, 1h44 Directed byVolker Schlöndorff OriginGerman GenresDrama, Historical ThemesFeminist films, Films about the labor movement, Political films ActorsKatharina Thalbach, Andrzej Chyra, Dominique Horwitz, Wojciech Pszoniak, Andrzej Grabowski, Wojciech Solarz Roles Editor Rating67% Agnieszka Kowalska is a hardworking welder in the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk. She is honored as a heroic worker, “activist of the Year” award for being a superquota worker. This is her tenth time winning the award, so she is given a television. She even gives a speech of how she came to the shipyard in 1950 with nothing, and now she has a profession and a home. She truly seems thankful for what the shipyard has given her. However after the official ceremony, other women workers confront her for working so hard and they are clearly not even trying to beat the quotas set forth by the Party.
, 2h27 Directed byAndrzej Wajda GenresDrama, War, Historical, Romance ThemesHistoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films ActorsBogusław Linda, Alicja Bachleda-Curuś, Jerzy Bińczycki, Daniel Olbrychski, Grażyna Szapołowska, Andrzej Seweryn Roles Editor Rating60% Pan Tadeusz is told in flashbacks as the author, Adam Mickiewicz, reads his work to a group of elderly exiles in Paris. The story takes place over the course of five days in 1811 and one day in 1812 in rolling landscapes of Lithuania inhabited by Poles whose homeland has been recently partitioned among Russia, the Austrian Empire and Prussia. Not far off in history looms Napoleon's invasion of Russia, the prospect of which heartens Poles yearning for liberation. But more immediately, the characters in Pan Tadeusz are feuding among themselves.
, 1h50 Directed byAndrzej Żuławski OriginPologne GenresDrama, Thriller, Horror ThemesFilms about sexuality, Erotic films ActorsBogusław Linda, Paweł Deląg, Paweł Burczyk, Agnieszka Wagner Roles Editor Rating58% In Warsaw, a student only known as the "Italian" (Polish: Włoszka, played by Iwona Petry) is on the search for an apartment. The Italian, who is beautiful and a free spirit, is originally from the countryside. During her search she meets anthropology professor Michał (Bogusław Linda), who is renting her an apartment that was occupied by his brother. The business is concluded by a violent sex scene between the two in the empty apartment.
, 1h38 GenresAction ActorsBogusław Linda, Cezary Pazura, Valery Priomykhov, Sergueï Chakourov, Jan Machulski, Jerzy Zelnik Roles Editor Rating67% Poland in 1993. Franciszek Maurer (Franz) is released from prison. He is engaged by Radosław Wolf, arms dealer, who returned from Serbia. Maurer pulls to the gang former police colleague, "Nowy". Franz does not know that the whole time "Nowy" maintains contact with the major Bień. When Maurer, Wolf and "Nowy" have to organize the transport of weapons to Sarajevo, Franz announces to the police a planned action. At the last moment the heads of gang changes plans. Maurer has to stop the train departure unloaded weapon.
, 1h55 Directed byWojciech Has GenresDrama, Fantasy, Historical ActorsMichael Lonsdale, Gabriela Kownacka, Emmanuelle Riva, Daniel Emilfork, Jerzy Bończak, Zofia Merle Roles Editor Rating67% Young alchemy student Balthazar (Rafal Wieczynski) and his master (Michael Lonsdale) are forced to flee their home by the inquisition. The set off on a journey across a plague-stricken Germany, encountering various people including corrupt priests and Kabbalists, not to mention ghosts and even an angel, before ending up in Venice where he falls in love with a young actress.
, 2h51 Directed byFilip Bajon GenresDrama, Historical ActorsJerzy Bińczycki, Bogusław Linda, Jan Nowicki, Grażyna Szapołowska, Jan Englert, Olgierd Łukaszewicz Roles Editor Rating68% In the year 1900 the German Emperor, Wilhelm II, was invited for a bison hunt in the hunting lodge and estate of a wealthy industrialist and businessman Prince Hans Heinrich XV (of the von Teuss family) in German-controlled Silesia. The emperor, satisfied with the diplomatic services of the Prince for the country and charmed by his young wife Daisy, offers him a profitable position. The Prince is obliged to choose: either become the Great Huntsman of the Crown and receive additional land for building new factories, coal mines and manufacturing plants or become an Ambassador of the German Empire in London. Although under the constant pressure of his wife to choose the position of an ambassador, Hans Heinrich decides to choose the position of the Great Huntsman of the Empire. Later distressed Princess Daisy turns to the Emperor for help in order to escape from her tyrannical, cynical and obsessed husband. Upon the Kaiser's refusal she becomes involved in a scandalous affair that would later have devastating consequences on the von Teuss family and her marriage. The Prince eventually divorced Daisy in the 1920s.