Krzysztof Zanussi Movies

The story of catholic saint Maximilian Kolbe (1894-1941), who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz.

A professor saves the life of a wounded hitman who, in exchange, promises to find and kill his enemy. Even though the professor says he has no...

Julie's son is dying of cancer and her marriage falling apart. She goes to Poland in search of a man who can heal using his hands. Julie finds not...

The film is based on the well-known, translated into many languages novel of writer Pawel Huelle. It is imbued with nostalgia and the atmosphere of...

A handsome young chauffeur hired by a powerful and charismatic businesswoman discovers he has been made an unwitting party to fraud, but his moral...

Jan is a young assistant professor in chemistry and a workaholic, Anna is an unsuccessful science writer who turns to Jan for advice and human...

After the release of "Nostalgia", Andrei Tarkovsky runs out his Soviet authorities permission to work abroad: he has to go back home. But he...

Young homeless man Luke is not going to obey the laws established by his homeless colleagues, as well as the arbitrariness of the foreman when he...

Napoleon (French: Napoléon et l'Europe) is a six-part French–Polish historical miniseries that aired on France 3 in early 1991. It...

Despite its suggestive title, this multi-part Danish omnibus film is not a work of exploitation. Instead, it presents 20 different short films...

The emotional inertia and chaos affecting a narcoleptic woman, a fatally ill writer and a gay doctor, and their attempts to escape from their...

A Polish ambassador finds his life falling into ruin following the death of his wife.

Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of...

May 13, 1981, afternoon. A general audience with the head of the Church is taking place in St. Mark's Square in Rome. Suddenly, the joyful buzz...

Russia 2017. The world could be on the verge of a great war. People are anxious that things could fall apart. Evolving around an unfinished building,...

A once celebrated, still famous actress lives an "unreachable" and secluded life in a villa in Berlin's Grunewald forest. One day, a young man uses a...

Biographical documentary film presenting the silhouette and artistic path of the outstanding actor Daniel Olbrychski. The narrative of the main...

After learning the identity of the man who killed her husband, a young widow struggles with whether to forgive the killer or avenge her husband's...

1961. Father and daughter, separated during World War II, are trying to meet in Berlin. He comes to Berlin from Soviet Lithuania, she comes from the...