Henryk Modrzewski Movies

A day in the life of an alcoholic. With the help of his girlfriend Krysia, Kuba attempts to regain control of his life.

Zbigniew Cybulski and Sonja Ziemann play lovers struggling to find happiness and privacy in overcrowded Warsaw. The movie shows an honest picture of...

Young Frederic Chopin comes of age during a tumultous time in Polish history.

Set during the German occupation of Warsaw during WWII, this musical tells the story of several inhabitants of the same tenement house.

While visiting Warsaw, Hanka falls for a record-breaking bricklayer. She returns to the city to work at construction sites and prove that women can...

A 10-year old boy becomes a king after the death of his father and tries to bring reforms to the country, with varying results

Ewa Bonecka, a young student about to start school in a new place finds herself without a place to sleep after she is declined a room in a women-only...

Three separate stories depicting the tense everyday life during occupation, as seen through the eyes of children. In “On the Road,” the...

Three women, ex-prisoners of a Nazi death camp, decide to live together after the war.

The heroic struggle of Polish post office workers in Gdańsk on the first day of World War II.

Nikodem Dyzma is a poor dancer who comes to Warsaw to find a job. The problem is that nobody wants to hire him. One day he finds an invitation to the...

A Polish RAF Officer returns to his homeland and finds himself torn between love for his friend's wife and illegal activities he gets himself...

Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko fights for the right to stage his opera "Halka".

An actress visits her hometown to attend the funeral of her grandfather. She realizes that the places and people from her past differ from her...

Kazmierz Dziewanowicz's hobby is very strange. He collects people who were born on the 29th of February. One day he sees that in his collection there...

A young teenager from the provinces comes to Warsaw to find her relatives and gets herself in various trouble.

An engineer comes home from abroad to his waiting wife. After some time, his second wife, an Italian one, joins him. For a small town, such a...

Profesor Wilczur is a 1938 Polish romantic drama film directed by Michał Waszyński. It is based on the novel by Tadeusz Dolega-Mostowicz.

A reclusive lighthouse worker accepts the offer to swap jobs with a police inspector for a while, just to help him catch Teston, the so-called...

The first Polish post-war comedy. Witek and Krysia, a married couple, move to Warsaw and have nowhere to stay. They rent a room in a house with many...