Zdzisław Leśniak

Around the World with Bolek and Lolek

Animated film about two young boys, Bolek and Lolek, who seek to fulfill the last will of Phileas Fogg who decided that his inheritor would be the one who made an identical round the world journey as he had done, using the means of transport generally in use in the nineteenth century. As they journey round the world, a bad character named Jeremiah tries to foil their attempts.

Mniejszy szuka Dużego

The protagonists of the film are two brothers - Smaller and Big, Filomena and the dog Klops. Big has problems at school, so he decides to run away from home. His brother decides to find him.

Opis obyczajów

Ethnography students do an internship in the Świętokrzyskie Mountains, where they meet the Mruk family.

Kareta

A nobleman and his servant have many misadventures together.

Ten okrutny, nikczemny chłopak

Romek is a boy whom nobody wants and who cannot find love in anyone. His mother has no interest in him at all. The boy gets under the influence of enterprising Janusz. This one teaches him to steal. During the first attempt, he is caught and puts in a juvenile court. The mother decides to take the opportunity to put him in an orphanage.

Milion za Laurę

An antique guitar brings upon a series of increasingly fantastical encounters.

Abel, Your Brother

A young boy tries to earn the friendship of his new classmates, notorious bullies, which leads to tragic consequences.

Wycieczka w nieznane

A visit to Auschwitz changes the life of a young unambitious writer.

Skinny and Others

A group of workers builds a bridge near a large dam. They get drunk with a visiting reporter, who falls into the river and disappears.

Martians

Newcomers from a foreign planet cannot find themselves in the earthly realities.

Barrier

A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.

Hell and Heaven

A bus crashes and its passengers find themeselves in the afterlife, which they find has the not only the same set of rules as Earth, but also the same bureaucratic chaos.

A Cure for Love

An architect Joanna tells her friend Halina on the telephone about her love troubles and suddenly hears a nice man's voice: "The best cure for love is another love." Then she becomes a forgers dispatcher mistaken for Honorata by telephone and decides to work out a forgers secret and the secret of her new love Andrzej.

Unloved

The story of the tumultuous relationship between a Jewish girl called Noemi and a Polish art student named Kamil is set at the outbreak of World War II.

Zawsze w niedziele

Three stories centered around sports.

Głos ma prokurator

A prosecutor takes on the case of a peasant accused of murder.

The First Day of Freedom

Freed Polish soldiers are trapped in a small town in Germany during the last days of World War II. After a doctor's daughter is raped by a concentration camp worker, the Poles allow her and her father to stay in the house that is their temporary quarters. While waiting to be repatriated, the war-weary group is forced to fight some German soldiers who invade the town. The war brings out conflicting emotions of the Poles who find themselves trapped in the house and once again under fire from the enemy.

The Unknown

Two Poles get out of Soviet Union with Polish Army. Based on autobiographical short stories by Józef Hen.

Heat

Two Elderly Men are asked by the Prime Minister to take care of the city for one day. During this time, they have to deal with the heat, a diplomatic conflict, a love rivalry, and a lack of water. They do it in their style – they sing easily.

Liczę na wasze grzechy

A popularity-hungry young journalist writes a sensationalist article on a supposed teen suicide club.

New Year's Eve Adventure

A couple plans to spend a New Years Eve in a friend's empty apartment.

Kryptonim Nektar

A journalist investigates a hot new drink that just hit the market.

Teenager

A young teenager from the provinces comes to Warsaw to find her relatives and gets herself in various trouble.

Gangsters and Philantropists

The movie consists of two satirical novels based on the same idea: both the "gangsters" and "philanthropists" end up in the courtroom.

I ty zostaniesz Indianinem

Mirek Kubiak is a primary school student. Like his friends, he is fascinated by Indians and would like to become a brave Apache. Uncle Eligiusz from America comes to his house. The boy becomes embroiled in a criminal scandal.

Szczęściarz Antoni

A young public servant receives a house as a wedding gift, but upon arriving he finds only the doors, a military barrack and a tank hidden underground.

Glass Mountain

A quarry worker falls in love with a practicing doctor.

Decyzja

A young nurse only has one ampule of medicine. She is faced with the dilemma of which of the two patients to save.

Meetings In The Dark

A pianist from Poland visits a town in West Germany and starts to remember details about her life during the war.

Bad Luck

To convince the prison warden against releasing him, a middle-aged Polish man recounts his life, one he considers to have been characterized by exceptionally bad luck.

Tysiąc talarów

An average notary finds a small fortune of coins hidden in his fireplace alongside a manuscript dating back 100 years.

Little Hamlet

Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.

Two from the Big River

A Pole and a German fall in love to the discouragement of their parents.

The Real End of the Great War

Róża marries a promising young architect, Juliusz. Then World War II breaks out and within weeks Juliusz is deported to a concentration camp. Months, and then years go by, until Róża abandons any hope that her husband might return. She meets and falls in love with another man, and tries to put her life back together, but one day, unexpectedly, Juliusz does return - a shattered, mere ghost of his former self, physically crippled and tormented by memories of the camps. First out of duty, then out of pity, Róża starts to care for him, but her feelings slowly are transformed into a kind of revulsion

Kanal

During the last few days of the Warsaw Uprising following World War II, a modest group of Resistance members remains. The band must take refuge in the sewers under the orders of leader Zadra, but it's only a matter of time before they will have to emerge. However, when they try, they are met only with intense hostility from the Nazis. Despite their attempts stay resolute through immense mental strain, it becomes increasingly apparent that they may be doomed.