Movies: Henryk Borowski

Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament Po...

A tale of a young impoverished nobleman, who with his uncle returns from a war against the order of the Teutonic Knights in Lithuania. He falls in love with a beautiful woman and pledges an oath to bring her "three trophies" from the Teutonic Knights...

Warsaw after the fall of the Warsaw Uprising. The Germans expel the civilian population and then proceed to systematically destroy the city. The capital is transformed into a sea of rubble, among which a few survivors hide – modern-day Robinsons. One...

The Countess Cosel is based on the true story of the beautiful Anna Constantia of Brockdorff, a German noblewoman who became a mistress of Augustus the Strong, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony in 1704....

A Pole who spent time in an internment camp during the war on the Swiss-German border, visits the site many years later and recalls these days. He meets with other Poles confined in the same camp, including several women, in whose he had romantic int...

A young hairstylist leaves her husband and joins a group of working women....

A family saga of Barbara Ostrzeńska-Niechcic and Bogumił Niechcic against the backdrop of the January Uprising of 1863 and World War I. The film is a rather straightforward and faithful adaptation of a novel by Maria Dabrowska with the same title. Th...

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

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...

A journalist investigates a mysterious murder in the countryside....

Jacenty is nearing the end of his days. However, he wants to go on his own terms, bargaining until the very end....

The protagonists of the film are two brothers - Smaller and Big, Filomena and the dog Klops. Big has problems at school, so he decides to run away from home. His brother decides to find him....

The Warsaw Uprising. Five people hiding in a basement under an apartment complex get buried by the rubble when it's bombed by the Germans. With no way of escape, the people gradually descend into madness....

A potter putting up a fireplace tells a story of a man, who decided to build a house at an infamous fire site....

A story of the love affair between Janek Małodworny and Hanka, daughter of the kulak Nalepa. The two love each other, but their happiness is hampered by differences in possessions. To make matters worse, Małodworny is in favor of establishing a coope...

An alchemist, Sendivius, comes to court, and transmutes base metal into gold....

A young doctor, accused of desecrating a body, is brought to the presence of the Inquisition....

A war drama that tells the story of the discovery of the illegal AL printing works by the Nazis, showing the activities of the left-wing underground in the occupied capital....

Reproduction of the Nuremberg trials using transcripts, made for Polish TV....

August 1939. After publishing an article criticizing the government, a journalist has to hide from the authorities....