Irena Laskowska

The protagonist of "Passerby" is writer and filmmaker Tadeusz Konwicki. His story, which reflects the paradoxes of the 20th century history, is...

Thirty years after the war, Anna, a journalist from Germany, leaves for her native village in Lower Silesia, which she had to leave with her family...

As high school students put on a politically-engaged school play, tensions begin to rise between them and their headmaster. The conflict seems to...

A radio journalist is having a heart attack. This event becomes a pretext to summarize life.

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...

A little devil appears in a small town, seemingly terrorising its inhabitants, but actually turns out to be a friendly creature when it helps a...

The movie consists of two satirical novels based on the same idea: both the "gangsters" and "philanthropists" end up in the courtroom.

A man approaching middle age gets more than he bargained for when he tries having an extramarital affair while his wife is away.

A popularity-hungry young journalist writes a sensationalist article on a supposed teen suicide club.

After leaving prison, Tolek plans to get revenge on his former girlfriend.

In 1807, Napoleon meets and falls in love with 22-year-old Polish countess Marie Walewska, who is unhappily married to a much older man. Enchanted by...

A subtle tale of a confrontation between two lonely people, one from which true understanding cannot seemingly result.

A young doctor from the lower classes is helped in his career by a rich woman. When he comes back from study in Paris he takes a job at a watering...

World War II. The Germans enter Sosnowiec, which complicates the relationship between the three friendly children.

A single woman goes to Warsaw to consult her children about an offer she received.

A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. He falls in...

A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell...

During a routine traffic stop, the police discovers the body of a girl in the trunk of a truck. Since the dead girl spent the night before with the...

The protagonist of the film, Piotruś, experiences various events with a globe taken to school for geography lessons. During his journey through the...

Set in World War 2 as the Germans occupy Czechoslovakia, teenage Emilka's father is murdered by the Nazis, but she is selected for special treatment...

A man jumps off a moving train and goes to a small town to face its inhabitants, who seem familiar, but odd.

A UB Captain tries to apprehend a band of former resistance fighters causing havoc to citizens, but they're always one step ahead of him.

Wajda's homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, the "Polish James Dean" who starred in the director's ASHES AND DIAMONDS and died young. The movie follows the...

A young doctor receives an allotment for a state-owned M-3 type flat, but to his disfortune only married couples have a right to an M-3, so he begins...

A bank robbery conducted by Polish Underground members goes awry and the brother-in-law of the group's leader, Paweł gets arrested. Now Paweł must...

The first Polish film to discuss the failure of September 1939 Polish-German war, seen from the point of view of a university intellectual,...

A young man looking for work in Warsaw has to overcome many hurdles in the world of bureaucracy to finally get employed.

Captain Sowiński finds himself on the Recovered Territories in 1945, right in the midst of local conflicts stemming from Poles settling there.

A film about the life and activities of the Polish revolutionary Ludwik Waryński. In his memoirs, Ludwik returns to his student years in St....

TV series based on William Thackeray's novel.

Włodek is a middle-aged man stuck in a dead-end job at the local library who lives with his harridan wife and critical in-laws in a small apartment....

In occupied Silesia, resistance is organizing. In close contact with the miners and led by an engineer, a group of partisans prepare the sabotage of...

Two men working as lawn mowers fight over a woman.

Teenager pretends to be mentally ill to get away from a reformatory.

Two intellectuals, a writer and a director, begin to play a mysterious psychological game in a peaceful countryside manor house during the Nazi...