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Place of Residence
Place of Residence
A documentary about a housing situation of Nowa Huta workers. They weren’t lucky enough to get a flat in clean and modern estates. It’s a ‘black series’ documentary from the fifties.
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The Zero Article
The Zero Article
An interventionist documentary showing the phenomenon of widespread prostitution, maintained in the style characteristic of the "black series" of Polish documentaries of the mid-1950s. ...
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Penismouse
Penismouse
An extroverted mouse wants to play. 'Myszochujek', a playful film about control, was made in 1957 by Polish director, Kristof Babaski. The Polish Film Club have restored it and released ...
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Living stones
Living stones
The ‘Żywe kamienie’ (meaning living stones) from the title are architectural monuments that convey the history of past generations. In this respect, Kraków is a special city - it was ...
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Banner of Youth
Banner of Youth
A short film advertising the newspaper Sztandar Młodych (The Banner of Youth), noteworthy for its abstract elements painted directly onto film stock. An attempt at showing the ...
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Skarb kapitana Martensa
Skarb kapitana Martensa
A ship crew fight over a deceased captain's notebook, believing that it contains clues to find a treasure.
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Two Hours
Two Hours
Follows the lives of people shortly after World War 2 as they try to adjust to their new lives. Completed in 1946, it was banned from release by the communist government of Poland until ...
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Murder
Murder
The camera shows us a door handle and the door's striker plate; from this angle, they form a cross. The door opens and in steps someone in a dark trench coat. He approaches a bed in the ...
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Kapelusz pana Anatola
Kapelusz pana Anatola
Anatol Kowalski is an old man who works in a bank and loves his old-fashioned hat. One day the hat gets lost and Anatol decides to buy a new one.
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Trzy kobiety
Trzy kobiety
Three women, ex-prisoners of a Nazi death camp, decide to live together after the war.
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Winter Twilight
Winter Twilight
Rumsza, the elderly railwayman, leading a sedate life with his wife, misses his only remaining son (two older boys were killed in the war). Joziuk finally returns from the military in ...
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Wraki
Wraki
Diver Antoni Barnat is falsely accused of causing an accident underwater that almost led to his fellow diver's death. Interestingly enough, they are both in love with the same girl, Teresa.
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Land
Land
Poland in the 50s, 20th century The process of collectivization of agriculture is under way. The wealthy Slumdog farmer is one of the last individual farmers who have not joined the ...
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Lost Feelings
Lost Feelings
One day in the miserable life of a female factory worker and single mother of four children. One of her sons - ridiculed by his peers - leaves home and gets into trouble.
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Koniec nocy
Koniec nocy
A group of young Łódź hoodlums spends their time shoplifting, partying and drinking heavily, until they are faced with serious consequences of their reckless behaviour.
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The Real End of the Great War
The Real End of the Great War
Róża marries a promising young architect, Juliusz. Then World War II breaks out and within weeks Juliusz is deported to a concentration camp. Months, and then years go by, until Róża ...
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Zemsta
Zemsta
Two noblemen live in one castle, which they both own half of. After a wall dividing both halves of the castle gets damaged they start an intense rivalry.
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Break Up the Dance
Break Up the Dance
Youths get ready for a party, decorating the dance floor, cleaning out the fountain of a pond. That evening, the party starts and guests arrive: everyone has a ticket, and a guy at the ...
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A Toothful Smile
A Toothful Smile
A man walks down the exterior staircase of building of flats; he's dressed to go out, taking care to wrap a scarf around his neck. He pauses as he passes a small window that's about eye ...
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Man on the Tracks
Man on the Tracks
One night in 1950 a passenger train runs over a man, who turns out to be the veteran train engineer Władysław Orzechowski, knows for his old ways and stern demeanor. As the inquiry ...