During World War II, a boxer is imprisoned in a concentration camp. He must use his skills to fight for his life and find a way to escape the horrors of war and starvation.
A series of misfortunes plagues a journalist and his new friend.
The first movie adaptation of the Russian novel "The Twelve Chairs" by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeniy Petrov. The basic idea from this movie, in which a barber and an antique salesman were searching for money hidden in one of of twelve chairs, was later reused for other official and unofficial adaptions of the book
The fate of a working-class family during the third Silesian Uprising.
Study of a man obsessively seeking revenge.
A wanted Pole arrives in Tsarist Russia and assumes the identity of a Police Chief.
Engineer Andrzej Uriaszewicz returns to Poland in order to smuggle a valuable painting out of the country.
A look at show-business through the lives of cabaret dancing girls Teresa and Linka. When their theatre is closed down, they have to move to a small town. But it turns out that one of them is pregnant and the baby's father is her ex-boss.
An alternately restrained and outrageous adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether” updated to the modern world.
An intimate psychological drama consisting of two separate stories, the heroes of which represent the attitudes of young people, which were rarely manifested in the early 1960s.
A 10-year old boy becomes a king after the death of his father and tries to bring reforms to the country, with varying results
A young boy must go to school with his father.
Two travelling actors break from their troupe and with help of friends and family start their own act, experiencing serious success.
The strain of German persecution causes a mental breakdown in a young Jew, which prompts his wife to take desperate measures.
All the ambiance of an old-fashioned circus comes across with great clarity in this otherwise routine psychological tale about a mean-spirited mime and his effects on his colleagues. The small, traveling circus has been sliding downhill for awhile, and unless some new life is infused into its acts, its future does not look very rosy. Into this precarious situation comes a new mime with the uncanny ability to sap the confidence of his fellow performers. If he continues for long in this vein, no one will be able to believe they have any talent left at all.
A cinematic ode to actor Adolf Dymsza, one of the biggest stars of pre-war Polish cinema. The film combines footage from Dymsza's new movies and contextualises in the frame story of Mr. Dodek, a retired actor who recounts his past exploits while trying to earn an allotment for a plot of land.
The director of the Warsaw operetta has problems with putting together a team. He cares very much about acquiring the star of the stage - Jadwiga Janowska. However, she is currently in Paris with her husband, diplomat Henryk de Fontana. It turns out that Ambassador Rossi falls in love with her. Jadwiga goes to Warsaw, where in her apartment her friend Apolonia trains a young adept Wanda to play on stage.