Movies: Henryk Modrzewski

A day in the life of an alcoholic. With the help of his girlfriend Krysia, Kuba attempts to regain control of his life....

Ewa Bonecka, a young student about to start school in a new place finds herself without a place to sleep after she is declined a room in a women-only hotel. Helped by a pleasant policeman, Piotr, she tries to find a lodging in the strange town full o...

Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house....

Three separate stories depicting the tense everyday life during occupation, as seen through the eyes of children. In “On the Road,” the two main protagonists are lost in the September’s strife: a young boy, and a soldier transporting the valueless do...

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 cherished memories....

A reclusive lighthouse worker accepts the offer to swap jobs with a police inspector for a while, just to help him catch Teston, the so-called criminal of criminals....

Young Frederic Chopin comes of age during a tumultous time in Polish history....

Three women, ex-prisoners of a Nazi death camp, decide to live together after the war....

A series of misfortunes plagues a journalist and his new friend....

An average notary finds a small fortune of coins hidden in his fireplace alongside a manuscript dating back 100 years....

A Polish RAF Officer returns to his homeland and finds himself torn between love for his friend's wife and illegal activities he gets himself involved in....

A 10-year old boy becomes a king after the death of his father and tries to bring reforms to the country, with varying results...

Kazmierz Dziewanowicz's hobby is very strange. He collects people who were born on the 29th of February. One day he sees that in his collection there are two men with the same name, the same birth place, the same date of birth and the same parents. I...

Nikodem Dyzma is a poor dancer who comes to Warsaw to find a job. The problem is that nobody wants to hire him. One day he finds an invitation to the party with very important people and decides to attend. A small accident at the party makes him the ...

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

Zbigniew Cybulski and Sonja Ziemann play lovers struggling to find happiness and privacy in overcrowded Warsaw. The movie shows an honest picture of life in a war-damaged city, contrasting the characters' difficulties with their dreams of a better li...

Two soldiers spend their free Sunday in Wrocław....

Drama directed by Janusz Nasfeter....

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 February 1945....

The heroic struggle of Polish post office workers in Gdańsk on the first day of World War II....