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Series
Criterion collection volume 283
Language
Polish
Description
The story of a cocky Polish youth who decides to fight the Nazis after he falls for a pretty resistance leader. As he and his friends help escapees during the Warsaw ghetto uprising, the innocence of a generation is lost under the grueling conditions of war. The first in what has come to be known as the director's 'war trilogy'.
2) Katyn
Language
Polish
Description
Dramatization of the massacre of 20,000 people (interned Polish officers as well as civilians accused of treason by the occupying Soviet forces) by the Soviet secret police at Katyń in the spring of 1940, and the cover-up that followed. Follows the fictional stories of four families, separated from one another in the confusion of September 1939, when the Soviets and Germans invaded Poland, through the Soviet occupation in 1945 when the truth of the...
Language
Polish
Description
Leopold Socha is a sewer worker and petty thief in Lvov, a Nazi occupied city in Poland. One day he encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto. He hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town's sewers beneath the bustling activity of the city above. What starts out as a straightforward and cynical business arrangement turns into something very unexpected, the unlikely alliance between Socha and the Jews as the enterprise...
7) Jackie Brown
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Language
Polish
Description
A stewardess, a street-tough gun runner, a lonely bail bondsman, a shifty ex-con, a stoned-out beach bunny and an earnest federal agent converge in a quest for a missing half million dollars.
Series
Criterion collection volume 285
Language
Polish
Description
Rural Poland, on the last days of World War II. The Nazis have surrendered, and the Red Army has criss-crossed the country. With the battle against the Nazis over, a new struggle emerges against the communists. A group of Polish patriots boldy set out to assassinate a mid-level communist-party functionary. Macick is the trigger man, but when he spots a blonde behind the bar, his priorities change.
9) Lotna
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Language
Polish
Description
A fictionalized homage to the service of the Polish cavalry in World War II. The cavalry is symbolized by Lotna, a white horse first appearing under a barrage of shellfire, and ultimately ridden into battle against the invading tanks of Nazi Germany.
10) Run boy run
Language
Polish
Description
A superlative saga of courage and compassion, it tells the extraordinary true story of a Polish boy who seeks the kindness of others in his solitary struggle to outlast the Nazi occupation and keep alive his Jewish faith.
Series
Criterion collection volume 285
Language
Polish
Description
A milestone of Polish cinema, this electrifying international sensation by Andrzej Wajda, the final film in his celebrated war trilogy, entwines the story of one man's moral crisis on the final day of World War II with the fate of a nation.
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Language
Polish
Description
When a prophecy traps a kingdom in eternal winter, Anna, a fearless optimist, teams up with extreme mountain man Kristoff and his sidekick reindeer Sven on an epic journey to find Anna's sister Elsa, the Snow Queen, and put an end to her icy spell. Encountering mystical trolls, a funny snowman named Olaf, Everest-like extremes and magic at every turn, Anna and Kristoff battle the elements in a race to save the kingdom from destruction.
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Language
Polish
Description
Pierwsza ekranizacja powieści Henryka Sienkiewicza. Jest rok 1885. Trwa powstanie Mahdiego w Sudanie. Ośmioletnia Nel i czternastoletni Staś, zostają porwani przez derwiszów i jako zakładnicy wiezieni do Smaina, który chce ich wymienić na własną żonę i dzieci. Docierają do Chartumu gdzie spotykają się z Mahdim. Gdy Staś nie chce zmienić wiary, ten wysyła dzieci w dalszą drogę do Smaina, który ruszył na południe by podbijać...