Henryk Modrzewski Movies

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

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...

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

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...

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

While visiting Warsaw, Hanka falls for a record-breaking bricklayer. She returns to the city to work at construction sites and prove that women can...

Twin brothers, Jacek and Placek, are the town's troublemakers. They're lazy, greedy and also cruel. They despise hard work, so they cook up a plan to...

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

Zbigniew Cybulski and Sonja Ziemann play lovers struggling to find happiness and privacy in overcrowded Warsaw. The movie shows an honest picture of...

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

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...

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

Fram is in a German POW camp where brutal, cold-hearted Gestapo officers like Weber or Von Steinhagen terrorize and execute their Polish prisoners....

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...

The first Polish post-war comedy. Witek and Krysia, a married couple, move to Warsaw and have nowhere to stay. They rent a room in a house with many...

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

The dark drama of a peasant family from the second half of the 19th century: Seduced by a municipal clerk (in exchange for a promise to release her...

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

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

An engineer comes home from abroad to his waiting wife. After some time, his second wife, an Italian one, joins him. For a small town, such a...