Danuta Szaflarska

The story of Janosik, a legendary "Central European Robin Hood", based on real XVIII century documents and a romantic legend. Young Janosik, burnt...

The famous play by Sławomir Mrożek, directed by Maciej Englert. A 1999 production.

At 40, Zosia has a happy second marriage, a well-adjusted daughter, a good career, and a comfortable home in Warsaw. But as she and her family usher...

Follows the lives of people shortly after World War 2 as they try to adjust to their new lives. Completed in 1946, it was banned from release by the...

An unlikely couple - a Polish concentration camp inmate and a young German girl - stick together and try to survive the RAF bombing of Dresden in...

Alex is a young boy who grew up without the warmth of a family home. He is lonely and lacks money. He is in love with his college friend, Maja,...

Ala is unable to settle down and often changes husbands. She introduces each newly married spouse to her mother.

Two brothers are trying to find out the truth from years ago. The whole town is against them.

Polish-born Russian subject Cezary Baryka comes of age during a tumultous period of ten years from 1914 to 1924, during which he witnesses...

A simple story of a meeting between two completely different and distant people. By chance, they spend a few days together.

Thirty-year-old nurse Teresa spends her days caring for elderly, dying people. Janusz, a young man she met at an amusement park, enters the life of...

An impressionistic, black-and-white portrait of the day-to-day of a nonagenarian woman as she experiences the final act of her life. Danuta...

Even in Poland today, Gypsies are viewed with profound suspicion — not that things are that much better for them anywhere else in Europe. In this...

The main character - a man who suffers from alcoholism - wants to change his tumultuous life. The day before Christmas Eve he receives a gift from...

The fate of a local orphanage is at stake before Christmas. According to the plans of a local businessman, the home is to be liquidated and its place...

Two sisters, a journalist and a student, are struggling with financial problems. They decide to save their budget by stealing from wealthy men. They...

All the ambiance of an old-fashioned circus comes across with great clarity in this otherwise routine psychological tale about a mean-spirited mime...

A doctor, though not having finished his studies, earns a living providing medical advice. A former nurse enters the stage, saying she hears voices...

A mother of three is afraid of losing her husband if he finds out she's pregnant again, so she tries to conceal it.

Witek and Krysia, a married couple, move to Warsaw and have nowhere to stay. They rent a room in a house with many other lodgers. Witek dreams of...

Sensational psychological drama, concerning the activities of the People's Guard in Silesia, presents from the human characters and attitudes...

An adaptation of Dorota Masłowska's play. The film satirically portrays post-Communist Polish society through three generations of women, an ailing...

Jerzy Stuhr wrote, directed, and starred in this drama about a man sworn to uphold the law who applies a very different moral code to himself than he...

A group of people find themselves stuck in remote train station in German-occupied Poland. A drunk German station guard there gets paranoid and sees...

The film is about a group of old retired theatre actors in a retirement home for actors who aim to regroup and stage Goethe's Faust.

Over the course of four generations, a family in Hungary confronts poverty, political turmoil and a life that's perpetually on the move.

Piotr manages to buy a splendid though dilapidated villa from the eccentric 80-year-old painter Mimi. The woman treats him like her long-lost only...

Following a fire at an orphanage, the kids are moved into a seniors' home. A young girl tries to befriend and cheer up an elderly man who is full of...

Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house.

The love story between a German cancer researcher and her Polish colleague that drags on for more than ten years. Both are married, which rules out...

The story of Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war.

Outstanding actress Danuta Szaflarska, in a colorful and humorous way, tells about her experiences from the old years.

On their wedding day in occupied Poland, poet Tadeusz brings Sarah, the Jewish woman he rescued from a Gestapo officer, to the celebration, only for...

Two noblemen live in one castle, which they both own half of. After a wall dividing both halves of the castle gets damaged they start an intense...

August 1939. After publishing an article criticizing the government, a journalist has to hide from the authorities.

Using the backdrop of the banality and ordinariness of everyday life in a small provincial town, the film analyses the relationship between two women...

Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko fights for the right to stage his opera "Halka".

The story is set in the present day. László Sziráki, a womanizer and chemistry professor, is searching for the secret of making gold, but one...

The film evokes a childhood in rural Lithuania between the wars. A country boy, Tomaszek, lives on a rich estate, situated on the Polish border. He...

The house of a family of five is to be demolished due to the expansion of the city. The residents who are waiting to move are surprised by the...

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...

Jakub, who is dominated by his mother, invites a healer to his home.

A mysterious magnetic spool found during a construction project is discovered to have originated from Venus. A rocket expedition to Venus is launched...