One of the most important titles of the black series of Polish documentary. During the seven minutes of the film the authors managed to capture the significant change which cam ein October '56 in the way of showing reality on the screen. First we see new building of Warsaw, rebuilt after the war. Modern districts and Palace of Culture. Then we see what's hiding behind them: des...
Marcel Wysocki, a former Army officer, is in 1949 wrongly sentenced to death. However, he manages to escape from prison. Wanted by the UB finds refuge with Anna, beloved of the war. Now she works as a nurse in a hospital in Legnica. No one outside knows initially about his presence. Revives love. Both are prepared that the abnormal situation in which they find themselves, will ...
Difficulty of human relations in a 3-cornered tale: a neurotic woman, idealistic young man and his mother. Tomek is a clean-cut, high-minded geography student. He lives with his mother Zofia, a sensitive, practicing Catholic, like her son. When he meets Julia, a depressed woman older than he, he first tries to comfort her, then invites her to stay with him and his mother. Tomek...
Husband-and-wife Polish filmmakers Ewa Petelska and Czeslaw Petelski co-helmed this gritty but long-forgotten war epic, which recreates as a docudrama the March 1945 Battle of Kolberg in World War II. The drama at hand witnesses Polish soldiers struggling to gain control over the Kolobrzeg Fortress; Petelska and Petelski filter the material through the perspectives of several m...
In the novel The Master and Margarita by the Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov, on which the film is based, three story lines are interwoven: a satirical story in which Satan, going by the name of Woland, appears in the Moscow of the 1930s to deal in a hilarious manner with the corrupt lucky ones—the bureaucrats, toadies, poets, and profiteers—in the Stalinist era, a second one d...
A portrait of a man who analyses his life on his 44th birthday. The past and the present, the actual and potential developments blend in a dreamy vision. "The protagonist seems to assume that travelling in time is possible, and things happen in an imaginary, invented time which he fittingly adjusts and changes", said Konwicki in the Film Press News 1/1972. The film is a formall...