, 10h32 Directed byJerzy Antczak OriginPologne GenresDrama, War ActorsJadwiga Barańska, Jerzy Bińczycki, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Tadeusz Fijewski, Ewa Dałkowska, Andrzej Seweryn Roles Jozafat Rating73% Nights and Days is a family saga of Barbara Ostrzeńska-Niechcic, (played by Jadwiga Barańska) and Bogumił Niechcic, (played by Jerzy Bińczycki) against the backdrop of the January Uprising of 1863 and World War I. The film is a rather straightforward and faithful adaptation of a novel by Maria Dąbrowska with the same title. The plot is woven around the changing fortunes of a noble (upper-class) Niechcic family in the pre-WWI Poland. There are two main crossing threads: a social history one and an existential one. The cinematographic version is a condensation of the 12 part award winning TV serial of the same title and using the same cast and producers.
, 2h4 Directed byWojciech Has OriginPologne GenresDrama, Fantasy, Horror ActorsJan Nowicki, Gustaw Holoubek, Jerzy Przybylski, Ludwik Benoit, Jerzy Trela, Tadeusz Schmidt Roles Szloma Rating74% Joseph (Jan Nowicki) travels through a dream-like world, taking a dilapidated train to visit his dying father, Jacob, in a sanatorium. When he arrives at the hospital, he finds the entire facility is going to ruin and no one seems to be in charge or even caring for the patients. Time appears to behave in unpredictable ways, reanimating the past in an elaborate artificial caprice.
, 2h19 Directed byWojciech Has OriginPologne GenresDrama, Romance ActorsBeata Tyszkiewicz, Mariusz Dmochowski, Tadeusz Fijewski, Wiesław Gołas, Jan Machulski, Kalina Jędrusik Roles Krzeszowski's Butler Rating68% As a descendant of an impoverished Polish noble family, young Wokulski is forced to work as a waiter at Hopfer's, a Warsaw restaurant, while dreaming of a life in science. After taking part in the failed 1863 Uprising against Tsarist Russia, he is sentenced to exile in Siberia. On eventual return to Warsaw, he becomes a salesman at Mincel's haberdashery. Marrying the late owner's widow (who eventually dies), he comes into money and uses it to set up a partnership with a Russian merchant he had met while in exile. The two merchants go to Bulgaria during the Russo-Turkish War, and Wokulski makes a fortune supplying the Russian Army. The enterprising Wokulski now proves a romantic at heart, falling in love with Izabela, daughter of the vacuous, bankrupt aristocrat, Tomasz Łęcki. In his quest to win Izabela, Wokulski begins frequenting theatres and aristocratic salons; and to help her financially distressed father, founds a company and sets the aristocrats up as shareholders in his business. The indolence of these aristocrats, who secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condescended to. Because of his "help" (in secret) to Izabela's impecunious but influential father, the girl becomes aware of his affection. In the end she consents to accept him, but without true devotion or love.
, 1h34 Directed byTadeusz Chemielewski OriginPologne GenresComedy ActorsBarbara Kwiatkowska-Lass, Stanisław Mikulski, Leonard Pietraszak, Ludwik Benoit, Gustaw Lutkiewicz, Bronisław Pawlik Roles Leon 'Ptuszko' Pistynek Rating71% Ewa, une fille candide arrive en ville à la veille de l'année scolaire mais le concierge ne la laisse pas entrer à l'internat. Désespérée, elle essaie toute la nuit, sans succès, de trouver un endroit pour dormir. Elle rencontre sur son chemin des policiers, des voyous, des prostituées, mêlée à des événements surréalistes et quasi fantastiques.