A documentary about the hard work of railwaymen transporting coke from Tarnowskie Góry to Szczecin Iron works. They’re doing their best to arrive on time.

A 9-year-old girl is strolling through the Old City of Warsaw. The camera follows her as she discovers the charms of different nooks and crannies.

Jan Piszczyk pleads with the prison director to let him stay within the safe walls of the institution by telling him the story of his life. Piszczyk has been forever struggling with two conflicting features: ambition and conformity. Each of his incarnations brought him bad luck: every serendipity and chance in life backfired. Whenever he was successful, he usually ended up being his own undoing but blamed others for his...

A documentary about the construction and opening of steelworks Nowa Huta and the first film made by Andrzej Munk. Exemplary of socialist realism in Polish cinema, the short depicts physical labour in the steelworks running like clockwork with some insight into everyday life.

The film is a combination of two short stories. Part one features a Warsaw slyboots Dzidziuś. Dragged against his will into the Warsaw Uprising, he brings himself to make a heroic deed, however entirely pointless. Part two takes place at a German Oflag. There circulates a legend about an alleged prison break of Lieutenant Zawistowski. Few know the truth but won’t say a word not to rob their fellow inmates...

A documentary about the juiciest secret and the biggest dream of Polish cinema that never came true. Andrzej Żuławski’s On the Silver Globe could have been one of the most ground-breaking science-fiction films in history. The scope of production, star-studded cast, revolutionary costumes and set design all promised a masterpiece. Then, why did the Communist authorities stop the production two weeks before the end of shooting? Was that a financial...

Dziennikarz sportowy i jego żona planują spędzić niedzielę na swoim jachcie. Po drodze zabierają młodego autostopowicza. Na łódce między mężczyznami zaczyna toczyć się gra, ujawniająca, że wbrew pozorom obaj - pewny siebie 40-letni konformista i 20-letni buntownik - są podobni, łączy ich to samo pragnienie władzy, dominacji i chęć posiadania.
Legendarny fabularny debiut Romana Polańskiego, zaskakujący precyzją scenariusza, dojrzałością warsztatu, umiejętnością inscenizacji (w czym olbrzymia zasługa operatora, Jerzego Lipmana), prowadzenia aktorów - z klimatyczną muzyką Krzysztofa Komedy w tle.

The story of an experienced train driver dismissed based on a false accusation of sabotaging the new working ethics. After his tragic death, each of his colleagues paints a different picture of the man who, as we learn eventually, sacrificed his life to save the train and its passengers. Based on Stefan Stawiński’s short story Tajemnica maszynisty Orzechowskiego [The Secret of Orzechowski the Train Driver].