Zofia Merle

It is a bitter story about a middle-aged man, who hates his life and other people, including himself. Adam Miauczynski, the character known from director Marek Koterski's previous films, is a 49 year-old teacher, who reads poetry during school lessons and later goes home swearing and calling his neighbours' names. The worst pain for him is the next 5 minutes of living. He doesn't accept himself and even everyday contacts with others cause his aggression. Though constantly dreaming of a romantic love, he is not bold enough to make his dreams come true. The desperate Miauczynski personalizes our own fears and obsessions, which have become so visible recently.

As every year, the celebration of All Saints Day brings Polish families together at the graves of their loved ones. On this special day Maria, 80-year-old widow, visits the graveyard with her son, his wife and their children.

An adaptation of the book by Jerzy Niemczuk. The protagonists are strange but friendly creatures inhabiting the heart of the forest - Tatun, Mamuna, their child Sonek and grandfather Lesavik. The grandfather's inventions - including a kite, a znikolina and a conusola - save the children trapped in the mighty Marbat castle.

The biography of world famous Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin.

A single mobile phone links disparate lives as mishaps take it from a tabloid journalist, to a rehab facility, a war veteran — and beyond.

Chased by mafia boss Kreda over a mistaken €2 million debt, club president Ryszard Ochódzki follows consigliere Maria Wafel’s advice to sell land to Father Pudło, only to hatch an even bigger bank fraud with banker Koziczek to raise the cash. Flush with stolen funds and briefly enjoying political office, he hides the money in the Molibdenów home, but just as he and coach Jarząbek plan to retrieve it, contract killer Dukan closes in.

A 'village idiot' tries to open a barber shop.

Adaś Miauczyński, a Polish intellectual, has severe alcohol problems which affect his relationship with his son Sylwek.

The story of catholic saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz.

A hardened airborne instructor discovers his niece is drowning in drugs. When he confronts her dealer, the city’s crime bosses hit back hard. Beaten and warned off, Marek Kossot is ready to walk away - until he finds her overdosed and unconscious. Rallying his former soldiers, he launches a brutal private war against the narcotics mafia in a city where gangsters, politicians, and the law are all dangerously intertwined.

In a small Polish town in the summer of 1939, a married painter and a young Jewish woman begin an affair. Based on the novel by Marek Sołtysik.

The mis-adventures of three Polish-Jews on the road to Gdansk is the basis for this German comedy that was filmed in New York, Germany, and Poland. Genovefa and Moshe have been married and living in New York for 30 years. Physically the couple resembles Mr. and Mrs. Jack Sprat. The two have decided to return to Poland for a visit. They intend to have Moshe's best friend Isaac, an unlucky, depressive German, take care of their house while they are gone. Unfortunately, Isaac loses his job before they go and ends up accompanying them on a Polish freighter. When the ship dies in a German port, the threesome must go overland to Gdansk. They encounter many mishaps along the way.

Screen One movie that is a continuation of Andrew Davies' brilliant series A Very Peculiar Practice. Dr. Daker feels finally settled in his life in Poland with his new wife and son, but he soon find things to be just as tumultuous, not least because Bob Buzzard is still around. And is that those nuns again?

On the same day, two women, Anna from Poland and Maria from Germany, give birth to sons in a hospital in Gdańsk. Eight years pass, and there is no indication that their paths will ever cross. However, one day, Anna's son Tomek has an accident. When his father wants to donate blood for him, tests show that Tomek is not his son. This news comes as a shock. Anna, accused of infidelity, tries to prove her innocence. She begins to suspect that eight years ago, in a hospital in Gdańsk, someone may have mixed up the babies. She decides to find Maria and her son to dispel or confirm her suspicions...

The action is set in the early 20th century. The film is made up of six sequences. In the first, Michal, young man who came from Poland to Germany, enrolls in a course on how to behave in social situations and on etiquette. However when he tries to approach girls using the rules which he's been taught... he only makes a fool of himself. Then, he goes to work for a man who owns a carousel and who loves to chase other women. In the next sequence, Michal meets the divorced landlady, Mrs. Luther, and goes through a whole lot of erotic experiences. When he escapes exhausted from his landlady, he starts working in a mine and visits brothels on a regular basis. He looks on women in a totally cynical manner. However, his persistent wandering must finally result in a true love.

Feuerreiter is an elegant period drama that begins in Frankfurt in 1796. Through his friend, Baron von Sinclair, romantic and rebellious poet Friedrich Hölderlin secures the position of a private tutor in the home of a banker named Gontard. He is soon torn between his passion for poetry and his love for Susette, the lady of the house. To top it all off, Baron von Sinclair is in love with him. Hölderlin's most beautiful poems are written during this trying time. However, he becomes a total recluse when he loses Susette. The film examines the effects of conflicting demands, both emotional and sensual, that may inspire art. Feuerreiter was screened as part of the New German Films at the 49th International Berlin Film Festival, 1999.

Based on the autobiographical memoir of Ola Wat, the film follows the ordeal of Ola and her husband, poet Aleksander Wat, during the Second World War. Separated after the Soviet invasion of Poland, Ola endures exile, persecution, and unimaginable hardship while desperately searching for her husband. Sustained by hope and love, she struggles to survive against the brutal realities of war and political repression.

Ryszard Ochódzki receives a special assignment for UB - infiltrating the "Solidarity" party branch in Suwałki. His arriving there coincides with the imposition of martial law on Poland.

A young married couple is expecting a child. Before it arrives, the future parents have to tackle the problems of everyday life, get used to a completely new situation. Meanwhile, the small human is growing in the mother's womb and comments everything happening around him in hi own way. The film was made using the combined technique of live action and animation.

Story of a girl from Surrey who visits Jozef, a Slovenian artist living in Poland, and embarks on an affair.

Maidens and Widows is an epic tale of a hundred years of Polish history from the perspective of women, the titular maidens and widows. Set against the backdrop of turbulent historical events.

One night, a teacher is murdered. A police investigation soon leads to the deceased's true nature and two unlikely suspects.

A young Janka leads a band of kids in 1920's Poland, experiencing many adventures and witnessing technological innnovations along the way. The first of two theatrical films edited out of the original TV series.

A young Janka leads a band of kids in 1920's Poland, experiencing many adventures and witnessing technological innnovations along the way. The second of two theatrical films edited out of the original TV series.

Panoramic view of a resort town in the summer of 1930. In seventeen episodes we get a glimpse at the microcosm of its colourful inhabitants and visitors, Poles and Jews, the high society and the desperately poor.

On their wedding day in occupied Poland, poet Tadeusz brings Sarah, the Jewish woman he rescued from a Gestapo officer, to the celebration, only for her captor Cieślik to crash the party and force her into an impossible choice: become his lover or betray her to the Nazis. Filip Zylber’s debut uses Tomasz Stańko’s music and expanded characterizations to breathe new poetic life into Borowski’s terse wartime tale.

Story of a tragic love triangle that develops between a mother daugther and a farmhand. A good-looking widow lives alone on a farm with her teenage daughter. Their neighbor occasionally helps them in the farmwork. He would have eventually married the mother, but the daughter tries to seduce him at all costs. He becomes the lover of both women, but eventually runs away leaving the mother shattered and the daughter pregnant.

En route to London, Bear discovers at the border checkpoint that his passport is missing a few pages, which may prevent him from traveling to the city with the sports team he manages.

The nouveau riche chinchilla breeder hires a painter-portraitist.

A recently resurrected corpse recounts his life story, focusing on his strange relationship with a murderous alter-ego.

It's Christmas, and children at an orphanage in Maliszewo receive a computer that was given to them by another orphan who used to live there many years ago. During the night, the computer awakes itself and tells the children a story that will happen in 25 years...

Jakub, who is dominated by his mother, invites a healer to his home.

Story about the young Balthazar thrown from one remarkable event to the other. On his way through a plague hit the landscape, he meets the Kabbalists, priests - and himself.

A UFO lands at night in a typical Masovian village. The villagers feel honored and want to be as hospitable as possible for the unexpected alien guests.

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.

Main character, Rysiek, tries to live through dangerous times of war-torn and later stalinist Poland.

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.

The story is of an engineer in conflict with his superior. He won't go along with the ususal corruption and conformity. He is left to himself amid indifference and ineptitude by his fellow workers and the management.

A group of retirees, wanting to help a friend, plan to break into a bank.

Tadeusz Krzakoski, the director of a failing state-owned company, is married with problems. His mistress, the daughter of a Communist party bigwig, says she's pregnant and Tadeusz knows he'll have to marry her to save his reputation and his job. But divorce is never simple and Bareja's screwball comedies are never boring.

In a bucolic Polish hamlet, the tense relationship between a father and son reaches a boiling point when the men lose their hearts to the same woman and vie for her affections. Based on Wladyslaw Reymont's Nobel Prize-winning book and helmed by Jan Rybkowski, this theatrical release (starring Krzystof Chamiec, Wladyslaw Hancza and Emilia Krakowska) was culled from a 13-episode miniseries that aired on Polish television in 1972.

The story of a 30-year-old boxer's return to the ring, who must overcome not only his personal problems, but also objective difficulties. The film's authentic atmosphere is ensured by former boxing champions Jan Szczepański and Zbigniew Pietrzykowski, among others.

A family saga of Barbara Ostrzeńska-Niechcic and Bogumił Niechcic against the backdrop of the January Uprising of 1863 and World War I. The film is a rather straightforward and faithful adaptation of a novel by Maria Dabrowska with the same title. The plot is woven around the changing fortunes of a noble (upper-class) Niechcic family in the pre-WWI Poland. There are two main crossing threads: a social history one and an existential one.

"Alone"- A psychological and moral drama dealing with the crisis of feelings in interpersonal relations. Young heroes, basing their relationship on a program-based resignation from emotional involvement, under the influence of a tragic accident, change the rules of past coexistence.

A young forest ranger wages a decisive war with poachers, while trying to convince the villagers of his righteousness.

A young man looking for work in Warsaw has to overcome many hurdles in the world of bureaucracy to finally get employed.

Polish musical comedy. The film focuses on two friends who spend their vacation in the beautiful countryside of Mazury. They buy a very nice car (Syrenka), but in order to pay for it the men need to start working as solicitors for a notable art impresario named Koszajtis. Soon they get thrown right in the middle of a hilarious war between two rivaling music-and-dance groups.

An elderly man returns to Poland to find his long-lost son, missing since World War II. In his quest the man is forced to contemplate the elusive and coded nature of truth itself.

The action takes place in the second half of the 19th century in a small Californian town in the Wild West. Hans, a German émigré, opens a shop on one of the streets. To his annoyance, his fellow countryman, young and beautiful Lora, sets up a shop on the opposite side. There is fierce competition. Lora decides to take Hans to court. However, unfamiliar with German, the judge mistakenly marries them.

A potter putting up a fireplace tells a story of a man, who decided to build a house at an infamous fire site.

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.

A collection of intimate television short stories based on well-known literary works.

A shy Warsaw university student is in love with a girl who pays no attention to him. Change comes after her intimate love letters are read publicly at a party.

Two travelling actors break from their troupe and with help of friends and family start their own act, experiencing serious success.

Guests from America came to Poland, and there were three of them. One, a businessman, intends to buy the land from the battlefields in order to cash it for a profit abroad. The second is looking for a wife in his home village, highlander, and the third wants to visit his uncle's family. Will their trip be successful?

A school etude referring to a painting motif about the farewell of lovers. He, the uhlan, must ride away on his horse into the blue distance, and she, the girl in a flower wreath, cannot come to terms with it.

A young designer is tormented by remorse after a viaduct of his design collapses.

A psychological portrait of a missing girl is drawn by the people who knew her, being interviewed by a journalist helping in the search.

A spy barely makes it out of a police ambush and goes on the run, taking a young woman with him along the way.

A young teacher and a conservative mayor fight over influence in a village in Western Poland, all while falling in love with each other.