1956. Stefan Madejski, a former KBW lieutenant, is released from prison and rehabilitated. Ten years ago he fought against the gangs, but his brutal and ruthless methods aroused opposition. Because he let go of a band member, his former AK unit colleague, he was brought before a military court and...
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 her captor Cieślik to crash the party and force her into an impossible choice: become his lover or betray her to the Nazis. Filip Zylber’s debut...
Agatha is reaching her 40s, but despite her many romances she has not started a family. She lives as if everything could still happen. She works at Polish Radio, has published several volumes of poetry and is still ready to meet a great love. Boris, whom she met at the wedding of her young friend...
Set in 1989, story of a man beat up by two ex-policemen and left to die in a dump. Marek survives after the brain surgery that leaves him amnesiac. He wanders through the city, sought by his assilant, who fear he will testify against them. Marek finds shelter with a girlfriend/bagwoman who...
Valery Gergiev conducts Mariusz Trelinski’s thrilling new production of these rarely heard one-act operas. Anna Netrebko stars as the blind princess of the title in Tchaikovsky’s lyrical work, opposite Piotr Beczala as Vaudémont, the man who wins her love—and wakes her desire to be able to...
Sylwia, a ballet dancer chosen for the lead in “Romeo and Juliet,” breaks her spine and faces a career’s end while her filmmaker husband Andrzej pursues his debut and an affair with his director’s secretary. Conflicted between love, ambition, and sacrifice, they and Sylwia’s devoted...
Marek Kossot, a special forces soldier, discovers that his niece Monica is a drug addict. Wanting to cut the girl off from the source of the goods, he tries to intimidate her dealer and also her boyfriend, a certain Coke. The drug bosses are alarmed by Mark's action and send their men against him....
Old friends come to the reunion of alumni, for whom the meeting after many years is an opportunity for memories, but also comparisons of who have been most successful in their lives.
A grieving man tries to find the cause of his young wife's suicide by spending the night next to her dead body and bringing back memories from their past.
1945, Zofia Szablewska, a repatriate from the East, arrives in the former Breslau, now Wroclaw. He lives in a former German villa - the House under the Two Eagles. Zofia's roommate is Jan Liski, an officer of the Security Office who raises his stepson, Kazio, alone. Zofia uses the Red Cross to...
Inge has an unconventional profession and an equally unconventional personality. Her job involves ripping various sounds to illustrate radio broadcasts and advertising spots. One day on the street, Inge is approached by a mysterious Stranger who wordlessly kisses her on the lips, hands her a...
Agnieszka is the daughter of a famous opera singer. However, her mother gives up her career in order to devote more time to her daughter. She cannot live without music, though. After some time, she returns to the stage, but then it turns out that her daughter is seriously ill...
Businessman Kurowski dispatches employees Leon and Chwastek to track down his stolen, beat-up Mercedes, which has ended up at Magda’s used-car lot. Strapped for cash, Magda advertises four seats on a Paris trip, answered by Stefan and his son Janek, African student Machu, and Armenian émigré...
