Maria Kaniewska Movies

Two travelling actors break from their troupe and with help of friends and family start their own act, experiencing serious success.

Poland, during World War II. Martha Weiss, a Jewish woman, arrives at the Auschwitz extermination camp with her family. She is assigned the role of...

Historical panorama of the history of Silesia, from the period of the uprisings to the present day, shown through the fate of five miners....

An engineer comes home from abroad to his waiting wife. After some time, his second wife, an Italian one, joins him. For a small town, such a...

A mysterious Mania appears in Warsaw. The girl, together with the other children, experiences amazing adventures.

Through various misunderstandings young Basia gets into the custody of several people after her mother's death.

A young teacher educates the peasants and electrifies the village, which the local miller does not like.

After returning to Poland, the painter Aleksander Gierymski encounters a lack of understanding of his works.

Zenon Ziembiewicz, a young, budding journalist, comes to his parents' manor house for a vacation. Here he enters into an affair with the lovely...

A young boy tries to earn the friendship of his new classmates, notorious bullies, which leads to tragic consequences.

The Gestapo searches one of the apartments in Warsaw. It comes to a tragedy.

Rumsza, the elderly railwayman, leading a sedate life with his wife, misses his only remaining son (two older boys were killed in the war). Joziuk...

A reclusive lighthouse worker accepts the offer to swap jobs with a police inspector for a while, just to help him catch Teston, the so-called...

Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko fights for the right to stage his opera "Halka".

Three short stories depicting the adventures of athletes from various disciplines. Reserve goalkeeper Antoni gets a chance to play in a match as a...

Anatol Kowalski is an old man who works in a bank and loves his old-fashioned hat. One day the hat gets lost and Anatol decides to buy a new one.

Four stories showing the various facets of love.

Three construction workers live together in a tiny apartment while building a new factory. When their foreman, Kolecki, is fired for neglecting his...

A young militia lieutenant goes undercover as a journalist to investigate a Zakopane smuggling ring.

Follows the lives of people shortly after World War 2 as they try to adjust to their new lives. Completed in 1946, it was banned from release by the...