Mother Joan of the Angels
A Polish priest arrives at a convent hoping to save the Mother Superior, who is supposedly possessed by eight demons.
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A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later...
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Shortly after the beginning of World War 2 a young idealist doctor is employed in a psychiatric hospital, where his notions of proper care for the...
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The main hero obsessively wants to become an actor. The would-be actor fails two entrance exams to the state acting school and has a nervous...
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A famous Polish journalist presents a problem for the powers-that-be when he displays his full political skill and knowledge on a television show...
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The hero is a Jewish youth. He, like his family, has always been silent and undemonstrative in the face of prejudice. Now he stands up for his...
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Made in 1982, shelved for five years. Story opens with Lucja Krol's husband under the tram. She gives birth to her fourth son on the floor of their...
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Elegia
Story of Podgaje massacre in January 1945 in which SS troop murdered captured Polish soldiers.
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A mother carries her sick baby through nine bridges, believing a superstition that it will cure it.
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As the Germans invade Poland Jewish Ruth and her mother are trapped by the oncoming Nazis. When they are loaded onto a truck for transportation to...
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In 1943, Ewa decides to take care of her Jewish neighbour's daughter and brings her home just for a few days. When the ghetto uprising begins, the...
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The story of Finnish boxer Joni, who brings up a son Simppa from his relationship with Polish girlfriend Eva. The mother left them years ago and...
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Jerzy and Zofia are offered a job in Africa. A married couple is faced with the dilemma of leaving or taking care of the man's mother and her sister.
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Three vignettes showing a marriage crisis and a subsequent divorce.
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Maria does not understand her husband. The woman goes to the family home where her sister lives.
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In the sanatorium in Nałęczów, Halina meets Adolf Poświatowski. They both have heart disease.
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One of the classes of the Warsaw high school boycotts the test in chemistry lessons. A schoolgirl who has not succumbed to pressure from her peers...
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A teenager gets killed on his way to school during the tragic events of December 1970 on the Polish coast. The boy's parents launch a crusade to...
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