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The house of a family of five is to be demolished due to the expansion of the city. The residents who are waiting to move are surprised by the progressive paralysis of their son.
The house of a family of five is to be demolished due to the expansion of the city. The residents who are waiting to move are surprised by the progressive paralysis of their son.
A road movie about three friends who go through a night of fights, separations, arguments, friendship, love and dirty jokes. The common denominator is their constant battle against loneliness.
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.
"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 young man strikes up an ill-fated romance with a married woman.
Anka and Robert, two 18-year-olds from a small town, go to the lake for the weekend. Two weeks later, a photo of a girl appears in the Poznan press with the information that she is a drug dealer....
A famous surgeon is beaten by drunken bullies, loses his memory and cannot recollect who he was before. He gets to a village, lives in a not so well to do family and becomes the Quack - he slowly regains his talent for medicine and saves the lives of several village patients.
A film showing the social mood and tensions in the period between the end of the strikes in August 1980 and the registration of the Solidarity Trade Union in November 1980.
Young Polish nobleman Jakub is saved from imprisonment by a stranger. In return, the stranger wants to obtain a list of Jakub’s fellow conspirators. As he follows his mysterious savior across the country, Jakub is affected by the overall chaos and moral corruption; he goes insane and becomes a mass murderer.
A road movie, the main theme of which is the pursuit of happiness and the saying: "I check" - an emotional illusion. It tells the story of Oskar trying to escape from a toxic relationship. His friend Aleks takes him to Amsterdam's Red Light District, where the Oscar adventure will take place.
An alchemist, Sendivius, comes to court, and transmutes base metal into gold.
During the "winter of the century," impatient passengers wait for the train to arrive at the station in Koluszki. Railway communications are disrupted. At the same time, a train is stuck in snowdrifts near Koluszki. The atmosphere in its carriages is cheerful. Some passengers, who are in a hurry to connect to other stations, get off and walk to the station in Koluszki. Among them is Andrzej Roszak, a young man rushing to Warsaw, and probably his peer Basia. Shortly after them, Mr. Walerek, a political activist who was on his way to a ball at the Central Committee, Mr. Rozbicki and his wife, who had just returned from a contract in Iraq, Matyjak, a television star, journalist Przoniak, and others arrive at the station in Koluszki. At the deserted station, the passengers efficiently organize a New Year's Eve party. During the revelry, the participants gradually reveal their hidden complexes, frustrations, and hopes.
A father and daughter, Michał and Anka, have a unique intimacy, which the college-aged Anka is beginning to feel conflicted about. When she finds an unopened letter from her deceased mother, it seems to justify her attraction to Michał, who may not in fact be her father.
Girls no more, four heroines emerge into womanhood with a more clear-eyed outlook on life.
The action of the film begins in the 1970s – even then, the young protagonist knows that adrenaline tastes better than powdered milk. Over time, he also discovers a desire for money, power, and being above the law. A transformation begins, and his gangster talent blossoms. Together with a friend, they build their own army.
Aniela has lived the first half of her life as a man: with an office job, a wife, and two children. But neither her family's opposition nor repression by the government in Poland can stop her from finally becoming the person she's always been.
Basia and Marek have been on the run their whole lives. Along with their nine-year-old daughter Ula, they experience what it’s like to be an immigrant in Sweden. When a Swedish social worker visits their home, she witnesses Ula’s everyday reality, as seen from the perspective of the local culture. Ula is then taken away from her parents and placed in foster care. Will Basia and Marek stick together and fight for Ula? Will they succeed in rebuilding their bond and their family?
35-year-old Michal has a beautiful wife Anna and daughter Justine. It does not bother him, however, fall in love with a sensual and rebellious Carolina. The man did not want a divorce, but it also wants to opt out of a new passion. The situation is complicated, however, when a lover makes him an ultimatum.
Portraying the events that have taken place in Polish politics in recent years.
A TV adaptation of Władysław Stanisław Reymont's most famous novel, realistically depicting Polish rural life at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Against the broad backdrop of rural community life, inextricably linked to the rhythm of nature throughout the four seasons, the complicated and often dramatic story of the Boryna family unfolds.
Polish crime / drama TV series portraying Warsaw police officers from Central Bureau of Investigations who got on the trail of counterfeit Euro banknotes which involves local gangsters and French crime syndicate.
The dramatic fate of Marianna Jurewiczówna, her family, and the inhabitants of the Vilnius region between 1900 and 1944.
Four Ukrainian women from different walks of life move to Poland with empty wallets and pockets full of dreams to start new chapters in their lives.
Paweł is a decent man - a devoted husband, father, and skilled heart surgeon. One hasty decision alters the course of his perfect life forever.
The crazy girl involved in an affair with a married man? Drinking, smoking and taking pills? Partying with her friend Wronka? Talking to her cat? Arguing with her eternally dissatisfied mother? Klara who has no husband, children or dog? Klara who can’t sleep, Klara, who is many years old and has little time, Klara, who is a little afraid but has great courage to live, Klara, for whom love is more important than reason, and good sex is more important than a good name? Klara’s Great Return!”
The peaceful lives of the residents inhabiting a breathtaking seaside town are shaken following a series of macabre crimes.