Danuta Szaflarska Movies

Follows the lives of people shortly after World War 2 as they try to adjust to their new lives. Completed in 1946, it was banned from release by the...

Jerzy Stuhr wrote, directed, and starred in this drama about a man sworn to uphold the law who applies a very different moral code to himself than he...

The story is set in the present day. László Sziráki, a womanizer and chemistry professor, is searching for the secret of making...

Ala is unable to settle down and often changes husbands. She introduces each newly married spouse to her mother.

Following a fire at an orphanage, the kids are moved into a seniors' home. A young girl tries to befriend and cheer up an elderly man who is full of...

The love story between a German cancer researcher and her Polish colleague that drags on for more than ten years. Both are married, which rules out...

The fate of a local orphanage is at stake before Christmas. According to the plans of a local businessman, the home is to be liquidated and its place...

An adaptation of Dorota Masłowska's play. The film satirically portrays post-Communist Polish society through three generations of women, an...

Over the course of four generations, a family in Hungary confronts poverty, political turmoil and a life that's perpetually on the move.

The main character - a man who suffers from alcoholism - wants to change his tumultuous life. The day before Christmas Eve he receives a gift from...

The film evokes a childhood in rural Lithuania between the wars. A country boy, Tomaszek, lives on a rich estate, situated on the Polish border. He...

Using the backdrop of the banality and ordinariness of everyday life in a small provincial town, the film analyses the relationship between two women...

Even in Poland today, Gypsies are viewed with profound suspicion -- not that things are that much better for them anywhere else in Europe. In this...

On their wedding day in occupied Poland, poet Tadeusz brings Sarah, the Jewish woman he rescued from a Gestapo officer, to the celebration, only for...

A mother of three is afraid of losing her husband if he finds out she's pregnant again, so she tries to conceal it.

Outstanding actress Danuta Szaflarska, in a colorful and humorous way, tells about her experiences from the old years.

Piotr manages to buy a splendid though dilapidated villa from the eccentric 80-year-old painter Mimi. The woman treats him like her long-lost only...

The film is about a group of old retired theatre actors in a retirement home for actors who aim to regroup and stage Goethe's Faust.

All the ambiance of an old-fashioned circus comes across with great clarity in this otherwise routine psychological tale about a mean-spirited mime...

A simple story of a meeting between two completely different and distant people. By chance, they spend a few days together.