Irena Laskowska Movies

In occupied Silesia, resistance is organizing. In close contact with the miners and led by an engineer, a group of partisans prepare the sabotage of...

A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell...

World War II. The Germans enter Sosnowiec, which complicates the relationship between the three friendly children.

The protagonist of "Passerby" is writer and filmmaker Tadeusz Konwicki. His story, which reflects the paradoxes of the 20th century history, is...

A subtle tale of a confrontation between two lonely people, one from which true understanding cannot seemingly result.

A film about the life and activities of the Polish revolutionary Ludwik Waryński. In his memoirs, Ludwik returns to his student years in St....

Set in World War 2 as the Germans occupy Czechoslovakia, teenage Emilka's father is murdered by the Nazis, but she is selected for special treatment...

After leaving prison, Tolek plans to get revenge on his former girlfriend.

A young man looking for work in Warsaw has to overcome many hurdles in the world of bureaucracy to finally get employed.

Wajda's homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, the "Polish James Dean" who starred in the director's ASHES AND DIAMONDS and died young. The movie follows the...

A bank robbery conducted by Polish Underground members goes awry and the brother-in-law of the group's leader, Paweł gets arrested. Now...

A radio journalist is having a heart attack. This event becomes a pretext to summarize life.

As high school students put on a politically-engaged school play, tensions begin to rise between them and their headmaster. The conflict seems to...

A man approaching middle age gets more than he bargained for when he tries having an extramarital affair while his wife is away.

This film is a sequel to Munk's Zezowate Szczescie and it's much the same, only more so. The film begins in a cinema, where the last scenes of...

On August 1, 1944, Warsaw holds its breath as Home Army couriers spread word that “W-hour” is at 17:00. A platoon under...