Marian Kociniak

After the war, the community of mountaineers is eager to start their own sawmill. When the communist authorities come to take over the sawmill, a...

After escaping across Europe from Stalag camp, Dolas's ride to Cyprus is stopped when his ship in sunk by an Italian submarine. Although he and some...

When his grandson is beaten by gangsters, a Warsaw veteran gathers his war buddies to take them on.

On the night of August 31, 1939, Dolas, from a platoon reinforcing a train station on the German border, falls asleep in a train car and unknowingly...

Disguised as an Italian medic, Dolas finds himself on a ship evacuating wounded Axis soldiers to Italy. He leaves the ship disguised as a Nazi...

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

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

Twin brothers, Jacek and Placek, are the town's troublemakers. They're lazy, greedy and also cruel. They despise hard work, so they cook up a plan to...

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

A group of workers builds a bridge near a large dam. They get drunk with a visiting reporter, who falls into the river and disappears.

Officers of the 5th Horse Rifle Regiment of the 1st Armored Division go to Brussels, where they meet Joachim Lelewel. To verify the story, the press...

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

The circus leaves 1948. In one of the towns there is a circus organized right after the liberation. A conflict arises between Kossakowski, a lion...

Following a successful robbery on Christmas Eve, two thieves go hiding into a children's home, where every child is expecting Santa Claus to come...

Historical panorama of the history of Silesia, from the period of the uprisings to the present day, shown through the fate of five miners....

A young doctor is tired of being sought by women. One night he meets a young girl who all but forces herself into his room where they talk of morals...

Three old friends living in distant cities decide to help each other get rid of people who stand in their way to achieve happiness.

Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to...

A grand and patriotic tale of Poland's struggle for freedom just before Napoleon's war with Russia. Written in poetic style by Adam Mickiewicz, this...

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 young soldier is being blackmailed by his colleague after causing a driving accident while drunk

Jaruga, the chief of the local branch of Security Office leads a fight against a Home Army unit led by a man known as Boruta and begins to suspect...

Tensions rise between a crew of a submarine when an accident causes it to settle at the bottom of the sea.

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...

International Critics’ Week - Cannes Festival 1985

February 1943. A Jewish woman jumps out of a train and severely hurts herself. Other people arrive at the scene, but nobody is willing to help her.

East German television film.

The fearless soldier, Marcin Kabat, returns to his hometown from a long war.

Jadwiga and Karol, siblings leaving in Western Poland learn that the man that has raised them is not their biological father.

A wealthy German family is divided by the immorality of Nazi Germany, circa 1944. Former professional colleague, Joachim Peters, escapes from a Nazi...