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A generation
(1955)
Pokolenie
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Director:
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Andrzej Wajda
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| Starring:
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Tadeusz Lomnicki, Urszula Modrzynska
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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.
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Ashes and diamonds
(1958)
Popiól i diament
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Director:
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Andrzej Wajda
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| Starring:
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Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyzewka
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A young Resistance fighter, is ordered to kill a felllow soldie,r a Communist district leader, on the last day of World War II.
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Beautiful stranger
(1992)
Piekna nieznajoma
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Director:
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Jerzy Hoffman
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| Starring:
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Wojciech Malajkat, Nikita Michalkow
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A WW I Russian spy, transporting secret documents from St. Petersburg to Stockholm, meets a beautiful stranger on the train.
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Camera buff
(1979)
Amator
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Director:
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Krzysztof Kieslowski
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| Starring:
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Stefan Czyzewski, Ewa Pokas
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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.
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Canal
(1957)
Kanal
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Director:
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Andrzej Wajda
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| Starring:
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Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz Janczar
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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.
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Knife in the water
(1962)
Nóz w wodzie
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Director:
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Roman Polanski
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| Starring:
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Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka
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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.
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Man of iron
(1981)
Czlowiek z zelaza
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Director:
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Andrzej Wajda
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| Starring:
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Krystyna Janda, Jerzy Radziwilowicz
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A TV journalist is ordered to smear a key figure in the Solidarity strike at the Gdansk ship yard in the summer of 1980.
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Man of marble
(1977)
Czlowiek z marmuru
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Director:
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Andrzej Wajda
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| Starring:
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Krystyna Janda, Jerzy Radzilowics
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A young filmmaker in Krakow investigates the life of a 1950s bricklayer who was a hero in the revolution.
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The big animal
(2000)
Duze zwierze
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Director:
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Jerzy Stuhr
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| Starring:
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Jerzy Stuhr, Anna Dymna
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A small Polish town is set topsy-turvy when a bank clerk discovers a camel outside his window.
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The decalogue
(1989)
Dekalog
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Director:
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Krzysztof Kieslowski
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| Starring:
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Henryk Baranowski, Maja Komorowska
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Ten short films illustrate each of the Ten Commandments.
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The double life of Veronique
(1991)
La double vie de Véronique
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Director:
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Krzysztof Kieslowski
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| Starring:
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Irene Jacob, Philippe Volter
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A Polish choir soprano, and her double, a French music teacher, do not know each other yet share an enigmatic, emotional bond.
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The Saragossa manuscript
(1965)
Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie
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Director:
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Wojciech Has
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| Starring:
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Iga Cembrzynska, Zbigniew Cybulski
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An army officer in Spain during the Napoleonic Wars finds a magical manuscript that tells his grandfather's story.
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The year of the quiet sun
(1984)
Rok spokojnego slonca
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Director:
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Krzystof Zanussi
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| Starring:
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Maja Komorowska, Scott Wilson
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An American soldier forms a delicate friendship with a widow amid the devastation of 1946 Poland.
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