Krzysztof Zaleski

The 1960s in Masuria. Mikołaj Biesaga, seriously injured during the war, swore that if he survived, he would build a chapel to the Blessed Virgin ...

The provincial seaside town of Cierpie Dolne. Magda, a journalism student, arrives as part of her internship to conduct broadcasts on the local ...

Rehearsals for Chekhov’s Three Sisters are underway in the theater. The team creating the performance is entangled in complicated ...

Two friends recall the PRL. After serving time in jail, they took up an illegal currency exchange. Cheated by partner – they decide to take ...

A town near Warsaw. A group of teenagers rules one of the courtyards: Ali, Pawik, and Małgośka, the object of both boys’ fascination. A few ...

New recruits go to the army and experience nothing but humiliation, cruelty and pure sadism from older soldiers.

Multiple recidivist Tadeusz Wilk out of jail thanks to an amnesty. He has no idea where to go and what to do with themselves. Post lays down back ...

In the winter of 1943 two young Jews, Alek and Fryda, escape, via sewer tunnels, from the atrocities underway in Warsaw ghetto. Alek, entrusted ...

The story of catholic saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz.

After a con-man is released from prison, he gradually gets back to his old tricks, but his cons grow ever more elaborate and travel steadily up ...

Young residents of a town near Poznań are getting ready to fight the Germans.

This film is a sequel to Munk’s Zezowate Szczescie and it’s much the same, only more so. The film begins in a cinema, where the last ...

Roberto is a young Cuban who is visiting Poland. And times are not merry – the Cuban conflict is about to begin. His stay is not ...

Irena, a postal delivery worker, is struggling with inadequate housing, a drunk neighbor who wants to take her place, and a heartless boss, ...

Made in 1982, shelved for five years. Story opens with Lucja Krol’s husband under the tram. She gives birth to her fourth son on the floor ...

A Pole who spent time in an internment camp during the war on the Swiss-German border, visits the site many years later and recalls these days. ...

Rafal takes care of his dysfunctional carefree mother who is more interested in men, pills and alcohol than in the problems of her young yet very ...

In 1969 a young writer decides to write an essay on a well known Polish writer, who had to leave the country in the 50’s, later living, ...

A young architect is locked up in prison. He recalls his uncompromising youth and gradual sliding into the moral swamp of compromises. He was not ...

Jerzy Stuhr plays a high school teacher with a sensitive outlook on life and a soft spot for students who like art and literature as passionately ...