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1) 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
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
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
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.
7) Vabank II
Language
Polish
Description
The same characters are entangled in a duel between a former safecracker and a crooked bank manager. The movie follows the further adventures of Kwinto, portrayed by Poland's most popular screen actor, Jan Machulski. The main character's long time nemesis escapes from prison to get even and Kwinto must call on his old gang to meet the threat. Set in the 1930's, Vabank II features Kwinto and the gang matching wits against everyone from police to...
9) Strike
Language
Polish
Description
"An illiterate single mother, Agnieszka Kowalska is a Socialist "heroine of labor" for working long hours as a shipyard welder... until her superiors deny compensation to the widows of 21 workers killed in an industrial disaster. Risking her job, her life, and the love of her son to defy the bureacracy, Agnieszka inspires the largest labor strike in world history... and becomes a national hero." -Container.