Anna Jaraczówna

An alcoholic mother of a born out of wedlock child has a difficult decision to make when a journalist proposes to adopt her son and pay her for it.

A pastor and ethnographer visits a remote corner of 19th-century Lithuania where folk customs associated with the area's pagan past still have a hold...

A biology professor, Adam enters a hospital for observation. He is a loner and a serious-minded man, who dislikes any display of emotions. He spends...

Pernat finds himself in a police interrogation, accused of a murder, and unable to recall any details of the crime, or even his own life. He's...

Retired Sypniewski stands before a bizarre task - he must drown kittens.

A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.

A few hours before the official visit of the communist party representative, the management of the visited factory learns about it. Everything must...

The young Kuriata takes the position of the secretary of the City Committee in Grodów, where a corrupt clique ruled for many years. Kuriata...

A film from the "Silhouettes of Polish Literature" series

A peasant girl is abandoned by her fiancé after she has talked her father into giving her his land as a dowry.

Modest editor, has shipped his wife and kids for the weekend, and is trying to relax in his house at the outskirts of Warsaw. His quiet evening is...

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...

Shortly after the beginning of World War 2 a young idealist doctor is employed in a psychiatric hospital, where his notions of proper care for the...

A pianist from Poland visits a town in West Germany and starts to remember details about her life during the war.

Based on real events story of stealing methyl alcohol causing mass poisoning in town.

Bronka, Franka, Amelka and Kwiryna are four girls living in the same poor district of Warsaw and going to the same school. They all fight for a...

Three stories about life problems.

A German woman on a ship returning to Europe notices a face of another woman which brings recollections from the past. She tells her husband that she...

A retired police captain, Siwy, tells a reporter about his latest action, carrying on his own investigation into the mysterious death of a Ewa Salm,...

A police chief conducts a an investigation into murder, of which a local recluse is suspected.

A school teacher from a small town in Poland comes to Warsaw to see his estranged wife, a window dresser, in the hope that she will return to him...

A seamstress who leads a stable life falls in love with her daughter's teacher.

Modest editor, has shipped his wife and kids for the weekend, and is trying to relax in his house at the outskirts of Warsaw. His quiet evening is...

A journalist investigates a mysterious murder in the countryside.

1945. Home Army soldier who hides in the village must decide if he wants to engage into dangerous situation to help group of Jewish runaways.

Poland, during World War II. Martha Weiss, a Jewish woman, arrives at the Auschwitz extermination camp with her family. She is assigned the role of...