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...

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

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

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

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...

Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko fights for the right to stage his opera "Halka"....

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....

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 work as hard as men...

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

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 shy lawyer tries to win the hand of a beautiful girl and hilarities ensue....

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 triangle will turn out to be unacceptable, especially since the spouses live peacefully under one roof....

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

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 husband from military service), the woman dies at the hands of her jealous husband....

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 life in a war-damaged city, contrasting the characters' difficulties with their dreams of a better li...

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...

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