Halina Prugar-Ketling (Editor)
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Works
Knife in the Water: A Ticket to the West
Release Date2003-08-01
Charactersd Self
Polskie drogi
An epic, multi-threaded story about the fate of Poles during World War II. "Czas pogardy" was shown primarily from the perspective of two main characters - Lieutenant Władysław Niwiński and Leon Kuraś - a petty crook, but not without heroic traits. The authors of the series sought to show, in particular, everyday life under Nazi occupation in Poland.
Release Date1977-10-16
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Episode Count2
Vote Count4
The Promised Land
In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion is shown through the eyes of one Polish town.
Release Date1975-02-21
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count73
Ziemia obiecana
Release Date1978-05-21
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Episode Count4
Vote Count6
Przygody psa Cywila
Release Date1968-01-01
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count5
Knife in the Water
On their way to an afternoon on the lake, husband and wife Andrzej and Krystyna nearly run over a young hitchhiker. Inviting the young man onto the boat with them, Andrzej begins to subtly torment him; the hitchhiker responds by making overtures toward Krystyna. When the hitchhiker is accidentally knocked overboard, the husband's panic results in unexpected consequences.
Release Date1962-03-09
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count443
Danton
Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to wipe out opposition with a series of mass executions that became known as the Reign of Terror. Danton, well known as a spokesman of the people, had been living in relative solitude in the French countryside, but he returned to Paris to challenge Robespierre's violent rule and call for the people to demand their rights. Robespierre, however, could not accept such a challenge, even from a friend and colleague, and he blocked out a plan for the capture and execution of Danton and his allies.
Release Date1983-01-12
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count165
As the Days Come and the Days Go
A story about the fate of two Krakow families, the action takes place in the years 1874-1914.
Release Date1980-09-07
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Episode Count8
Panny i wdowy
Release Date1992-11-11
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Episode Count5
Mammals
"Waiting for Godot" on ice and snow, without words. Against a barren winter landscape, a figure approaches: it's a man, pulling a small sleigh on which another man sits, plucking a dead bird. They stop to trade places; the one now on the sleigh takes out his knitting. Accidents, misunderstandings, disagreements, and an outright fight await our absurd protagonists as their trip to nowhere continues, first with one pulling, then the other. What if they were to lose the sleigh? What rules of civilization and partnership would guide them then?
Release Date1962-12-31
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count41
The Possessed
Russia, 1870. A group of young anarchist revolutionaries set out to overthrow the Czarist regime through violence. Their attacks create a climate of psychosis and mutual distrust among the population, but in reality, both revolutionaries and repressors are being manipulated by a diabolical individual.
Release Date1988-02-24
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count22
Man of Marble
A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.
Release Date1977-02-25
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count80
A Love in Germany
In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what happened then, the truth about an affair his mother had with a young Polish prisoner of war, how the authorities came to learn of it, the lovers' arrest, and the aftermath. While his son takes Polaroid photographs, he retraces the steps of his childhood and interviews those who should remember. The story is disclosed in flashbacks that focus on the lovers (Paulina and Stanislaus), on a jealous and conniving neighbor, and on Mayer, the local SS commander who wants to find a way out of inevitable consequences.
Release Date1983-10-26
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count7
Man of Iron
In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends disgruntled radio reporter Winkel to Gdańsk to dig up dirt on the shipyard strikers - particularly on Maciek Tomczyk, an independent labour union leader whose father was killed in the December 1970 protests. Posing as sympathetic, Winkel interviews the people surrounding Tomczyk, including his detained wife, Agnieszka.
Release Date1981-07-27
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count81
Chronicle of Amorous Accidents
Set in the summer months preceding the September 1939 outbreak of World War II in Polish part of Lithuania. A young highschool lad, Witek, is hoping to pass the entrance exams to the university. His love interest is Alina, his high-school colleague.
Release Date1986-11-24
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count12
Without Anesthesia
A famous Polish journalist presents a problem for the powers-that-be when he displays his full political skill and knowledge on a television show featuring questions and answers on a world conference by a panel of journalists. His enemies take away his privileges when he is away. The shock of being "unwanted" parallels a deeper disappointment in his private life: his wife has an affair with a jealous young rival, and after 15 years of marriage and two daughters wants a divorce. She offers no explanations as he tries to untie these problems himself. All the moves he makes are the wrong ones. He takes on drinking heavily with students eager to attend his seminar after discovering the class has been canceled. The journalist, once suave and commanding, is reduced to silence.
Release Date1978-11-27
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count15
The Third Part of the Night
Set during the Nazi occupation of Poland, the story follows Michał, who witnesses the murder of his mother, wife and child and then is hurled into a life that literally is not his own; a surreal world littered with trapdoors, doppelgängers and wormholes.
Release Date1972-01-04
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count88
The Birch Wood
A man suffering from tuberculosis returns from abroad to stay at his brother's farm, hoping to make amends, while also beginning a love affair with a farm girl.
Release Date1970-11-10
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count18
Everything for Sale
Wajda's homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, the "Polish James Dean" who starred in the director's ASHES AND DIAMONDS and died young. The movie follows the tribulations of a director attempting to make a movie with a Cybulski-like star who never shows up.
Release Date1969-01-28
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count27
The Maids of Wilko
Set in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend. He decides to go home to his aunt and uncle for a while, but gets involved with a family of five women who had been in love with him at one time though he had apparently loved only one, who, unknown to him, has died since his departure. The women are mainly disillusioned with life or estranged from husbands while the youngest has a crush on him.
Release Date1979-09-04
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count26
The Wedding
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 Poland's 100-year-long division under Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The bridegroom, a painter friend, and a journalist each in turn is confronted with spectres of Polish past.
Release Date1973-01-09
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count21
Roly Poly
Based on the novel by Stanislaw Lem (Solaris). The main character, race car driver Ryszard Fox, is involved in many car accidents. After each car crash he gets a transplant for one or another internal organ. After a while there is a question: Who really is Ryszard Fox?
Release Date1968-03-17
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count14
Sons and Comrades
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 interests.
Release Date1986-09-05
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count4
The Conductor
A violinist in a provincial Polish orchestra, whose husband is the director of the ensemble, on a visit to the US ties up with the world- renowned symphony conductor. As it turns out he was once in love with violinist's mother. The conductor, a slightly unstable hypochondriac, returns to Poland to lead the provincial orchestra. He also tries to revive old love affair using the violinist as a surrogate of her mother. Her husband is resentful of the conductor for both personal and professional reasons.
Release Date1980-02-27
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count15
Hunting Flies
Włodek is a middle-aged man stuck in a dead-end job at the local library who lives with his harridan wife and critical in-laws in a small apartment. When Włodek draws the interest of a library patron, the beautiful young woman encourages him to strive for better things in his life and professional career. Together, the two take off for a three-day affair, but surprises could await Włodek upon his return home.
Release Date1969-08-19
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count14
The Eighth Day of the Week
Zbigniew Cybulski and Sonja Ziemann play lovers struggling to find happiness and privacy in overcrowded Warsaw. The movie shows an honest picture of life in a war-damaged city, contrasting the characters' difficulties with their dreams of a better life. It was banned in Poland in 1958 and would not be seen anywhere until its European release one year later.
Release Date1958-08-26
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count7
Barrier
A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.
Release Date1966-11-18
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count19
Agent #1
Jerzy Szajnowicz-Ivanov, the son of a Polish mother and a Russian father, raised in Greece, reports to the Carpathian Brigade in the spring of 1941. While the Poles are wary of him at first, he proves his worth by taking part in several sabotage actions against the Nazis.
Release Date1972-02-25
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count3
Baryton
A famous opera singer comes to his hometown in Poland, where he loses his voice.
Release Date1985-03-25
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
The Dead Class
The Dead Class (1975), by Tadeusz Kantor and the Cricot 2 company, is considered one of the most innovative and influential works of twentieth-century theatre. The breakthrough first version of the production - performed to great critical acclaim, but only rarely seen live by audiences outside Poland - was documented on film in 1976 by the Oscar-winning director Andrzej Wajda.
Release Date1977-01-01
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count5
Landscape After Battle
Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are herded into other camps as the Allies try to devise policy to control the situation. A young poet who cannot quite find himself in this new situation, meets a headstrong Jewish young girl who wants him to run off with her, to the West. He cannot cope with her growing demands for affection, while still harboring the hatred for the Germans and disdain for his fellow men who quickly revert to petty enmities.
Release Date1970-09-08
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count20
Trzy kroki po ziemi
Three stories about life problems, each rooted in contemporary reality through newspaper reports and a “Polityka” magazine survey, crafted by documentarians Jerzy Hoffman and Edward Skórzewski.
Release Date1965-09-03
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Criminal Records
Two young men from a town near Łódź attack and rob a taxi driver. Unsatisfied with the loot, they make their escape from the authorities across Poland.
Release Date1974-09-20
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count3
Panny i wdowy
Maidens and Widows is an epic tale of a hundred years of Polish history from the perspective of women, the titular maidens and widows. Set against the backdrop of turbulent historical events.
Release Date1991-09-12
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count9
The Moment of Peace
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)
Release Date1965-11-25
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Soccer Poker
Laguna was once a great soccer player whose career was interrupted by an injury. He spent years climbing the ranks to become an international referee. He sees the prevailing arrangements, manipulations, and bribery around him. Now desperate, he decides to stage an extraordinary culmination of his career: he wants to create a so-called "miracle Sunday" by "printing" the final round of games - taking substantial bribes from the interested clubs and manipulating the matches so that the results align in the order he set up.
Release Date1989-03-31
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count18
Miejsce dla jednego
The deputy director of a machine plant is injured in a car accident and loses important documents. An uncompromising controller is sent to the plant to investigate the matter.
Release Date1966-04-26
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Convicted
A man is tried in court for failing to help his brother to avoid suicide.
Release Date1976-02-02
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count3
Piggate
The esteemed transplantologist is the victim of a conspiracy of his colleagues, as a result of which his brain is transplanted into a pig.
Release Date1990-03-29
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count1
Father
A young boy must go to school with his father.
Release Date1967-04-16
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count1
Pułapka
Shortly after World War 2 a conflict between cousins, a Polish major and a former SS soldier arises on the Recovered Territories.
Release Date1971-03-26
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count1
Sobie król
A car mechanic takes a hitchhiker.
Release Date1974-05-10
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor