Franciszek Pieczka Movies

Although members of the Hitler Youth chant anti-Semitic paroles in front of his house during the Purim festival, Rabbi Singer is still profoundly...

When a political decision is made as to the location of a new large chemical factory, Stefan Bednarz is put in charge of it. This honest communist...

The cook prepares the soldier's favourite dish. The soldiers learn that the products come from the Majdanek camp.

In the 19th century Austro-Hungarian Empire, David Hersko, a Jewish shepherd, witnesses the attack of a young girl. His home is burned down and he...

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.

Poland, 1991. Two elderly political refugees, Demosthenes and Argyris, take the train from the coal mining region to the cemetery where the former's...

Pograbek is a village philosopher with an unconventional way of looking at things. He is planning on buying a child since he cannot have one due to...

A deserter returns to his hometown and, with the help of his father, hides in the mountains.

Set during the insurgency of 1863, the story focuses on a tragic romance between a poor gentlewoman and a rebel noble. After a bloody battle a unit...

Jacenty is nearing the end of his days. However, he wants to go on his own terms, bargaining until the very end.

The crusty hero, Habryka, is an old miner who has won many worker medals and is now retired with his youngest son and latter's family living with...

A Polish communist in prison breaks out at the start of the war, fight against the Germans and tries to find out who put him behind bars.

The 1970s. Senator Caposta, an American of Polish descent, is due to arrive for trade negotiations. A condition of his arrival is to obtain...

A pair of lovers go off to a small hotel in a little town. The memories of war, however, intrude on their idyll. The girl and boy relive certain...

Bronek Pekosinski lives in Zamosc, Poland. He is probably 83 years old. He has no family and does not really know who he is. Everything about his...

In a fairy-tale village lives Jakubek, a former legionnaire. He buried his wife some time ago and now lives with his adult but very shy son Janeczek....

An ambitious, enthusiastic young geologist is entangled in bureaucratic red tape when he tries to drill for oil. Frustrated with the situation, he...

In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An...

Ancient Rome, during the time of Emperor Nero. Vinicius, a young patrician, falls in love with the beautiful Lygia, the daughter of a Barbarian...