Krzysztof Zanussi

Get genial. Go to army. Blow your chance with the love of your life. Get sex, get married, get kids and social "respectability". Work in a well reputed scientific research institute. After such an impressive "carreer", start seeking your soul. To get it, leave everything behind and get to the monastery to become a monk. (IMDB Comments)

World War II is on the wane, and a young woman (Komorowska) copes with the ravages of war and the demands of caring for her elderly mother by painting. When an American soldier, Norman (Wilson), meets her and sees one of her paintings, he's instantly captivated. He wants to marry her, but she can't leave her mother behind. (Netflix)

The main character is a bookkeeper, 40, who lives a quiet, uninteresting life with her husband and son of school age. She realizes that soon she won't be needed much at home as the boy grows up and the relationship with her husband crumbles. It's only when an embezzlement is discovered at the office and she stands up to her management, that she realizes life has more to offer. (imdb)

After learning the identity of the man who killed her husband, a young widow struggles with whether to forgive the killer or avenge her husband's death. (imdb)

At the bottom of Polish society, a working-class youth, Stefan, is fired from his job as a supermarket cashier for helping old ladies who cannot pay for their groceries. The same day, he is dumped by his g.f. and loses the roof over his head. After a suicide attempt, he meets an atheist supermarket mogul in hospital who lives life to excess and needs a heart transplant. He and his right-hand man attempt to manipulate Stefan into giving up his.

The title of this film -- taken from graffiti on a wall near director Krzysztof Zanussi's home -- provides ironic commentary on its subject, which revolves around a doctor's questioning of his beliefs when he is confronted with terminal illness. (movies.nytimes.com)

Jan is a young assistant professor in chemistry and a workaholic, whose entire life is dedicated to study and advancement to full professorship. Anna is an unsuccessful science writer who turns to Jan for advice and human compassion in a critical moment of mental confusion and nervous exhaustion. Jan, absorbed with his career, remains immune to Anna's clumsy efforts to pierce his defenses. Afraid by her ultimate plea for an embrace, he escapes to his own quarters. (imdb)

A young man is facing death of his mother. A petty corruption at his job leads to him being framed and robbed of his only desire to climb mountains in Himalayas, as his father did and where he died. (imdb)

A banker troubled by both business and personal problems is transferred to a small town. There he meets and seduces an older woman. Together, they decide to pull off a payroll holdup together. (imdb)

A tourist (Jan Nowicki) arrives to a mountain shelter "Morskie Oko". His behaviour is beyond any standards. In an arogant way he behaves towards Teresa (Maja Komorowska) and other people, who tried to have a pleasant time in the shelter. On the other day, the strange man vanishes - he left the shelter, without any notice. A rescue party is organised. They will try to find him. (filmweb.pl)

A cerebral psychological drama about a reunion between two intellectual scientist friends who have taken different paths and now try to see if they can still communicate with one another in the common language they once shared. (surrealmoviez.info)

A group of students are spending the summer vacation at a university camp. One of the camp directors, Jaroslaw, is a young professor who prefers the straightforward, intimate approach to students. He is opposed in his liberal views by Jakub, who likes to manipulate people. The confrontation begins... (imdb)

It is a story of love, suspicion, and principles--that go beyond mere individuals. It is a story of reconciliation. (imdb)

A young engineer is called back home, which he had left years before. The house is a crumbling, old mansion in which his father still works, illegally distilling vodka, much of which he drinks himself. He is alcoholic and unhappy. His sister is cynical and disturbed, had attempted suicide. His aunt is tired and sour. Their purpose to bring him there is to play on his sympathies and eventually make stay, to make him work and take care of them. He refuses and returns back to the city. (imdb)

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

The film depicts a moral dilemma of a clerk who has to face a choice: whether to save a stranger or to pretend that he hasn't seen anything, so that he won't put himself into risk.

A woman whose passport was denied under the previous Communist regime by a vindictive party secretary is given a chance to confront the woman and take revenge. (KG)

Simple story about young student (Daniel Olbrychski) who try pass his exam. (KG)

The film is a biography of Pope John Paul II. It starts in 1926 when the boy Karol Wojtila was celebrating Christmas with his father in Poland. Some years later Nazi Germany attacks Poland and invades the country while Wojtila seeks refuge at the house of Cardinal Wyszynski. Also appear all the other important stations of the life of the Pope. (imdb)

The events take place in a villa of a wealthy doctor on the occasion of the family wedding. (imdb)

Set in the 1950s when Stalin was in power, this thoughtful Polish story is an autobiographical account of filmmaker Krzysztof Zanussi's childhood. Hubert is a normal young boy living with his mother in the country. His father has been living in England since the war's end. As a result, the Communists frequently harass them to the point that Hubert's mother sends him to his eccentric Aunt Ida in Warsaw to insure that he gets an education.

It is an idiosyncratic tale that takes a dim view of the way freedom is exercised in a toxic corporate-dominated post-communist Eastern European world. (hollywoodreporter.com)

Henry Kesdi is a silenced classical composer and a survivor of the Holocaust. He is coaxed out from retirement by an inspired musicologist, Stefan, who convinces him to compose a complex symphony on his neglected piano. As a help Kesdi gets his new musical secretary. His loyal wife reluctantly accepts her as his young lover. (imdb)

"Ether" is a story of a military medical doctor experimenting with science at the beginning of the 20th century in order to get power over other people. (imdb)

Augustin is a 30-year-old university professor. He does not believe in religion. His only belief is in maths, to which he devotes all his time. Then suddenly a series of pressing existential questions start looming in his mind. (imdb)

This Danish omnibus film is made up of 20 shorts by a group of international directors. The title represents a play on words, aside from its obvious sensational implications (which is used ironically - almost nothing in the film apart from some incidental nudity), the "everything" refers to the sheer number of topics at hand, with filmmakers exploring themes from national identity to ornithology, to foreign travel to Vietnam and Brazil, to the history of Berlin. (FILMAFFINITY)

The story of Catholic saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz. (imdb)

An Uruguayan diplomat brings his new wife with him on a business trip to Poland in the summer immediately preceding the outbreak of World War II. (imdb)

A single scene adaptation of Catcher in the Rye.