Jill Godmilow (Far From Poland, Waiting for the Moon) in collaboration with Joanna Krakowska and Magda Mosiewicz pay homage to the original SCUM Manifesto, a French film made in 1976 by Carole Roussopoulos and Delphine Seyrig that was inspired by Valerie Solanas’s infamous text of the same name. Much like Solanas’s radical feminist text, SCUM Manifesto is a form of resistance and a call to action.
Franciszek Brodniewicz reprises the role of Duke Waldermar Michorowski he played in the 1936 "Tredowata." Here, he leaves his recluse existence to help rescue the victims of a great fire, and suffers severe injuries. In his delirious state, he believes he is being taken care of by his dead wife, and (amara Wiszniewska, who is serving as his nurse, thinks his statements of love are meant for her. He is subsequently forced to disillusion the girl when he becomes normal, and she drifts into a casual love affair, but later falls in love with the Duke's nephew, (Wojciech Wojtecki.) The Duke later takes his nephew's place in a duel with the rejected suitor.
Marcin Kroll deserts from his military unit that’s headed to the training ground. Lieutenant Arek is sent after him, tasked with bringing Kroll back to the unit before an official investigation begins. The officers fear a scandal: the inquiry could expose the brutal conditions in the unit that drove several soldiers to suicide.
In 1960s Poland, young novitiate Anna is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a family secret dating back to the years of the German occupation.
"I moved to the Beskids because they are beautiful, and several years of experience have confirmed my belief that it was a brilliant idea," said Andrzej Stasiuk, a resident of the village of Czarne near Dukla in the Podkarpacie region for fifteen years, in a recent interview. He knows life in the provinces inside out, having described it many times in his prose and columns. He has experienced its good and bad sides, its problems and shameful corners firsthand.
A small group of cosmic explorers, including a woman, leaves Earth to start a new civilization. They do not realize that within themselves they carry the end of their own dream. They die one by one, while their children revert to a primitive native culture, creating new myths and a new god.
A shy Warsaw university student is in love with a girl who pays no attention to him. Change comes after her intimate love letters are read publicly at a party.
Television play adaptation of Wajda's stage play of Stanisław Wyspiański's November Night. The drama takes place on two levels - historical and metaphorical. The first one is almost a chronicle of several hours of the uprising - it shows the drama of the attitudes of Poles at the beginning of the armed struggle, in confrontation with the attitude of Grand Duke Constantine, the Tsar's deputy in Poland. The second one presents the world of gods playing out their arguments. Man becomes a plaything in their hands, but it is he who experiences his fear, heroism and hope.
Ogrodowa Street in Lódz - just opposite a crowded shopping center, a state-of-the-art museum and a posh hotel - is where some of the city's poorest live, completely forgotten by the world. A heart-warming and funny portrait of people excluded from the mainstream of social life; people who might be more capable of sacrifice and love than those who pushed them to the sidelines of society.
Klara and Adrian are a young couple. In their free time, they take care of their dog, go to parties and watch their favorite 90s series, which takes place in a fictional paradise. The pompous and luxurious soap opera is also a space where they can freely express their emotions and feelings. When Adrian proposes to Clara in unusual circumstances, she doesn't know how to deal with it. Inspired by the soap opera, she tries to end the relationship in various absurd ways.
Three old friends living in distant cities decide to help each other get rid of people who stand in their way to achieve happiness.
A winter day at a Polish castle, half owned by a fatalistic notary and half by a volcanic old soldier's niece. The old soldier, Cupbearer, and the notary are sworn enemies, which may doom the love between the niece, Klara, and the notary's son, Waclaw. On this day, the tongue-tied Cupbearer asks a braggart courtier, Papkin, to sue on his behalf for the hand of the widow Hanna. Papkin succeeds and
The hardships of an ordinary street vendor from his troubled childhood, when he had to work to support his family, to disappointing adulthood, when he lost all the money he had several Times for various reasons.
When a girl's body is found on a beach in Poland's Tricity, a prosecutor teams up with the victim's mother on an impassioned quest for the truth.
A collection of intimate television short stories based on well-known literary works.
A businessman is accidentally mistaken for a murderer of an important person and becomes a fugitive.
They met as students and they became very good friends. Young, handsome, popular among women. Individuals with strong personalities.
During a day filled with supernatural occurrences, three seamstresses living on the outskirts of society unveil their darkest secrets.
1944. Communist militiaman take a post in a little town in the east of Poland. He has to stand against his own men that are not happy with new authorities.
