Gustaw Holoubek

In the Napoleonic wars, an officer finds an old book that relates his grandfather's story, Alfons van Worden, captain in the Walloon guard. A man of honor and courage, he seeks the shortest route through the Sierra Morena. At an inn, the Venta Quemada, he sups with two Islamic princesses. They call him their cousin and seduce him; he wakes beside corpses under a gallows. He meets a hermit priest and a goatherd; each tells his story; he wakes again by the gallows... (imdb)

Set in pre- World War II era. A young man is on a strange train to see his dying father in a sanatorium. But the place is going to ruin and recalls a lot of memories from the past. He is beset by soldiers from the past, colonial black mercenaries, girls from his early life, and his parents. It is an interior adventure, with unusual atmospheric flair and extraordinary sets. (imdb)

A study of alcoholism with an excellent performance by Gustaw Holoubek as Kuba, a man who helplessly tries to battle his addiction before ultimately giving up and committing suicide. (culture.pl)

Set in Poland just before and during World War II, this drama directed by Wolkeieck Has and written by Stanislaw Dygat looks at the nature of the economic and social elite during this time, and how they interact with the less-privileged majority. (All Movie Guide)

Magdalena, an actress, a mature and free woman, comes back to her home town after many years for her grandad’s funeral. She doesn’t really get along with her relatives. The beginning of her affair with a young man met on the train would be a goodbye. A goodbye with the lover and a place full of memories. (35mm.online)

Anatomy professor Nikolai Stepanovich analyzes his life to find that it generally lacks meaning and consists solely of the monotony of daily activities. Social conventions prevent him from pursuing a relationship with a woman who might provide the meaning he misses in his life. Ultimately she abandons him. This drama about solitude is yet another film in which Has explores a lost life and helplessness. (culture.pl)

A subjective adaptation of a well-known autobiographical novel by Zbigniew Unilowski (screenplay by Wojciech Jerzy Has with dialogues by Stanislaw Dygat). The adventures of the tenants of a sublet room in a Warsaw townhouse inhabited mostly by students and novice writers, presented against the social context of the 1930s.

In a country house at the turn of a century live a family of eccentrics. Anastasia, the beautiful mistress of the manor, enjoys the amorous attentions of her stepson Blarney so openly that her husband Diapanasius takes out his shotgun and shoots her. The rest of the family accepts her end as a matter-of-fact, and soon - her return as a voyeuristic ghost who interferes with their love lifes. (imdb)

The war between Iraq and Kuwait is just about to begin. While all foreigners are leaving Iraq, Pawel, a young Polish engineer is captured by the Iraqi Secret Service. His father, a retired secret service operative goes to Iraq to attempt to rescue him not knowing that he is secretly being used as bait. Now, two Polish secret agents have been assigned by the CIA to attempt a rescue mission. The stakes are high, but are they high enough to risk the life of one of the best officers?

A man hops off a train by the small town where he claims he was before. His presence allows to bring out the inner feelings and beliefs of the inhabitants. A man who has hidden through all of the war because he looked Jewish, even if he is not, took on a fame of a dead Jewish actor he resembles. The visitor's wife shows up to claim his and indicate that he is always running off. He escapes in the end for another town. (imdb)

Summer of 1920 in Silesia. 7 brothers, their commanding officer Erwin (Jan Englert) and other guerrillas go to war. The youngest of the brothers, Gabryel (Olgierd Lukaszewicz) steals a German uniform and sneaks to a settlement occupied by the enemy, where he fells in love with a German nurse.

Early experimental short film by Jerzy Skolimowski. (Surreal Moviez)

First adaptation to the screen of Adam Mickiewicz's "Dziady".

A middle-aged man sets out on a symbolic journey through past, present, and future to learn why an old friend committed suicide, and learns much about his own life along the way. (Letterboxd)

A man is on the ledge in a high building, ready to jump. There are efforts to get him back in. The gaping passers by are there, an irate police inspector, and people who's work is disturbed as well as other who are mistakenly called in as jumper's parents or his fiancée. A retired psychology professor who is in conflict with a brilliant ex- student is also trying to help. (Polish Cinema Database)

Count Olgierd Łabiński lives with his beloved wife in Paris in a beautiful palace. The Countess recalls her stay in Florence and her insistent admirer Octavius de Saville. Soon, Octavius, arrives in Paris and calls for the famous Dr. Cherbonneau, suspected of being a charlatan. Citing the teachings of the East, Cherbonneau offers the patient an "avatar", a reincarnation of the soul, which takes a different body... (Cinemafort)

At the end of World War Two, Polish people move to the western lands vacated by Germans. But some ruthless profiteers pose as government representatives and intend to make off with loot from a deserted town they took over. One honest man stands up against them because he believes these goods belong to the people. (imdb)

Two criminals recount their crimes in a prison ambulance.

Tadeusz Konwicki speaks about his films

Juliusz Starzewski, a young scientist from Gomułka Poland, arrives in Rome to seek justice on behalf of his father - a curator who has fallen out of favor with his bishop and who prevents him from practicing his profession. A devoted friend of my father - an influential patron of Campilla, and other persons indicated initially give hope for a successful settlement of this very delicate matter. (Wikipedia)

A marital drama directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz.

It's February 1945. A Polish rescue team sets out to bring back the wounded Soviet and Slovak partisans who are trapped behind the mountain border as well as behind enemy lines. (imdb)

Set in 1936 in Poland. Zygfryd, a handsome, orphaned young circus acrobat with an introspective temperament, is under the protection of circus owner, Waldo, and his wife. A rich intellectual recluse, patron of the arts (and of young artists) stumbles into Zygfryd's heart- stopping act and offers him his friendship. He also opens up his cultural horizons and teaches him to consciously reflect on life. (Polish Cinema Database)

A young journalist is arrested for freethinking ideas and placed in a cell with a famous safe-breaker and a former cleric, who murdered his mistress’ husband.

A young doctor at a rural mental hospital struggles to uphold humane standards and deal with the staff, including aloof doctors, an eccentric poet, and a cynic with whom he falls in love. Their troubled sanctuary then faces even harder decisions—and a real dystopia—with the arrival of the Nazis. (mubi.com)

The year 1953 ends. Mines that failed to fulfil the plan are not allowed to light their star. Socialist realism treated seriously – with the memory of the mining tradition, with respect for the work of the old, with hope for the young.