Ryszard Ber

A Generation

Stach is a wayward teen living in squalor on the outskirts of Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Guided by an avuncular Communist organizer, he is introduced to the underground resistance—and to the beautiful Dorota. Soon he is engaged in dangerous efforts to fight oppression and indignity, maturing as he assumes responsibility for others’ lives. A coming-of-age story of survival and shattering loss, A Generation delivers a brutal portrait of the human cost of war.

Release Date1955-01-26

Charactersd Zyzik (uncredited)

Vote Count58

The Road West

In the last days of the war an old train driver and his young assistant carry weapons to Polish soldiers on the western front.

Release Date1961-09-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobFirst Assistant Director

Charactersd Lineman (uncredited)

Vote Count1

Popielec

The series presents an original, non-didactic view of rural Poland during the Nazi occupation, rejecting stereotypes about ubiquitous wartime heroism, sacrifice, and martyrdom. It is a record of a "war-torn" state of consciousness, a drama of lost people who sink into ever greater degradation.

Release Date1984-10-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count9

The Doll

The story of Stanisław Wokulski, a wealthy merchant who falls in love with a haughty aristocrat, Izabela Łęcka. Causing a misalliance in the late nineteenth century Warsaw. Young Wokulski is forced to work as a waiter, while dreaming of a life in science. After taking part in the failed uprising, he is sentenced to exile in Siberia. Upon return to Warsaw, he becomes a salesman. Marrying the late shop owner's widow, he becomes rich, He uses his money set up a partnership with a Russian merchant, met in the exile. The two makes a fortune supplying the Russian army. Wokulski falls in love with Izabela, daughter of the bankrupt aristocrat. In his quest to win her, he ventures theatres and aristocratic salons. To help her financially distressed father, he founds a company with the aristocrats as shareholders. Wokulski ability to make money is respected, but his lack of social rank is often brought. Izabela eventually accepts his affection, but without true devotion or love.

Release Date1978-09-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count9

Vote Count9

The Noose

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

Release Date1958-01-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count37

The Moonwalkers

A group of street thugs assault a man, causing temporary blindness. One of them, Romek has a change of heart after this incident and decides to turn against his former friends.

Release Date1960-01-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobFirst Assistant Director

Vote Count5

Firesite

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

Release Date1969-05-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Cudzoziemka

Róża is a young girl who dreams of playing the violin. She leaves for Warsaw, where she intends to study music. There she meets Michał, with whom she falls madly in love. She follows him to St. Petersburg. However, Michał no longer wants to see Róża. The girl returns to Warsaw. However, she cannot find her place there. Her enormous talent has been wasted, and she has married a man she does not love. The woman broke down after the death of her beloved son. She rejected her daughter, who turned out to be musically talented. Róża decides to help her make a career. However, she is very unhappy in her life.

Release Date1986-11-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

The Criminal and the Lady

Young Małgorzata leads a very boring life as a cashier. One day a robber riddles her bank car with bullets, kills the driver and two security guards and takes the money. The police finds out that the stolen banknotes are being spent at a fashionable spa resort. The only way to find the criminal is to favor Małgorzata with a seaside holiday in the company of a handsome Captain as her brother.

Release Date1963-07-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobFirst Assistant Director

Vote Count9

Chlopcy

The protagonists of the film are residents of a nursing home run by nuns. One of the nuns, Maria, wants to introduce discipline, but it is not easy. The elderly residents decide to fight for their independence. Their plans are thwarted by the departure of the leader of the rebellion. But the men will not give up so easily.

Release Date1973-06-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count4

Hotel klasy lux

The five participants in the meeting for the construction of a luxury hotel meet years later at its opening.

Release Date1979-12-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Through Nine Bridges

A mother carries her sick baby through nine bridges, believing a superstition that it will cure it.

Release Date1972-03-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Ubranie prawie nowe

After years of working in the city, Róża returns to the countryside. The property she has accumulated draws the attention of local bachelors.

Release Date1964-04-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobFirst Assistant Director

Boats Sail Out at Dawn

A poetic, fictionalized documentary about the life and dangerous work of fishermen in a fishing village on the Baltic Sea.

Release Date1955-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Najwazniejszy dzien zycia

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Żelazna ręka

In 1575 Transylvania, Captain Szymon Mroczek is sent by Prince Stephen Báthory to Warsaw to win support for his royal bid. Along the way he rescues Agata, disguised as a man, from a witchcraft trial, and they become inseparable allies. As Báthory marries Anna Jagiellon and ascends the throne, Mroczek navigates court intrigues, battles old friend Samuel Zborowski, and ultimately confronts Jan Zamoyski’s ambitions.

Release Date1989-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Thais

Thais, an Egyptian courtesan, is converted to a life of a penitant by Paphnutius, a holy man. She is taken to a convent in the desert and lives her life in the care of the abbess there. But Paphnutius is changed by the vision of Thais and becomes obsessed with gaining her love and retrieving her from the spiritual world for himself.

Release Date1984-09-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

It Started Yesterday

Based on real events story of stealing methyl alcohol causing mass poisoning in town.

Release Date1961-01-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Kaszëbë

A disturbed woman, still reeling over the death of her lover finds solace in a Swedish sailor amidst the regional conflicts of the late nineteenth century.

Release Date1971-04-16

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Zawsze w niedziele

Three short stories depicting the adventures of athletes from various disciplines. Reserve goalkeeper Antoni gets a chance to play in a match as a substitute for his sick teammate. Hanka and Piotr, although they are in love with each other, only meet at competitions. Adam is the first to arrive in the town where the finish line of a cycling race is located. The residents celebrate his victory.

Release Date1966-03-02

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count1

The Siding

A journalist is preparing to take a train trip, when he is confronted by the spirit of professor Ryszpans who tells what happened to him. When he boarded a train standing on a siding, he encountered trackman Wiór with a newspaper informing about the crash of the train and the death of several passengers, including professor Ryszpans. The professor is joined by engineer Zniesławski, who has also heard of the impending disaster and is interested in it from the technical side. On hearing the news of an approaching catastrophe, other passengers leave the train in panic at the next station. However, trackman Wiór manages to hypnotize several travelers who continue with the journey. Ryszpans hears a roar and sees objects crumbling around him, and then turns into a shadow. After hearing the story, the journalist resigns from his train trip.

Release Date1968-02-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

The First Day of Freedom

Freed Polish soldiers are trapped in a small town in Germany during the last days of World War II. After a doctor's daughter is raped by a concentration camp worker, the Poles allow her and her father to stay in the house that is their temporary quarters. While waiting to be repatriated, the war-weary group is forced to fight some German soldiers who invade the town. The war brings out conflicting emotions of the Poles who find themselves trapped in the house and once again under fire from the enemy.

Release Date1964-12-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobFirst Assistant Director

Vote Count9

Mój stary

A boy awaits the return of his long-absent emigre father but is disappointed when they finally meet.

Release Date1962-09-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobFirst Assistant Director

Niech żyje miłość

A car mechanic falls in love with a married woman and does everything to be close to her.

Release Date1991-10-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Kamień na kamieniu

A story about the fate of post-war Polish villages. Szymon Pietruszka's life is dominated by Michał, his older brother, who left for the city before the war. There, he became involved in the leftist movement. He returned to his home village after the war in a dignitary's car. Soon, however, he left again, only to reappear a few years later—this time penniless, mired in apathy, betrayed by his ideals. The only person who guesses Michał's secret is Szymon, who is also unable to break down the wall separating him from his brother.

Release Date1995-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Where Is the Third King?

Two militia officers are assigned to a museum in an undercover assignment to protect a valuable painting from an international group of art thieves.

Release Date1967-01-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count6