Stanisław Jędryka

Po własnym pogrzebie

The film is a continuation of the 1984 film I died to live. Leopold Wójcik, faking his own death, returns to the underground. Unlike the previous part, the fate of the heroes is a fiction - a variant of events that could have taken place. The film had a sequel: Born for the Third Time (1989).

Jesienią o szczęściu

Anna, a young and beautiful woman, takes lonely walks along the beach, when one day she attracts the attention of Jan, a film director.

Porwanie

A group of kids takes a boat to save a friend

I Died So I Could Live

Warsaw 1941. Gestapo captures a Home Army soldier who knows the code needed to read the list of agents working in Reich. Tortured Wójcik asks the doctors for poison.

Upside Down

With the Nazi occupation of Poland, several children in a village there become very unhappy and then get in deep trouble for a drawing of the Nazi Führer hanged from a tree.

Przypadki Piotra S.

The pupil of the orphanage is entering adulthood.

Green Years

World War II. The Germans enter Sosnowiec, which complicates the relationship between the three friendly children.

The End of the Holiday

A coming of age story about fourteen years old Yurek, his adventures during the vacations and his first love.

Journey for One Smile

The film is a cinema version of the popular TV series of the same title.

Kamizelka

Anna tries to prevent her husband suffering from tuberculosis.

Kamizelka

Anna tries to prevent her husband suffering from tuberculosis.

Shoot Paragon!

A funny story about a young soccer player nicknamed Paragon.

The Barrel Organ

This drama follows a lawyer who, averse to the sound of a barrel organ, changes his outlook upon meeting a blind girl. Based on the short story by Bolesław Prus.

Return to Earth

After the war, Stefan cannot go back to a normal life.

Wyspa złoczyńców

A young museum worker sets out to find a treasure hidden in a small town.

The Impossible Goodbye

All the ambiance of an old-fashioned circus comes across with great clarity in this otherwise routine psychological tale about a mean-spirited mime and his effects on his colleagues. The small, traveling circus has been sliding downhill for awhile, and unless some new life is infused into its acts, its future does not look very rosy. Into this precarious situation comes a new mime with the uncanny ability to sap the confidence of his fellow performers. If he continues for long in this vein, no one will be able to believe they have any talent left at all.

Birth Certificate

Three separate stories depicting the tense everyday life during occupation, as seen through the eyes of children. In “On the Road,” the two main protagonists are lost in the September’s strife: a young boy, and a soldier transporting the valueless documents of his broken unit. In “Letter from the Concentration Camp” the story’s protagonists are young boys who help their mother during the hardships of the occupation. Their treasure is an officer uniform belonging their father who is being held in a prisoner of war camp. In “Blood Drop,” the Germans find a set of typical Aryan characteristics in this story’s protagonist – a Jewish girl, hiding in an orphanage.

Place on Earth

A teenager finds himself torn after the death of his mother and falls on the wrong side of the law.

Free City

The heroic struggle of Polish post office workers in Gdańsk on the first day of World War II.

Spotkania

Four stories showing the various facets of love.

Winter Twilight

Rumsza, the elderly railwayman, leading a sedate life with his wife, misses his only remaining son (two older boys were killed in the war). Joziuk finally returns from the military in the first scene but with the pregnant Zosia, while Rumsza expected him to marry Celinka, the daughter of Krywka, his only friend and neighbour. The hero will not accept the new situation; he throws his son and Zosia out of his house. Celinka is distressed but she still harbours hope for Joziuk. The birth of the child changes the situation: Rumsza accepts his son's relationship but Celinka decides to leave.