Movies: Jan Ossowski

In 1668 Polish colonel Michał Wołodyjowski, who recently retired to a monastery, is recalled to active duty and takes charge of Poland's eastern frontier defenses against invading Tatar hordes and Ottoman armies....

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

A moral conflict between a young assistant and an associate professor arises during a university linguistics camp....

Krzysztof Zanussi's groundbreaking film chronicles a decade in the life of a young physics student whose absolute faith in the primacy of rationality and science is shaken by tragedy and affairs of the heart....

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 fell out of favor and disappeared....

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

Young Małgorzata leads a very boring life as a cashier. One day a robber riddles her bank car with bullets, kills the driver and two security guards and takes the money. The police finds out that the stolen banknotes are being spent at a fashionable ...

A woman just out of prison gets a job in a nursing home and tries, unsuccessfully, to put her life back together....

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 featuring questions and answers on a world conference by a panel of journalists. His enemies take away h...

A story of a dropout out of a succesful career and a loving family. He goes to a local railroad station, then checks into a hotel and refuses to leave despite visits by a psychiatrist and his own son. He watches people daily at the station. A tv repo...

The story of a Pogorzelski nobleman who settled in the castle in Samsonów to renovate a damaged building. However, he is disturbed by the ghost of the former owner....

A biology professor, Adam enters a hospital for observation. He is a loner and a serious-minded man, who dislikes any display of emotions. He spends three months in the hospital while being tested. After observing patients and hospital routines aroun...

The film depicts a moral dilemma of a clerk who has to face a choice: whether to save a stranger or to pretend that he hasn't seen anything, so that he won't put himself into risk....

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

A funny story about a young soccer player nicknamed Paragon....

At the end of World War Two, Polish people move to the western lands vacated by Germans. But some ruthless profiteers pose as government representatives and intend to make off with loot from a deserted town they took over. One honest man stands up ag...

Roman Jacenko, a local photographer tries to turn his fortunes around and rob a bank transport....

Girls no more, four heroines emerge into womanhood with a more clear-eyed outlook on life....

A student strikes up a friendship with a young uneducated construction worker to gather material for her work about worker hotels....

During World War 2 a doctor, patiently waiting for the liberation and unwilling to engage in the struggle against the Nazis is forced at a gunpoint by a Polish Resistance soldier to attend to the members of her squad....