Izabela Olszewska

This heroic story follows the life of Karol Wojtyla, a Polish Roman catholic who ascends the throne of St. Peter as Pope John Paul II. As a young...

Unconventional pedagogical methods of a new teacher raise concerns of the provincial school's principal.

A deserter returns to his hometown and, with the help of his father, hides in the mountains.

King Błystek of the Dwarf Kingdom, wary of Winter sends his chronicler, Koszałek to search for signs of Spring.

A former partisan now 38 years old remembers his childhood in the war.

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 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 young man in his twenties leaves prison after a three-year sentence. He wants to start a new life in a place where he is not known and dreams only...

Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by...

Christmas is coming. In a letter to Santa Claus, Ania writes that she would like to get a brother, but she only gets a doll. Then she is offended and...

The life of the pope John-Paul II, from his youth as a writer, actor, and athlete in war-torn occupied Poland to his election as Pope at the age of...

Pressured by his superiors to disgrace public intellectual Warczewski, a professor and respected writer whom they believe to be a "camouflaged...

A theatrical attempt to reconstruct the last, lost play by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz. An amalgam of themes permeating the author's oeuvre.

At the Old Theater in Krakow Wajda staged a play in 1971, based on Dostoevsky's novel "Demons". In this documentary Wajda tells the story of the...

Document following the production of Andrzej Wajda's 1973 film "The Wedding". It focuses on Wajda's struggle to decide on a concept of depicting one...