Directing

Slawomir Grünberg

Known for

Directing

Credits

21 titles

Known for

The Peretzniks poster
5.0

Interviews with students of the post-war Jewish I.L. Perec school in Łódź, Poland, who were mostly scattered around the world after anti-Semitic purges in 1968.

The Peretzniks

2010

Karski & The Lords of Humanity poster
6.0

The film tells the story of a member of the Polish underground who acted as a courier during World War II and whose most prominent mission was to inform the Allied powers of Nazi crimes against the Jews of Europe in an effort to prevent the Holocaust.

Karski & The Lords of Humanity

2015

Trans-Action poster
4.2

Trans-Action tells the story of an extraordinary woman. Anna Grodzka who in 2011 became the first transgender person in the Polish government, and the third transgender member of government in world history, was born in the male body and decided to finally begin her life as a woman only in her 50s. The film documents the most important chapters in this intimate process of transformation. We observe Anna in her daily activities in Warsaw, we witness her intimate conversations with her son and closest friends.

Trans-Action

2010

Coming Out Polish Style poster
1.0

Rare look into the lives of gays and lesbians in contemporary Poland. It explores the issue of gay and lesbian rights in a conservative society, which is undergoing a very dynamic transformation, allowing for successful liberal changes.

Coming Out Polish Style

2011

Łódź Kaliska: Classic Artists of the Absurd poster
NR

The history of the phenomenon of Łódź Kaliska presented in a Monty-Pythonesque style. Łódź Kaliska is among the most eminent and original artistic groups in Poland, which has been continuously active on the avant-garde scene for 44 years.

Łódź Kaliska: Classic Artists of the Absurd

2023

Everything is in Your Hands poster
NR

Kaya Mirecka-Ploss was closely associated with Jan Karski. She helped over a hundred children from Poland get education in the USA. She gave home to three of them, funded her studies in the US, and help them in the transition into adulthood.

Everything is in Your Hands

2022

Behind the camera

The Peretzniks poster
5.0

Interviews with students of the post-war Jewish I.L. Perec school in Łódź, Poland, who were mostly scattered around the world after anti-Semitic purges in 1968.

The Peretzniks

2010

Karski & The Lords of Humanity poster
6.0

The film tells the story of a member of the Polish underground who acted as a courier during World War II and whose most prominent mission was to inform the Allied powers of Nazi crimes against the Jews of Europe in an effort to prevent the Holocaust.

Karski & The Lords of Humanity

2015

Karski & The Lords of Humanity poster
6.0

The film tells the story of a member of the Polish underground who acted as a courier during World War II and whose most prominent mission was to inform the Allied powers of Nazi crimes against the Jews of Europe in an effort to prevent the Holocaust.

Karski & The Lords of Humanity

2015

Trans-Action poster
4.2

Trans-Action tells the story of an extraordinary woman. Anna Grodzka who in 2011 became the first transgender person in the Polish government, and the third transgender member of government in world history, was born in the male body and decided to finally begin her life as a woman only in her 50s. The film documents the most important chapters in this intimate process of transformation. We observe Anna in her daily activities in Warsaw, we witness her intimate conversations with her son and closest friends.

Trans-Action

2010

Trans-Action poster
4.2

Trans-Action tells the story of an extraordinary woman. Anna Grodzka who in 2011 became the first transgender person in the Polish government, and the third transgender member of government in world history, was born in the male body and decided to finally begin her life as a woman only in her 50s. The film documents the most important chapters in this intimate process of transformation. We observe Anna in her daily activities in Warsaw, we witness her intimate conversations with her son and closest friends.

Trans-Action

2010

Coming Out Polish Style poster
1.0

Rare look into the lives of gays and lesbians in contemporary Poland. It explores the issue of gay and lesbian rights in a conservative society, which is undergoing a very dynamic transformation, allowing for successful liberal changes.

Coming Out Polish Style

2011

Łódź Kaliska: Classic Artists of the Absurd poster
NR

The history of the phenomenon of Łódź Kaliska presented in a Monty-Pythonesque style. Łódź Kaliska is among the most eminent and original artistic groups in Poland, which has been continuously active on the avant-garde scene for 44 years.

Łódź Kaliska: Classic Artists of the Absurd

2023

Łódź Kaliska: Classic Artists of the Absurd poster
NR

The history of the phenomenon of Łódź Kaliska presented in a Monty-Pythonesque style. Łódź Kaliska is among the most eminent and original artistic groups in Poland, which has been continuously active on the avant-garde scene for 44 years.

Łódź Kaliska: Classic Artists of the Absurd

2023

Everything is in Your Hands poster
NR

Kaya Mirecka-Ploss was closely associated with Jan Karski. She helped over a hundred children from Poland get education in the USA. She gave home to three of them, funded her studies in the US, and help them in the transition into adulthood.

Everything is in Your Hands

2022

The Red Button poster
NR

Tells the dramatic story of Stanislav Petrov, the Russian officer who, in 1983, saved the world from atomic war.

The Red Button

2011

Still Life in Lodz poster
NR

A large still-life painting hung on the wall above Lilka Elbaum's childhood bed in Lodz, Poland. It was the first thing she saw when she woke up, and the last thing she saw before she fell asleep.

Still Life in Lodz

2021

School Prayer: A Community at War poster
7.0

Lisa Herdahl, a Mississippi mother of six, is forced to sue her public school district in order to have The Bible removed from her childrens' classrooms.

School Prayer: A Community at War

1999

No artwork available
9.0

African-American residents in Norco, Louisiana, who believe that increasing pollution is negatively impacting their health, demand to be relocated from under the shadow of a Shell oil refinery.

Fenceline

2002

How About We... Stop in Tomaszów for the Day poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

How About We... Stop in Tomaszów for the Day

2023

How About We... Stop in Tomaszów for the Day poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

How About We... Stop in Tomaszów for the Day

2023

Shimon's Returns poster
NR

Shot in Poland, Ukraine and Israel, this film tells the story of Shimon Redlich, a Holocaust survivor who returns to places from his childhood as well as different hiding places in his struggle to survive.

Shimon's Returns

2014

Shimon's Returns poster
NR

Shot in Poland, Ukraine and Israel, this film tells the story of Shimon Redlich, a Holocaust survivor who returns to places from his childhood as well as different hiding places in his struggle to survive.

Shimon's Returns

2014

9/11 B&B Guestbook poster
NR

Regular people, many of whom witnessed the World Trade Center attacks in New York City, describe where they were, what they felt and the actions they took on that day.

9/11 B&B Guestbook

2007

No artwork available
NR

In 1940, Joseph Stalin ordered the deportation of 200,000 Polish Jews from Russian-occupied Eastern Poland to forced labor settlements in the Soviet interior. This cruel action ended up saving Jews from the Holocaust. Seven deportees share their story.

Saved by Deportation

2007

No artwork available
NR

Profile of Colonel Rankin, owner of the infamous El Rancho Rankin motel in Anderson Township, a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio.

The Colonel

1984

The Legacy of Jedwabne poster
NR

This film tells a shocking and brutal story that has been kept a secret in Poland for over 60 years. It tells the story of a pogrom in 1941 in Jedwabne, Poland and explores the implications of the past for present constructions and negotiations of personal, national and religious identity.

The Legacy of Jedwabne

2005