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Stach is a wayward teen living in squalor on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Guided by an avuncular Communist organizer, he is introduced to the underground resistance—and to the beautiful Dorota. Soon he is engaged in dangerous efforts to fight oppression and indignity, maturing as he assumes responsibility for others’ lives.
A promising but hot-headed young. boxer studies with a kind, knowing manager, grooming him for the Olympics.
Originally, Munk intended Eroica to be a triptych with Con bravura being the first part, but he ultimately gave up on this film, deeming it weaker artistically than the two counterparts. Con bravura is about conspiracy conflating the paths of a rather unconventional nun and an intrigued young man – each of them bears secrets and the encounter could incite a flaming romance, though one suffocated by war.Munk set the film in the mountain capital of Zakopane and its vicinity, allowing breathtaking views from a cable car and using his experiences of the Nazi occupation in the area to add gritty reality. The director plays a cameo as a priest with several of his industry friends also making appearances.
A young nurse only has one ampule of medicine. She is faced with the dilemma of which of the two patients to save.
Mr. Aleksander regularly hosts three friends who are clearly poorer than himself. Nobody knows that he is stealing nylon in cafes and restaurants.
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.
Sensational psychological drama, concerning the activities of the People's Guard in Silesia, presents from the human characters and attitudes perspective story of provocation of Gestapo agents, penetrating the ranks of the Resistance.
Report from the 1968 International Rally of Poland.
Framed as a mother’s bedtime narration to her child, this short documentary observes a city at night, revealing the factories, tram depots, and essential services that operate while most people sleep. Directed by Andrzej Wajda, the film turns nocturnal labor into a quiet civic portrait, emphasizing the unseen workers whose efforts sustain daytime life.
An official falls victim to hooligans. He recognizes one of the attackers at a party organized by his director.
Marta is coming to Warsaw to study. Due to lack of money, she begins to work in a cafe.
A man believes his wife is cheating on him.
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To secure their team's success, dedicated football fans (Boleslaw Plotnicki, Mieczyslaw Czechowicz) plot to kidnap their opponents' star player (Andrzej Kopiczynski).
A student strikes up a friendship with a young uneducated construction worker to gather material for her work about worker hotels.
The subject of the film is the problem of the migration of young people from the countryside to the cities in search of an easier life. The meeting of the whole family - whose paths have diverged a long time ago - with the sick father and a long conversation with him determine the final decision of the film's protagonist, Janek: he will return to where he comes from, to the countryside, to his fatherland.
In the early 1970s, the class struggle flared up in full force on the big screen - the hero of this film, set in the interwar period, is a staunch communist journalist who arrives in the Ostrava region during the economic crisis to instigate a strike. The impoverishment and hopelessness of the miners had exceeded all limits...
The drama of a young military pilot whose illness prevents him from flying and condemns him to a hopeless existence. Major Grela hoped to become the head of the test pilots' group. However, the higher command appointed Horycki, his former colleague and friend. They had both once been in love with Krystyna, Grela's current wife. A sharp conflict arises between them, both professionally and privately.
One day in the miserable life of a female factory worker and single mother of four children. One of her sons - ridiculed by his peers - leaves home and gets into trouble.
A group of young Łódź hoodlums spends their time shoplifting, partying and drinking heavily, until they are faced with serious consequences of their reckless behaviour.
