Maria Kaniewska Movies

To convince the prison warden against releasing him, a middle-aged Polish man recounts his life, one he considers to have been characterized by...

Tadeusz Krzakoski, the director of a failing state-owned company, is married with problems. His mistress, the daughter of a Communist party bigwig,...

Three separate stories depicting the tense everyday life during occupation, as seen through the eyes of children. In “On the Road,” the...

Stanisław Maria Rochowicz, a bumbling art historian, is falsely accused of stealing a painting. The alleged thief faces five years in prison....

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...

Poland, during World War II. Martha Weiss, a Jewish woman, arrives at the Auschwitz extermination camp with her family. She is assigned the role of...

Set in military barracks in a small town during World War I. The soldiers herded in the barracks are 'politically suspect' mix of characters from all...

Three separate short stories about young athletes who lose their chances of success. Young swimmer - because of unhappy love. Boxer because of a...

Two friends make a bet. One of them - an A student and a computer genius Marcin - under the terms of the dispute must be received five days of...

Adam Cisowski, a devilishly smart teenager is looking for treasure hidden by Napoleon's soldier. But he is not the only one searching for it, and his...

Two travelling actors break from their troupe and with help of friends and family start their own act, experiencing serious success.

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...

Imperialist spies try to disrupt and stop production in a large steelworks.

Follows the lives of people shortly after World War 2 as they try to adjust to their new lives. Completed in 1946, it was banned from release by the...

Adventures of a two little girls kidnapped from their families.

In 1946, a former resistance fighter starts working as a forester in a small town in Masuria. The local people don't trust him, robberies are common...

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

A young teacher educates the peasants and electrifies the village, which the local miller does not like.