Barbara Rachwalska Movies

A former resistance fighter returns to his hometown after being imprisoned, bent on enacting revenge on the man that sent him behind bars.

International Critics’ Week - Cannes Festival 1985

An average notary finds a small fortune of coins hidden in his fireplace alongside a manuscript dating back 100 years.

Polish adaptation of the J. Sheridan LeFanu vampire novella.

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...

A film from the "Silhouettes of Polish Literature" series

1950, a small town in Poland. Not the best times for shop owners like Jozef Piasecki - obstacles from authorities, restricted wholesale supplies....

Three separate short stories about young athletes who lose their chances of success. Young swimmer - because of unhappy love. Boxer because of a...

An actor is married to a dancer whose drug addiction drives them to desperation when World War II breaks out.

Two travelling actors break from their troupe and with help of friends and family start their own act, experiencing serious success.

Engineer Andrzej Uriaszewicz returns to Poland in order to smuggle a valuable painting out of the country.

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

A Soviet soldier stays with a Polish family.

A young teacher educates the peasants and electrifies the village, which the local miller does not like.

Every morning, a mysterious trombonist plays a concert in one of Warsaw's tenement houses.

Based on the diaries he has obtained, a young journalist tries to recreate the struggle of sixteen-year-old Hania with the German occupier.

1929: The little girl Józia has to go a few days without her mother, who is traveling abroad for political reasons. Another story is told to...

Piotr is a freelancing journalist in early 1980's Poland. One day, he comes across a curious case of a woman's death during work and the workplace's...