Bogusław Sochnacki

A reclusive lighthouse worker accepts the offer to swap jobs with a police inspector for a while, just to help him catch Teston, the so-called...

Gustlik learns the magical world of Silesian legends listening to his grandfather's stories.

Two boys set out by train from Kraków to the seaside but lose their travel money and decide to continue their journey “for a smile,” hitchhiking...

Michał Kopera has an accident at work. His relatives visiting him at the hospital are more interested in his account than in his health.

A descendant of a noble family takes the side of the proletariat, fighting against the mistreatment of factory owners and the oppresion from the Tsar...

A young woman runs away from her home to the big city, gets a job in theatre and gets involved with shady characters.

Former Master Mariner Klimecki works an unassuming job in a small port near the Baltic Sea, hiding his identity from the world, which makes him...

After being transferred to a new position, the young doctor becomes the target of harassment by her colleagues.

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...

The story is of an engineer in conflict with his superior. He won't go along with the ususal corruption and conformity. He is left to himself amid...

As the Germans invade Poland Jewish Ruth and her mother are trapped by the oncoming Nazis. When they are loaded onto a truck for transportation to a...

The image of Greater Poland in the breakthrough years 1913-1918. It tells about the fate of Polish junior high school students and their attitude...

The film depicts the momentous and tragic history of the Poznan uprising of 1956. The memory of the director, who was a nine-year-old boy at the...

Two brothers living in 1939 Poland decide on a whim to steal the limousine of a German consul. The seemingly small act of youthful rebellion will...

In a bucolic Polish hamlet, the tense relationship between a father and son reaches a boiling point when the men lose their hearts to the same woman...

Two psychiatrists attempt to save a suicidal man.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski returns to Poland. A journalist who is supposed to describe his arrival is called to the editorial office.

A Russian investigator is demoted after a young PPS militia escapes from Poland and vows revenge.

The action is set in the early 20th century. The film is made up of six sequences. In the first, Michal, young man who came from Poland to Germany,...

A young couple wants to break free of the antagonistic nature of their home village.

A young landowner, fascinated by billiard, falls into the trap of gambling

Two travelling actors break from their troupe and with help of friends and family start their own act, experiencing serious success.

An extraordinarily stylized tale of a prizefighter who ducks a fight to romance a beautiful blonde.

A fictionalized documentary about the life of General Władysław Sikorski from the beginning of World War II until his tragic death in a plane...

The laundress working at the doctor's house agrees to take her daughter out of the ghetto for a fee and get her settled with her family in the...

A story about the fate of post-war Polish villages. Szymon Pietruszka's life is dominated by Michał, his older brother, who left for the city before...

Children of the Leśniewski family decide to help their mother in daily chores so she can have more time for herself.

The life and reign of Polish king Casimir III The Great.

After a disaster in the mine, Łopot, a technician, protects the perpetrator. He soon faces a moral dilemma.

Set in the time of Napoleon wars, shows how the wars swept over the unfortunate Polish country at the beginning of the XIX-th century. Story revolves...

A chance meeting at a dinner table reveals the culprit of an old thought-to-be-solved murder.

A Polish counterintelligence officer infiltrates a spy network in Munich.

Set at the turn of the century it presents a story of a famous Polish athlete, Zbyszko Cyganiewicz. It begins in a small town where a traveling...

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

A film from the "Silhouettes of Polish Literature" series

Fall 1925. Six hundred officers demonstrate in front of Józef Piłsudski’s country house in Sulejówek, demanding the Marshal’s return to active...

A two-part historical film covering the years of the First World War and the post-war period up to 1919 - until the signing of the peace treaty in...

Newcomers from a foreign planet cannot find themselves in the earthly realities.

University student Anna and her boyfriend Tomek use a precious photograph to trace and unveil the complex wartime and post-war past of their parents.

A journalist from "Gazeta Wyborcza" recalls his investigative reports and the consequences he suffered while trying to reveal the truth.

On his way home, Mikołaj Twardowski is attacked by bandits. He calls on the devil for help, who rescues him from danger. The devil's intentions are...

A Jewish woman escaping from a transport helps a family poisoned by carbon monoxide. The young host decides to hide the girl.

In spring of 1954, thanks to amnesty, Marcin Nowak - a political prisoner - get released from prison and tries turn his life back to normal

A man has a mysterious power which causes the death of each person he condemns.

An adaptation of Jan Brzechwa's fairy tale "Mr. Kleks Academy".

Seven-year-old Marek - a lonely boy, lost, desperately seeking warmth and love. His parents are two young scientists, completely devoted to their...

The heroic struggle of Polish post office workers in Gdańsk on the first day of World War II.

A shy lawyer tries to win the hand of a beautiful girl and hilarities ensue.

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.

A gamekeeper kills the deer against hunting regulations. The witness of the incident begins to blackmail him.

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 Polish communist in prison breaks out at the start of the war, fight against the Germans and tries to find out who put him behind bars.

While hiding from the Germans in the forest, young Polish corporal tries hard to fulfill his order to take care of a wounded lieutenant and wait for...

A group of juvenile delinquents working in a shipyard try to clear themselves of a false accusation.

A thriller about Polish Intelligence Service working on detecting a net of foreign spies.

Three idealists - a communist secretary, a former RAF pilot and a female political activist - need to face the hardships and accusations of postwar...

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

Three short stories depicting the adventures of athletes from various disciplines. Reserve goalkeeper Antoni gets a chance to play in a match as a...

Polish TV movie. Lost.

A young couple decides to divorce.

On Christmas Eve, a little girl falls asleep after a party at her home and dreams herself (or does she?) into a fantastic world where toys become...

Westerplatte is a small peninsula at the entry to the Gdańsk Harbour. Before World War II, it functioned as a Polish ammunition depot in the Free...

Polish TV film.

A couple plans to spend a New Years Eve in a friend's empty apartment.

The film is set in the summer of 1944. The Home Army branch operating in the Sądecki region is decimated by the Germans during an attempt to take...

A young Janka leads a band of kids in 1920's Poland, experiencing many adventures and witnessing technological innnovations along the way. The second...

The fourth of six episode compilations of the TV series, featuring episodes 8 and 9.

A young Janka leads a band of kids in 1920's Poland, experiencing many adventures and witnessing technological innnovations along the way. The first...

An intimate psychological drama: the story of two brothers who, in the winter of 1848, waited for the opportunity to enter General Bem's troops in...

Police captain Wójcik conducts an investigation into the murder of a cashier from a state-owned enterprise. Despite seemingly numerous leads, the...

In a small Polish town in the summer of 1939, a married painter and a young Jewish woman begin an affair. Based on the novel by Marek Sołtysik.

After discussions with Schwartz, a producer from the West, screenwriter Stefan comes back to Poland. Everybody reminds him of his previous success:...

TV staging of Polish contemporary drama. Stanislaw Tym returned to the text, which is preceded by a special dedication: "To all the carps in Poland I...

In this haunting short fiction film, a group of Jewish children and their teacher are herded into an ambulance by Nazis; the vehicle, ordinarily...

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.

The problem of the Polish population displacement from their land within the limits of the Prussian partition. Germans come to the village harassing...

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

Michal Szmańda suffers from epilepsy, depression and other conditions. He is cared for by his sister Aniela. The only bright ray in her life is the...

After the end of World War 2 a division of female soldiers settles down at Recovered Territories and make an oath to never enter into relationships...

A prosecutor takes up a post in a small town where he has to deal with corruption and murder.

A famous surgeon is beaten by drunken bullies, loses his memory and cannot recollect who he was before. He gets to a village, lives in a not so well...

An unknown man brings a wounded boy from a hospital and prompty walks away. The boy soon dies and the militia captain Budny begins an investigation,...

Wacław Orzeszko is unlucky soldier, who one day decides to desert his platoon and hide out in a castle, where he meets a Red Army soldier Marusia....

The 1920s, the southern border of Poland. Smuggler Józef Trofida is released from prison. From his friend Władek, he learns that he has lost his...

A prosecutor takes on the case of a peasant accused of murder.

In 1930s, a doctor has an affair with the wife of a wealthy industrialist in Poland.

Poland, 1945. Crowds of repatriates are traveling from east to west in search of new homes and loved ones lost during the war. At one of the train...

Christmas Eve night of 1976. In a village in the newly formed Tarnobrzeg province, a local bus hits a young married couple and a twelve-year-old boy....

The hard-working son of a dying country woman hires a stranger to take care of his mother.

A family saga of Barbara Ostrzeńska-Niechcic and Bogumił Niechcic against the backdrop of the January Uprising of 1863 and World War I. The film is...

At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland, was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe...

A social drama that depicts a conflict between a young factory collective and a sympathetic but backward old specialist.

A young landowner, Michal Rajecki, falls in love with a beautiful country girl, Warszulka, with reciprocity. During one of their trysts, Rajecki...

After the death of his mother, fifteen-year-old Piotr goes to boarding school. He makes friends with Mirek there.

A young engineer borrows a suitcase from a friend, not knowing it countains ten thousand dollars inside. Soon after the friend dies in a car crash,...

During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.

To save the family land from a mysterious millionaire, a farmer hatches a plan to marry off his two children so they can take over the business.

Presenting a different approach to life, the three brothers meet at their father's funeral.

Jan and Maria become a couple in 1930s Kraków. Jan tries to get a job as an architect but fails. They struggle with poverty and extreme humiliation....

Set during the insurgency of 1863, the story focuses on a tragic romance between a poor gentlewoman and a rebel noble. After a bloody battle a unit...

A teenager gets killed on his way to school during the tragic events of December 1970 on the Polish coast. The boy's parents launch a crusade to bury...

Major Henryk "Hubal" Dobrzański refuses to surrender to the Germans in the wake of the 1939 campaign and continues to lead his regiment in guerilla...

Set in 1946, the film tells a story of a Polish villager returning home after years in a concentration camp. Mateusz is an old-timer, a saddler, who...

A reimagination of the classic fairy tale into the reality of 1970's Poland.

Jolka and the boys from the yard accompanying her meet a retired professor who pays for the glass which they broke.

Many years after finishing their education, a colorful cast of characters decides to attend a night school to finally earn their high school diplomas.