When Love Was a Crime

When Love Was a Crime 1968

1

A war drama showing the functioning of Hitler’s “racial purity” law, forbidding foreign workers from any contact with Germany. Foreigners on forced labor in Nazi Germany.

1968

The Ashes

The Ashes 1965

6.40

Set in the time of Napoleon wars, shows how the wars swept over the unfortunate Polish country at the beginning of the XIX-th century. Story revolves around the Polish legion under command of General Dabrowski, who then fought on Napoleon's side with the hopes of Poland's revival.

1965

Westerplatte Resists

Westerplatte Resists 1967

6.80

Westerplatte is a small peninsula at the entry to the Gdańsk Harbour. Before World War II, it functioned as a Polish ammunition depot in the Free City of Danzig. Its crew consisted of one infantry company and a group of civilians, 182 people in total. It was the only Polish guard-post at the mouth of the Vistula River, with as little as five sentries, one field cannon, two anti-armour guns and four mortars. The first shots of World War II were fired there. This film tells the story of Westerplatte's courageous defenders.

1967

Birth Certificate

Birth Certificate 1961

7.30

Three separate stories depicting the tense everyday life during occupation, as seen through the eyes of children. In “On the Road,” the two main protagonists are lost in the September’s strife: a young boy, and a soldier transporting the valueless documents of his broken unit. In “Letter from the Concentration Camp” the story’s protagonists are young boys who help their mother during the hardships of the occupation. Their treasure is an officer uniform belonging their father who is being held in a prisoner of war camp. In “Blood Drop,” the Germans find a set of typical Aryan characteristics in this story’s protagonist – a Jewish girl, hiding in an orphanage.

1961

Korn's Password

Korn's Password 1968

6.00

An intelligence agent's murder bring upon a national investigation into a spy organisation called Korn.

1968

Dziś w nocy umrze miasto

Dziś w nocy umrze miasto 1961

7.00

An unlikely couple - a Polish concentration camp inmate and a young German girl - stick together and try to survive the RAF bombing of Dresden in February 1945.

1961

Wystrzał

Wystrzał 1966

5.00

Study of a man obsessively seeking revenge.

1966

Hell and Heaven

Hell and Heaven 1966

6.00

A bus crashes and its passengers find themeselves in the afterlife, which they find has the not only the same set of rules as Earth, but also the same bureaucratic chaos.

1966

The Marriage of Convenience

The Marriage of Convenience 1967

5.90

Małżeństwo z rozsądku ("Marriage of Convenience") is a Polish musical comedy from 1966 directed by Stanisław Bareja.

1967

Komedie pomyłek

Komedie pomyłek 1968

1

Three Polish TV movies packed together and released theatrically

1968

Inspekcja pana Anatola

Inspekcja pana Anatola 1959

5.90

PZU Inspector Anatol Kowalski is sent to the city of Paryżew on a special mission to catch a gang of bathing suit robbers.

1959

The Touch of the Night

The Touch of the Night 1962

5.70

Roman Jacenko, a local photographer tries to turn his fortunes around and rob a bank transport.

1962

Adventure with a Song

Adventure with a Song 1969

5.30

Przygoda z piosenką (Pol. Adventure with song) is a Polish film musical comedy from 1969 directed by Stanisław Bareja.

1969

Sposób bycia

Sposób bycia 1966

3.50

A forty-year old man, destroyed physically and mentally by life experiences recounts his life.

1966

Wife for an Australian

Wife for an Australian 1964

6.30

A Polish-born Australian businessman arrives in Poland to find a wife for himself.

1964

Husband of His Wife

Husband of His Wife 1961

6.30

Mąż swojej żony (English: Husband of His Wife) is a Polish comedy from 1960 directed by Stanisław Bareja. The story of a newly married couple, Michał Karcz (composer) and sprinter Jadwiga Fołtasiówna-Karcz. Michał has to adjust to Jadwiga being much more famous and her fame and needs dominating their lives.

1961

Naprawdę wczoraj

Naprawdę wczoraj 1963

4.00

The story concerns a succesful writer at the height of his career. He is in a state of crisis, unable to forget the girl he had a brief affair in the 40's. At the promotion of his new book he meets her after the years and reminisces about the past, when he was on a government mission to recover a missing art treasure, a triptych. After the years the girl, now married, barely remembers the whole thing, while he re-examines the affair which he has so much romanticized.

1963

The Impossible Goodbye

The Impossible Goodbye 1962

6.50

All the ambiance of an old-fashioned circus comes across with great clarity in this otherwise routine psychological tale about a mean-spirited mime and his effects on his colleagues. The small, traveling circus has been sliding downhill for awhile, and unless some new life is infused into its acts, its future does not look very rosy. Into this precarious situation comes a new mime with the uncanny ability to sap the confidence of his fellow performers. If he continues for long in this vein, no one will be able to believe they have any talent left at all.

1962

Return to Earth

Return to Earth 1967

6.50

After the war, Stefan cannot go back to a normal life.

1967