Jadwiga Kuryluk

A pastor and ethnographer visits a remote corner of 19th-century Lithuania where folk customs associated with the area's pagan past still have a hold...

An unlikely couple - a Polish concentration camp inmate and a young German girl - stick together and try to survive the RAF bombing of Dresden in...

Tadeusz Krzakoski, the director of a failing state-owned company, is married with problems. His mistress, the daughter of a Communist party bigwig,...

Twin brothers, Jacek and Placek, are the town's troublemakers. They're lazy, greedy and also cruel. They despise hard work, so they cook up a plan to...

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

In what appears to be an inexplicable incident, a man drives up to a resort hotel in midwinter, throws away his car keys, enters, and proceeds to...

An intelligence agent's murder bring upon a national investigation into a spy organisation called Korn.

40-year-old engineer Marek Kołodziejski comes to his hometown after fifteen years. He wants to take revenge on his friends who kicked him out of the...

University student Anna and her boyfriend Tomek use a precious photograph to trace and unveil the complex wartime and post-war past of their parents.

The reminiscences of a Russian pilot, shot down over Poland during the war, of his first great love there.

A young doctor from the lower classes is helped in his career by a rich woman. When he comes back from study in Paris he takes a job at a watering...

The story takes place before World War II and centers on Pawel, a member of a conservative, middle-class family, and his love for Lidka, a taxi...

An actress visits her hometown to attend the funeral of her grandfather. She realizes that the places and people from her past differ from her...

A middle-aged man sets out on a symbolic journey through past, present, and future to learn why an old friend committed suicide, and learns much...

The piece is an analysis of a person's attitude in the face of imminent danger, and its action takes place just after World War II. In the train...

Three stories about life problems.

A psychological portrait of a missing girl is drawn by the people who knew her, being interviewed by a journalist helping in the search.

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

A seamstress who leads a stable life falls in love with her daughter's teacher.

Three separate stories depicting the tense everyday life during occupation, as seen through the eyes of children. In “On the Road,” the...

Portrays the power struggle between the king of Poland, Bolesław the Bold, and the Bishop of Kraków, Stanisław Szczepanowski.

A bank robbery conducted by Polish Underground members goes awry and the brother-in-law of the group's leader, Paweł gets arrested. Now Paweł must...

An unknown man brings a wounded boy from a hospital and prompty walks away. The boy soon dies and the militia captain Budny begins an investigation,...

En route to London, Bear discovers at the border checkpoint that his passport is missing a few pages, which may prevent him from traveling to the...

Fram is in a German POW camp where brutal, cold-hearted Gestapo officers like Weber or Von Steinhagen terrorize and execute their Polish prisoners....

A young, idealistic poet, turns his back on civilization and goes to small, backwood village, rents a bed in the house of an old woman, and decides...

Three short segments about love.