Marek Piwowski

Mockumentary imitating a live TV program covering a soccer match in which a fan stabs Italian player Dino Baggio in the head.

A mockumentary in which during a visit to the NATO headquarters in Brussels, a secret agent discovers the Pact authorities expect the Polish army to change its parade step.

6.3/10

A parliament member's sixteen year old daughter Agatha falls in love and runs away with a convicted young tramp, while her father uses his friends in the government and police to brutally break their happiness.

5.5/10

Humorous music video for Kazimierz Grzeskowiak's song a "Free Saturday Every day"

6.7/10

The film is a story of a young man coerced into undercover work for the police, in return for their dropping of charges against him. He is to befriend a leader of a gang of juvenile delinquents who plans big robbery of a jewelry store. The scheme works and the gang is caught in the act except the gang leader.

6.8/10

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 won't be needed much at home as the boy grows up and the relationship with her husband crumbles. It's only when an embezzlement is discovered at the office and she stands up to her management, that she realizes life has more to offer. She meets a well-off former classmate, married to an American. Then she meets Jacek and starts contemplating possibilities of a new start. She discovers love for the first time, but turns to old ways rather than to break loose.

6.8/10

A satirical look at the Soviet-block hairdressing contest which was held in Warsaw in 1971.

7.1/10

The director interviews inmates at a girls' reformatory while they prepare a performance of Cinderella.

7.8/10

A stowaway (Stanisław Tym) sneaks aboard a ship departing on a cruise down the Vistula River. The captain takes him for a Communist Party cultural coordinator and the intruder gladly adapts to his new role, immediately setting to work at manipulating the passengers and crew into silly and vaguely humiliating games. Before long, Tym has got everyone under his thumb and created his own comedic dictatorship.

7.6/10

Piwowski’s most controversial documentary, a portrait of Czesław Niemen (1939-2004), an outstanding musician and vocalist, a year after the legendary song "Strange Is This World" was released.

6.3/10

A collective portrait of small town youths as they participate in fire brigade manoeuvres, train at the gym, take part in a choir rehearsal, listen to a tour guide at the Hitler's bunker and go dancing in his former conference hall.

6.8/10

The 1966 visit of Hollywood movie star Kirk Douglas at the legendary Polish State Film School in Lódz.

7/10

A Compartment for A Hundred People And More

6.3/10

Young men are faced with a medical commission for army recruits and asked to choose where they want to get to, at least theoretically.

7.2/10