Movies: Zdzisław Maklakiewicz

During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather....

Set in the early 1930s, a young man finds a job as a dishwasher in a hotel and quickly works his way up the ladder. Loosely based on the novel by Henryk Worcell....

After escaping across Europe from Stalag camp, Dolas's ride to Cyprus is stopped when his ship in sunk by an Italian submarine. Although he and some of his fellow sailors are rescued by an Allied ship, they find themselves conscripted into the French...

A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland....

Set in the 19th century Warsaw. The indolence of aristocrats who, secure with their pensions, are too lazy to undertake new business risks, frustrates Wokulski. His ability to make money is respected but his lack of family and social rank is condesce...

A stowaway sneaks aboard a ship departing on a cruise down the Vistula River. The captain takes him for a Communist Party cultural coordinator and the intruder gladly adapts to his new role, immediately setting to work at manipulating the passengers ...

Tadeusz Krzakoski, the director of a failing state-owned company, is married with problems. His mistress, the daughter of a Communist party bigwig, says she's pregnant and Tadeusz knows he'll have to marry her to save his reputation and his job. But ...

The main characters are the same two quarreling peasant families introduced in "Sami swoi" (Our Folks). The action of the film starts 18 years later. The old quarrels have been forgotten, but new problems keep popping up. They have no successors to i...

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 triangle will turn out to be unacceptable, especially since the spouses live peacefully under one roof....

A psychological portrait of a missing girl is drawn by the people who knew her, being interviewed by a journalist helping in the search....

The Gestapo searches one of the apartments in Warsaw. It comes to a tragedy....

In November of 1939, the British consulate in Norway receives documents saying that the Nazis are conducting secret rocket research in Peenemünde. But the British doubt the authenticity of the so called "Oslo report". Thus, the Germans continue their...

Unconventional pedagogical methods of a new teacher raise concerns of the provincial school's principal....

An unassuming post office clerk finds fame and success as a motorcycle racer....

A man approaching middle age gets more than he bargained for when he tries having an extramarital affair while his wife is away....

Three Polish TV movies packed together and released theatrically...

The movie "L'instant de la paix" consists of three segments: 1. "Les rideaux blancs" (France) 2. "Berlin N 65" (West Germany) 3. "Matura" (Poland)...

A middle-aged man sets out on a symbolic journey through past, present, and future to learn why an old friend committed suicide, and learns much about his own life along the way....

Warsaw is mysteriously running out of water during the summer heat wave. This mystery can only be solved by a Polish superhero known as As....

The inability of a truck driver to relate to normal life after an accident for which he feels himself responsible....