewicz

Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.

In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional...

Jacek climbs into the taxi driven by Waldemar, tells him to drive to a remote location, then brutally strangles him, seemingly without motive.

Raised by the monks, Stanisław gets involved in a scheme to murder the king.

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...

The last days in the life of Edward Dembowski (1822-1846), the organizer of the Cracow Uprising in 1846. The informal leader of the uprising,...

Matylda reflects on her life on her 30th birthday.

A detachment of the Polish IFOR forces in Bosnia is led by Major Keller, who is being investigated for insubordination during a patrol in Srebrenica....

Strange human-shaped phenomenon appears in Piotrowski's new flat and he approaches all available institutions to help him get rid of it.

The famous play by Sławomir Mrożek, directed by Maciej Englert. A 1999 production.

Set in 1905. The story focuses on a young and inexperienced man in a revolutionary execution squad. He does his killing job out of idealism, and for...

In good old days Franz Maurer and his partners from secret police used to live like kings. Now, they all must adapt to new post-communist environment...

A forty-year old man, destroyed physically and mentally by life experiences recounts his life.

Tomasz, a doctor, and atheist, is diagnosed with cancer. His ex-wife offers him the money for treatment in Paris, but his lung cancer is past the...

Retired Sypniewski stands before a bizarre task - he must drown kittens.

A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.

Seven stories based on unusual court cases from Poland.

In 1969 a young writer decides to write an essay on a well known Polish writer, who had to leave the country in the 50's, later living, working and...

Bearing traces of the old Anton Chekhov play The Wedding, The Contract is set during an "arranged" ceremony. The bride and groom barely know each...

This heroic story follows the life of Karol Wojtyla, a Polish Roman catholic who ascends the throne of St. Peter as Pope John Paul II. As a young...

A famous opera singer comes to his hometown in Poland, where he loses his voice.

A beautiful Polish girl whose lover has gone to Rome to seek a divorce from his previous wife travels around Europe in search of him and suffers a...

A young architect is locked up in prison. He recalls his uncompromising youth and gradual sliding into the moral swamp of compromises. He was not...

Accomplished playwright supervises the stage rehearsals for his new play away from home. He rents a room at a private house, which is owned by mother...

A moral conflict between a young assistant and an associate professor arises during a university linguistics camp.

Laura is personnel manager in a hospital. Her father-in-law was a high ranking cadre, her mother-in-law is an influential functionary, it is only her...

The protagonists of the film are three brothers: Eino, Aho and Laje. The brothers live from the cultivation of the family land. Eino works from dawn...

An adaptation of Franz Kafka's "The Trial"

A story of high-ranking party members from the 1970s embroiled in political deception.

A peasant girl is abandoned by her fiancé after she has talked her father into giving her his land as a dowry.

Made in 1982, shelved for five years. Story opens with Lucja Krol's husband under the tram. She gives birth to her fourth son on the floor of their...

A Polish ambassador finds his life falling into ruin following the death of his wife.

Francis Ratay witnesses the theft of church painting "Angel with violin". The entire incident recorded by an amateur camera. The thief turns out to...

On a single day the fate of three couples are joined and some of them sealed.

Zbyszek volunteers as an organ donor for his friend.

A biology professor, Adam enters a hospital for observation. He is a loner and a serious-minded man, who dislikes any display of emotions. He spends...

Pawel Markowicz suffers from Stendhal syndrome and it is to Dr.Giordano that he tells his secret.

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...

In a border town two sons of the local commander using stolen arms take hostages of eighteen girls in a dormitory, because they want to go West by...

Jan is a young assistant professor in chemistry and a workaholic, Anna is an unsuccessful science writer who turns to Jan for advice and human...

Friedrich is a wealthy, handsome German soldier fighting in World War II. His unit is stationed in Poland and occupies the estate of Countess...

Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi once more explores the dilemma of intellectualism at the expense of humanity in 1982's Imperative. The story...

A documentary in which a picture of pre-war Poznan is reconstructed with the help of archival materials from regional collections and staging. The...

The problem of the Polish population displacement from their land within the limits of the Prussian partition. Germans come to the village harassing...

A psychological portrait of a missing girl is drawn by the people who knew her, being interviewed by a journalist helping in the search.

A thriller about Polish Intelligence Service working on detecting a net of foreign spies.

A TV special - host Irena Dziedzic interviews notable figures of Polish history at the Wawel Castle.

Andrzej and Grzegorz are students of Warsaw Conservatory and preparing for the International Piano Competition. Eva - a beautiful Grzegorz's...

Jacek, an angry drifter, murders a taxi driver, brutally and without motive. His case is assigned to Piotr, an idealistic young lawyer who is morally...

An idealistic scientist is encouraged by his wife to use his good looks to get ahead, but his new job carries with it temptations and traps.

In this mixture of fiction and documentary Krzysztof Zanussi invites a number of Poland’s great actors—Maja Komorowowska, Daniel...

An examination of the relationship between an indecisive medical student and his fiancee.

The film is set in 1905, in a time of feverish revolutionary underground activity in Poland partitioned between three neighbours. All the characters...

A well-regarded engineer in a big enterprise is hounded by trumped up attacks on his integrity when he delves too deeply into how bonuses are handled...

A man is tried in court for failing to help his brother to avoid suicide.

Shortly after World War II an American soldier (Norman) and a Polish refugee (Emilia) fall in love. Eventually he will return to the U.S. and both...

Shortly after the beginning of World War 2 a young idealist doctor is employed in a psychiatric hospital, where his notions of proper care for the...

Set in military barracks in a small town during World War I. The soldiers herded in the barracks are 'politically suspect' mix of characters from all...

A doctor plunged into a marital crisis receives an attractive job offer.

August 1980, Strikes break out on the coast. The famous writer cannot decide whether to take the side of the oppositionists or wait for the course of...

Stawka większa niż życie is a series about the adventures of a Polish secret agent, Hans Kloss, who acts as a double agent in the Abwehr during...

Originally made for Polish television, “The Decalogue” focuses on the residents of a housing complex in late-Communist Poland, whose...