Piotr Szulkin Movies

The movie consists of three novellas, the events of which take place during World War II. The first, "White Daisies", tells how a Polish priest saves a Jewish boy who survived a mass shooting. Another movie story, "Desolation," is about a ghetto boy in love who must, by all means, bring wildflowers...

Loosely connected scenes in the life of a young student.

Szulkin stages a morality play about a sinful woman’s encounter with the devil, set to the Polish ballad of the same name and imbued with folkloric imagery.

Here's a strange one. First, a song on a blackboard: a Polish translation of “I love my little rooster” by American folk writer Almeda Riddle. Then, two men roll around trash bins and lift them to the garbage truck. They do it several times. A woman shouts in the distance. At the end, the...

An apple is squished to the soundtrack of its amplified demise.

A surrealistic portrait of restaurant guests as seen by an otherworldly visitor who has the ability to read people’s subconscious.

Stylized with dramatic interiors and a distorted frame rate, this early documentary miniature from Szulkin depicts six sequences of solitary, repetitious labor.