Free City
The heroic struggle of Polish post office workers in Gdansk on the first day of World War II.
Stanisław Różewicz
Jan Józef Szczepański
Casts & Crew
Bronisław Dardziński
Wlodzislaw Ziembinski
Kazimierz Wichniarz
Stanisław Jasiukiewicz
Jerzy Sliwa
Piotr Fronczewski
Also Directed by Stanisław Różewicz
Biography film directed by Stanislaw Rózewicz.
Set during the German occupation of Poland during WWII. A priest in a small village meets a revolutionary who is on an assignment to kill a supposed Nazi collaborator.
Three women, ex-prisoners of a nazi deathcamp, decide to live together after the war.
Westerplatte is a small peninsula at the entry to the Gdansk Harbour. Before World War II, it functioned as a Polish ammunition depot in the Free City of Danzig/Gdansk. Its crew consisted of one infantry company and a group of civilians, 182 people in total. It was the only Polish guard-post at the mouth of the Vistula River, with as little as five sentries, one field cannon, two anti-armour guns and four mortars. It was the first obstacle to Hitler's predatory march across Europe. The first shots of World War II were fired here. This film tells the story of Westerplatte's courageous defenders.
Battered Warsaw is getting back to life after the WW2 destruction. The ruins of the Old Town become homes once again.
A psychological drama film based on a story by Karol Ludwik Koniński.
Based on a novel by Roman Bratny
A psychological portrait of a young Polish theatre actress, searching for her own way in life. She plays a mechanical dancer in a play "Dance of the Marionette", a complete opposite of her real personality. She lives on her own, occasionally visiting a famous old actress to talk about the theater and taking care of a poor neighbor. She fights her sophisticated mother and rejecting the truth about her beloved father, who died an alcoholic.
Krakow in the sixties. A doctor, though not having finished his studies, earns a living providing medical advice. A former nurse enters the stage, saying she hears voices from "the other world". At first, they can exploit gullible victims without problems, but soon the authorities start to show interest in these quacks.