Piotr Szulkin Movies

Shortly after the beginning of World War 2 a young idealist doctor is employed in a psychiatric hospital, where his notions of proper care for the...

A grotesque Shakespearean tale of Ubu who comes to power in a bloody way. When his absurd reforms fail and the treasury gets empty, Ubu and his...

Scope is a prisoner on a behemoth space station and is chosen, like all his fellow prisoners, to 'volunteer' for the exploration of far-away planets....

A Polish folktale set in the Middle Ages, tells the story of a man, whose eyes, or the gaze of them, brings upon death.

On the eve of the Day of the Dead, among mysterious old rituals of the Vilnius region, ghosts of the past and present start to appear.

Poland, Christmastime. A band of hyperintelligent, bloodthirsty Martians take over the country and enlist hapless television newscaster Iron Ide as...

The main character is Bogna, a thirty year old woman lost in her surrounding reality and unhappy in her private life. After her husband departs for a...

Pernat finds himself in a police interrogation, accused of a murder, and unable to recall any details of the crime, or even his own life. He's...

Polish teleplay based on Ephraim Kishon's play, concerning the characters of Romeo and Juliet and their alternate fate had they survived the events...

Stylized with dramatic interiors and a distorted frame rate, this early documentary miniature from Szulkin depicts six sequences of solitary,...

Here's a strange one. First, a song on a blackboard: a Polish translation of “I love my little rooster” by American folk writer Almeda...

The film is a portrait of Zygmunt Samosiuk, a great forgotten cinematographer, who died in 1983. As a director of photography he worked on such films...

The movie consists of three novellas, the events of which take place during World War II. The first, "White Daisies", tells how a Polish priest saves...

A TV adaptation of Sławomir Mrożek's play, about a family whose rejection of traditional values leads to erosion of their daily lives and...

Two typists confront their dreams, fears and failed personal and professional lives. Based on a play by Murray Schisgal.

"Mieso" (Meat) is a satirical and irreverent revision of the most recent history of Poland.

Dialogue-free short detailing the daily tasks of a man and his wife.

A short black and white documentary where Professor Sempolinski works with students on how to sing and dance.

An apple is squished to the soundtrack of its amplified demise.

Two young men change their clothes and explore abandoned rural scenery.