Henryk Modrzewski Movies

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...

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

The film consists of two parts. In the first, the protagonist is Matilda. Her dream is fashionable stockings, which she cannot afford. She becomes...

Two soldiers spend their free Sunday in Wrocław.

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

Witek and Krysia, a married couple, move to Warsaw and have nowhere to stay. They rent a room in a house with many other lodgers. Witek dreams of...

Twin brothers, Jacek and Placek, are the town's troublemakers. They're lazy, greedy and also cruel. They despise hard work, so they cook up a plan to...

An unlikely couple - a Polish concentration camp inmate and a young German girl - stick together and try to survive the RAF bombing of Dresden in...

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

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

A series of misfortunes plagues a journalist and his new friend.

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...

The dark drama of a peasant family from the second half of the 19th century: Seduced by a municipal clerk (in exchange for a promise to release her...