Eugeniusz Maciaszek

Capital, or How to Make Money in Poland

A sociologist nearing middle-aged returns to Poland after several years of giving lectures abroad. The changing economy of the country and business successes of the people around him inspire him to venture out into the deep and unpredictable world of capitalism himself.

The Smaller Sky

A story of a dropout out of a succesful career and a loving family. He goes to a local railroad station, then checks into a hotel and refuses to leave despite visits by a psychiatrist and his own son. He watches people daily at the station. A tv reporter is trying to come up with a story which would help him to save his job. He likes to chase women and the dropout's wife is one of his targets. He gets interested in the story of her husband and tries to make a program about mysterious individual. Once the tv crew arrives to the scene, the subject tries to hide and ends up on the roof of the station, where he catches a glimpse of sunshine - the "smaller sky" - before stepping onto a glass roof and falling to his death.

Draka

A group of friends, bored at the seaside, provoke random people.

Agent #1

Jerzy Szajnowicz-Ivanov, the son of a Polish mother and a Russian father, raised in Greece, reports to the Carpathian Brigade in the spring of 1941. While the Poles are wary of him at first, he proves his worth by taking part in several sabotage actions against the Nazis.

Tell-Tale Hearts

The sight of a wounded neighbor causes anxiety in a young man.

I Hate Mondays

An acute case of Mondayitis in Warsaw. Interwoven stories of a few inhabitants of Warsaw, including one very unlucky Italian on a governmental mission and a charitable Polish American.

Nuremberg Epilogue

Reproduction of the Nuremberg trials using transcripts, made for Polish TV.

Facing the Truth

After an accident in a smelter plant kills two workers a crane operator decides to take full responsibility.

Landscape After Battle

Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are herded into other camps as the Allies try to devise policy to control the situation. A young poet who cannot quite find himself in this new situation, meets a headstrong Jewish young girl who wants him to run off with her, to the West. He cannot cope with her growing demands for affection, while still harboring the hatred for the Germans and disdain for his fellow men who quickly revert to petty enmities.

Red Rowan

The Polish Army fights to liberate Kołobrzeg from the Germans in the final months of World War 2.

The Tortures of Hope

A young doctor, accused of desecrating a body, is brought to the presence of the Inquisition.

Kwestia sumienia

During the Civil War, two soldiers fighting on opposite sides meet.

Hunting Flies

Włodek is a middle-aged man stuck in a dead-end job at the local library who lives with his harridan wife and critical in-laws in a small apartment. When Włodek draws the interest of a library patron, the beautiful young woman encourages him to strive for better things in his life and professional career. Together, the two take off for a three-day affair, but surprises could await Włodek upon his return home.

Duch z Canterville

An American businessman moves to Europe and lives in a castle, where the ghost of one of the previous owners haunts him.

Świat grozy

Three comedy-horror TV movies released together theatrically.

Cześć kapitanie

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

Barwy walki

Świętokrzyskie Mountains, 1944. A People's Army unit receives orders to transport a party delegate outside the front line, while heavy fighting is going on between the Germans and resistance fighters in the region.

Wiano

A peasant girl is abandoned by her fiancé after she has talked her father into giving her his land as a dowry.