The Hourglass Sanatorium

The Hourglass Sanatorium 1973

7.60

Josef visits a dilapidated Sanatorium to see his father. Josef undertakes a strange journey through the many rooms of the sanatorium, each which conjures worlds composed of his memories, dreams and nightmares.

1973

The Hijacking of 'Savoy'

The Hijacking of 'Savoy' 1979

4.00

Polish schoolboy Janek, and Russian girl Tanya are traveling by a plane which ended up in the hands of a gang of drug dealers headed by ex Nazi criminal Henrich Scharf.

1979

The Big Picnic

The Big Picnic 1981

6.70

Rysiek is an escapee from a reform school. Julek escapes the anger of a fire brigade in a small town from which he embezzled. In search for food Rysiek breaks into a villa and discovers a bundle of cash in the freezer. They team together in Warsaw and decide to go on a rampage through the city.

1981

Na tropach Bartka

Na tropach Bartka 1984

1

Friends, with the help of the gamekeeper and forester, try to catch the poacher.

1984

She-Wolf

She-Wolf 1983

5.50

In 1848 Poland, Kacper Wosinski is cursed by his wife Maryna on her deathbed. Her evil spirit then haunts him in the form of a she-wolf.

1983

The Death Sentence

The Death Sentence 1980

1

A spy thriller set in 1943 when the Polish Resistance was killing SS- officers and collaborators in Lublin and Zamosc. Polish hitman romances with "officer's lady" while he is setting up her boyfriend for his sentence of death. In the end, he loses out to a collaborator living next door.

1980

Random Love Story

Random Love Story 1974

6.00

This 50-minutes long TV production, Wiszniewski's only feature film, is the story of a young worker, who is given a flat by his union commission on condition that he gets married.

1974

Upside Down

Upside Down 1983

7.00

With the Nazi occupation of Poland, several children in a village there become very unhappy and then get in deep trouble for a drawing of the Nazi Führer hanged from a tree.

1983

The Leper

The Leper 1976

6.83

A simple governess and a wealthy aristocrat fall madly in love with each other. However, his family are prejudiced towards her and have other plans for him.

1976

The Mystery of the Old Garden

The Mystery of the Old Garden 1984

1

A group of teenagers dream of adventures and experiencing something unusual, mysterious and romantic. The boys play treasure hunters and detectives in an old park adjacent to a modern housing estate. By accident, the heroes find the trail of a youth gang that stole the documentation of a sensational preparation that can be used in the preparation of animal feed. The gang members manage to suspect the inventor of the preparation, the engineer Tyc. His son, Andrzej, and his friends decide to expose the real criminals and find maps that are to indicate the place of the hidden treasure.

1984

A Round Week

A Round Week 1977

1

Gustlik learns the magical world of Silesian legends listening to his grandfather's stories.

1977

On, ona, oni

On, ona, oni 1983

1

Three vignettes showing a marriage crisis and a subsequent divorce.

1983

Through and Through

Through and Through 1973

6.20

Jan and Maria meet at a party and are immediately drawn to each other. Their difficult financial situation and the scorn of society inflicted on them push them to a breaking point, culminating in a string of murders.

1973

Opis obyczajów

Opis obyczajów 1973

1

Ethnography students do an internship in the Świętokrzyskie Mountains, where they meet the Mruk family.

1973

The Haunted

The Haunted 1982

5.70

1950, a small town in Poland. Not the best times for shop owners like Jozef Piasecki - obstacles from authorities, restricted wholesale supplies. Moreover, he constantly argues with his son, the 17 year old Witek. Witek experiences love for the first time. This should be a time of great excitement for him, but Witek, being rather anxious about the future, becomes an example of a youth generation growing up under the long shadow of Stalin.

1982