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A generation (1955)
Pokolenie
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Starring: Tadeusz Lomnicki, Urszula Modrzynska
During WW II, Polish youths treat their job helping people escape the Warsaw ghetto as a game but soon learn that war is a deadly business.
[VHS ]

      
Ashes and diamonds (1958)
Popiól i diament
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Starring: Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyzewka
A young Resistance fighter, is ordered to kill a felllow soldie,r a Communist district leader, on the last day of World War II.
[DVD]

      
Beautiful stranger (1992)
Piekna nieznajoma
Director: Jerzy Hoffman
Starring: Wojciech Malajkat, Nikita Michalkow
A WW I Russian spy, transporting secret documents from St. Petersburg to Stockholm, meets a beautiful stranger on the train.
[DVD]

      
Camera buff (1979)
Amator
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Starring: Stefan Czyzewski, Ewa Pokas
Filip buys an 8mm movie camera, and since it's the first camera in town, he's named official photographer by the local Party boss.
[DVD]

      
Canal (1957)
Kanal
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Starring: Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz Janczar
In the last days of the Warwaw Uprising against the Nazis, desperate men retreat to the sewer system, only to confront more suffering and death.
[DVD | VHS ]

      
Knife in the water (1962)
Nóz w wodzie
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka
A middle-aged journalist and his wife invite a young hitch-hiker aboard their sail-boat for a Sunday outing in the Polish lake district.
[VHS ]

      
Man of iron (1981)
Czlowiek z zelaza
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Starring: Krystyna Janda, Jerzy Radziwilowicz
A TV journalist is ordered to smear a key figure in the Solidarity strike at the Gdansk ship yard in the summer of 1980.
[VHS ]

      
Man of marble (1977)
Czlowiek z marmuru
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Starring: Krystyna Janda, Jerzy Radzilowics
A young filmmaker in Krakow investigates the life of a 1950s bricklayer who was a hero in the revolution.
[VHS ]

      
The big animal (2000)
Duze zwierze
Director: Jerzy Stuhr
Starring: Jerzy Stuhr, Anna Dymna
A small Polish town is set topsy-turvy when a bank clerk discovers a camel outside his window.
[DVD]

      
The decalogue (1989)
Dekalog
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Starring: Henryk Baranowski, Maja Komorowska
Ten short films illustrate each of the Ten Commandments.
[DVD | VHS ]

      
The double life of Veronique (1991)
La double vie de Véronique
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Starring: Irene Jacob, Philippe Volter
A Polish choir soprano, and her double, a French music teacher, do not know each other yet share an enigmatic, emotional bond.
[DVD]

      
The Saragossa manuscript (1965)
Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie
Director: Wojciech Has
Starring: Iga Cembrzynska, Zbigniew Cybulski
An army officer in Spain during the Napoleonic Wars finds a magical manuscript that tells his grandfather's story.
[DVD]

      
The year of the quiet sun (1984)
Rok spokojnego slonca
Director: Krzystof Zanussi
Starring: Maja Komorowska, Scott Wilson
An American soldier forms a delicate friendship with a widow amid the devastation of 1946 Poland.
[DVD]



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