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Polish
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Adam is a Catholic priest who discovered his calling as a servant of God at the relatively late age of 21. He now lives in a village in rural Poland where he works with teenagers with behavioral problems who fight and yell abuse. He declines the advances of a young blonde named Ewa, saying he is already spoken for. However, celibacy is not the only reason for his rejection. Adam knows that he desires men and that his embrace of the priesthood has...
2) Ida
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Polish
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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.
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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...
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Polish
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The film concerns a hard-nosed debt collector, Lucek, who mercilessly repossesses anything from difib machines from hospitals to a statue of the Virgin Mary, without remorse. But things invariably start to unravel for Lucek & an 'epiphany' turns him into a human being, despite everyone's doubts.
6) Katyn
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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...
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Polish
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Army officer finds a magical manuscript in Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. He begins to live out the intricate store lines of the book and embarks on a journey across time and space. Many interesting characters weave in and out of the story, and the officer keeps ending up back in the same place.
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Polish
Description
Ryszard Ochódzki, called "Teddy Bear" by his friends, president of a sports club, is about to go abroad with his team. During passports control it turns out that several pages in his passport are missing, which makes crossing the border impossible. The only way to obtain a new passport is to find a double. After a number of hilarious adventures, Ochódzki gets on the plane only to spot his former wife.
10) Cold war
Series
Criterion collection volume 1005
Language
Polish
Description
"A sweeping, delirious romance [that] begins in the Polish countryside, where Wiktor, a musician on a state-sponsored mission to collect folk songs, discovers a captivating young singer named Zula. Over the next fifteen years, their turbulent relationship will play out in stolen moments between two worlds: the jazz clubs of decadent, bohemian Paris, to which he escapes, and the corrupt, repressive Communist Bloc, where she remains, universes bridged...
13) EO
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Language
Polish
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Legendary director Jerzy Skolimowski created one of his freest and most visually inventive films yet with this story of a gray donkey named EO. After being removed from an itinerant circus, EO begins a trek across the countryside, experiencing cruelty and kindness from a cast of characters including an Italian countess and a Polish soccer team. Nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature, and featuring stunning cinematography by...
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Polish
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W przypadku Geralta tak się jednak nie dzieje. Proces, któremu zostal poddany w dzieciństwie, nie naruszyl jego wraźliwości, Geralt widzi, czuje i cierpi. Choć nie pozwala mu na to kodeks rycerski, interweniuje w sprawach ludzkich, bo w istocie jest czlowiekiem i nie chce być bezdusznym wiedźminem. Nie przyjmuje zasad rządzących światem ludzi, dlatego decyduje się podzielić los odrzuconych.
Geralt, the White Wolf, is the perfect warrior....
15) Cold war
Series
Language
Polish
Description
A sweeping, delirious romance begins in the Polish countryside, where Wiktor, a musician on a state-sponsored mission to collect folk songs, discovers a captivating young singer named Zula. Over the next fifteen years, their turbulent relationship will play out in stolen moments between two worlds: the jazz clubs of decadent, bohemian Paris, to which he defects, and the corrupt, repressive Communist Bloc, where she remains, universes bridged by their...
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Polish
Description
Focuses on the lives of two human beings who have been deprived of the gift of love. A young postal worker falls in love with an older woman who lives in the flat opposite his. She attempts to prove to him that "love" is nothing more than a set of biological impulses, as a reaction to his voyeurism, and draws him into a game in which neither is the winner.
17) The Erlprince
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,...
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'.
20) Gniew = =: Anger
Language
Polish
Description
"Pawel and Magda escape to a secluded old house where Pawel once spent his summers. What they don't realize is that Pawel's younger brother Piotr has run away from juvenile hall and is hiding at the house. The brothers' reunion becomes a cruel, yet emotional contest when criminal friends of Piotr's arrive at the house and threaten Pawel and Magda. Only Piotr can stop the cruel game - but does he want to?"--Container.