Directing
Horror legend Christopher Lee hosts this anthology in the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, each half-hour episode adapting a story from a classic author, with tales by Edgar Allen Poe, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ambrose Bierce, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Oscar Wilde.
A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. He falls in love with a beautiful woman and pledges an oath to bring her "three trophies" from the Teutonic Knights.
A collection of intimate television short stories based on well-known literary works.
Neglected by his parents, Slawek joins a gang of hooligans. A mysterious new neighbor tries to get the boy out of inappropriate company.
Every morning, a mysterious trombonist plays a concert in one of Warsaw's tenement houses.
Anka competes for a role in "Swan Lake". The girl's determination is not shared by her boyfriend Marek
This drama follows a lawyer who, averse to the sound of a barrel organ, changes his outlook upon meeting a blind girl. Based on the short story by Bolesław Prus.
Two stories showcasing the problems children face while growing up.
Diver Antoni Barnat is falsely accused of causing an accident underwater that almost led to his fellow diver's death. Interestingly enough, they are both in love with the same girl, Teresa.
A single woman goes to Warsaw to consult her children about an offer she received.
Sylwia, a ballet dancer chosen for the lead in “Romeo and Juliet,” breaks her spine and faces a career’s end while her filmmaker husband Andrzej pursues his debut and an affair with his director’s secretary. Conflicted between love, ambition, and sacrifice, they and Sylwia’s devoted friend Agata navigate betrayal, recovery, and the chance for new beginnings.
A boy escapes from a reformatory, but comes again into conflict with the law. During a robbery he hits a woman with a bottle on the head. He is convinced he killed her and because of his past thinks that nothing matters anymore. Only when he finds out that the victim did not die, he reveals the truth about what happened.
The film is a psychological study addressing the problem of lack of inner resilience in the face of misfortune. The death of a son, trampled by frightened horses, disrupts the peace and happiness of the family of Pastor Hubina. Mentally broken wife Edyta (Barbara Horawianka) leaves to join her sister in Prague and there meets music teacher von Kschitzky, with whom she returns after some time, entrusting him with teaching music to her daughter Olesia. The teacher is a follower of Nazi ideology and practice. Edith begins to show more and more interest in him, and he ostentatiously seeks her favor.
A prosecutor takes on the case of a peasant accused of murder.
A man and a woman pose as a couple to enter a photography contest.
WWII. Zyga, one of the Resistance soldiers in Kraków is arrested by Gestapo. Soon later the Germans make a number of other arrests and Zyga is accused of being an informer.
A jealous husband follows his wife, but accidentally ends up in a strange apartment.
A carmelite monk travels through 17th century Poland and experiences various mishaps along the way.
A young public servant receives a house as a wedding gift, but upon arriving he finds only the doors, a military barrack and a tank hidden underground.
Fourteen-year-old Roman Nowak, who becomes an orphan. Though his mother raised him alone, she provided him with a warm, happy home. After her death, the boy learns that he still has a father. Romek has serious shortcomings. After his mother's death, changing school and the environment, Will a strict mathematician get a little bit of forbearance and give the boy another chance?
