Irena Laskowska Movies

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...

A UB Captain tries to apprehend a band of former resistance fighters causing havoc to citizens, but they're always one step ahead of him.

Włodek is a middle-aged man stuck in a dead-end job at the local library who lives with his harridan wife and critical in-laws in a small...

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

Two men working as lawn mowers fight over a woman.

A man jumps off a moving train and goes to a small town to face its inhabitants, who seem familiar, but odd.

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

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...

During a routine traffic stop, the police discovers the body of a girl in the trunk of a truck. Since the dead girl spent the night before with the...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...