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.
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.
Mister Anatol investigates a gang of thieves looking after a young woman who has just won a lottery.
A shy student falls in love and is involved in a kidnapping plot.
This film is a sequel to Munk's Zezowate Szczescie and it's much the same, only more so. The film begins in a cinema, where the last scenes of Zezowate Szczescie are being shown. Born unlucky, a victim of the errors and distortions of Stalinism, he is released in 1956. He meets a politically feverish woman, her influential parents, and finally becomes the father of her child. But bad luck, or perhaps an unlucky era, will not let him forget.
Set in the Middle Ages the film tells the story of a wonder child, the little sculptor Wawrzek, who goes to work for a great master, Wit Stwosz. The story culminates in the unveiling of Stwosz's greatest masterpiece, the Altar of St. Mary's Church in Cracow.
A Pole who spent time in an internment camp during the war on the Swiss-German border, visits the site many years later and recalls these days. He meets with other Poles confined in the same camp, including several women, in whose he had romantic interests.
A carmelite monk travels through 17th century Poland and experiences various mishaps along the way.
Three Polish mathematicians are the first to crack the sophisticated Enigma code used by the Germans just before the Second World War. They build replicas of the Enigma machines and manage to get two of the machines to the British and French code-breakers before the German invasion of Poland in 1939; they ask that recognition be given to their work at the end of the war. After the invasion, the Polish cipher bureau escapes and continues their decoding in Algeria and unoccupied France.
A man just released from prison protects a woman from a group of thugs while on his way home.
A group of middle-aged men takes a bus trip to the Black Sea, having to put up with the border guard, accommodation and their guide, a film school student.
After returning to Poland, the painter Aleksander Gierymski encounters a lack of understanding of his works.
A bus crashes and its passengers find themeselves in the afterlife, which they find has the not only the same set of rules as Earth, but also the same bureaucratic chaos.
A TV special - host Irena Dziedzic interviews notable figures of Polish history at the Wawel Castle.
A shy lawyer tries to win the hand of a beautiful girl and hilarities ensue.
A woman learns that her husband has cheated on her and decides to do the same.
A young landowner, fascinated by billiard, falls into the trap of gambling
Marcin is an exceptionally gifted child - a computer genius. The enigmatic "Computer King" has therefore set his sights on him. He resides in the netherworld where he exercises his power over famous deceased scientists and artists. He's going to use them to snatch the young programmer away from the real world and into his own kingdom. Now every machine Marcin comes across may well be a bringer of his doom.