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Henryk Bista
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Schindler's List
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
Dekalog
The Ten Commandments, exact and uncompromising, literally cast in stone, continues to provide a source of moral conflict in contemporary society. In the ten part collection of films, The Decalogue, Krzysztof Kieślowski examines the dilemma of fundamental sin in the lives of ordinary Warsaw citizens.
Dom
The story of the residents of a tenement house on Złota Street in Warsaw from 1945 to 1980.
Dom
The story of the residents of a tenement house on Złota Street in Warsaw from 1945 to 1980.
Calling 07
The series centres around the investigations of Police Lieutenant Sławomir Borewicz. Each episode features a different case being solved by Borewicz.
Ekstradycja
One of the most important action series created during the transition period. It brilliantly and credibly portrays the realities of the 1990s and the work of police officers in a new reality, one in which entirely new criminal groups emerged – drug dealers and warring gangs.
I Love Cinema
The manager of a small provincial cinema finds her lost son, and he tries to save the movie theater.
Życie na gorąco
Provocateur
Warsaw, 1909. Arthur Herling makes an assassination attempt on a Russian police official and his family. During the action, the officer's daughter is killed and his wife is maimed. The wounded militant is arrested. Tormented by remorse, Herling agrees to cooperate with the tsarist authorities as a provocateur. Into his cell comes Adam Tanski, suspected of having contacts with the wanted conspirator Andrzej Woyda. One day, while being transported in a prison ambulance, Herling kills the guards. Accompanying him, Adam urges him to escape to the mountains.
To Save the City
1945. Soviet offensive is approaching Cracow. Local resistance cooperate despite political differences to save the city from destruction planned by Germans.
Oko proroka
On the Silver Globe
A small group of cosmic explorers, including a woman, leaves Earth to start a new civilization. They do not realize that within themselves they carry the end of their own dream. They die one by one, while their children revert to a primitive native culture, creating new myths and a new god.
An Immoral Story
Told as a film within the film, the story concerns an aging actress. Ewa is a flamboyant, pushy actress whose career and love life have come to a dead end. She lives in a faceless housing development. She is totally engrossed in herself and dreams of making a comeback as a singer. But her overbearing personality time after time sets her into conflict with those she tries to work with in the theater and her bedroom.
Cheap Money
After two years in prison, Adam returns home set on revenge against the uncle who betrayed him. En route, he lands a job on a highway construction site near his uncle’s village. Soon, fellow ex-con Tojfel appears and makes a chilling offer: his men will kill the uncle if Adam joins his new criminal schemes. Adam’s silence triggers a violent spiral that threatens everything he holds dear - especially his growing love for young trainee Magda.
