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1) Ida
Language
Polish
Formats
Description
A moving and intimate drama about a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who, on the verge of taking her vows, discovers a dark family secret dating from the terrible years of the Nazi occupation.
Language
Polish
Formats
Description
After spending years in a Warsaw prison for a violent crime, 20-year-old Daniel is released and sent to a remote village to work as a manual laborer. The job is designed to keep the ex-con busy, but Daniel has a higher calling. Over the course of his incarceration he has found Christ, and aspires to join the clergy - but his criminal record means no seminary will accept him. When Daniel arrives in town, one quick lie allows him to be mistaken for...
3) Kanał
Series
Criterion collection volume 284
Language
Polish
Description
Begins on the 56th day of the Warsaw Uprising against the Nazis during World War II. A ragtag group of trained and untrained Resistance fighters hold on to the front line. They try to live a relatively normal life, and even find time to play the piano. They achieve small victories, but must retreat into the sewers in order to survive.
Language
Polish
Description
A day in the life of a 49-year-old divorced man, a frustrated intellectual who teaches for a living. Adras is also a hypochondriac with a ritualistic health regimen. He believes that the most difficult challenge in life is surviving the next five minutes. Adras blames his friends, his former wife and his mother for his dissatisfaction with life.
7) Faustina
Language
Polish
Description
In 2000, Sister Faustina was canonized as the first saint of the new millennium. This stirring and evocative film depicts her life, from her girlhood through miraculous healings and her evolution within the Catholic Church. Based on Faustina's spiritual diary.
Language
Polish
Description
A surgeon is abandoned by his wife and daughter. After a night of drinking he is beaten. Suffering from amnesia, he wanders from village to village, working at odd jobs. Working at a mill he takes it upon himself to help the owner's son, who desperately needs medical attention. Soon people stop by to see the famous quack.
Language
Polish
Description
An exceptionally gifted teenage boy is about to start studying physics at a university specializing in the theory of parallel worlds. He has an extraordinary mind and a wounded soul, which his mother, who steers his life, seems incapable of healing. Then a Man appears in their lives and, as the Boy passes from the hands of the Mother into his care, a new order is established. Their torturous road forms a bond between the three central characters,...
10) Nóż w wodzie
Series
Criterion collection volume 215
Language
Polish
Description
A middle-aged journalist and his wife invite a footloose young hitch-hiker aboard their sail-boat for a Sunday outing in the Polish lake district. Like two peacocks, the men proceed to flaunt their virility before the woman, revealing a cynical sadism on the part of the husband and a growing resentment in the knife-wielding youth.
13) Tato =: Daddy
Language
Polish
Description
When his marriage falls apart, a father decides to kidnap his daughter rather than let the court award custody to his mentally ill wife.
Language
Polish
Description
With lots of passion Maniek Kosela runs a farm in an attractive area of the city. It is surrounded by skycrapers, flashing neons, sounds of cars from the highway. Businessmen in black limos flock to Kosela s house. They dream about getting this land. They will pay any money for it. But Kosela has his own plan.
Language
Polish
Description
The story of a spirited ten-year-old girl who has run away from her proudly affluent parents in town and finds grudging refuge with the slightly slovenly caretaker of an abandoned farm, an ex-teacher.
A story of an adult man and a teenage girl's friendship, set in post-Communist Czech Republic.
Language
Polish
Description
"Tom, a young illustrator at "Fantasy World" magazine must deliver new, sensational comic strips or lose his job. One day while alone in his studio, he remembers a favorite childhood book and decides to make it a cartoon. His drawings magically come to life. Now he enters the animated world of fantasy, where he encounters one adventure after another as the evil Alojzy Bombel tries to lure Mr. Kleks and friends into a tricky trap"--Container.
19) Edi
Language
Polish
Description
Tells the story of two scrap metal pickers, Edi and his friend Jureczek. Edi is falsely accused of raping the sister of a local thug which leads to tragedy and joy as Edi is made to care for her little baby.