
Bohdan Poręba
Directing
Biography
Bohdan Poreba was born on 5 April 1934 in Wilno, Wilenskie, Poland [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. He was a director and writer, known for Gdzie woda czysta i trawa zielona, Siwa legenda He was married to Lucyna Jakubiak. He died on 25 January 2014 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
Known For

Two noblemen from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania clash because one refuses to free his servant - a girl. The second joins a peasant revolt and takes over the castle.
Grey Legend
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Gniewko, syn rybaka

A fifteen-year old Ludka navigates first love and frustrations related to failures of the adult world during summer holidays.
Tabliczka marzenia

The young Kuriata takes the position of the secretary of the City Committee in Grodów, where a corrupt clique ruled for many years. Kuriata begins to introduce competent people to managerial functions, which is enthusiastically received by workers who want changes for the better.
Where the Water Is Pure and the Grass Is Green

A film biography of Jarosław Dąbrowski, a Russian officer, Polish independence activist, and communist.
Jarosław Dąbrowski

In the last days of the war an old train driver and his young assistant carry weapons to Polish soldiers on the western front.
The Road West

A two-part historical film covering the years of the First World War and the post-war period up to 1919 - until the signing of the peace treaty in Versailles near Paris. An attempt to show the great and complicated process of regaining an independent existence by a nation within its own state. The screen shows characters from history textbooks: Józef Piłsudski, Ignacy Paderewski, Roman Dmowski, Wojciech Korfanty as well as representatives of the world political scene, incl. David Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, Vladimir Lenin and others.
Polonia Restituta

Beata, Bożena and Magdalena are waiting for their husbands-seamen in the Tri-City.
Penelopy

Major Henryk "Hubal" Dobrzański refuses to surrender to the Germans in the wake of the 1939 campaign and continues to lead his regiment in guerilla warfare against the invaders.
Hubal

First days of September 1939. The government decides to transport the Polish gold stored in the treasury of the National Bank of Poland out of the threatened Warsaw. A convoy is formed under the command of the man for special tasks, Major Bobruk. A string of trucks and city buses travel along crowded roads under relentless attack by aircraft. The convoy makes its way through Lublin to Romanian territory, where the gold will be reloaded onto a train. Prime Minister Calinescu, disregarding the threats of the Nazis, agrees to the transit of the precious bullion through his country. The evacuation of the gold is threatened all the time by a special German sabotage group under the command of Second Lieutenant Rudolf Lang.
Train of Gold
The work of medical staff in the children's sanatorium in Otwock is not easy. The small patients have skeletal tuberculosis and usually are unable to walk.
Island of Great Hopes

After WWII a soldier returns to his Polish homeland from Scotland.
Far Is the Road
The former owner, a German, shows up on a farm belonging to the Poles settled there.
Nad Odrą

A group of street thugs assault a man, causing temporary blindness. One of them, Romek has a change of heart after this incident and decides to turn against his former friends.
The Moonwalkers

A fictionalized documentary about the life of General Władysław Sikorski from the beginning of World War II until his tragic death in a plane crash. The action begins with the evacuation of the Polish government and general staff to Romania, showing their further fate in France and then in London.
Katastrofa w Gibraltarze
After an accident in a smelter plant kills two workers a crane operator decides to take full responsibility.