Zdzisław Szymański Movies

A war drama showing the functioning of Hitler’s “racial purity” law, forbidding foreign workers from any contact with Germany....

The last days in the life of Edward Dembowski (1822-1846), the organizer of the Kraków Uprising in 1846. The informal leader of the uprising,...

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

After a disaster in the mine, Łopot, a technician, protects the perpetrator. He soon faces a moral dilemma.

A staging of William Shakespeare's tragedy, directed in 1969 by Andrzej Wajda. The roles of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are played by Tadeusz...

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...

In 1931, just before the New Year, in a house of architect Henryk Zaremba scream rips the night. The daughter of Zaremba is found killed in her...

In Nazi-occupied Warsaw, teenage scouts Alek, Rudy, and Zośka risk their lives pulling down a swastika and hoisting the Polish flag atop the...

A family saga of Barbara Ostrzeńska-Niechcic and Bogumił Niechcic against the backdrop of the January Uprising of 1863 and World War I. The...

Westerplatte is a small peninsula at the entry to the Gdańsk Harbour. Before World War II, it functioned as a Polish ammunition depot in the...

A young poet is hired to boost the morale of water pump workers.

A group of Polish boys is opposed to a German teacher who aims to Germanise the young men.

An acute case of Mondayitis in Warsaw. Interwoven stories of a few inhabitants of Warsaw, including one very unlucky Italian on a governmental...

While hiding from the Germans in the forest, young Polish corporal tries hard to fulfill his order to take care of a wounded lieutenant and wait for...

A small fishing village between the sea and the lake. One day, when all the men went out to catch, a viper bitten Grandpa Filip and little Madzia was...

In difficult times of political and social change, a mother raises four sons alone.

A young man strikes up an ill-fated romance with a married woman.

The fate of a working-class family during the third Silesian Uprising.

Two years after the war, during a train trip, Henryk (20) recollects the occupation period. He passes different train stations and recollects various...

The sight of a wounded neighbor causes anxiety in a young man.