Slawomir Idziak

A young man gets stuck in an elevator just as it passes the 13th floor.

Marek is a promising athlete having his share of affairs with women. One day at masquerade ball he meets a an enigmatic Jowita and becomes obsessed...

Professionally active, childless, married woman loses her father during a business trip. With an overwhelming sense of transience and the fear of...

Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz directed this insightful TV documentary (2005) tracing the Polish filmmaker's career. Former classmates reminisce about...

The wife of a famous composer survives a car accident that kills her husband and daughter. Now alone, she shakes off her old identity and explores...

Véronique is a beautiful young French woman who aspires to be a renowned singer; Weronika lives in Poland, has a similar career goal and looks...

Returning for his fifth year of study at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings about the return of Lord Voldemort have been ignored....

In a future society in the era of indefinite eugenics, humans are set on a life course depending on their DNA. Young Vincent Freeman is born with a...

When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, and...

Jacek climbs into the taxi driven by Waldemar, tells him to drive to a remote location, then brutally strangles him, seemingly without motive.

The film deals with the criminal case involving Marianne Bachmeier, who shot her daughter's murderer in the courtroom in 1981.

Ein Förderprogramm bringt die beiden Kanckis Gerd und Steinbock in die Obhut von Frauen. Dort sollen sie beweisen, dass sie in der Lage sind...

The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the 'Sarmatian hypothesis' which contends that the legend has a historical nucleus in the Sarmatian heavy...

A village in Podhale, the time of Christmas. The local inhabitants confront the German occupation.

Poland's winning battle against Soviet Russia as seen through the eyes of two young protagonists, Ola and Jan. She is a Warsaw cabaret dancer, while...

Fragmented and chaotic. Reality in Królikiewicz's works is usually incoherent, in a state of disintegration, permanently damaged, painfully...

This heroic story follows the life of Karol Wojtyla, a Polish Roman catholic who ascends the throne of St. Peter as Pope John Paul II. As a young...

The Journey of August King is a multi-dimensional drama about a North Carolina farmer in 1815. August King, a widower, is on his way home as he does...

Shortly after World War II an American soldier (Norman) and a Polish refugee (Emilia) fall in love. Eventually he will return to the U.S. and both...

When a political decision is made as to the location of a new large chemical factory, Stefan Bednarz is put in charge of it. This honest communist...

A short making-of from the set of Kieslowski's feature film "Blizna", which uses a lot the word "Action!" and the slate.

A story about the difficult experiences of a nine-year-old boy who tries to understand and assimilate the laws governing the world of adults. Left to...

An old professor and his student go mountain climbing together.

A school teacher from a small town in Poland comes to Warsaw to see his estranged wife, a window dresser, in the hope that she will return to him...

The story of young Amos Oz, growing up in Jerusalem in the years before Israeli statehood with his parents; his academic father, Arieh, and his...

A violinist in a provincial Polish orchestra, whose husband is the director of the ensemble, on a visit to the US ties up with the world- renowned...

Jacek, an angry drifter, murders a taxi driver, brutally and without motive. His case is assigned to Piotr, an idealistic young lawyer who is morally...

The main character is a bookkeeper, 40, who lives a quiet, uninteresting life with her husband and son of school age. She realizes that soon she...

One of his first and the most famous undergrad shorts, which seems to forshadow the director's death. A prize winner at a film festival in...

A young man is confronted with corrupt and vindictive colleagues at work and negligent officials at the hospital where his mother is dying. As he...

Bearing traces of the old Anton Chekhov play The Wedding, The Contract is set during an "arranged" ceremony. The bride and groom barely know each...

Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi once more explores the dilemma of intellectualism at the expense of humanity in 1982's Imperative. The story...

An unsuspecting student thinks that the wife of an arms dealer is unhappy, but in reality she appears as cynical as her capitalist man.

For forty years Lilian Singer has been locked up in a 'loony bin' by her father. Her release is eventually secured by her eccentric Aunt Kitty and...

Germany in the early 19th century. "Die Vermessung der Welt" follows the two brilliant and eccentric scientists Alexander von Humboldt and Carl...

Alice hires a professional negotiator to obtain the release of her engineer husband, who has been kidnapped by anti-government guerrillas in South...

Chloe Keane is an stressed American fashion model living in London who is about to have the worst weekend of her life. She and her boyfriend are...

Agnes MacDonnell, a strong and self-confident Englishwoman, owns a large estate on an island off the west coast of Ireland. When she begins a...

In 1920s Ireland, an elderly couple reside over a tired country estate. Living with them are their high-spirited niece, their Oxford student nephew,...

A young boy and his sister are drawn into one man's obsessive pursuit of his former lover.

Dr. Fuentes is a medical professor approaching his retirement and journeys to find old students, with sometimes disturbing results.

Seth Warner has reached the end of his rope. Ever since his wife died two years earlier, his world has been in turmoil. He is despondent, his career...

About Icelandic composer Jon Leifs (1899-1968) who spent much of his life in Germany before WWII. The film begins in the 1930s after he has married...

Difficulty of human relations in a 3-cornered tale: a neurotic woman, idealistic young man and his mother. Tomek is a clean-cut, high-minded...

An Uruguayan diplomat brings his new wife with him on a business trip to Poland in the summer immediately preceding the outbreak of World War II.

No plot can be found for this film.

No plot can be found for this film.

At the Cultural Center, a young scientist gives a lecture that evokes spontaneous reactions from the audience.

At the Cultural Center, a young scientist gives a lecture that evokes spontaneous reactions from the audience.

A young cinematographer is hired to work on a puppet film. Soon a tragic accident occurs on the set of production.

A young cinematographer is hired to work on a puppet film. Soon a tragic accident occurs on the set of production.

After the death of her husband, Sarah gets caught up in the wheels of the "most sinful mile in the world," Hamburg's Kiez. In this ruthless machinery...

The wife of a famous composer survives a car accident that kills her husband and daughter. Now alone, she shakes off her old identity and explores...

Professionally active, childless, married woman loses her father during a business trip. With an overwhelming sense of transience and the fear of...

An American officer and a North Vietnamese prisoner of war are stranded and chained together in the jungle during the Vietnam War.

A retired police captain, Siwy, tells a reporter about his latest action, carrying on his own investigation into the mysterious death of a Ewa Salm,...

A group of Polish communists in Paris arrives in Poland to fight against the Nazis.

Yasemin is a 17-year old Turkish girl who lives with her parents near Hamburg in Germany. While her mother and father accept that Yasemin has her own...

Jacek, an angry drifter, murders a taxi driver, brutally and without motive. His case is assigned to Piotr, an idealistic young lawyer who is morally...

A village in Podhale, the time of Christmas. The local inhabitants confront the German occupation.

The astronaut Charles Enak refuses to come back to Earth after completing a mission in orbit. While he also refuses to give any explanation for his...

A study of two people involved in the story of the love triangle. However, not the plot itself is the essence of the film. It is a study of moral...

A retired army colonel learns that years ago, during the 1939 September Campaign he was ordered to give medals to the ten bravest soldiers in his...

The astronaut Charles Enak refuses to come back to Earth after completing a mission in orbit. While he also refuses to give any explanation for his...

Kazik and Władzio, two old friends meet again after many years. Kazik, a small-time swindler and playboy confesses that he needs a place to live, so...

A woman desperate to improve her social standing goads her husband into buying pajamas - a symbol of high status.

A story about the difficult experiences of a nine-year-old boy who tries to understand and assimilate the laws governing the world of adults. Left to...