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

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

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

Wystrzał

Wystrzał 1966

5.00

Study of a man obsessively seeking revenge.

1966

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

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

Pavoncello

Pavoncello 1967

6.00

In 1912, Szczebieniew, a rich and ailing old man, comes to Italy with his young wife, Zinaida. Bored with his company, she looks for amusement and casual affairs.

1967

Sposób bycia

Sposób bycia 1966

3.50

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

1966

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

Pan Anatol szuka miliona

Pan Anatol szuka miliona 1959

6.80

Mister Anatol investigates a gang of thieves looking after a young woman who has just won a lottery.

1959

Nikodem Dyzma

Nikodem Dyzma 1956

4.70

Nikodem Dyzma is a poor dancer who comes to Warsaw to find a job. The problem is that nobody wants to hire him. One day he finds an invitation to the party with very important people and decides to attend. A small accident at the party makes him the hero of the night and becomes the beginning of his career.

1956

Rzeczpospolita babska

Rzeczpospolita babska 1969

5.50

After the end of World War 2 a division of female soldiers settles down at Recovered Territories and make an oath to never enter into relationships with men, which may prove difficult, because male soldiers have also made their home nearby.

1969

Trzy kobiety

Trzy kobiety 1957

1

Three women, ex-prisoners of a Nazi death camp, decide to live together after the war.

1957

Kapelusz pana Anatola

Kapelusz pana Anatola 1957

6.90

Anatol Kowalski is an old man who works in a bank and loves his old-fashioned hat. One day the hat gets lost and Anatol decides to buy a new one.

1957

Wolves' Echoes

Wolves' Echoes 1968

7.00

A lonely Border Guard officer, with a girl and a former villain, has to face a local corrupt Militia commandant and his people in wild Bieszczady Mountains in the Polish East.

1968