Polish Roulette
As Poland is placed under martial law in 1981, two confidence tricksters try to evade both the police and the army. They become embroiled in a web of schemes engineered by the secret service, fellow criminals and the dem
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As Poland is placed under martial law in 1981, two confidence tricksters try to evade both the police and the army. They become embroiled in a web of schemes engineered by the secret service, fellow criminals and the dem
The story recounts the murder of an itinerant Jew (Jules Maurice)by the village Burgomaster (Harry Baur.) Years go by and Baur's crime does not weigh heavily on his conscience. But at a banquet one night, the subject of
This "Colortone Musical" follows two gypsy children who steal toys from the camp puppeteer's wagon, then have a horrific nightmare
Young man frustrated with his life and pointless job becomes one of the suspects in serial killer investigation, but he suspects someone else...
In 1936, Eugeniusz Cękalski produced a series of art reportages called Tańce polskie (Polish Dances), which consisted of four films: "Kujawiak", "Highland Dances", "Cracow Dances" and "Silesian Dances". The entire series
The daughter of a landowner helps save an aristocratic neighbor from ruin, in this operetta adaptation.
An amusing story about the origins of statehood of the Slavic tribes on the Vistula. The Slavs’ calm lives are disturbed by strange and violent monsters, which destroy everything they see. On the ruins and ashes, a white
A documentary about the creation of a song in a studio with friends.
Drama on the dawning love between a Polish woman and a farmer. Anna is forced to work in a brothel, but manages to escape. She's found, exhausted and scared, by Henk (the farmer) who offers her a place to stay, but her p
A somewhat reluctant vampire is taken out by his sexpot sister for his first "night out on the town."
The documentary talks about the origins, development and achievements of the Polish film school. People from the environment of the "Filmówka" in Łódź, among others. Wanda Jakubowska, Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Antoni Bohdziewi
The little girl had just colored her nails and the world painted her face.
The film pays homage to the revitalization of the art of poetry in the Polish language in the second half of the 20th century. Its visual style is based on underground publications in Poland in the 1970s and 1980’s, know
Anna and Adam, a young couple from Paris with Polish Jewish origins, leave for the first time of their lives in Poland. They were invited to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the destruction of the birth villa
Timith, a chatty and needy young man, pushes himself upon Belky, a nearly-wordless immigrant waiter who works at a cafe Timith frequents. Timith projects all kinds of attributes onto Belky, gets the waiter to visit his a
A forgotten gravure idol from 2001, Reiko Azechi (畦地令子), VHS.
“The life of a Cockney patriarch is remembered by his children.” - BFI.
Polish animation, influenced by jazz, poster design and collage, took off in the late 1950s when artists found creative freedom in the wake of Stalin’s death. Pioneering filmmakers like Walerian Borowczyk and Jan Lenica
Confused by graffiti scribbled in a British backstreet demanding ‘Go Home Polish’, a photographer embarks on a thousand mile walk back to his birthplace in search of home.
Mr. Twardowsky has spent years alone aboard a space station on the Moon. That's the price of a deal he once made with the Devil. Bored beyond endurance and unwilling to accept his fate, he seizes a final chance when the